Aidan Horner

Congrats!!

Getting my ducks in a row before the start of the family holiday, which means I've just submitted a brand new opinion paper. May the reviewing Gods be ever in my favour!

Have fun! I'll be there next week as well 🙂

Life goal to someday give a talk that you sketch 🙂

This is great!

Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

OK, we'll be co-chairs and meet regularly, writing reports and offering small grants for those with new ideas about how best to say no to new duties...

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I'm saying this publicly so someone can remind me when I inevitably forget and say yes to something in 3 months time because it sounded interesting 🧐

I love doing these roles. I get to contribute to different organisations, societies, schools etc and I learn a lot from them. I'm sure I'll say yes to many more over my career. For now though I'm taking a break for at least an academic year to focus on research and teaching and to recharge a bit.

For the last probably 8 years I've had several different overlapping external roles: grant panel member, journal editor, external examiner, society committee member, school governor. It's been fun but exhausting. Today I had my last meeting of my last external role. I'm free!

8 minutes of extra plank for no reason 😭

I could probably muster one at present, but I know from past experience I could train to do a few more. Whereas I don't think I could ever train myself to plank for that long. I don't have the core or the mental strength!

Yeah, I reckon with practice I could push to 2-3mins but can't see ever getting beyond that. I also have no upper body strength so the lift is probably out. At least the run is easy!

I like that everyone will have a different impossible from this

So is that the one you were referring to as well?

Senior Researcher, Neuroscience - Innovation WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH As a NIKE Sport Research Lab (NSRL) Senior Researcher, Neuroscience, you will be responsible for executing research projects (both applied and basic research) aimed at delivering ...

Cool neuroscience job at the Nike Sport Research Lab, working on cool products, with cool people, at a cool company, in a cool place.

The amount of cool has been verified by my inside sources.

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #neurojobs
nike.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/nke/job/Beav...

Pull-ups seem achievable with a bit of practice, but to me planking for 7 minutes straight is 😬

Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social‬. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social‬ & @bradpostle.bsky.social‬.

Image of paper title “testing the tripartite influence model among pregnant women”

New paper on body image during pregnancy! Free to download for 50 days kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

An Open Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of QJEP. We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.  The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor An…

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.

The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.

eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

Trying not to get too excited, but as it stands there is sun and decent temperatures predicted in West Cork for our family road trip 🙏

A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning - Educational Psychology Review Spaced retrieval practice harnesses two well-studied phenomena: the spacing effect, where spacing out practice over several sessions leads to a gain in retention compared to massed practice in one ses...

Happy publication day to first author @ewanmurray.bsky.social! A lot of hard work by Ewan went into this, so it is great to see if fully published.

A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Not currently, no. I would check jobs.ac.uk for this kind of thing

I was given the opportunity to write a brief highlight of a paper that is important to the field & personally meaningful, and I chose to write about @drjenryan.bsky.social's elegant work linking the hippocampus to eye movement markers of relational memory. Read more about it here! 👇🏼
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Sourdough loaf on wooden chopping board

Morning bake

Lucy Bronze playing the whole tournament with a fractured tibia is peak Lucy Bronze

Morning! Hope you have a great week. Your reminder that I currently have TWO positions open:
1. Senior MRI physicist
2. Clinical Imaging Research Assistant
Please share, tell your friends, send to your Mum (if your Mum's an MRI researcher? I mean, why not?) etc. etc.
See links below. ⬇️ 🧵

Never in doubt