Maureen Ritchey
Cognitive neuroscientist, now at UCLA ☀️
www.thememolab.org
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyUtterly brilliant writing by Cory and so rare to see any critical thought so well expressed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Reposted by Maureen Ritchey** Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher! ** We are seeking a postdoc to help examine how brain networks might change within individuals across transitional times, such as adolescence & pregnancy! Please share widely and apply at the link! #NeuroJobs uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheySave the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)
- New year, new beginnings - we're on our way to UCLA! @ajaysatpute.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyAsking 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!
- Did you know that Claude can work with PowerPoint files? I just had it add and clean up speaker notes for a set of lecture slides and it worked amazingly well. 😍
- Representing the MemoLab at Psychonomics, Valentina Krenz will be presenting tomorrow, poster II-153, on the effects of retrieval practice on memory precision 🌠
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI 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
- PhD student Nina Curko and I wrote a short article about the superpowers of memory! Now published in Frontiers for Young Minds: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyLast month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out! www.momentslab.org
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyHow does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
- Submission deadline is next Wednesday!
- Call for submissions: Boston College and Marginalia Science will be hosting a one-day conference highlighting diverse perspectives in psychology and social science research. Apply for a featured talk (with travel award), data blitz, or poster presentation! More info: forms.gle/TdB2esuePVN3...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyLooking for a postdoc? Apply for Cornell’s Klarman Fellowship with me! I’m interested in rules, rule-breakers, and curiosity, broadly construed. Link for more info here: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... (3 years, $80K/yr; Oct 15th deadline) Email me directly if you’re interested!
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyMy new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that! Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging. Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j Accepting GS apps in the Fall!
- Call for submissions: Boston College and Marginalia Science will be hosting a one-day conference highlighting diverse perspectives in psychology and social science research. Apply for a featured talk (with travel award), data blitz, or poster presentation! More info: forms.gle/TdB2esuePVN3...
- @UCLA is a global leader in research, innovation, education, and healthcare. The federal government’s $1B demand would devastate the nation’s top public research university, cut off life-saving care, and halt tech and economic growth. #StandUpForUC bit.ly/standuc
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyIf you think cuts to funding science is somehow caught up in the “culture wars that have nothing to do with science,” you are missing the point. The entire project of education as a public good is under threat, and a threat to one university is a threat to all. We have to stand together #UCLAResist
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyMultiple federal agencies are suspending research funding at UCLA over allegations it didn’t properly deal with antisemitism on campus. scim.ag/4lbLAcx
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyIf you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyOur new paper on how episodic memory and semantic knowledge interact to influence eye movements during search is out now in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, with @jmhenderson.bsky.social and Andy Yonelinas! (summary below) link.springer.com/article/10.3... #psynomPBR @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyThis is fucking insane
- An unexpected exception: "The behavioral and cognitive sciences division has awarded 30 percent more grant funding this year compared with the past decade’s average." ?!?
- NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyNew 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 Maureen RitcheyClear summary of just what got cancelled in the recent misinformation grant terminations - lots of valuable research on how to improve the information environment and ensure that people have easy access to accurate information www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
- This project has transformed the way I think about retrieval processes, and I'm so excited that we get to share it with you all now!
- Hello Bsky world, I am excited to announce our latest preprint “Eye movements reveal the cognitive dynamics supporting successful memory suppression” in collaboration with Paula Brooks, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, and @maureenritchey.bsky.social! 🎉👀 osf.io/preprints/ps... /thread
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyHello Bsky world, I am excited to announce our latest preprint “Eye movements reveal the cognitive dynamics supporting successful memory suppression” in collaboration with Paula Brooks, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, and @maureenritchey.bsky.social! 🎉👀 osf.io/preprints/ps... /thread
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- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyThe Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
- A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyCan confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
- NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyThe Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS) has extended its deadline in seeking nominations for new members to next Wednesday (4/9)! Self-nominations welcome. Feel free to DM me if you have questions about the society or the membership process. Application link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyHey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS! I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!) (All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyJoin 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 Maureen RitcheyInspired by @juliedgolomb.bsky.social I spent 15 minutes explaining research budgets and indirect costs to my lab meeting today, here's how I did it (1/4)
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyAbsolutely. Dozens of them. See also www.chronicle.com/article/were...
- Reposted by Maureen Ritchey🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheySo much for science in the US
- Reposted by Maureen Ritcheyjudge says spending freeze is frozen (til monday)
- FYI: NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders new.nsf.gov/executive-or... Straight from the source, complete with a webform for your (many many) questions
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyDM is doing a huge public service at the moment, tracking the changes at NIH as a result of Trump's executive orders. Also kudos to the Bluesky Science community, sharing their realtime experiences with delays and uncertainty.
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyEleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...
- More Connections fun for the holidays connectionsplus.io/game/nRkHzt
- The rest of my holiday themed puzzles connectionsplus.io/community?q=...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI hope one of the takeaways from this article is to be skeptical when your social media is full of negative content about a famous woman who never really crossed your feed before. It’s horrifying how many people will take a new interest in a celebrity if it gives them an outlet for sexism.
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI stumbled upon this website recently, and feel the need to make sure others know about it. Nice to be reminded that sometimes good things do come from the internet. applerankings.com
- For the Connections fans among us
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyIf you've ever wanted to learn #rstats then consider checking out our course Applied Data Skills which focuses just on data wrangling and viz and working in R rather than stats and will take you from zero to hero in reproducible reports. You even get walkthrough vids of my ramblings #AcademicSky
- Want to level up your data skills before the end of 2024? This is the best intro textbook I've found for R: psyteachr.github.io/ads-v3/ by the brilliant @emilynordmann.bsky.social and @debruine.bsky.social
- This holiday season, let's all give thanks for the amazing people who write textbooks and post them online for FREE.
- And specifically thanks @emilynordmann.bsky.social @debruine.bsky.social and @djnavarro.net for sharing your expertise. New course prep has never been so, dare I say, fun.
- Want to level up your data skills before the end of 2024? This is the best intro textbook I've found for R: psyteachr.github.io/ads-v3/ by the brilliant @emilynordmann.bsky.social and @debruine.bsky.social
- It is complemented really well by @djnavarro.net's excellent set of resources diving further into programming concepts psyr.djnavarro.net and stats learningstatisticswithr.com
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyHappy publication day to us! New paper just landed: The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.
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- "The solution is easy," they say. www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI don’t see why people get worked up about academic publishing. It’s easy. You just publish in a journal that’s not-for-profit, open access, free to publish, and highly respected in and out of your field because it only publishes high quality papers. With fully transparent but double blind review… 🧵
- Boston College is hiring full-time lecturers in Neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/159176 and Developmental/Clinical Psychology apply.interfolio.com/159064 If you love teaching & want to be part of a strong departmental community, consider applying!
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyAttention academics who need extra support to manage your time effectively: I'm currently obsessed with ReclaimAI, which has a very capable free version and education discounts on paid versions. Referral link: reclaim.ai/r/s/9cMlU
- Reposted by Maureen Ritcheygoing to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyJoining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.at://did:plc:52cuu4htnvya4dplf35yvu4s/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laptvspdpv2k
- Reposted by Maureen Ritchey@philipncohen.bsky.social kindly shared his data, so this is how I would have plotted it.
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyNew paper led by Kailong Peng: Real-time fMRI neurofeedback that promotes coactivation of cortical representations drives integration in the hippocampus #neuroskyence #psychscisky royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyVery excited to announce the launch of Cooperation Island, a new research platform for measuring social decision-making in children ages 5+. Shout out to co-pilots Julia Marshall and Shalini Gautam! Check it out at: cooperationisland.com
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyWhat better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!
- This is what I get for asking ChatGPT to help me with a brain illustration
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyMy lab at UCRiverside is once again recruiting grad students - come join us if you're interested in studying memory using EEG and/or fMRI in younger and older adults! You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmac Lots of my other fab colleagues are also recruiting: bit.ly/ccngrad
- Reposted by Maureen RitcheyI will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior: rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)
