João Guassi Moreira
@jfguassimoreira.bsky.social
assistant professor UW Madison psych | studies neurodevelopment, emotion regulation, and decision-making | dumpster diving for psychic retrieval | views expressed my own
Leavitt Sr also on record saying his “only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son.”
Pretty important for a child’s well-being to spend time with his mother, especially during the holidays, imo
Pretty important for a child’s well-being to spend time with his mother, especially during the holidays, imo
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Leavitt Sr also on record saying his “only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son.”
Pretty important for a child’s well-being to spend time with his mother, especially during the holidays, imo
Pretty important for a child’s well-being to spend time with his mother, especially during the holidays, imo
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Bolsonaro catching typhus, dengue, hantavirus, and the plague all at once like
a video game shows a person riding a skateboard on a red surface
Alt: a video game shows a person riding a skateboard on a red surface
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Bolsonaro catching typhus, dengue, hantavirus, and the plague all at once like
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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So much Bsky discourse is people with strong ideological conception arguing as if the people with weak ideological conception don’t exist
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So much Bsky discourse is people with strong ideological conception arguing as if the people with weak ideological conception don’t exist
My latest — a survey of fMRI methods for affective scientists
Functional Magnetic Resonance Methods for Mapping for the Neural Underpinnings of Emotion: https://osf.io/u7dvp
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My latest — a survey of fMRI methods for affective scientists
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
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#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
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fMRI Course
Instructors
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
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A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number:
🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method
🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number:
🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method
🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method
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Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Used TRF to look at how 7-month-old human infants track maternal vs unfamiliar speech & if this affects simultaneous face processing - maternal speech enhances neural tracking & alter how faces are processed
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Used TRF to look at how 7-month-old human infants track maternal vs unfamiliar speech & if this affects simultaneous face processing - maternal speech enhances neural tracking & alter how faces are processed
Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain
Infants preferentially process familiar social signals, but the neural mechanisms underlying continuous processing of maternal speech remain unclear. Using EEG-based neural encoding models based on te...
www.jneurosci.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Used TRF to look at how 7-month-old human infants track maternal vs unfamiliar speech & if this affects simultaneous face processing - maternal speech enhances neural tracking & alter how faces are processed
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Used TRF to look at how 7-month-old human infants track maternal vs unfamiliar speech & if this affects simultaneous face processing - maternal speech enhances neural tracking & alter how faces are processed
The Mamdani speech nearly had me in tears.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Mamdani speech nearly had me in tears.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
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looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia
No words
🧵Trump's masked thugs shot a 24-year-old US citizen last Thurs in Ontario, Calif.
He had just left his home and saw a bunch of ICE agents surrounding a car.
He stopped and simply told them, "Hey, there's a bunch of kids about to be across the street because they're going to school."
He had just left his home and saw a bunch of ICE agents surrounding a car.
He stopped and simply told them, "Hey, there's a bunch of kids about to be across the street because they're going to school."
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
No words
Man, Rico Dowdle runs like someone has his family locked in a cabin somewhere and will only release them if he has a big game
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Man, Rico Dowdle runs like someone has his family locked in a cabin somewhere and will only release them if he has a big game
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
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My wife and I have started the ancient practice of "going to a local brewery on weekends when local sports teams are on and yukking it up with strangers who are clearly there to do the same" and gang it's a fucking balm for the soul
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My wife and I have started the ancient practice of "going to a local brewery on weekends when local sports teams are on and yukking it up with strangers who are clearly there to do the same" and gang it's a fucking balm for the soul
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A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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About 120 pages in, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan is a wonderful novel, with a note-perfect integration of near-collapse the backdrop for a compelling literary and historical mystery. I've always loved McEwan at the top of his form.
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
About 120 pages in, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan is a wonderful novel, with a note-perfect integration of near-collapse the backdrop for a compelling literary and historical mystery. I've always loved McEwan at the top of his form.
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
What a treat to listen to Dr. Susan Carey give a guest lecture on the discipline of Psychology, “then and now”, for us here at @uwpsych.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What a treat to listen to Dr. Susan Carey give a guest lecture on the discipline of Psychology, “then and now”, for us here at @uwpsych.bsky.social
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after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet