Alexa Morcom

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

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A nice one for Pride!

REMINDER to PLEASE vote in the consultative ballot on the 25/26 pay claim!

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.

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Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children to death.

It cannot be sugar coated.

It is a fact - an engineered famine - and it’s abhorrent.

#Genocide #Gaza

Hive mind: Has anyone seen a good, and realistic, policy around the use of AI in writing articles for publication?

New paper led by @codydong.bsky.social now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, exploring the relationship between memory-augmented LLMs and human episodic memory – see Cody’s post below for a short thread and a non-paywalled paper link! #NeuroAI doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

People take part in city centre marches over war in Gaza Dozens of people took part in a march against Israel’s attacks on Gaza in Brighton at the weekend.

Hundreds march in solidarity with Palestine in Brighton and Hove

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Obituary: Professor Maggie Boden The University of Sussex mourns the loss of Professor Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a pioneering figure in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Paper accepted!!!

The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects

osf.io/preprints/ps...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

The Effects of External Cue Overlap and Internal Goals on Selective Memory Retrieval as Revealed by Electroencephalographic (EEG) Neural Pattern Reinstatement This EEG study used multivariate decoding in humans to investigate how memories are selected when retrieval goals vary. The results showed that EEG neural patterns reinstating studied information tra...

🚨Paper now published! 🚨

The Effects of External Cue Overlap and Internal Goals on Selective Memory Retrieval.

Grateful for thorough reviews that made it stronger. Out now in #EJN: doi.org/10.1111/ejn..... w @alexamorcom.bsky.social @MattPlummer @ivorsimpson.bsky.social. Updated summary🧵👇

International study shows that higher levels of education do not reduce rates of cognitive and brain decline in later years, contrary to views that education protects against such decline: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@rhens.bsky.social

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis Although 10 000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...

One of the most common science myths is that we need 10k steps a day...a number originating from a Japanese ad.

In general, the more steps the better, right? However, several studies now identify inflection points around 7k as significantly reducing many health risks, from heart to dementia.

I literally live on a council estate in Archway. I have a mezuzah on my door, my next-door neighbours are Iranian.

It's totally completely fine? Sorry, actually, it's nice. We have little chats. Take in each other's parcels. They bring me delicious iftar during Ramadan. I lend them my garden hose.

YouTube video by CSER Cambridge Professor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987.

No?

Well, now you do 😌

Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That conclusion is drawn by researchers Björn Siepe and Eiko Fried based on a comparison between smar...

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Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months).

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Super happy to share our new preprint! 🥳
An exciting adventure with the fantastic @ivanpadezhki.bsky.social ki.bsky.social, and my first time as senior co-author together with @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

@sussexneuro.bsky.social #neuroskyence #cognition

So happy this is finally out! Despite Covid delays and thanks to persistence by @arimoccia.bsky.social + the helpful reviewers

Starting to uncover how memory cues and goals interact - with implications for how we understand memory reconstruction during retrieval

Endogenous and exogenous attentional interplay through mixed prefrontal cortex resources Di Bello et al. reveal that some neural resources in lateral PFC are shared between motor and attentional systems, enabling focus to flexibly shift in response to internal goals or external demands.

Endogenous and exogenous attentional interplay through mixed prefrontal cortex resources
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience

Asked about actions he might take against Israel, David Lammy says its not appropriate to go into detail.

Everyone knows what you need to do. End all arms exports. End all trade. End all military assistance. Impose sanctions on the govt & economy. Expel the Israeli ambassador.

My PhD student Trevor Hewitt is conducting an online experiment into closed-eye visuals during psychedelic experiences. If you've had such an experience, please consider taking part at closed-eyes.com (it's only a short survey) - and/or help us spread the word. 🙏🏽🧠

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

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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

Living in Gaza, accepted to Cambridge — blocked by Home Office Young Palestinians overcome unimaginable challenges just to apply to university, only for the British government to make unfeasible visa demands

This is disgraceful. Students in Gaza accepted to many universities (not just Cambridge or Oxford!) being blocked by the UK Home Office's unreasonable and inflexible demands. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Nurseries in England bring in Covid-style protocols as measles cases rise Staff deploy infection controls and step up cleaning as cases pass 500 for year to date and after one child dies

While infection control and cleaning is always a good thing, it’s not going to cut it for measles. Measles is airborne and highly contagious. The best approach is vaccination, and local infection control should focus on ventilation and air cleaning www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

More US students choosing UK universities after Trump attacks on higher education Latest admissions data shows 14% rise in American applications for undergraduate courses

A record number of Americans have applied to undergraduate courses at UK universities - a 14% rise from last year and the highest number since records began in 2006
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ABCD Study omits gender-identity data from latest release The removal counteracts the goals of the longitudinal study by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says sex differences researcher Nicola Grissom.

Removing gender variables from the ABCD Study counteracts its own goals by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says @nicolagrissom.bsky.social‬.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’

FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!

www.ft.com/content/3162...