Profile avatar
tolchinsky.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist and researcher investigating anxiety disorders, Acute PTSD, dissociations, OCD, Affective Neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis, application of nonlinear dynamical systems to psychology https://montgomerycountypsychologist.com
997 posts 4,040 followers 7,833 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 11 Comments 39

New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Move over Slijper's Goat (discussed in www.stri.si.edu/sites/public...) which walked on 2 legs: here's a monkey version: packaged-media.redd.it/gbm0o9d1pb4f...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Yuval Harari: "People who know how to manage things get their orders from people who know how to manage people." He elaborates the latter category and storytellers and myth-makers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlI...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

New preprint, with Richard Watson (www.richardawatson.com) on machine, computational, and cognitive metaphors in cell, developmental, and evolutionary biology: osf.io/preprints/os... "Machines All the Way Up and Cognition All the Way Down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology"

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes. Sure to generate discussion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Saw an amazing talk today on “environmental DNA” (eDNA). My lovelies, it’s EVERYWHERE!

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

@bernardokastrup.bsky.social about DNA In this talk, minute 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUg1... Citation: "Our understanding of DNA is that of a protein factory." (Bernardo then goes on to a poetic metaphor of DNA being similar to a brick factory, which can't produce the Cologne Cathedral)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

@bernardokastrup.bsky.social's interpretation (overly generalized in my opinion) of some results from @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's work From this video, minute 4.21 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUg1...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Whitehead's Process Theory sounds a whole lot like Buddhism, doesn't it? There are no "things" it says, there are processes that flow. Then again, we have Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social who suggests that a distinction between objects and processes is not always justified

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment