Isabel Folger (she/her)

the rare paper in which authors can describe their own work as "strange," "trippy," "crazy," or "bonkers" 😂

Indeed lol

Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment To induce the Anne Boleyn illusion, an individual’s hands are placed on either side of a mirror and stroked synchronously from the thumb to the empty …

If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist.
To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts!
-> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4

#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm

Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

Really interesting work, great to meet you Ellie!

A woman standing next to a research poster titled, “Delaying Feedback Impairs Error Correction Due to Late Presentation of Correct Answers, Not Late Notification of an Error”

Had a blast at #SARMAC2025 presenting error correction research I’ve been working on with Dr. Hannah Hausman @ the UCSC Memory & Metacognition Lab. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for your insightful questions, and to my fellow presenters for a fascinating 3 days! Excited for the finale tomorrow!

Great to meet you!

When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.

There are ways to keep crucial research going

https://go.nature.com/3GWY3m3

Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠

Listen to every word.

Our memories are not encoded with timestamps. How do we reconstruct the passage of time from our memories? In a new paper (accepted at Psych Science) @samiyousif.bsky.social and I demonstrate a powerful illusion of time that results from repeated experience osf.io/preprints/ps...

Rethinking memory impairments: Retrieval failure - new long-form synthesis in APA Psychological Review with Joaquín Alfei, Ralph Miller & @gurcelay.bsky.social :

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Career-Life Balance (CLB) Supplemental Funding Requests

Another funding opportunity is gone. NSF archived the the Career-Life Balance program which provided supplemental funding when researchers are on family leave.

The small strides we had made toward improving representation in science are being undone so fast.

new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Adding “so rogue governments can’t delete your stuff” to the list of reasons why researchers should share their data

An advertisement for 2/7/25 webinar with Jessica Hartnett

Hi! I'm giving a free talk on Friday. I'll be sharing some easy-to-implement, engaging ideas for teaching stats. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Cover of the PS journal AP&P on a blue graphic with the February 15 deadline. 

Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP

Super excited!

The Not So Illusory Truth Effect: A Rational Foundation for Repetition Effects: http://osf.io/qvwdy_v3/

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Audiobook cover of Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember by Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy

Available March 4, Memory Lane by @ciaragreene.bsky.social & @gillian-murphy.bsky.social provides an illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories—& how their flexibility & fallibility help us survive & thrive.

🎧 Pre-order the #audiobook today: press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

Scientists have ~36 hours to mobilize intense pressure on 8 republican senators to oppose leadership of #RFK at HHS (which controls #NIH). This is a critical, direct way to say no to the chaos and reign in Trump admin. Each essential state below w/ journalists & senate contact. 1/many 🧵

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

a hot pink flip phone with a DNA strand on the screen next to courier font text that says "Text a teacher: You can get matched with a scientist for a virtual Q&A in your classroom for free with skype a scientist"

500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE!

We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist

SkypeAScientist.com

Reflections on intersections between cognitive and social psychology: A personal exploration I appreciate the opportunity offered by the editor to reflect on the relationship between cognitive and social psychology. This topic has interested me my entire professional life, because I was admi...

Fascinating paper from Roddy Roediger on the fuzzy boundary btwn cognitive and social psychology. As someone who now finds herself living on that boundary it was cool to realize that my undergraduate research mentor lived there too. 1/

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...

🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Did you ever think about how much time you spend *judging* as a scientist? Judging papers, research proposals, other scientists...
This onslaught of judging duties hit me hard as a new professor & I've written about the need to explicitly decide one's judging criteria here 👇