Ingrid Olson

Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood | PNAS Pattern separation, or distinguishing similar experiences from one another, and pattern completion, in which components of an experience prompt ret...

Great paper by @noranewcombe.bsky.social et al. on Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Predict that autistic children would have trouble with holistic, not with detail episodic memory (according to WCC hypothesis).
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.

This resonated with me because I just had to fill out a BS travel request. Took 20 minutes. Some staffer then had to spend 20 minutes reviewing it. Such a waste of time and energy.

Standing up for science in Philly!

Chicago is one of my favorite cities! Congratulations!

This is how it’s done.

Neuroscientists at UC Davis, Yale, and UC San Diego, go down the hall and ask that they stand up for your profession.

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.

GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.

Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

Goes without saying for scientists:

This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas?

#scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑‍🔬

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Paramus, NJ

A split image from Fox News Channel. On the left, Trump in a suit and blue tie is speaking at a podium with a microphone. On the right, two images show extensive destruction and rubble in what appears to be a war-torn area, the Gaza Strip. The text at the bottom reads, 'Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and rebuild it to stabilize Middle East.

That protest vote isn’t working out so well.

This is only the beginning.

Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences

I think pretty much everyone who might be concerned in UK science (plus interested newspaper readers like me, who have been following the story which goes back months) will understand what this is about. But for info: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

you look much slimmer in powder blue

Are the costs are hidden? Seneca talked about gifts and favors as a sort of debt. To think otherwise is naive (it does make you wonder about universities and their relationships to billionaire donors).

My recent paper in Economic Journal:
In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement.
Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd
With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

Interesting how the Great Lakes States are pulling away from the rest of the Midwest.

The Olson lab at Temple University is looking for new PhD students interested in doing research on the human cerebellum in affective and motivational states with clinical translation. If you know of anyone applying to grad school interested in this topic, please send them my way!

Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans - Nature Human Behaviour Kolibius et al. show that individual neurons in the human hippocampus code for particular episodic memories.

Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans.

The neurons don't code for a particular element in the episode (e.g., concept or time). They code for the conjunction of the different elements.

#neuroscience #psychology #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence

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

Sometimes people hear that I work on the cerebellum, then contact me because they don't know how to interpret their unexpected findings. I just want to say "thank you". I'm grateful that folks are starting to pay attention to this structure! Also, I run a cerebellum journal club so reach out!

Mapping information flow between the inferotemporal and prefrontal cortices via neural oscillations in memory retrieval and maintenance
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience

My Dept is hiring at asst or associate level, casting a broad net over cognitive/developmental and/or neuroscience. See full description and apply at apply.interfolio.com/132419