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[May 2026] Visiting Lancaster University for the The Multilingual North: Multilingualism Research Across the N8 & EEG Workshop
[April 2026] A month-long visit to MARCS, hosted by the wonderful Mark Antoniou.
[March 2026] Resubmission of the Gabrielsen et al. paper on bilingualism and working memory at Language Learning
[February 2026] A quiet month at work.
[January 2026] Grant writing season.
[December 2025] Got awarded an International Visiting Fellowhip at MARCS Institute for Brain, Bahaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University
[November 2025] Hosted a group of visitors from LCBC at UiO. Applied for a job there (unsuccessfully).
[October 2025] Ate some cake to celebrate ongoing SynVesT-1 PET scanning.
[September 2025] Took part at the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies course on brain plasticity in San Servolo, Italy.
[August 2025] Back to work.
[July 2025] Break.
[June 2025] Two papers published! First one on bilingualism and neuroplasticity of the hippocampus in eNeuro and the second one on the modulatory effects of bilingualism on inhibitory on-task oscillatory activity in NeuroImage.
[May 2025] First succesful SynVesT-1 PET scan in Sweden as part of the SYNAPSE project!
[April 2025] Travel month. Presented at Experimental Psychology Society meeting in Lancaster, UK and Learning and Plasticity meeting in Äkäslompolo, Finland.
[March 2025] A quiet month at work.
[February 2025] A month dedicated to grant writing.
[January 2025] Presented a poster at the Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium
[December 2024] Merry Christmas!
[November 2024] Travel month: visiting the University of Groningen for Dr. Floor van den Berg’s PhD defense, followed by the Psychonomics annual meeting in NYC.
[October 2024] Launch of participant recruitment for the SYNAPSE project!
[September 2024] Back to school!
[August 2024] A quiet month at work.
[July 2024] Had a run-in with the Latvian border patrol while attempting to visit the friendship monument on Latvian-Russian-Belarusian tripoint.
[June 2024] Return to northern Norway for the nuptials of Vince DeLuca and Ingeborg Giæver in gorgeous Havnnes.
[May 2024] Attended the best biomarkers course in the world.
[Apr 2024] Paper investigating the effects of multilingual engagement on resting state oscillatory signature across the lifespan accepted for publication at Neurobiology of Aging!
[Mar 2024] Concluding work visit to Tromsø for the final event of the AcqVA Aurora center. Farewell AcqVA! Long live C-LaBL!
[Feb 2024] It was a leap year.
[Jan 2024] Received a hardcover author’s copy of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics in the mail. Thanks to Eleonora Rossi and Vince DeLuca for their work on our chapter and kudos to Kara Morgan-Short and Janet van Hell for putting it all together!
[Dec 2023] Paper testing the UBET model accepted for publication at Cerebral Cortex
[Nov 2023] Presented a poster on the effects of bilingualism on resting state brain activity across the lifespan at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting in Marseille, France
[Oct 2023] Editorial for a Special issue on Cognitive Neuroscience Perspectives on Language Acquisition and Processing accepted at Brain Sciences. This marks a fortunate end of having to deal with MDPI
[Sep 2023] Commenced an appointment as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg with Martin Lövdén