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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 5d

Not defending this (I'm moving to open code, etc) but, also, most people are given ZERO training in data management & coding, let alone sharable code 😭

Only made worse by over-filled labs, over-productivity & over-publishing. But these are the expectations of our field, so chicken & egg problem

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Katie Jobson @kjobson.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much to all of my co-authors on this paper; I certainly would not have received this award without all of the brilliant support I have gotten!

Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 24d

@kjobson.bsky.social just won honorable mention as paper of the year from the Neurobiology of Language for our (really her) cerebellar paper.with @ingridsbrain.bsky.social and me. direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

Language and the Cerebellum: Structural Connectivity to the Eloquent Brain

Abstract. Neurobiological models of receptive language have focused on the left-hemisphere perisylvian cortex with the assumption that the cerebellum supports peri-linguistic cognitive processes such ...

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 8d

Awesome work on dense sampling of reward response from @mattmattoni.bsky.social!!! with a great thread detailing findings!!

Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 8d

🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 9d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 21d

somehow I missed this!

Dopamine represents a domain-general teaching signal:

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Striatal dopamine signals errors in prediction across different informational domains

Dopamine reflects prediction errors not only about reward but also about valueless stimuli, challenging many current theories.

www.science.org

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 12d

But yeah basically a normal recipe

Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 12d

My husband made it. He says he put a little bit more buttermilk than normal but it probably would save worked either way. This was a grainy corn meal. Iron goes to 7 and he put it on 6.

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 12d

Corn bread in a waffle iron is next level!!!

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 14d

The ads targeting middle aged women are so awful!! Not ICE level....but....designed to induce max insecurity. Like, do you have dry skin? while a woman rubs dried peeling glue off her face 😆

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 28

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

Do late adolescents and emerging adults who live in a communities with higher violent crime rates exhibit altered reward-related neural activation? This question was recently investigated in a sample of 101 adolescents.

Read more in BSAM, free for the week!
#healthpsych #psychscicky

Residence in Communities With Higher Violent Crimes... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine

dequately understood. Furthermore, most of the adversity literature examines individual-level exposure (eg, crime victimization), whereas efforts to consider neighborhood-level factors (eg, neighborho...

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level
#neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky

katesfdamme.bsky.social @katesfdamme.bsky.social · Aug 19

Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment

@ariellekeller.bsky.social
@jamapediatrics.com
@utdallas.bsky.social
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Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 16

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions

Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Aug 15

The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour

Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

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Sandra Romero Pinto @sromeropinto.bsky.social · Aug 13

My first paper with @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! rdcu.be/eACGf

TL;DR: asymmetric learning rates can be induced by shifts in tonic dopamine giving rise to pessimistic/optimistic biases in agents or animals undergoing reinforcement learning .

Tonic dopamine and biases in value learning linked through a biologically inspired reinforcement learning model

Nature Communications - Accurate future predictions are essential for guiding behavior, and disruptions in this process are associated with psychiatric disorders. Here the authors show that changes...

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Aug 7

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.

Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.

share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Aug 13

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Matthew Mattoni, Thomas M. Olino, et al:

Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Carina Heller, Ph.D. @carinaheller.bsky.social · Aug 13

We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠

Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues.
Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience.

Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why menstrual cycle irregularities belong in brain research - Nature Medicine

The menstrual cycle requires tight orchestration between the brain and body, and irregularities can be both the cause and the consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity, inst...

www.nature.com

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · Aug 13

Read this whole thread 👇

Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've been thinking a lot about the preprint in terms of my own career. I grew up academically in computational labs. My papers were abstract early on and they only got more abstract as I progressed. The model was: find a new exciting mathematical tool. Apply it to brain imaging data. Write it up. 1/

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · Aug 10

What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · Aug 11

When nothing worked, this did. Precision functional mapping is here for treatment-resistant depression. This is what hope looks like. 💡

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Aug 10

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.

*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.

Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · Aug 6

Awesome work, Jamie!!

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎯 Adversity was linked to all of the non stable positive affect groups. It was rare for a child who experienced a few different adversities to be in the high-stable positive affect group /3

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