Nicholas Christopher-Hayes @nichrishayes@qoto.org

For those who haven't heard Mariam Aly of Columbia Psychology learned that she would not be promoted to Associate Professor w/o tenure, so she is being denied tenure w/o an organized external review process. See her tweet:
Today I learned that
@Columbia
will not be promoting me or putting me up for tenure. I have multiple active grants (including an R01 and a CAREER award) plenty of publications, a teaching award, and a history of DEI advocacy. Open to all opportunities in and out of academia.

I think this is unfair. To see more of my reasoning and consider an organized show of support, please see this google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dg7BhOCeIwobIpxckwZ2xT1RfDYveSTHU1AwlZfyl0c/edit?usp=sharing

Memories can be reactivated and strengthened during sleep. But what about when it's unclear which among many memories should be reactivated? A dizzying array of things! @eitan and I sift through these findings, arguing that reactivation fate depends on the nature of learning. https://psyarxiv.com/u48fp

Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship application is now open. If you are an early-mid career researcher working on development/learning (from neuroscience to psychology to education), please apply!

As the current fellow, I highly recommend it. It is not about money (well, money matters...), but about the opportunities it provides to interact with researchers with various backgrounds. You'll have many opportunities to collaborate on truely interdisciplinary projects.

https://jacobsfoundation.spigit.com/2023applications/Page/About

if you are at #psychonomics in #Boston this weekend, come say hi! I'll be presenting a model of hippocampal contributions to the testing effect by Xiaonan Liu & Randy O'Reilly.

I just made a 🧠 💭 @cogneurophys b/c I didn't see much to collect neurobio of LnM, cognition, neural circuit mechanisms, etc., which I'd love to see in my timeline w/o matching hashtags.

If it's a good idea, you'd need to b/c I'm a teeny whisperer here right now!
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#introduction Hi all 👋 I am a researcher (psychologist by training) at the University of Zurich Switzerland interested in #Cognition (#Memory #DecisionMaking) and #Motivation from a #Developmental #Lifespan view, #OpenScience, #OpenData, also some #CognitiveModeling

More into #sleep? You might like a recent study into how sleep affects consolidation of #memory
https://plos.io/3UemqNu
#PLOSBiology #SfN22 #neuroscience
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#introduction
I'm an #earlycareer #sleep #neuroscientist aiming to understand why everything looks so much better in the morning.

Currently a #postdoc with Matt Walker at #UC #berkeley working on the intersection of sleep with #aging & #mentalhealth.

Finished my #phd a year ago in #Faculty of #Medicine, #Tel-Aviv #university with Yuval Nir.
Worked on #sensory #perception during sleep, sleep & #memory and how it goes wrong in #Alzheimer.
#tau #amyloid #tvns #EEG, #psg #fMRI, #python #MNE