Eitan Schechtman

El sueño tiene ciencia Somos un podcast de divulgación sobre neurociencias del sueño. Este es un podcast que surge en el marco de una investigación ejecutada por la universidad de los Andes, la universidad de Cardiff y la u...

New Podcast from our collaborators in Colombia!
El Sueño tiene ciencia is a new podcast on the neuroscience of sleep, hosted by psychologist Daniela Moreno Arrieta.
The podcast is in Spanish and has translated subtitles available via YouTube. We hope you enjoy!

www.youtube.com/@Elsue%C3%B1...

Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers Queer people are still underrepresented both as STEM researchers and participants, partially due to a dearth of accurate data on this demographic. The lack of consideration for queer identities in dat...

📖 DAY 3 related read: Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers – The guidelines in an editorial featuring tips to make sex and gender data collection & reporting more inclusive.
🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI
@dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social

We are searching for a lab manager!
If you are detailed oriented, like southern california, HSV-1, sequencing and microscopy, please get in touch :)

LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Resources infographic with phone numbers and websites.

We may not know who needs these resources, so let's share as widely as possible.

Registration is now! Come one, come all

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom

CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu

@cnsnews.bsky.social

Incorporation of complex narratives into dreaming Statement of Significance This study introduces a systematic approach to assessing dream incorporation by linking presleep experiences to dream content usi

There is a link between dreaming and memory consolidation. In this experiment, researchers put this theory to the test by recording dreams after #REM and #NREM sleep. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...

Congrats Megan! We'll miss you here at UCI!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Research Assistant (2 posts) at Cardiff University Discover Research Assistant (2 posts) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

*PhD positions available**Deadline - 10th November**

The NaPS lab are recruiting 2 Research Assistant roles to undertake a PhD developing novel treatments for depression and PTSD through the manipulation of memory in sleep - apply here:

#sciencejobs #phd

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY753/r...

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

I won't be in SD until Saturday, but you should all attend this fantastic event.

Welcome to UCI!

Just checked the schedule today and I have schedule conflicts for almost all. 😔
I did sign up though, hoping that they'd send a recording.

Was the webinar recorded? Would love to watch it if it is.

S3E7 - Can sleep help us unlearn negative bias and update disturbing memories?- Xiaoqing Hu - Sleep Science Podcast Can sleep help us unlearn biases and make our memories more positive?Implicit biases are unconscious stereotypes that influence our judgments and decisions - like assuming a particular gender for a sp...

Our new episode is out now!

We're joined by Professor Xioaqing Hu from The University of Hong Kong to discuss his work using Targeted Memory Reactivation to alter negative bias and update disturbing memories.

www.buzzsprout.com/787211/episo...

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

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...

Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain The hippocampus supports episodic memories in development, and yet how the brain stabilizes these memories determines their long-term accessibility. This study examined how episodic memories formed in...

How does spontaneous memory reinstatement at rest relate to episodic memory during development? And how do early experiences influence neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and reinstatement? New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

An early surge of norepinephrine along brainstem pathways drives sensory-evoked awakening The locus coeruleus has a specialized pathway to the brainstem that controls sound-evoked awakening from sleep.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6)

Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances

We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Transgender kids’ lives are on the line as CHOP fights Trump over patient medical records, parents say Trump’s justice department wants CHOP to hand over medical records for transgender children receiving gender-affirming care. Many parents support CHOP’s fight to protect their private information.

Kudos to the Philly Inquirer for actually centering the voices of trans youth and their families.

"It's not about protecting the kids. It's about taking away the rights of people who you don't want to exist."

share.inquirer.com/TE1hNg

Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.

Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations Sleep is not merely a passive state: it actively consolidates memories via reactivation of recent experiences. Beyond preserving precious memories, sleep provides a critical, yet underappreciated window for editing aversive memories. We propose an integrative framework for sleep-based memory editing, outlining three key strategies: extinction via reactivation of original memories, interference reactivation via strengthening of wakeful interfering memories, and interference induction via the introduction of new stimuli during sleep reactivation. These strategies leverage sleep’s neural processing to weaken aversive memories. Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that sleep-based memory editing can aid the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Technological innovations, including closed-loop neuromodulation, wearable devices, and neural decoding, allow more accurate and accessible interventions. These developments position sleep for adaptive memory editing, ultimately safeguarding mental health.

Online Now: Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations

For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list.
isrw.bio.uci.edu

Pls repost! #sleep

Now here’s the really cool part: theory predicts medial temporal lobe (MTL) first stores memories, but cortex is the final storage site. Our models show this after one night of sleep! MTL models decode presleep, while frontal cortex (FC) decodes postsleep, but not vice versa. 5/6

Interesting! I would have guessed the opposite, if for no other reason than that cue-locked activation would be better timed and therefore more detectible.

Yes, this is very important! Intentionally rehearsing information, recalling it based on a cue, spontaneously thinking about it, and non-consciously reactivating it are all VERY different things. (I would argue that memory reactivation during sleep sometimes can be conscious too though 🙂).

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New opinion piece!

@amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

Wow! Congrats!