Nora Turoman

Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!

Advancing Transparency in Academic Publishing: The Growing Adoption of Open Peer Review Practices  - F1000 Exploring how visible review processes benefit authors, reviewers, and the wider research community Peer reviewers are essential to scholarly publishing. Their expert feedback provides validation of the research and helps authors improve their academic work. However, this crucial step in publishing research is all too often inaccessible to readers and the reviewers’ work often goes […]

💻 #F1000 Blog Post

Associate Publisher Emma Smith talks about F1000's open peer review model and how open peer review processes can benefit authors, reviewers, and the wider research community.

Read now: spr.ly/63321fAyMT

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #PeerReview

Thank you! I'm stoked about it :D

The dates have been set! #OAI14 will take place online from November 10-14, 2025. Make sure to follow us to get the forthcoming info about the talks, speakers and satellite events.

You guessed it, I won't be posting or re-posting about the same topics any more. But, if you're interested in information and AI literacy, #openscience, scientific publishing, and all of that good stuff, then watch this space 💫

Academic competences The EPFL Library offers many free training programs in the form of workshops, courses or seminars, on-site or online, in French and English. The programs are open to all: in particular EPFL students, ...

In this new role, I will work to help the EPFL academic community build knowledge, skills, and confidence in the messy world of contemporary science and information literacy through courses like these: www.epfl.ch/campus/libra...

🚨 Big news alert 🚨

After a decade in academic research, I’ve decided to turn the page. Thank you to everyone who was a part of the journey 💛

I’m now bringing my research and #scicom experience to my new role as Instructor at @epfllibrary.bsky.social. Excited for this new chapter! 💫

Extremely happy to share our latest preprint on the bimodal advantage in #WorkingMemory!
Across 4 experiments, we show when cued recall improves with audiovisual vs. purely visual input.
Preprint: osf.io/7j6yt_v1
#CogSci #OpenScience #AcademicSky

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Reading Difficulties: Deviant Audiovisual Learning Dynamics and Network Connectivity in Children with Poor Reading Skills Mastering the associations between letters and their corresponding speech sounds (LSS) is pivotal in the early stages of reading development, requiring an effective reorganization of brain networks. C...

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Reading Difficulties: Deviant Audiovisual Learning Dynamics and Network Connectivity in Children with Poor Reading Skills www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... How does processing & integration of letters & speech sounds change with letter & speech sound learning?

3 hour open-science workshop I gave at Vin University Hanoi now online:
"Credible science, evaluating science, and the need for a science reform"

UG class level super basic research methods intro and my take on some of the main challenges we're facing.

Details 👇🧵

Working Memory Symposium We will return this summer for WMS 2025! Tentative date: July 8-11Click here to apply for a postdoc organizor!(Application Deadline: March 16th)

The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!

Image of a smiling woman sat in a theatre, pointing to a slide behind her with her image on it, announcing her as the science speaker for the evening

When #scicomm = learning by laughing! Last Saturday, I took part in an improv show by The Catalyst (thecatalyst.ch) - an Anglophone sci-tertainment collective based in Lausanne, CH. I gave a 5-min layperson-friendly talk on #workingmemory, which the improvisers then used as inspiration for a skit 🧠🎭

Beyond Routine Maintenance: Current Trends in Working Memory Research Abstract. Working memory (WM) is an evolving concept. Our understanding of the neural functions that support WM develops iteratively alongside the approaches used to study it, and both can be profound...

Inspired by this year's Working Memory Symposium, we wrote an article looking toward the future of WM

Big shout-out to Anastasia Kiyonaga for spearheading & to co-organizers @lauraklatt.bsky.social, @neurojacob.bsky.social, M. Rösner, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

YouTube video by Dr William Ngiam quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app

Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...

Understanding memory Explore the article collection: Understanding memory. Published in Philosophical Psychology.

We have a new online collection of papers on #memory and from tomorrow they will all be open access for a month! www.tandfonline.com/journals/cph... Enjoy #philsky!

I've been thinking that cognitive research needs to better interface with journalists and the public - there's an appetite for our expertise but scientists still mostly work towards and rely on peer-reviewed articles. We can break the pipeline by reviewing preprints and signalling quality ourselves.

Looking for a small pack of cool Developmental Scientists? Here are 25 Jacobs Foundation Fellows. According to the foundation, we are ground-breaking researchers who promote evidenced-based learning and education
go.bsky.app/QJkv8MB jacobsfoundation.org/fellowships LMK who I missed #DevSci #DevPsy

The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

Rarely categorical, always high-dimensional: how the neural code changes along the cortical hierarchy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623878v1 The brain is highly structured both at anatomical and functional levels. However, within individual

Rarely categorical, always high-dimensional: how the neural code changes along the cortical hierarchy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623878v1

**The ultimate systems #neuroscience paper!**

Recording every spike, every stimulus, every action during person's first half of life to predict second half?

The future of papers and neuro, are we almost there yet? That would great discussion to have online.

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

A tale of two algorithms: Structured slots explain prefrontal sequence memory and are unified with hippocampal cognitive maps The algorithm of the prefrontal working memory system on sequence memory tasks is not well understood, whereas it is well understood for the hippocampal episodic memory system. This work shows a mathematical duality between working and episodic sequence memory. This leads to a computational understanding of sequence working memory—as structured activity slots. This theory algorithmically explains recurrent neural network (RNN) and prefrontal representations during sequence memory tasks.

Stellar new work lead by the inimitable James Whittington in Neuron that develops a new theory unifying episodic and working memory and explains diverse hippocampal and prefrontal data: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... w/Will Dorrell, @behrenstimb.bsky.social Mohamedy El Gaby

You're asked to develop a new research methods course for third-year psychology students – ten weeks of content to prepare students to make inferences about an evolving and complex world. What do you choose to include? What do you do away with from traditional courses? (And how do you respond?)

YouTube video by CogSci: Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind Why do Our Memories Sometimes Fade or Fail? — Winner of the 2024 CogSci Mind Challenge

Dr. Ryan Rhodes @langofmind.bsky.social – from Rutgers University – explain the processes related to memory in an entertaining and informative way. He uses exciting visuals to underscore his approachable teaching style and make his video, well, memorable!

#CogSciMindChallenge

youtu.be/e64-k8Q0n84

@evievergauwe.bsky.social

Her lab has been in equal parts extremely well organised & efficient AND compassionate & supportive. 10/10

Welcome to the dark side (the blue side, actually)!

True. I guess it’s clear that I work on the input part of my post 😅

Yes! To exist is to constantly communicate with the environment. Input from environment to cognition via sensation & perception. Output to environment from cognition via action. So it makes sense that each one of these elements influence each other over development.

The debate between Nature-Nurture is a dead end, it's a false dichotomy. We can only understand organismic development in the context of an organism's typical development within its environment. Furthermore, cognitive development cannot be understood without physical and motor development.

Detailed job description, which can also be found here: https://cldlab.org/join/

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!

The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.

More details here: cldlab.org/join/

🧠💻 #psychscisky