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
A true American hero.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 6:44 AM
A true American hero.
Why does Microsoft Teams still make me type in a fucking captcha to join a meeting when I've literally just been through its torturous 2FA login process?
January 28, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Why does Microsoft Teams still make me type in a fucking captcha to join a meeting when I've literally just been through its torturous 2FA login process?
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This AI training thing. I mean, I'm smiling, but I am very fucking furious.
January 28, 2026 at 10:31 AM
This AI training thing. I mean, I'm smiling, but I am very fucking furious.
Hey kids! Read out new review/comment piece on the potential of precision psychedelic medicine in addiction:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #neuroskyence #psychscisky
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Frontiers | High hopes? Precision psychedelic addiction medicine
Despite decades of neuroscience research and significant investment in addiction neuroimaging, clinical outcomes for individuals with substance use and behav...
www.frontiersin.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Hey kids! Read out new review/comment piece on the potential of precision psychedelic medicine in addiction:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #neuroskyence #psychscisky
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
This is worryingly plausible.
🔴‘Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election’: US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues @brynntannehill.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues @brynntannehill.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
bylinetimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:50 PM
This is worryingly plausible.
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
Weird!
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Weird!
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When a brain researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
By @lyrebard.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
By @lyrebard.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
A brief history of precision self-scanning
When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:37 PM
When a brain researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
By @lyrebard.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
By @lyrebard.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
This man is plainly not ok.
Trump: "Whoo. I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could've dome some damage but you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain. I would've gone back. Boy did you hear that? That was nasty. But I would not have shown the pain. I would've acted like nothing happens as my finger fell off."
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM
This man is plainly not ok.
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So reassuring. I feel much better.
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent:
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
So reassuring. I feel much better.
New theory of psychedelic mechanisms just dropped:
"Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action - Alice Caulfield, Allan H. Young, Mitul Mehta, 2025
Psychedelics are gaining attention as putative treatments for a range of psychiatric conditions, and evidence suggests that they produce sustained behavioural a...
journals.sagepub.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
New theory of psychedelic mechanisms just dropped:
"Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at University of Oxford
Check out jobs.ac.uk for opportunities in professional services, including Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager. Apply today and learn more about the role.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...
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Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
People
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
We're going to need a new word here because 'pathetic' just doesn't even begin to cover it any more.
And there it is.
A museum piece of toddler-king illiterate petulance… for eternity.
A museum piece of toddler-king illiterate petulance… for eternity.
January 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
We're going to need a new word here because 'pathetic' just doesn't even begin to cover it any more.
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It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
January 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
I recently bought some graphic novels on eBay to read with my kid. Among them was this - the first two of Pratchett's discworld books. That'll be fun, I thought. However, I was not prepared for the frothing madness and batshit lunacy I found inside... 🧵⬇️
January 18, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I recently bought some graphic novels on eBay to read with my kid. Among them was this - the first two of Pratchett's discworld books. That'll be fun, I thought. However, I was not prepared for the frothing madness and batshit lunacy I found inside... 🧵⬇️
This is such a great story, and so well told. Essential viewing for anyone interested in movie history!
As I somewhat expected 🤷♂️ The Algorithm does NOT love a video essay about 100 year-old cowboy movies that doesn't frontload the present-day relativity 🙄 So if anyone wants to help this one find its way to the sources, outlets, forums etc that will boost it we'd be grateful
youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...
youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...
This Movie Exists - HOPALONG CASSIDY
YouTube video by moviebob
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 8:33 AM
This is such a great story, and so well told. Essential viewing for anyone interested in movie history!
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Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit
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Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
Starfleet academy is a lot of fun, and a welcome reminder how important optimistic visions of the future can be. Plus, Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti having an absolute blast is a real joy.
January 16, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Starfleet academy is a lot of fun, and a welcome reminder how important optimistic visions of the future can be. Plus, Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti having an absolute blast is a real joy.
What a time to be alive.
So if I've understood it right, the message from Farage is "the 4.30 press conference we planned for today which wasn't to announce Jenrick's defection is the press conference at which we announce Jenrick's defection." I mean, it makes perfect sense.
January 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM
What a time to be alive.