Matt Wall
@mattwall.bsky.social
Psychologist & fMRI-nerd. 🧠 + psychedelics, cannabis, sex hormones. Instrument botherer.
The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
My stuff: https://linktr.ee/mbwall
My vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChaSxw9NuBrAFN3zjLQRbPg
The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
My stuff: https://linktr.ee/mbwall
My vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChaSxw9NuBrAFN3zjLQRbPg
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
"Our economy is now dependent on bullshit-suicide-machines, therefore we must continue to shovel billions more dollars into bullshit-suicide-machines." 🤣
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Our economy is now dependent on bullshit-suicide-machines, therefore we must continue to shovel billions more dollars into bullshit-suicide-machines." 🤣
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This is so funny.
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is so funny.
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
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The A-Team credits were a lie. What the fuck
Knowing your love of a pop culture founding myth, the A-Team opening begins by saying they're wanted for a crime they didn't commit.
The crime: robbing the bank of Hanoi
The defence: they were ordered to do so by US Command
The point: that order is *still illegal*: you cannot rob civilian banks!
The crime: robbing the bank of Hanoi
The defence: they were ordered to do so by US Command
The point: that order is *still illegal*: you cannot rob civilian banks!
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The A-Team credits were a lie. What the fuck
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Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.
Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
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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
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/...
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There was a 50yr window in which it made economic sense to teach coding in schools and the British education system missed all of it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There was a 50yr window in which it made economic sense to teach coding in schools and the British education system missed all of it.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
Hospital scenes were filmed in the hospital I was born in.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Hospital scenes were filmed in the hospital I was born in.
Oh wow - this is incredible work! 👏👏👏
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Oh wow - this is incredible work! 👏👏👏
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At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
Oh... Oh no. We are so screwed.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Oh... Oh no. We are so screwed.
Wow - this is cool. Could be a game-changer.
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.
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 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Wow - this is cool. Could be a game-changer.
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Getting journal rejections like
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Getting journal rejections like
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
Exactly this. The news makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills recently.
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Exactly this. The news makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills recently.
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My dissertation paper finally dropped in Nature Communications!
Overall, the conclusion is that psilocybin may be useful in reducing drug craving that often precipitates relapse through mechanisms related to 5-HT2A activation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Overall, the conclusion is that psilocybin may be useful in reducing drug craving that often precipitates relapse through mechanisms related to 5-HT2A activation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sex-specific role of the 5-HT2A receptor in psilocybin-induced extinction of opioid reward - Nature Communications
Here Jaster et al., show a single psilocybin dose produce sex-specific post-acute changes in opioid reward and withdrawal via 5-HT2A receptors in frontal cortex-to–nucleus accumbens circuits, with epi...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My dissertation paper finally dropped in Nature Communications!
Overall, the conclusion is that psilocybin may be useful in reducing drug craving that often precipitates relapse through mechanisms related to 5-HT2A activation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Overall, the conclusion is that psilocybin may be useful in reducing drug craving that often precipitates relapse through mechanisms related to 5-HT2A activation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Let me present the Spoon Illusion 🙂🥄
This has been in the works for over a decade when we were just goofing around testing sound localisation in my in-laws' kitchen... But we finally managed to do some reasonably controlled experiments on this. #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/0301...
This has been in the works for over a decade when we were just goofing around testing sound localisation in my in-laws' kitchen... But we finally managed to do some reasonably controlled experiments on this. #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/0301...
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Let me present the Spoon Illusion 🙂🥄
This has been in the works for over a decade when we were just goofing around testing sound localisation in my in-laws' kitchen... But we finally managed to do some reasonably controlled experiments on this. #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/0301...
This has been in the works for over a decade when we were just goofing around testing sound localisation in my in-laws' kitchen... But we finally managed to do some reasonably controlled experiments on this. #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/0301...
If they stuff some AI nonsense into Google Scholar I am throwing a paving stone through the window of the nearest Google office. Who’s with me?
I suspect that soon, because of "AI", I'll be unable to use Google Scholar. What a loss. OpenAlex is incredible, but its algorithm has, for me, never been as effective for finding relevant papers. (note: OpenAlex does have a new engine; I haven't tested it much, but it might help)
#AcademicSky ⚗️ 🧪
#AcademicSky ⚗️ 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If they stuff some AI nonsense into Google Scholar I am throwing a paving stone through the window of the nearest Google office. Who’s with me?
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Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government
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I’m tired of the whole “evil winning” thing and would like for that not to be the case any more
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’m tired of the whole “evil winning” thing and would like for that not to be the case any more