Nick Steele
njsteele01.bsky.social
Nick Steele
@njsteele01.bsky.social
Neuroscience researcher at Duke University 🧠 Researching pyschopathology and brain network organization.
No but due to quasi-monopolies there are very few options, I would guess you could find just as much corruption with Android or Microsoft etc. Not trying to undermine efforts to boycott these corporations. I think it's good.
January 26, 2026 at 11:13 PM
There is no ethical consumption in hyper-capitalist America. Pick your poison or become a monk and abstain from all unneeded consumption. Of course some options are better than others though.
January 26, 2026 at 10:47 PM
/3 Moreover, the mediodorsal thalamus showed stronger RSFC to the DMN. This pattern of weaker sensory/motor + stronger DMN connectivity suggests a shift in mediodorsal thalamus function, where incoming sensory signals may be less influential than memory-based representations in PTSD.
January 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
/2 While higher-order nuclei (pulvinar & mediodorsal) had weaker RSFC with sensory/motor regions - the medial geniculate, a first-order sensory nucleus, had stronger RSFC with the sensorimotor cortex & first-order somatomotor nuclei displayed stronger RSFC with the somatosensory network
January 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Oversight? What a pathetic response. The whole agency is full of Nazis and racists and should completely dismantled.
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
While trauma is mainly associated with smaller thalamic volume, severe symptoms and comorbid PTSD+MDD was linked to higher thalamic volume. This partly reconciles prior conflicting findings and suggests additional neurobiological mechanisms may be involved in patients with severe symptoms. /2
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
17 Sean Carrolls? Clearly this is proof of Everettian quantum mechanics!
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I just don't see the motivation for claiming this process cant be fully described by the fundamental laws. In my mind its a higher-level description that nonetheless supervenes on the low-level laws. In a sense, the low laws "miss the forest for the trees", but still can fully articulate the forest.
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It is difficult to imagine how we could do philosophy without relying on intuition pumps!
September 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM