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We are hiring 2 RAs in the AML (now at University of Oregon) with an anticipated start date of late summer/early fall. I promise it will be a fun place to study motivation, affect, and memory! Find more info about the position in the ad below, and a link to apply in the thread.

Year 5 had a great time Techniquest yesterday. They presented their volcano projects for The Curious Brain and spoke so confidently to the judges. Gwaith dda pawb. #AlbanyCanDoIt

Year 5 had a great time in Techniquest yesterday! What a fun way to finish our #curiousbrain project!

The Curious Brain detectives were celebrated for their curiosity and discovery in an excellent rap written by the fab rapping scientist: #JonChase Albany Primary Ysgol Glan Morfa TredegarvillePrimary Radnor Primary St Peter's RC Primary Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social School of Psychology Wellcome Jon Chase

"You don't have to take the straight path to succeed in life" Congratulations to Sidsel Koop for graduating with a first-class degree in Psychology School of Psychology. Thank you for the kind words about our final-year Creativity & Curiosity module/seminar. cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2828…

Thank you to Nivi Mani and the whole Curiosity Research Training Group at Göttingen for the inspiring talks and discussions during the Curiosity Theory kick-off meeting! Can’t wait to come back for a sabbatical in 2025 and see their first findings and lots more discussions!

Wow - our dhafer ben khalifa funded Public Engagement Science Enrichment project the "Curious Brain" together with Science Made Simple and five primary schools has concluded with an inspiring showcase event Techniquest cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2832…

It was so great for us Science Made Simple to work with CUBRIC and School of Psychology on this and can't wait to share our findings in October!

Happy 10th Birthday to our first paper on curiosity and learning!!! 🎉 Exactly ten years ago we published: States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit. Charan Ranganath Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Pleased to share that @yanafandakova.bsky.social, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Helene Sauzeon, and I received a collaborative 3-year Open Research Area (ORA) grant to study curiosity-based learning across childhood and adolescence. We will soon be recruiting at all three sites (Cardiff, Trier, Bordeaux)!

Replay@CUBRIC-25 is scheduled for 29/30th May! Watch this space for more details on our very own, very green, international conference on memory replay.

In case you haven't seen on bsky yet. @yanafandakova.bsky.social has an open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) psychjob.eu/en/job/phd-pos…

Still looking for a book to read over the holidays? "Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving." A new popular science book on memory written by the great John Aggleton! I just ordered my copy and can't wait to start reading. routledge.com/Memory-and-the…

"Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans." We are excited to share this novel paradigm and findings on curiosity-based exploration. This project was led tirelessly by Danlu Cen in collaboration with Carl Hodgetts (@cjhodgetts.bsky.social) nature.com/articles/s4427…