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Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications. A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures. Few main takes will follow osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

yup, that’s the distinguished scientist Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Our new paper on the neural systems relating to safety. Great work by Sarah Tashjian and the lab(not on Bluesky).

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🧵 How do we know Trump is full of sh** when he shrieks about “hydrants running dry”? Because in 2016, a horrendous wildfire hit Gatlinburg Tennessee. Hydrants ran dry and 14 people died. A higher death toll than the LA Fires. But Tennessee had a GOP governor, so newly-elected Trump posted:

submitted 48 days ago • 112 comments

Completely agree with Sam. This system needs to change. We need to bring the money back into research and/ or increase the salaries of post docs etc

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I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st. He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer. I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much. His campus novels will be read for years to come. A great loss. www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...

submitted 55 days ago • 48 comments

FYI - We went to the moon😜. Photos of each of the six Apollo landing sites photographed from low orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The astronauts' tracks, as well as the rover and other items, are clearly visible.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Jupiter and the moon over Toulouse

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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 80 days ago • 795 comments

I agree - I love this movie

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Me on the way home from karaoke after drinking a bottle of soju: ohhh that’s my website

submitted 84 days ago • 477 comments

The early steps of rewriting the shameful history of Trump’s 2020 coup attempt.

submitted 85 days ago • 32 comments

🧠📈 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "Enacting welfare legislation [...] without strong scientific evidence is a societal and political choice that risks creating scientific and interpretational problems as well as major policy challenges, including [...] unintended consequences. ... "

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

This is Ket @ketikagarg.bsky.social; she is a postdoc in the lab and freaking awesome! She put this together over a weekend. Bonus: Ket is on the job market for an Assistant Professor position! Here is her website: ketikagarg.com

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

First time this has happened.

submitted 86 days ago • 504 comments

I’ve personally experienced and seen anger at talks. Likewise, we have all experienced the angry reviewer. Both cases are unprofessional and unscientific. Yes, debate, but anger has no place in science (maybe one exception is pseudoscience or religion rejecting real science…).

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Huge congrats to @talvaldivia.bsky.social on her first first-author paper accepted at Emotion! An outstanding contribution to what we know about how children, teens, and young adults bring to mind emotion words. Check it out! Many thanks to coauthors for an excellent collab! osf.io/preprints/os...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent paper from @mjcrockett.bsky.social et al. And gives more reason to leave that toxic shit hole called Twitter/X!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

The word of the year is “brain rot” These days, it’s invoked by young people on social media to describe the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,” particularly stemming from overconsumption of trivial online content. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Special mention about Joe Gomez. Absolutely top notch performance from him. We didn't look like we were missing Ibou today. I can't give higher praise.

submitted 88 days ago • 7 comments

100%👇

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Wonder how Republicans are going to spin this statement from Pete Hegseth’s OWN MOTHER. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

submitted 90 days ago • 1230 comments

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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The sunsets in Toulouse are stunning. Fallen in love with this city(especially its food😀)

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"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

submitted 92 days ago • 13 comments

Awesome new paper by @paulbsharp.bsky.social

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

The dates for the Summer School on Affective Neuroscience are now open! More details to come in the new year!

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I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

I think this book is the one I’d recommend to every single woman. Teenage girls need to read it. Start early. Women have been socialized completely out of trusting our instincts. I tweeted yesterday that emotions are a COMPASS. And you should not suppress them This book will stay with you #booksky

submitted 93 days ago • 289 comments

Congrats @deevybee.bsky.social - I hope others follow until the Royal Society kicks him out!

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Nice article on Tariffs - what the economists say. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

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Would you go to Bertrand Russell for advice on how to live a virtuous life? Can we separate the singer from the song. His advice is interesting Open Culture www.openculture.com/2024/11/bert...

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Ask AI to put our dog on a bike with a Christmas hat on.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Just saw this article by the wonderful Sheena Josselyn on role models. I fully back up what Sheena is saying - Joe (@theamygdaloid.bsky.social) is a great scientist, thinker, and human being. academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...

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Here is a piece I wrote on Affective Neuroscience for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. oecs.mit.edu/pub/qwrz95aw... For those interested in human psychology and related fields, I highly recommend reading these free articles. oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Our dog(jungles) contemplating the beauty of the Alps

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