Jacinda Taggett
ucla psych phd student. founder of academic memories
formerly ucdavis, ucberkeley
jacindataggett.research.st
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettColumbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
- You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect. Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
- This has now been cross-posted to UCLA's Psychology in Action blog! Feel free to check out and support UCLA Psych's scicomm group here: www.psychologyinaction.org/how-our-perc...
- I have officially written my first blog post as a first year PhD student 📝 Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia. Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠 www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettAre you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettFellow Grad students, please check the NSF website. There was an update last night. 1st year students (masters and phd) can apply. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettYears ago my lab tried to brainstorm ways to separately manipulate low-level (texture/pattern) and high-level (scene/object) image properties, for studying visual representations in the brain. Thanks to imaginative work by PhD student Zall Hirschstein, we now have a stimulus set that does just that!
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggetthi everyone! i made a support groupchat for students who are currently applying for PhD/PsyD programs, wanting to apply to these programs, or for students who want more information. If you would like to join, please reach out and I will add you! 🥰
- I have officially written my first blog post as a first year PhD student 📝 Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia. Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠 www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettBeing a scientist is my day job, but I also write and perform music. I've finally posted some live vids by my band, theNULL: youtu.be/Zdu6Z2XpqeM?... We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!
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- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettJust discovered this cool resource for learning about digital signal processing. Super cool and intuitive visualizations for newbies and experts alike! (Thanks, @fleabrained.bsky.social, for sharing it on @pessoabrain.bsky.social's thread) jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sine...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettNew press on our study linking the locus coeruleus to memory formation 🔵: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bra... . “…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggett"In this world, there are two times....The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along." - Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams 🕰️ Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠
- New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggetthi everyone :) I've made a lil ole blog to make some posts about the research I do (w/o giving too much away ofc) and to provide some tips for upcoming academics from an upcoming academic academiaforsillies.wixsite.com/academia-for-sillies
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettI'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!
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettMy favorite conference is the Memory Disorders Research Society meeting. It's a delightful community: top-notch research & wonderful people who have been so supportive in my career. Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggettnew cog neuro blog post up! this time writing about motion blindness: www.academicmemories.com/post/now-you...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettWe're in Symposium Session 8 "Memory in the plan of your hand", learning about smartphone studies and how they are contributing to understanding - and perhaps strengthening - memory @evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off! #CNS2025
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettMy first @cogneuronews.bsky.social meeting! Day one and I’ve already met so many great people and heard about the excellent cognitive neuroscience research they are doing! Might have to put this event on my annual rotation😏 #CNS2025 @northwellhealth.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettExcited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠
- New preprint from Yining Ding (@liliand.bsky.social)! "Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure" osf.io/preprints/ps...
- tomorrow morning!!! come by to learn about this amazing & interdisciplinary project 💗 #cns2025
- if you’re going to #cns2025 … come on down to my poster (B#127) !! i will be going over how we use PET neuroimaging, pharmacological intervention, and computational modeling to assess dopamine’s role in social decision making! :)
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggett#scicomm is more important than ever, as science is under attack @charan-neuro.bsky.social Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettGrateful to be gathering and hearing exciting science from the cog neuro community at #CNS2025! We’ve got new ideas to share: Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social
- if you’re going to #cns2025 … come on down to my poster (B#127) !! i will be going over how we use PET neuroimaging, pharmacological intervention, and computational modeling to assess dopamine’s role in social decision making! :)
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettIf you're going to #CNS2025, please stop by my poster (C36) on Sunday evening to find out more about this paper and episodic memory's multidimensional scrutiny! 🤓
- Why do we remember some events but forget others? In our recent work published at @naturecomms.bsky.social, @audreyduarte.bsky.social and I used machine learning to simultaneously quantify multiple cognitive components of episodic memory. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/11
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettCalling all psych, neuroscience majors and anyone in the mental health community - let’s connect! 🤍✨would love to make new friends and share experiences! #mentalhealth
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettHi! My lab is recruiting participants for our study on the gut-brain axis and nutrition's role in neurocognition. We have been having trouble finding participants who meet all criteria.
- in only a week we’ve received 12 applications from this niche subset of people 😱 !! next stop: promoting to local high schools and colleges across the nation! :)
- academic memories is hosting a virtual science communication program! intended for high school and community college students interested in the brain sciences, we aim to allow students to develop their research interests before university. find out more: www.academicmemories.com/scicomm-program
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettI don't see enough people or reporters talking about the mass terminations of nih lgbtq+ grants that happened yesterday. How can we get the word out so communities understand the huge loss to science, safety, and economy this is?? #academicsky
- i’m creating a starter pack for us early career psych/neuro scientists! comment if you want to be added, as so far i’ve mostly included my colleagues :) #psychology #neuroscience #cognitivescience go.bsky.app/3iktmaLat://did:plc:mapkwqsbqqsapxl3s6c6uvfi/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lkttyteo2i2r
- academic memories is hosting a virtual science communication program! intended for high school and community college students interested in the brain sciences, we aim to allow students to develop their research interests before university. find out more: www.academicmemories.com/scicomm-program
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettAt Reviewer Zero, we're passionate about helping early career researchers navigate the challenges of the peer review system. If you're an early career researcher in psych & neuro and feel stuck & need advice for a manuscript, check out this opportunity!
- 📚 Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) in psych, neuro, or a related field? Are you seeking feedback on an unsubmitted manuscript or a response to reviews? Our “pre-review” program offers feedback from experienced reviewers! 👇 Learn more & apply: go.iu.edu/rzfair
- currently watching severance and felt very inspired to read up on place cell literature and how it relates 🤩 new #scicomm article currently being drafted!! :)
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettThis is 💙 Science & Fiction 💙, where scientific results and fictional stories intersect. A space for people who like to a) learn about #science and b) read #sciencefiction at the same time. ✨ Go here to see what it's all about: 🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.com 🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.com/de
- update: i received a lot of great feedback and ideas on how to better visualize the data and methods :) i’m excited for Cognitive Neuroscience Society attendees to see the final product!
- presenting at my first full-lab meeting today! excited about this presentation and i’m especially excited to hear what the lab (which focuses on neurobiology of aging) thinks about this computational cognitive neuroscience project :)
- when i first started on tiktok i saw this happen as well!! could not use the terms “research” or “research paper” at all (captions, hashtags, in-video text)!!! i usually found a way around it by now using “researcher” but it’s wild how tiktok censors these topics…
- It’s been amazing working with @g-lia-lcells.bsky.social and @neurani.bsky.social with these TikTok videos and seeing how the hashtags used can lead to videos being censored. Comparing the hashtags today vs yesterday, unreal….#gamingthesystem
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettGuess quality moderates how semantic relatedness influences the pretesting effect: osf.io/wfnj2/
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggett@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettSee what a scientist looks like from the Sacramento @standupforscience.bsky.social march www.tiktok.com/@trainorlab/...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettThe MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
- as a part of #brainawarenessweek, academic memories asked a few of our volunteers about their experiences. read below as they describe their pathways to neuroscience, how virtual opportunities are accessible, and how representation is still needed. www.academicmemories.com/baw-2025
- attended the neurofest at @ucdavis.bsky.social today!! i enjoy seeing neuroscience researchers communicate complex topics to general audiences, hence why every year i attend after graduating. please continue to support neuroscience outreach events in your area!! #stemoutreach #ucdavis
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettThanks to out @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social community for joining us at Stand Up For Science! @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social spoke about how NIH funding supported her PhD & NSF funding supported her development of #CRISPR genome editing. Federal funding is needed for life-saving science!
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettStanding up for science is standing up for truth, reason, and wellbeing. So proud of my lab and colleagues for coming out to the march today!
- Reposted by Jacinda Taggett#standupforscience at UC Berkeley! Speakers pictured are Vincent Medina & Louis Trevino, leaders of the 'ottoy Initative.
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettReyes lab making me proud in Columbus, Ohio. #Standupforscience.
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettWant to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE? Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm! #standupforscience2025
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettInspired by @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece about the importance of science funding in my education for my hometown newspaper. www.bakersfield.com/opinion/comm...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettNEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettUC Berkeley is joining the national #StandUpforScience movement on Mar 7, 12-1pm. Join scientists, activists, & community members to defend science! Join us & spread the word. To learn more, volunteer, or suggest a speaker: www.standup4scienceberkeley.com #SUFSatCAL #standupforscience2025
- had a lot of fun at UCLA ICLM’s southern california learning and memory symposium today!! it’s fascinating to see different models and methods for research i hope to conduct in the future 💗
- i’ve always been intrigued by paradigms using movies and tv shows to answer questions about human memory, particularly event and narrative. inspired by work by @jameswardantony.bsky.social, i wrote a blog article about this paradigm! #scicomm #cogneuro www.academicmemories.com/post/media-i...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettJoin us!! Defund science = defund the future. As a proud uncle of many nieces and nephews (and just as a human being), these words ring true - now more than ever.
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettOn this months sitting down with scholars i’m joined by @jacindataggett.bsky.social if you’d like to hear our full discussion you can find it on youtube or substack below: open.substack.com/pub/askjordo... youtu.be/vKP8OHXnSsY
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettExcited to share this new preprint, along with an explainer thread written by my talented collaborator Michal Ramot. Are face perception and face memory fundamentally independent processes, or are they overlapping and impossible to disentangle? 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettHearing about more and more REUs being canceled makes me incredibly sad in a way words can't explain. An REU was literally a life-changing experience for me. 🧵
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettI wouldn’t be a scientist without the NIH SIP. I was a pre-med going through the motions but my summer at the NIH captivated me & showed me a different path. I was overjoyed when the first trainee from my own lab went last summer & also had a magical experience. This is a devastating loss
- i have joined substack! in addition to my posts on Academic Memories, i have decided to cross-post on a separate platform to build a science writing portfolio. i have posted my first ever “popular science” article from undergrad. feel free to subscribe! jacindataggett.substack.com/p/working-me...
- i attended a wonderful dinner last weekend in honor of my undergrad PI, dr. steve luck, getting awarded a prize for his mentorship and teaching. professor luck was one of the few individuals who truly shaped me to where i am today! much deserved
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettNew preprint from our lab on memory incorporation into dreams! 🧠 💭 💤 Palmieri et al. Incorporation of complex narratives into dreaming doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettSo, in addition to the Federal war against higher education, the California legislature is hoping to completely decimate the University of California.
- In the midst of all of this (hands waving frantically) chaos, not sure we are talking enough about this. CA is set to slash their state funding of UCs and CSUs by 8-10%. Impacts will be huge, and widely felt, for students, staff, and faculty. calmatters.org/education/hi...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettI ❤️ this 👇 Newest from the Uchida lab in @nature.com: different aspects of distributional RL in separable populations of striatal D1 and D2 neurons 🔥
- Nature An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettJoin us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettOur #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettEnrollment for my summer course is still open! If you know a high schooler that is interested in #sciencecommunication please share! ☺️ ❤️
- I'm teaching a #scicomm course for #Summer@Brown 2025 If you're a high school student interested in taking college-level courses, then you should check this out. There are 230+ classes, including mine 😊🔬📚🇵🇷 #teaching #AcademicSky #brownu Learn more: catalog.precollege.brown.edu/detail/CEMS0...
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettUse this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage go.nature.com/42SyoUu
- this grad admissions cycle is very disheartening, however i will be honest that i’m glad i went through the process this year. i am learning a lot about myself as well as the programs i hope to be a part of. i get to say “i gave it my best” and that’s a privilege in itself a bittersweet feeling!! 💗
- Reposted by Jacinda TaggettWith so many institutions being silent, I am *so proud* to see the University of California system sharing valuable resources, joining lawsuits, and reaffirming our values. Time to be loud about the importance of education & science, and read up on our rights and responsibilities to our students 📢
