Do you have a link? :)

I was gonna write something really similar, Mariam. All too familiar indeed. Saying no is hard enough...😩

I hope you have a smooth recovery, Nadia!

Some UBC folks have received their results via internal channels but it seems to differ by faculty.

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed

Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal

Here is the list of other alumni

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

1 more week to register for NOWCAM.
visit. nowcam.org for details.

photo of cherry tree in blossom with many pink blossoms on the grass below.

it’s raining hard in Vancouver so the season of pink snow begins.

1 more week to register for NOWCAM.
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Psychology PhD graduate receives 2026 Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award - UBC Department of Psychology Congratulations to UBC Psychology alumnus Dr. Nada Alaifan.

Congrats Dr. Alaifan!
psych.ubc.ca/news/2026-be...

How the PIE Fund shaped Peter King’s research journey - UBC Department of Psychology Peter shares how the PIE Fund advanced his research and ensures equity and diversity in the field.

Meet Peter King, a UBC Psychology Honours student who discovered his passion for research through the Psychology Inclusive Excellence Student Fund's (PIE) Early Research Award.

This UBC Giving Day (April 8), help create more stories like Peter's 💙.

Read Peter's story: psych.ubc.ca/news/pie-fun...

Brain maps on the left show significant negative relationships between aperiodic-corrected alpha rhythmic activity and ATP-linked mitochondrial respiration, with strongest effects in posterior parieto-occipital regions. A scatterplot on the right shows participant-level data for this effect in the left calcarine region, with a best-fit line and inferential statistics overlaid.

A huge milestone for the NANo Lab @sfu.ca - our first pre-print is now out in the wild! 🥳

Driven by rising star Sean Kriwokon, we find that changes in energetically-expensive brain signaling in folks with AD may be due to energetic limitations imposed by mitochondrial dysfunction

📃🔗👇

In my >25 years as a researcher, this is one of my favorite and most personally meaningful studies to come out of my lab:

𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝

Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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#AcademicSky #EduSky #AI #HigherEd #SciComm

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Deconstruction of a memory engram reveals distinct ensembles recruited at learning - Nature Neuroscience Pouget et al. identified distinct CA1 neuron ensembles active during specific moments of fear learning and uncovered the core engram essential for memory formation.

How does the brain build a memory?
A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram.
In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why the Brain Consolidates: Predictive Forgetting for Optimal Generalisation Standard accounts of memory consolidation emphasise the stabilisation of stored representations, but struggle to explain representational drift, semanticisation, or the necessity of offline replay. He...

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL:
arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688
They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Ex-labbies' labs mingle #CNS2026!

@danipalombo.bsky.social
@signysheldon.bsky.social
@pstjacques.bsky.social

Kicking off the symposium on how emotion shapes our memory @danipalombo.bsky.social and her PhD student Chantelle Cocquyt by asking: does a reminder cue affect how you recall an emotional event differently if it comes before vs after it?

Turns out this research reveals order matters!
#CNS2026

Wow this is an awesome summary! :)

My first ISRW. Great meeting!
CC: UBC grads
@omransafi.com @brandonforys.com

Virtual Reality Events YouTube video by OS

Time isn’t just a clock on the wall — it’s how you remember it!

Come see me at poster session B (B67) on Sunday morning if you’re interested in how segmenting in space affects how we remember time!

Here’s sneak peek of the novel VR paradigm we used.

#CNS2026

youtube.com/shorts/2y6Jp...

Happy to see all this amazing work from your lab! But wait, you are not coming? 🥲

As an early celebration of 2026 #BrainAwarenessWeek, @neuroethicsubc.bsky.social will be hosting its Annual Distinguished Neuroethics Lecture on March 10, featuring Dr. Oliver Rollins from MIT.

Learn more and register: neuroethics.med.ubc.ca/baw2026/

Yes!!! HUGE equity issue for sure!

Photo of Dr. Zachary Pennington and Dr. Milan Valyear

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. @zachtpennington.bsky.social and Dr. @milanium.bsky.social as Assistant Professors in our Behavioural Neuroscience area and members of the @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social.

Read their Q&As: psych.ubc.ca/news

haha now I need to check mine. I need your careful eyes! :)

What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network osf.io/preprints/ps...

Congratulations!

Nice to see the first paper from the BreDAD Collaboratory’s Special Issue of @neurobiology-aging.bsky.social out!
🎊

On Becoming an Associate Professor (And Telling the Truth About How I Got Here) February 13, 2026By: Destenie NockWhen people found out I was promoted to Associate Professor, the response was generous and kind. A lot of people said some version of: “Of course. You publish so much...

I was recently promoted to Associate Professor. I’m so grateful and I also wanted to tell the truth behind what people call “effortless” success.
I wrote about infertility, fostering, work as coping, and choosing differently in this next chapter
Full story: destenienock5.wixsite.com/destenienock...

We were told (by some) not to tell anyone in academia about family planning, pregnancy, or juggling kids w/ work. Or else say bye to your career. Thankfully, this was not my experience with my supervisors (or hiring committees), though I did witness it elsewhere. Let's keep pushing change!