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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com/ Science advocate. Professor (UPenn Psychology). 1st BOOK: Elusive Cures (June 10, 2025). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
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It's publication day!!! stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I hope Elusive Cures will help shift the current narrative (from scientists as corrupt data falsifiers). Most scientists I know are impassioned individuals throwing their best at complicated challenges that matter for society; this is how Elusive Cures describes them. I'm humbled by this review.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

This guy passed the “Are you really Ken Britten?” test. Welcome Ken!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

"Everyone knows what an emotion is until asked to give a definition. Then, it seems, no one knows." (1984) psycnet.apa.org/record/1985-... "The underlying problem is that scientists still don't agree on how to define an emotion." (2025) www.npr.org/2025/06/01/n... (No shade here - it's hard).

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

‘In Dreaming’ 15” x 21”, pen and ink, gouache, watercolor on paper. 2020 Adapted from a notebook sketch I made during a lecture by Harvard sleep scientist, Robert Stickgold. “In sleep we hold tight to what’s important.” was written beside that sketch. #mixedmedia #sciart #sleep

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

OK, read this thread. And then, perhaps, like me, you will think: WTAF? Yes, "Uncertainties over the science budgets for next year, coupled with cancellations of billions of dollars of already hard-won research grants, is [sic] causing an exodus of researchers from the U.S." And the solution?.../1

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Terrific podcast relevant to our debates here about “What is an emotion?” But in the case of emotion, it’s turned up to 11 b/c (unlike “representation”), everyone alive has intuition and interest about the answers (including the public). www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“But what can I do about funding cuts to #science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, SNAP, (every important issue)?” Call your reps & senators - and not just the ones you agree with. Reach out to GOP members! Tell them why you care. If enough of us do, they may too.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, a scientific system is like a living organism. You can’t turn it off and think you can just turn it on again…

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

(With one hand trying to help hold up the sky, the other) had a fascinating 1st day as a Simons Pivot Fellow, learning about the latest in Computational Psychiatry from @yaelniv.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @kennethanorman.bsky.social, @ilanawitten.bsky.social and so many more.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Big wow by @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social et al: “We demonstrate a noninvasive approach to measure transgene expression in the brain of .. primates .. using blood tests … called ..(RMAs) … enabling sensitive, multi-plexed, and repeatable measurements of gene expression in the brain with a blood test.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social - should I be as excited as I think I should be about this?

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