✨New Paper✨ Now out w/ #SallyDrew in *Creativity Research Journal* @tandfonline Modrek, A. S., & Drew, S. (2025). Integrating Imagination with Evidence When Writing. Creativity Research Journal. link: https://t.co/n9rnUIxHxz #imagination #pedagogy #creativityresearch

The metabolic costs of cognition. A review by @SharnaJamadar & colleagues in @TrendsCognSci #SfN2025

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://t.co/1TZ0pwBtMJ @NewsfromScience

☀️Regardless, California is still >>>>>>>>> 🫶🏼 🏖️🏝️🌊🌮

Our research on the #flowstate is reported in a new @NatGeo (paywalled) article by @shayla__love to accompany the new "Limitless: Live Better Now" TV series with @chrishemsworth on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Now published in @NatureAging ! We introduce DunedinPACNI, a novel measure of the rate of aging derived from brain MRI, and validate it in three large, independent datasets https://t.co/8iPdYLHV5s

Full article: It’s not just what you do, but the way you do it: network meta-analysis of the effects of different exercise modalities on the executive function of children and adolescents

🎉ATTN #LosAngeles 🎉 "Well Fed, Well Read" This summer, kids + teens (18 and under) can enjoy FREE lunch at participating LA County Library locations. @lacountyyouth @LACountyLibrary @lapublichealth Click here for details 👇 https://t.co/KtdIOPT52b #Reading #summer #LA

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the next few months to work on cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods. If you know anybody, please tell them to email me. Formal ad to follow. Lab website:

We just published a new preprint on exposure to adversity and biological ageing. 🧵We used data from 150k+ @uk_biobank participants to investigate associations between childhood and adulthood adversity and molecular, clinical and functional markers of ageing:

More Than Just a Phase: Adolescence as a Window Into How the Brain Generates Behavior - Catherine Insel, Alexandra O. Cohen, 2025

.@ardemp, my colleagues and friend @scrippsresearch, and Nobel Laureate, on the front page of NYT today

Literally the exact thing I’ve been saying. Canada should do this at scale. China knows what’s going on but it will still be hard for them to pull this off.

Learners show stronger evidence-based, argumentative writing simultaneously with exploratory, imaginative writing, when both stem from the latter: explorative and imaginative learning opportunities.

Teachers’ evidence-based, argumentative prompts did not link to learners’ exploratory, imaginative writing (it only linked to students’ evidence-based, argumentative writing). We found the reverse, however, for exploratory, imaginative prompts: predicting both forms of learning.

Half the schools were 'treatment' sites for teacher development of deeper learning. Teachers in these treatment schools provided significantly more exploratory, imaginative learning opportunities *simultaneously with* evidence-based, argumentative learning opportunities.

This is the second paper out from collaborations with @AIRInforms @Education_AIR @Hewlett_Found @AERA_EdResearch & more! With 20 high schools across the U.S., we ask whether exploratory, imaginative learning can be provided without cost to evidence-based, argumentative learning.

🥳I am joining Columbia @ColumbiaPSYC July 2025! Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls RETWEET🙏 We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods! App👉 https://t.co/uQwsTlbymS

”If I get an award, I have an opportunity to thank people. I also thank the people who tried to make my life miserable because they made me work harder and become more resilient.” Next week, our podcast returns with conversations featuring our 2024 laureates. In the meantime,