Michael Scullin

Prospective memory researchers! The next international meeting has been announced for July 12-16, 2026. Jan Rummel will be hosting it in Heidelberg, Germany.

Stay updated at: www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/konferenz/ic...

A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging - Nature Human Behaviour The first generation who engaged with digital technologies has reached the age where risks of dementia emerge, and the question emerges how digital technologies have affected cognitive capabilities. T...

Excited to share Nat Hum Beh pub, a 5 year effort w/Jared Benge. Does digital tech use worsen risk for dementia? No. In the "digital pioneer generation," tech use reduced risk of cognitive decline (OR=0.42;k=57;N>400k). The findings support the tech reserve hypothesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

15 Lessons Scientists Learned About Us When the World Stood Still The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more.

Lesson 3 from COVID-19: Teenagers need to sleep in, but schools won’t let them
#startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

Infographic on costs of federally sponsored research, showing what are direct costs, what are indirect costs, and what costs are not paid by federal funds.

Here is really good info on what indirect rates are and are not. TL;DR - the Republican administration’s plan to cut indirect rates will make Americans sicker, poorer, and more vulnerable. Call your congressional representatives to tell them to fund American success. research.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

Indirect Costs at NIH . . . I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Sleep Lab: The Exhibit has its soft opening tomorrow at the Mayborn Museum.

Great working with @paulpow.bsky.social and April Love at @baylor.bsky.social

REM-ee the dino-Snore-us welcomes kids/families to learn about sleep via three interactive fixtures

Museum exhibit installation is in progress! Pictured: REM-ee the dino-Snore-us welcomes kids to learn about sleep via 4 interactive fixtures.

This sleep exhibit was designed for the general public and made possible by grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

Good idea! I've recently enjoyed Patrick Rothfuss books (book 1: name of the wind). Slow start, but beautifully written series.

Left side of image shows a website for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Engineering", right side of image shows a "Page Not Found" error.

DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed.

LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today

[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]

#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Prevalence of Transparent Research Practices in Psychology: A Cross-Sectional Study of Empirical Articles Published in 2022 - Tom E. Hardwicke, Robert T. Thibault, Beth Clarke, Nicholas Moodie, Sophia... More than a decade of advocacy and policy reforms have attempted to increase the uptake of transparent research practices in the field of psychology; however, t...

Interesting analysis of 400 random samples of psychology articles in 2022:

"Relatively few articles had a preregistration (7%), materials (16%), raw/primary data (14%), or analysis scripts (8.5%) that were immediately accessible without contacting authors or third parties"

#psychscisky

I'm a little more optimistic that NIH or NSF would be interested if the central question was the right fit. It'd need to have a tight central focus while generating a ton of data that could be shared on NSRR. Maybe include an aim for development of open code for automated content analysis, etc

Advice needed! I'm looking for teaching resources to help guide undergraduate students how to read journal articles effectively.

#EduSky #teaching #STEMteaching #ScienceEducation #cogpsy #psychscisky

sounds like you're ready to spearhead a multi-site 'replication' study, Erin!
(pre-registered, large scale, lab-controlled dream research is really needed, IMO)

How We Build Semantic Memory Teaching: Teaching psychology students about semantic memory will inform them how we learn about the world, piece by piece, integration by integration, silently forming the basis for our academic achi...

AWESOME research by Patricia Bauer on self-derivation of semantic memory.

(How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught).

Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice

@psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory

Enjoyed--> "I got started before “cognitive neuroscience” emerged as the right name for the field."

we're doing some stuff. would like to be added :)

Glad to see these devices doing well in sleep/wake detection. We’ve switched to oura rings since Philips discontinued actiwatches. No surprises that wearables continue to show so-so results for sleep stages…these independent evals are necessary for keeping product marketing accountable

Stressed? Writing down a to-do list might help If you find it hard to get to sleep, then a solution might be at hand – a pen and paper.

7 years ago we found that writing a to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep quicker. It made the media rounds back then and somehow still continues to do so today #sleeppeeps

I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI.

bbc.com/future/artic...

Only 8 spots left in the #SleepPeeps Starter Pack Pt 1! There's no way i caught everyone, so please let me know and/or send peeps my way! If it's been awhile, you may want to re-follow the starter pack to connect with the latest additions & subscribe to the #SleepPeep feed!

go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J

Ooh please add!

Do you teach Neuroscience or Biopsychology? We’d love to have your insight on how you teach this course. We are also happy to collect resources for this as we work on our chapter for the Oxford Handbook for Undergraduate Psychology Education. tinyurl.com/teachingneural… #teachpsych #neuroscience

Fun time at #psynom24 NYC with the prospective memory peeps

Project looks great. Did you assess any changes in academic performance?

(2/2) Link to J Positive Psychol paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Key to Flourishing? Get Better Sleep Can improving your sleep help you thrive? We explain the link between sleep and flourishing.

Sleep loss is known to be bad for mental health; now documented is that extending sleep from 6.6 hours to 7.4 hours/night improves feelings of gratitude, resilience, life satisfaction, and purpose in life, even when accounting for people's current mood state (1/2) www.sleep.com/sleep-health...

I'm interested!

Night owl behavior could hurt mental health, sleep study finds In a new, large-scale study of sleep behavior, Stanford Medicine scientists found that night owls don’t really thrive late at night.

Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest:
"aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”

Offline ensemble co-reactivation links memories across days - Nature In mice, a strong aversive experience drives offline ensemble reactivation of not only the recent aversive memory but also a neutral memory formed 2 days before, linking fear of the recent aversive me...

Seriously loving this new work from @denisejcai.bsky.social on offline memory integration.

Its awesome on its own, but also... I think this kind of process will end up explaining a lot about dreaming.

#neuroskyence #sleeppeeps

www.nature.com/articles/s41...