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Jae-Young Son

@jaeyoungson.bsky.social

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Postdoc at Brown University. Social neuroscientist researching how we make memories of social networks; cognitive neuroscientist researching how we make networks of memories. Misadventurer; reluctant optimist; amor fati. https://jaeyoungson.com/ .. more

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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · 46m

Unfortunately, when I (and others) had asked for info/guidance prior to the shutdown, “a new funding announcement is being prepared” was pretty much the extent of what was communicated — no info about what the amended timeline might look like

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 15d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 17d

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

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FrankLab_LNCC @lnccbrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

check out Jake Russin's new paper on how the interplay between in-context and in-weight learning in neural nets can explain tradeoffs in human learning!
pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Sep 2

*Sharing for our department’s trainees*
🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology?

✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!

📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 I might be the only author on Blueksy, so here we go.
Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis.
This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT.
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Caudate serotonin signaling during social exchange distinguishes essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease patients

Nature Communications - Measurements of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine in the caudate of conscious humans reveal a neurochemical boundary between patients with essential tremor and...

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Sep 2

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.

Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain

Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...

www.biorxiv.org

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

Postdoctoral Associate

jobs.colorado.edu

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Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Probably a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the NSF SBE postdoc fellowship having recently (as of last Friday) been archived without being replaced/re-issued?

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌵🏜️🌵 New preprint! How do people learn from ambiguous feedback, like whether someone is laughing *with* you 😆 or *at* you 😏? A very fun collab w/ the brilliant @rbhui.bsky.social A brief thread...👇

📖 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Nov 14

For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".

The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.

Hope you will check it out!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

The metaphors of artificial intelligence

A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...

www.science.org

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to share my new lab website!

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Sinclair Lab

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Jul 4

I learned about this book through @joekatz45.bsky.social posting the above quote — thanks!

Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Then they acted on their optimism. That was the other thing. They acted on it until they shaped America to their liking.”

Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Because reading the oral histories and declassified FBI memos and transcripts from the Kennedy White House, one thing became clear: those guys in the movement had hope long after they should have.

Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Jul 4

“I [wrote] this book for anyone who was ever blinkered by cynicism, crippled into tweeting bitchfests of inaction, sneering at the idea that America had ever stood for anything good and could again.

Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Jul 4

This 4th of July, I read an excellent book about the 1963 civil rights campaign in Birmingham — I saw so much of today’s evil world reflected in the horrifying racism of 1960s Birmingham, and I am reminded of the necessity of hope for action. Excellent book, highly recommended

Photo depicting a book by Paul Kix entitled “You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live: ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Call for Manuscript Proposals: Special Issue on Intergroup Allyship

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceEditor: Dr. Sylvia PerryIntergroup allyship–referring to actions taken to support, advocate for, or stand in solidarity with members of marginalized groups b...

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Ari Kahn @arikahn.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm thrilled to announce that I will start as an Assistant Professor in Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona in Jan 2026! My lab will investigate human planning and decision making through a combination of computational models, behavior, and fMRI (1/2)

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 11

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk spent the last 6 weeks in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana — all in retaliation for an op-ed she co-authored.

On Saturday, she finally made it home to her beloved Tufts community, where she can resume her studies and begin teaching again as her case proceeds.

Rümeysa Öztürk comes home, speaks at press conference in Boston - The Tufts Daily

Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday and spoke publicly to a crowd of reporters at Boston Logan International Airport following her release from Immigration and ...

www.tuftsdaily.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 9

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 25

They are arresting judges now, ramping up a campaign of intimidation against the judicial branch. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

Kash Patel posting about the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · Apr 22

“By accepting the grant award, recipients are certifying that:

(i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI…”

…was the point at which I emailed my PO to withdraw my pending award.

My soul has expensive taste.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions...

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions...

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

Want to share your research and build support for science, but don’t know where to start?

Register for our science communication workshop: tinyurl.com/scicomins

📝Practice your sci comm
🤝Meet scientists on social media
🤳Make a video (could be featured on our page)

DM us with any questions!

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