Deepu Murty
@vpmurty.bsky.social
NeuroMnemonicist by day, tv enthusiast by night.
My current mantra: If mini-backpacks came back, one day government funding will too.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My current mantra: If mini-backpacks came back, one day government funding will too.
Strong endorse. Nina is the best and at the cutting edge of multiple fields all at once!
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
rouhanilab.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Strong endorse. Nina is the best and at the cutting edge of multiple fields all at once!
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Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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August 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
Great, I come back from Canada to see that Trump ruined poop jokes.
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Great, I come back from Canada to see that Trump ruined poop jokes.
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Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...
I promised my nieces we would make moonbeam ice cream when I came to visit. Hivemind, what should that mean. I am currently thinking ice cream, mini marshmallows, and silver sprinkles.
August 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I promised my nieces we would make moonbeam ice cream when I came to visit. Hivemind, what should that mean. I am currently thinking ice cream, mini marshmallows, and silver sprinkles.
The great thing about AOL instant messenger was that you knew when your friends were free to chat. I wish my cell phone contacts had that.
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The great thing about AOL instant messenger was that you knew when your friends were free to chat. I wish my cell phone contacts had that.
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2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
www.cogneurosociety.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
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New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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July 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Tenure Pro-Tip: If you are ever worried about your ego inflating, take a U-Jam dance class at the YMCA that has far too many windows.
July 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Tenure Pro-Tip: If you are ever worried about your ego inflating, take a U-Jam dance class at the YMCA that has far too many windows.
Umm my non-science friend wanted to roast me, and fed my papers into chat GPT. I would have guessed that deeply hurtful comments would have to come from people that know me well, but ouch.
July 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Umm my non-science friend wanted to roast me, and fed my papers into chat GPT. I would have guessed that deeply hurtful comments would have to come from people that know me well, but ouch.
Tenure pro tip: Playing Mars, Bringer of War during an automatic car wash really elevates the experience.
July 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Tenure pro tip: Playing Mars, Bringer of War during an automatic car wash really elevates the experience.
Good news! My lab isn’t a failure 🤷🏾 . Jkjkjk they are the best!
July 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Good news! My lab isn’t a failure 🤷🏾 . Jkjkjk they are the best!
Resistance is hard. It is likely better for my mental health to dissociate from the constant threats to my identity as a researcher and queer man. But dissociating also undermines my authenticity as a person. Maybe the solution is continued resistance but fostering joy and silliness along the way.
July 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Resistance is hard. It is likely better for my mental health to dissociate from the constant threats to my identity as a researcher and queer man. But dissociating also undermines my authenticity as a person. Maybe the solution is continued resistance but fostering joy and silliness along the way.
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When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo
July 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo
Not all voting has to be bad and malicious (Re: big stupid bill). Psychonomic Society voted two of my favorite researchers for mid-career awards! Congrats Jason Chein and Shayna Rosenbaum!!! @mindimager.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Not all voting has to be bad and malicious (Re: big stupid bill). Psychonomic Society voted two of my favorite researchers for mid-career awards! Congrats Jason Chein and Shayna Rosenbaum!!! @mindimager.bsky.social
Advice for junior colleagues: If you are feeling old bike to graduation in regalia and everyone will tell you congratulations and you can pretend you are 28 getting your PhD.
June 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Advice for junior colleagues: If you are feeling old bike to graduation in regalia and everyone will tell you congratulations and you can pretend you are 28 getting your PhD.
Where were the minions on January 6th? That’s what I want to know.
June 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Where were the minions on January 6th? That’s what I want to know.
Advice for junior colleagues: If you get a large matcha smoothie you can use it’s a microphone to sing Break Free by Ariana Grande. I didn’t learn this til post tenure.
May 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Advice for junior colleagues: If you get a large matcha smoothie you can use it’s a microphone to sing Break Free by Ariana Grande. I didn’t learn this til post tenure.
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Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy:
"If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion?
Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"
"If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion?
Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"
A US judge to govt lawyers defending the NIH's grant terminations:
"I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition.
This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."
"I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition.
This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."
May 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy:
"If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion?
Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"
"If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion?
Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"
Remember when science social media could be fun. Real housewives research taglines go. I’m like consolidation, your fear makes me stronger.
May 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Remember when science social media could be fun. Real housewives research taglines go. I’m like consolidation, your fear makes me stronger.
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One student *did* write a cognition haiku at the end of their exam!
“Saccades, to and fro
Attend to the relevance
Select, remember.”
I love it! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky
“Saccades, to and fro
Attend to the relevance
Select, remember.”
I love it! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky
while sadly none of my students took up my offer of writing me a haiku ab Cognition on the back of their cheat-sheet for their final essay exam, one DID write "One of my favorite classes at Harvard and helped my love for Psych grow!" 🥰 I'll take it! Fuel for the grading trenches. #PsychSciSky
May 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
One student *did* write a cognition haiku at the end of their exam!
“Saccades, to and fro
Attend to the relevance
Select, remember.”
I love it! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky
“Saccades, to and fro
Attend to the relevance
Select, remember.”
I love it! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky
Status update: Billie Eilish is everything!
May 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Status update: Billie Eilish is everything!
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"Scientists might also be realizing that there’s little safety in silence."
#SpeakOut
www.science.org/content/arti...
#SpeakOut
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"Scientists might also be realizing that there’s little safety in silence."
#SpeakOut
www.science.org/content/arti...
#SpeakOut
www.science.org/content/arti...
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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!
Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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!