Aidan Horner

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet

I'm not gonna touch most of this but two things:
1. The apprenticeship model of science was never supposed to be about the PI's workflow. The point isn't to have research assistants to help to publish stuff faster. Training the next generation researcher *is* the point. Because we care. Allegedly.

Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation

Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/6 Happy to share our new paper with @grassocamille.bsky.social and @virginievanw.bsky.social: "Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?

We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!

Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

Congrats Daniel!

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We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Join us in Brighton this September!
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Symposium submissions due 31 March.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

@exppsychsoc.bsky.social has grindley grants for attending EPS conferences, but you can apply once to use one at a non-EPS meeting I believe

Well there's a graph for you.

I believe there is a single purpose to science: to keep me employed, busy, and happy (or is that three purposes?)

Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706430v1

This looks great - really looking forward to reading it!

What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network osf.io/preprints/ps...

Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

📢 We’re hiring!

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

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📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

CogSciSci London 2026 CogSciSci is taking its talents to Hammersmith this year. That’s right – the world’s greatest CogSciSci conference is back for its characteristic mix of Cognitive Science and science ed…

Hey #Edusky
COGSCISCI 2026 is coming back to London!

Join us for a day of talking all about 'Implementing CogSci in the classroom'

(That's sure to spark some online discussion 🤣)

Fri 29/5/26

Call for speakers: cogscisci.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/c...
PLEASE SHARE

EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.

Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!

eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...

Chocolate brownies on baking paper, topped with sea salt flakes

Weekend bake #2. Chocolate brownies

Sourdough loaf on wooden chopping board from above

Sourdough loaf on wooden chopping board from the side

Weekend bake. Enriched (with butter) sourdough loaf

Just realised Cool Runnings was released 33 years ago. The equivalent 33 year old film when it was released would be Psycho or Spartacus. Bet you are feeling old now.

Doing Valentine's day correctly with a family film night watching Cool Runnings and eating pizza and chocolate trifle

Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future character.

@northyorkmoors.org.uk

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...

Starting my Memory & The Brain module for the 10th time this year! Always a bit of anxiety before I start, but then it's always enjoyable and the students are always engaged.

On the edge of the cognitive neuroscientists leaning towards cognitive psychology and open science stuff, which is probably about where I'd place myself TBH

Job alert!!

We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below:

RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757

Please repost :)

We are hiring a research specialist, to start this summer! This position would be a great fit for individuals looking to get more experience in computational and cognitive neuroscience research before applying to graduate school. #neurojobs Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21503/r...

Yeah, it wasn't obvious from looking at them but both taste and consistency were off and it was only apparent a few seconds into the experience. Never again

They looked relatively normal, but tasted weird and were weirdly mushy. Only a mouthful before I realised my mistake