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Sarah Power
@sarahdpower.bsky.social
Postdoc @MPIB interested in cross-species infant memory engram development | Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds fellow alumni | CIFAR CBD Next Gen scholar
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We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!

More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...

Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
soc.stanford.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Late breaking abstract at #SfN25 by Dr. Erika Stewart:

LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16).

@sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Proud of my first masters student @mfey.bsky.social whose brilliant thesis has been honoured with the CENE Research Prize! Marius is now continuing his academic journey as a PhD student @imprstp.bsky.social and I can’t wait to see all the incredible work he will do next. @lipmpib.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas
October 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
September 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting.

Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social

Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting
The retention and use of long-term memories is crucial for adaptive behavior. While stable memories help organisms anticipate outcomes, they may become maladaptive if not updated to reflect new condit...
www.cell.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Excellent opportunity to work with one of the best @clrar.bsky.social cannot recommend enough!
📣 Recruiting a PhD Student! 🇪🇸

Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level.

Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social
Apply by early Sept.

#PhD #Memory #Neuroscience
August 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🌠 The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is taking part in the Long Night of the Sciences on June 28 in Berlin. LIP is involved in many fun activities, some in English. Take a look at the program!
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/seminars-and...
Long Night of the Sciences 2025
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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"We cannont make progress in #BrainResearch in Europe unless we allow for the ethical and regulated use of animals." @tjryan.bsky.social

💡 Learn more about the #BOARD25 compaign, led by
@eara.eu: eara.eu/board25

🎥 Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Xr...
June 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
www.science.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Fun time recording with Crowd Science by @BBCWorldService alongside @tjryan.bsky.social Why can't I remember my early childhood? Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #CrowdScience #BBCScience @lipmpib.bsky.social
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why can't I remember my early childhood?
Some huge milestones happen in our first years of life - but why do we forget them?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
Scientist/Senior Scientist – Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
can-acn.org
December 27, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost!
#DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
PhD Position in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Trier University
The Learning Brain Lab located at the University of Trier (Prof. Dr. Yana Fandakova) is inviting applications for a PhD position (E 13 TV-L, 75 %) in the DFG-funded project „How curiosity enhances lea...
tinyurl.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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New feature in Science on our ongoing cross-species research on forgetting during early infant developmen to in humans and mice, with @sarahdpower.bsky.social & @markuswb.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, and Erika Stewart at Trinity College Dublin:

www.science.org/content/arti...
March 26, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Nice article about what LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social and others are up to! 🧸
Are your earliest childhood memories still lurking in your mind—or gone forever?
Studies of “infantile amnesia” find that memory works differently in the developing brain
www.science.org
March 21, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Important paper out now in Developmental Review by LIP colleague @zoengo.bsky.social with colleagues @buchberger.bsky.social, Phuc Nguyen, and @markuswb.bsky.social as well as @noranewcombe.bsky.social!
Building a cumulative science of memory development
Redirecting
doi.org
March 14, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Just out! A cross species review of episodic memory development. I was thrilled to work with a wonderful author team assembled by Freyja Olafsdottir www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Episodic memory development: Bridging animal and human research
Human episodic memory is not functionally evident until about 2 years of age and continues to develop into the school years. Behavioral studies have e…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 14, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Preprint of new review:
"Rethinking Memory Impairments: Retrieval Failure" - with @gurcelay.bsky.social, Ralph Miller, & Joaquin Alfei.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 6, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Good morning from the MPIB foxes ❄️
November 28, 2023 at 10:05 AM
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New paper by LIP colleague Sarah Power et al.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🟦🧠
November 13, 2023 at 12:22 PM
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November 22, 2023 at 8:44 AM
Using my first blue sky post to share my PhD work with @tjryan.bsky.social is finally out! 🐭 We discovered that male offspring in an immune autism model do not experience infantile amnesia 🧠
Immune activation state modulates infant engram expression across development
Infantile amnesia suppresses the expression of memory engram ensembles and is modulated by maternal immune activation experience.
www.science.org
November 20, 2023 at 8:21 PM