Maria Wimber
@marwimber.bsky.social
Prof at University of Glasgow, School of Psychology & Neuroscience. Trying to understand how the human brain reconstructs memories of past events. She/her
#Memory #Neuroscience #Cognition #LoveGlasgow
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Maria Wimber
@marwimber.bsky.social
· Dec 5
University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - James McCune Smith PhD Scholarships
www.gla.ac.uk
Applications are open for James McCune Smith PhD Scholarships to support Black UK students with full (up to 4 years) PhD funding. Interested in a project on #memory in #psychology & #neuroscience? Do message me to have a chat!
Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
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New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
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New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martinhebart.bsky.social
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martinhebart.bsky.social
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Applications are open for James McCune Smith PhD Scholarships to support Black UK students with full (up to 4 years) PhD funding. Interested in a project on #memory in #psychology & #neuroscience? Do message me to have a chat!
Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - James McCune Smith PhD Scholarships
www.gla.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Applications are open for James McCune Smith PhD Scholarships to support Black UK students with full (up to 4 years) PhD funding. Interested in a project on #memory in #psychology & #neuroscience? Do message me to have a chat!
Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
rdcu.be/eSyjz
rdcu.be/eSyjz
Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency
Nature Reviews Psychology - Certain items are better remembered than others across individuals, a property known as memorability. In this Review, Bainbridge and colleagues detail memorability...
rdcu.be
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
rdcu.be/eSyjz
rdcu.be/eSyjz
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Thrilled that my recent paper, Hippocampal Ripples during Offline Periods Predict Human Motor Sequence Learning, was selected for the “This Week in The Journal” highlight! 🤩
Huge thanks to @bstaresina.bsky.social and our collaborators who made this work possible!
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#JNeurosci
Huge thanks to @bstaresina.bsky.social and our collaborators who made this work possible!
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#JNeurosci
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Thrilled that my recent paper, Hippocampal Ripples during Offline Periods Predict Human Motor Sequence Learning, was selected for the “This Week in The Journal” highlight! 🤩
Huge thanks to @bstaresina.bsky.social and our collaborators who made this work possible!
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#JNeurosci
Huge thanks to @bstaresina.bsky.social and our collaborators who made this work possible!
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#JNeurosci
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Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
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Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
BIOMAG 2025，在线会议，会议直播平台，网络会议直播，美迪康会务通，学术会议管理系统，会议活动管理，注册签到管理，会场幻灯片传输转播，PPT传输，会议网络直播，电子壁报管理系统，医学会，会员管理系统
biomag2026.scimeeting.cn
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
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Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
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Monty Python understood p-hacking
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Monty Python understood p-hacking
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JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour
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Let this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review:
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Principles for proper peer review
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Let this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review:
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
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I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
A very rich, comprehensive resource on multiple memory traces, covering parallel evidence in humans and other animals!
A memory can be represented at different levels of granularity, from highly specific to generalized.
Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A very rich, comprehensive resource on multiple memory traces, covering parallel evidence in humans and other animals!
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📣 Helpful thread about a great paper alert!
Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.
Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.
So happy to share our paper on the role of the hippocampus as a mismatch detector:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge.
See 🧵for how we got here:
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge.
See 🧵for how we got here:
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
September 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
📣 Helpful thread about a great paper alert!
Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.
Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.
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🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
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Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....
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Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days
Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online).
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days
Stratos’ poster on now!
Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now.
Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Stratos’ poster on now!
Weirdly satisfying experience to use a hedge trimmer for the first time. Cut it all down. Highly recommend for anger management. #chainsawTherapy
September 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Weirdly satisfying experience to use a hedge trimmer for the first time. Cut it all down. Highly recommend for anger management. #chainsawTherapy
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Looking forward to #ICON2025 next week! We will have several presentations on mental imagery, reality monitoring and expectations:
To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present:
P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors
To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present:
P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors
September 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Looking forward to #ICON2025 next week! We will have several presentations on mental imagery, reality monitoring and expectations:
To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present:
P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors
To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present:
P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors
Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now.
Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
September 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now.
Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!