I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

Depression may impair avoidance of aversive events, and aversive events may increase depression. Here is one of the possible depressive loops.

"Depression levels are associated with reduced capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events in young adults."

www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

New in #eNeuro from Tomm et al: The more depressive symptoms a person has, the more they struggle with learning to actively avoid unpleasant stimuli. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5sugiaoiuupqtq5a73ixn23j" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@ubcpsych.bsky.social‬
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025

I know you weren’t fishing - but it’s important to give credit where it's due!

I should also be sure to say that wrt building on @dr-stan.bsky.social's lab’s rodent research I should acknowledge that the direct inspiration came from some of the PhD research carried out by @ppiantad.bsky.social!

2. In contrast, depression scores were NOT linked to differences in capacity to learn to inhibit a response to avoid the sound. So depression levels were linked to learning active but not inhibitory avoidance. This article does a good job of linking findings to patterns observed in the clinic.

1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

I just published a new substack on death and loss and radical hope when meaning as we know it slips from under our feet: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Such exciting work. I was really happy to get a sampling of it!

My mother, Nancy Jack Todd, died May 30. This substack note is my first of many articulations of a personal tribute to her. substack.com/@beckettodd/...

My mother-in-law, the inestimable Nancy Jack Todd, has left us. Here's a piece about her by her daughter and my partner, @beckety.bsky.social substack.com/@beckettodd/...

@beckety.bsky.social in dialogue with Yuri Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux: Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Here I interview two of my heroes, Yuria Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux, who articulate and foster our enmeshed relationship with the more than human world. We need what they are offering so desperately, I'm excited to amplify their words and actions here: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

2) All Love and Philosophy podcasts can be found and listened to via various apps here: pod.link/YZLzbj

New Love and Philosophy podcast from @lovephilosophy.substack.com with me, aerial dancer/philosopher Shay Welch & "frequency barista" penijean gracefire on complexity fatigue & the "third entity" - the interactive process that takes on a life of its own lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/complexity...

This is a letter calling on Canadian federal party leaders asking them to make a historic investment in Canadian research sovereignty. If you're a Canadian researcher please sign it!

CC @mark-carney.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca

🍁 🧪

www.linkedin.com/posts/dylanm...

A review of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"an engaging and accessible account of the state of the art, through the words of some of the leading figures involved in mapping the psychiatric territory."

🧠 Are you completing a PhD in neuroscience or psychology and seek a competitive postdoc abroad?
Join my lab at CIMeC as a Marie Curie Fellow. We study abstract concept from newborns to adult using fMRI, EEG & more. Reach out for ideas!
Call opens May 8, 2025.
🔗https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/per2con

Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬

If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.”

The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration.

Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.

Wonderful new piece by Steve Rose on my dad John Todd’s always-visionary work in ecological restoration and design, from the New alchemy Institute in the 1970s to today's vision of a fleet of sailing ships to clean up polluted coastal waters open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...

My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆
How can network science tackle complex biological systems?
Substantially reworked version
Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value
osf.io/preprints/os...
#complexity

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739