David Clewett

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠

Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com

Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Careers at Drexel - Human Resources

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Happy international dog day 🐕

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Stand Up for UC We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.

Stand up against extortion, oligarchs, and the destruction of this country. Stand up not only for UC, but also for all Americans and our universities. 💪

www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence

This is unfortunate:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Hey DJT and GOP:

New press on our study linking the locus coeruleus to memory formation 🔵: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bra... .

“…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”

Switch to Animal Dreams or Prodigal Summer! :-)

Super interesting!

Call these U.S. Representatives and tell them to vote NO on the “Big Beautiful Bill”: AZ-06, Juan Ciscomani CA-22, David Valadao CA-40, Young Kim CA-41, Ken Calvert CO-08, Gabe Evans FL-07, Cory Mills FL-13, Anna Paulina Luna FL-27, Maria Elvira Salazar IA-01, Mariannette Miller-Meeks IA-02, Ashley Hinson IA-03, Zach Nunn MI-07, Tom Barrett MO-02, Ann Wagner NJ-07, Tom Kean Jr. NY-17, Mike Lawler OH-07, Max Miller OH-10, Mike Turner OH-15, Mike Carey PA-01, Brian Fitzpatrick PA-07, Ryan Mackenzie PA-08, Rob Bresnahan PA-10, Scott Perry TN-05, Andy Ogles TX-15, Monica De La Cruz VA-01, Rob Wittman VA-02, Jen Kiggans WI-01, Bryan Steil WI-03, Derrick Van Orden

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Amazing opportunity! Bridget is the best 🌟

Congrats, Brynn! That’s awesome news 🎉

So proud of @erinmorrow.bsky.social for writing this moving piece about the importance of science funding. She’s an inspiration and powerful force for change.

I’m so sorry, Zach :-( losing a pet feels like losing a part of yourself. I’m so glad you had 16 great years together - she looks like such a sweet girl!

Very excited about this work led by the amazing @baileybh.bsky.social !

Emotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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 ...

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

Led by the amazing and fearless @erinmorrow.bsky.social and Ringo Huang. 🧠 👀

Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...

New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.

We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval How are past experiences reconstructed from memory? Learning is thought to compress external inputs into low-dimensional hippocampal representations, later expanded into high-dimensional cortical acti...

🔎 In sum: Hippocampal ripples trigger a transition from compressed hippocampal codes to expanded cortical states that reconstruct past experiences.

Great collaboration with @s-michelmann.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social!

Read the full paper here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.

Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

Grateful to be gathering and hearing exciting science from the cog neuro community at #CNS2025! We’ve got new ideas to share:
Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye
Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social
Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵