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Matt Wall

@mattwall.bsky.social

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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

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Theo Priestley @tprstly.bsky.social · 14h

Bubble go POP

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 14h

Yep. General Elsevier evilness. No longer doing free work for profit-driven publishers (I mean... unless I really, really want to).

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 16h

Review request comes in from 'Neuroimage':

a woman in a blue dress is laughing and saying haha no

ALT: a woman in a blue dress is laughing and saying haha no

media.tenor.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New YouGov Westminster poll:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 4d

Death by misinformation… 😠

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

The US is now four months away from losing its measles elimination status.

1544 confirmed cases reported by the CDC.

Where is measles spreading? Here's what to know.

The country is four months away from possibly losing its measles elimination status.

www.nbcnews.com

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 4d

"We would like to thank the reviewers for their helpful and constructive critiques."

Famous close-up still from Alien3 with the alien menacing Ripley.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 4d

Thanking the reviewers

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 5d

Fair point.

Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 5d

Which just makes the terribly slow progress in psychiatry look all the worse... 🤨

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 6d

Likely explanation is that they're trying to patent it or form a spin-out company based on that IP, and therefore need to 'protect' it. Still not... great though.

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 6d

It is peak academic to just get so angry about something that you’ve been bottling up that you finally explode and

Write a long poem

In rhyming meter

With footnotes 🥰

andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 9d

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 6d

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 6d

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets."
😩😩😩

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 7d

New easy-to-read article in The Scientist on how psychedelics work, inconsistencies in leading narratives (no punches were pulled…), and work coming out of our center on the impact of psychedelics on memory. With Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff.
www.the-scientist.com/how-psychede...

How Psychedelics Affect the Brain: What We Know, and What We Think We Know

Twenty years into the Psychedelic Renaissance, neuroscientists still struggle to understand how psychedelics work and how to rectify misconceptions about these drugs.

www.the-scientist.com

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the reminder! 😢

Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 6d

I joined Bluesky in Sep. 2023. There was a brief few months there when I just followed a bunch of nice science-y accounts, starter packs etc., and it was great, but ever since it's been:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 7d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently magnetic insoles are a... thing now? Always get your patients to take their shoes off! #MRIsafety

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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