I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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

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🎉 Huge congrats to our team @overbye.bsky.social, Kristy Hamilton and @jacobtfisher.online for receiving a Top Student Paper award in the Communication & Social Cognition Division at #NCA25! 🏆

Congrats, Bill! Bummed you’ll be leaving EL, but sounds like a great opportunity!

Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE

Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25

Right outside of Evergreen! The trail is called Independence Mountain.

Took some time off to get into the mountains for a little different view on #ica25 this morning! Out of breath but totally worth it!

The morning bun is calling your name, Dave.

Can we kick off #icacoffee for #ica25 on here? First on the docket for me is Huckleberry Coffee Roasters. About .5mi from the hotel but definitely worth the walk. maps.app.goo.gl/ncBAAchbFJzi...

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
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Kicking off our fourth(!) annual #hackica this year at @colorado.edu. This is always the highlight of ICA. Super excited to get hacking! #hackica25

Leading up to #ICA25 we're sharing info on papers that received Top Paper awards. Today, you can read about "Expectation of Algorithm Bias Increases Caution: Implications for Human-in-the-Loop Decisions" by @overbye.bsky.social Kristy Hamilton & @jacobtfisher.online : commscience.org/ica-top-pape...

Super interesting stuff! Definitely comports with the idea that ADHD is as much about motivation as it is about attention/cog control.

Yeah. It's pretty blatant consensus-mongering. At each phase of the process they asked for free response feedback, and I wrote multiple paragraphs of very critical feedback for many of the statements each time, and was roundly ignored.

Many of the other statements were like this as well, with authors asking "what do you mean by this?" and being met with basically "Thats pedantic. Do you *agree* with it?"

I can't say for sure, but I suspect that was a reason why so many statements had high non-response rates.

For example, I mostly focused on the "attention fragmentation" statement of the paper since it's closest to my research area, and despite repeated comments that the lead authors didn't even define "fragmentation" in any way that makes sense with the literature, they forged ahead.

As someone who is actually on this paper, this critique (and many others) is absolutely spot-on. I can't speak for other authors, but this process has left me with far more questions than answers. The gap between what the data say and how it's being framed publicly is...notable to say the least.

I've gone back and forth many times as to whether being involved in this effort was a good idea, but without the involvement of many of the other more skeptical authors it would have come out much worse and more lopsided than it already is.

It's not even a "consensus"! I (along with other authors on the paper) have pushed back heavily at just about every phase of the writing process. The paper being framed by some of the more visible authors as "all of these people agree with this" is patently false.

Amidst all of this, @jacobtfisher.online & I have a new paper in @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social! We discuss theoretical, methodological, & practical concerns with the media multitasking (MMT) index & lay out an agenda for better research on MMT

📄 doi.org/10.1027/1864...
📝 OA osf.io/preprints/ps...

While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.