We're so excited to have you join us! I think you'll love it here 😎🌴🌊🧠

thrilled to share that i’ll be starting my PhD at Berkeley this fall, working with @mariamaly.bsky.social, and that I was awarded the Berkeley Fellowship to support my work!

can’t wait to get started :)

How children remember time changes dramatically as they grow up & understanding that shift matters more than you might think.

Two new papers from the lab's newest PhD, Dr. Owen Friend, explore what that difference looks like & what it tells us about the developing brain 🧠

Absolutely not.

I am so sorry to hear this and I really hope you'll mend soon enough – that sounds awful.

I am also sorry to hear of the responses you've gotten, which are a little too familiar 😑

We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

New preprint! 🧠
How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli?

By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis

"From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I appreciate you not letting these decisions stay behind closed doors – it's a real service to junior faculty and early career scholars who may be considering going to that department.

I publicly shared what I went through at Columbia Psychology in 2023. I’m not going to rehash that here. But I want to echo Larisa’s generous offer: if you are going through a promotion denial and want to talk to someone who has been through it, reach out.

It's really difficult to publicly share a promotion or tenure denial. I have a lot of respect for Larisa for talking about this openly.

I hope this will push tenured faculty to reflect on what they can do to make sure that tenure standards are applied consistently and fairly at their institutions.

This tenure denial is absurd! Larisa is extremely productive, has an NSF CAREER, and won multiple early career awards, among other accolades.

It pains me to think about what she’s going through, having gone through a similar experience at that department (Columbia Psychology) 3 years ago.

Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

We couldn't have done it without her.💐

Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!

Excited to share that our paper, “Cerebellar Contributions to Action and Cognition: Prediction, Timescale, and Continuity,” is now published in @pnas.org!

Grateful to the reviewers, colleagues, and editors for their thoughtful and constructive feedback.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Great question! Non-members who are speaking in a symposium or are based at the hosting institution can attend; beyond that, the meeting is members-only.

Symposia are member-organized but can include 1-2 non-members.

MDRS MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.

The Memory Disorders Research Society (www.memorydisorders.org) is now seeking nominations for new members! Self-nominations are welcome. Application is open until April 15 @ 11:59pm PT.

Reach out if you have questions about the society or its (amazing) annual meeting! forms.gle/Qn7mchoPpaqL...

Just a reminder that 1yr ago today many dedicated NIH employees received RIF notices and started the process where many others were told they must leave their positions/ICs after years of service.

The pain felt across the scientific community in the last year is also felt by those serving it.

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data!

There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉

Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One incentive for being a study section member for NIH is “continuous submission.” Or the ability to get extra time for submitting grants when you are a peer reviewer. NIH is terminating this in August.

We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission.

Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!

Preprint!
Representations in working memory wax and wane with relevance. How does this affect what we remember later?
We show that temporal expectations drive competition between items in working memory and that these neural dynamics predict long-term forgetting.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Revolt by House Republicans Threatens Senate-Passed Measure to Fund D.H.S.

An open revolt is taking place on Capitol Hill over the bill the Senate approved this morning to reopen the Homeland Security. House Republicans are irate at their Senate counterparts for passing a bill that does not include money for ICE and Border Patrol www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah?

Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We used Mavis Beacon in school and I used KAZ for fun at home (I was always a nerd). I'm still a fast typer 😊

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One July while in the middle of the woods, I had 6 days to respond to a bunch of requests from NSF for a grant to be put forward for funding.

I had my laptop, I found one spot with weak internet, we got the grant. I still enjoyed my vacation 🤷🏼‍♀️

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions? The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...