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Scott Cairney

@sacairney.bsky.social
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Professor and Director of the Institute of Mental Health Research (IMRY) at the University of York. Keen runner (while joints last). www.epoc-york.com

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fully funded PhD studentship investigating sleep’s role in forgetting unwanted memories at my lab at @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, starting in September 2027. Funding includes UK home fees and a 3-year tax-free stipend (~£22K per year). Please share widely www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)
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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
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Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Institute of Mental Health Research at York is looking for an Administration Coordinator to support our strategic operations and research. Come join us! tinyurl.com/ykn286da
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Anna á V. Guttesen @annaavali.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Check out our new paper! We evaluate what we know (and don't know) about the link between memory consolidation during sleep and next-day learning 👇
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
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Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
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Emma Sullivan @emmacsullivan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Paper 3/4 of my PhD is out! 🎉 Published in Neuropsychologia’s special issue on Sleep, Memory & Emotion - a review from my thesis introduction on how sleep helps disentangle emotion processing.
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Anna á V. Guttesen @annaavali.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Just over a week left to apply for these roles! Postdoc is for 3 years with a possible extension to 5. RA is for 2 years and ideal experience for securing a PhD studentship.
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British Association for Psychopharmacology @bapsych.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
High quality clinical and non-clinical symposia, interactive poster session, short orals, career development workshop, three guest lectures, featuring all the latest science, all crammed into three and a half days. #BAP2025 Register now
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The British Association for Psychopharmacology | 2025 Summer Meeting – Manchester
The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) promotes research and education in psychopharmacology, and brings together people in academia, health services, and industry
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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
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Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Very excited and honoured to receive this prize and looking forward to giving an award talk at the @bapsych.bsky.social Summer meeting in Manchester!
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Fabian Schwimmbeck @fabian31415.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social
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A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation
Memory consolidation is thought to rely on the interplay of sleep-related brain oscillations. Drawing on recent findings that highlight the influence of respiration on these rhythms, we outline a fram...
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Lewis Ball @lewis-ball.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
REM sleep and nightmares as transdiagnostic features of psychiatric disorders: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Systematic review: REM sleep, dysphoric dreams and nightmares as transdiagnostic features of psychiatric disorders with emotion dysregulation - Clinical implications
Fragmented rapid eye movement (REM) sleep disrupts the overnight resolution of emotional distress, a process crucial for emotion regulation. Emotion d…
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Tobias Staudigl @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📢 New preprint from the lab: We are very excited to report the discovery of an oscillation in the Central Thalamus using rare direct recordings of human thalamic electrophysiology. The novel oscillation is tightly coupled to specific, natural states of consciousness.🧵
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Go work with Anna!
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 13/01/2025
Shakespeare called sleep the “balm of hurt minds.” Sleep deprivation increases susceptibility to intrusive memories of traumatic experiences by disrupting prefrontal inhibition of memory retrieval during REM, according to an MRI study. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
A sleeping person. Stock photo.
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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Suppressing memories promotes resilience! Terrorist attack survivors who recovered from PTSD showed normalised inhibitory control of the hippocampus during retrieval stopping before intrusive memory declines, mitigating hippocampal atrophy. #memory #PTSD #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Plasticity of human resilience mechanisms
PTSD remission is linked to improved fronto-hippocampal inhibitory mechanisms during memory control.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the streetA fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fireA fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the backgroundThe inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
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Bad Sleep Lets Intrusive Thoughts Flood In
Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived
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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social‬ 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence
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SLEEP and SLEEP Advances @sleepjournals.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Dr. Alkalame and colleagues examined the association between REM sleep prior to analog trauma and intrusive memories. Findings suggest REM sleep may serve to protect individuals against experiencing intrusive memories. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
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The relationship between REM sleep prior to analog trauma and intrusive memories
Abstract. Intrusive memories are a common experience following trauma exposure but can develop into a symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Rece
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Late post due to Christmas vacation, but more great work from @emmacsullivan.bsky.social showing that good quality sleep and adaptive emotion regulation strategies independently reduce the persistence of negative affect doi.org/10.1080/0269...
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Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*
Emotional inertia (i.e. the tendency for emotions to persist over time) is robustly associated with lower wellbeing. Yet, we know little about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Good qual...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Out now in @pnas.org "Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain | PNAS
Sleep disturbances are associated with intrusive memories, but the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning this relationship are poorly understood. ...
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Brain and Sleep Research Laboratory @bsrlaboratory.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay - Nature
The temporal microstructure of the brain can multiplex distinct cognitive processes during sleep to support continuous learning.
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Michelle @itsjustmichellec.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I'm so invested in #Traitors already Claudia: "Traitors!" Linda: ...
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kermit the frog is driving a car with a seat belt around his neck .
ALT: kermit the frog is driving a car with a seat belt around his neck .
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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Decent run to work this morning
University of York campus
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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I am currently trying to put together a symposium for WorldSleep on Open Science Practices in Sleep and Dream Research. If any of you are doing any (e.g., Many Labs, Citizen Science, Multiverse, etc.) in your research, please reach out or share and forward! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨Job alert‼️🚨 The Imaging Memory and Consolidation Lab @unifreiburg.bsky.social is looking for a PhD candidate interested in sleep and memory in aging! 🧠💤 Please spread the news!
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ecstatic to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant to lead “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep” @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Stay tuned for job ads in 2025! #ERCCoG erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Consolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across Europe
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars ...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost
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Deniz Kumral @denizkumral.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My 1st message: “hello world” My 2nd message: JOB ALERT- please share❗ We are looking for 1 PhD candidate If you are interested in #sleep and #memory reprocesing in aging, please get in touch!
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Interested in computational psychiatry? My brilliant colleague @alexandrapike.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join her team @yorkpsychology.bsky.social on a 2-year post jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Looks like a brilliant opportunity!
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our work on inductive biases in reinforcement learning is out: tinyurl.com/yfc74e3u By the fantastic @noahedrich.bsky.social Ppl learn faster from slowly changing features; we argue this reflects an inductive bias. Teamwork w @ericschulz.bsky.social & S HallMcMaster #neuroskyence #compneuro
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An inductive bias for slowly changing features in human reinforcement learning
Author summary Learning experiments in the laboratory are often assumed to exist in a vacuum, where participants solve a given task independently of how they learn in more natural circumstances. But h...
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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I guess I should finally post something here. We recently reviewed what is currently known on how psychedelics acutely & post-acutely impact fear conditioning, extinction learning, episodic memory, & semantic memory & how such fx may speak to PTSD treatment. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/10
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How Psychedelics Modulate Multiple Memory Mechanisms in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Drugs
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder with defining abnormalities in memory, and psychedelics may be promising candidates for the treatment of PTSD given their effects on mult...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
timeless
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Giulio Bernardi @giuliobernardi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thalamic spindles and Up states coordinate cortical and hippocampal co-ripples in humans journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Thalamic spindles and Up states coordinate cortical and hippocampal co-ripples in humans
The thalamus synchronizes spindles and Up states in the cortex for memory, but does it also organize co-ripples in the hippocampus and neocortex? This study shows that during human sleep, thalamic spi...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Thought I'd give this a go. My friend said it took some getting used to, so let's see. Happy to chat the usual cog neuro, memory, sleep, mental health...
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