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Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience @Temple U. Cognitive neuro, cognitive control, adolescent brain development, digital media/social media, working memory, risk taking, cognitive enhancement. Director of TUBRIC, PI of CABLAB (sites.temple.edu/CABLAB)
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And now this!? These moves are going to complete destroy land at NzIH that do incredible and important work

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Former NIH director weighs in on the status of science in today’s America. A good summary of where we are, and why its bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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Scientist unite!

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis - Amazing work by @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social and @demidenko.bsky.social and many thanks to all of our collaborators! If you are using the monetary incentive delay (MID) task you should definitely read this.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

My paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of pulvino-cortical connections in newborn human infants is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

I am devastated to share the news that Professor Eleanor Maguire has died at the age of 51 after 3 operations and proton beam therapy for a spinal tumour. She was internationally renowned for her work on navigation, episodic memory and brain plasticity. #neuroscience #psychology

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Democratic Values can be embedded directly into Social Media via the recommendation algorithms dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... A social media feed that downranks anti-democratic content reduces partisan animosity compared to engagement-based algorithms (d=.25).

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Geoengineering could save 400,000 lives annually by 2080, a study finds. There is a 61% probability that the benefits would outweigh the risks from air pollution and ozone loss caused by the injection of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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It helps if you imagine auto-correct as a tiny elf in your phone who's trying so hard to be helpful but is, in fact, quite drunk.

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

Excited that our study on individual differences in human discernment of generative-AI texts (masquerading as social media news posts) is out in #ScientificReports. Main findings and some examples you can test yourself on in this thread ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Psych version

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For those trying to access this, yes the pay wall is down - just enter an email for free registration if needed. @natureportfolio.bsky.social opened this up in response to requests from parents, youth, and educators who are suspicious of the story sold in this book. Thank you!

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

In his TEDx talk, Steve argues that "education is not the filling of a pail," but "the lighting of a fire." As teachers, we should present ourselves to our students NOT as "distant experts," but as "fellow travelers" who are on the same fun learning journey (but a little bit ahead). Check it out.

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Very cool. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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www.jmir.org/2024/1/e59585 There are some things to quibble over, but this is a pretty nice summary of where the research evidence points us.

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Oxford’s “brain rot” definition misconstrues its use among gen A. The term references mental deterioration from digital media use, but also the lingo, culture, and aesthetic that emerges from shared online experience. It’s “cheeky, and self-aware” with pride and humor in it. time.com/7199246/brai...

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Maybe I’m just late to the party, but yes, there’s a place to search starter packs @blueskystarterpack.com. And there’s a search feature here: blueskystarterpack.com.

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