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mattwall.bsky.social
Psychologist & fMRI-nerd. 🧠 + psychedelics, cannabis, sex hormones. Instrument botherer. The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/mbwall My vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChaSxw9NuBrAFN3zjLQRbPg
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Due to fly to the US for a conference next week. Starting to wonder if there’ll actually be a functioning country left by the time I get there.

I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you! tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

What’s happening in CA right now is basically half the Andor subplot of Ghorman.

Holy shit.

Myself and the mighty @robincarhartharris.bsky.social have a new book chapter out... except you can get a PDF, so it's kinda like a paper? I don't know... Anyway, it's on psychedelics and human neuroimaging: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

dude you won't believe it. that violently insecure mad king? he had a falling out with that super annoying failed jester he made grand vizier

The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.

Check this out: the runtimes of the no. 1 songs for each year show a clear trend towards longer songs until around 1990, and since then they’ve been going down again. But here’s what caught my eye: they’ve excluded two songs because they’re too long. 1972’s “American Pie” & “All Too Well” by Taylor

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Hey kids, check out our sexy new pre-print using REACT to investigate cannabis brain effects! "Receptor-enriched analysis of functional connectivity (REACT) for understanding cannabinoid neuropsychopharmacology" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

Nice write-up by @psypost.bsky.social on our latest paper on psilocybin vs. escitalopram for depression and the distinct mechanisms behind their effects: www.psypost.org/psilocybin-a... #neuroskyence

This new article in the Journal of Eating Disorders seems to uncritically portray psilocybin as a truth serum that can accurately recover "historical autobiographical material" from repressed traumatic memories... What could possibly go wrong? jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

My kid is making me watch a God-awful 90 minute film that some YouTube numpty made entirely in Roblox. Parenthood is just one humiliation and degradation after another. 😫

Friends, I have news. It is very good news. You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

One way of thinking about it is, why wouldn’t *I* use ChatGPT to write a paper? 1. It’s a matter of self-respect. 2. I believe my writing says something basic about who I am. 3. I believe research and writing are valuable activities. +

New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social "An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts." nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Scrap’ as in not implement them in the first place. This will only lower prices compared to what they would have been had the checks been introduced next month. So it’s very much a notional saving and continuation of business as usual. 🤷‍♂️ #BrexitReality #EUReset

Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

Our (Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff) commentary on @mattwall.bsky.social's recent paper comparing effects of psilocybin and escitalopram on emotional responses in the brain. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Apropos of nothing - this fish pie I just made looks absolutely kickass.

GODDAM YOU ELSEVIER EDITORIAL MANAGER YOU UNSPEAKABLE WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT.

Today's fundamentally broken Microsoft product appears to be - Powerpoint! 😩

The snake is eating its own tail.

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tom Morello is still cool in my book

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Steve Baker should get on his bike and look for work, and keep looking until he finds some.

“What I don’t need is: Here’s how to apply for a mid-ranking job in a corporate,” said Baker, a prominent figure in the party’s Brexit wars of the 2010s. “As soon as I apply, they know who I am, they do the Googling and they don’t want me.”

PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise. Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.