Jordan Theriault
jtheriault.bsky.social
Jordan Theriault
@jtheriault.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @Northeastern. Psychology + Biology. Neuroimaging, brain metabolism + mental health. Director of IASLab with ‪Lisa Feldman Barrett & Karen Quigley
https://www.affective-science.org/
http://www.jordan-theriault.com/
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You should see how they all do with making a clock... updates every minute, and somehow most never get any better at it.. and those that do, will not necessarily in the next minute.
clocks.brianmoore.com?ICID=ref_fark
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Your periodic reminder: I keep a list of useful resources for scientific writers - book, blogs, software, etc - here:
Writing Resources
Writing is a huge part of any career in science, and for many writers – no, for most writers – it’s a daunting challenge. But it’s not a challenge that you have to tackle alone. That’s a lesson I w…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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If you would like to volunteer as a mentor for the SPAN Mentorship Program, you can fill out a form on our website. We cannot guarantee that volunteers will be paired with mentees, but we will consider you when pairings are made.

Mentors suggested on an app do NOT need to fill out the form.
Mentorship Program | SPAN
www.philandneuro.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Enjoyed this read on the growing field of #interoception neuroscience.

Of course, I was also excited to see the article twice cited our lab's recent work, spearheaded by Jiahe Zhang and @jtheriault.bsky.social.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Attn MRI enthusiasts! 📣

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I’m thankful to share this opportunity to join us as MRI Center Director! ✨ Couldn’t speak more highly of my time here so far—such a supportive & collaborative place to build a lab—and I’m more than happy to share more with anyone interested
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I'm fascinating by how many concepts are really markers of our ignorance. Amélie Rorty says here that 'emotion' is one, a grab bag of leftovers from supposedly clearer concepts like will & reason.

We also have chance (Darwin's Origin), freedom (Kant's Groundwork), élan vital (Bergson). #philsky
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Happy to announce the reviewed preprint for our work on predictive routing in the visual cortex IN MICE is now online! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Ubiquitous predictive processing in the spectral domain of sensory cortex
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Oh man... I actually just bought these shoes...
"You guys all got the shoe memo, I see."
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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if you are considering submitting an application for this position, you still have just under 2 weeks to do so

any and all suitable candidates, please apply. everyone else, pls share with your networks
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨

The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Is the “standard workflow” holding back fMRI analysis?

Mass-univariate analysis is still the bread-and-butter: intuitive, fast… and chronically overfitted. Add harsh multiple-comparison penalties, and we patch the workflow with statistical band-aids. No wonder the stringency debates never die.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ooooooh. Super interesting. This will be a game changer. It's not often I'm excited to update modeling pipelines...

This makes me think back to this beautiful and underappreciated paper by @talyarkoni.com @jake-westfall.bsky.social and @nichols.bsky.social
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/1-2...
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Very exciting news to share! Me and @davidcolaco.bsky.social published a target article in BBs on metabolism and cognition! We argue that models of cognition should incorporate metabolism - either to evaluate if existing models are biologically plausible, or to generate new models (1/3)
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Introducing the 𝐏𝐈-𝐚𝐭-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🤯

When activated, it will auto-reply to your PI's frantic ideas for new experiments, analyses, and projects with "Great suggestion! Saving this for later" (aka: let's talk when you’re back and got some sleep)

#sfn2025 #sfn25
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM