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Yuritza Y Escalante
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PhD Student at Ohio State University with Kristen Lindquist | NSF GRFP Fellow | 🧠🫀
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benhayden.bsky.social
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵

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Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization
Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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vavatin.bsky.social
The brain’s energy landscape as a potential window into brain health
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

(study led by Martin Picard and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten)
First map of human brain mitochondria is ‘groundbreaking’ achievement
Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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cientificolatino.com
Big congrats to everyone who’s applied to grad school! 🥳🎉

It’s a huge milestone, and we’re so proud of all the hard work you’ve put in. Take a moment to celebrate—you deserve it! 🌟

Tag a friend who’s on this journey so we can cheer them on too! 🙌🎓
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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affectscience.bsky.social
REGISTER FOR SAS 2026 NOW! EARLY BIRD DEADLINE IS 1/31/26! SEE YOU IN PITTSBURGH👀
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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eriknook.bsky.social
Come discuss new insights into emotion development at this year's Developmental Affective Science preconference at SAS!
profmorningstar.bsky.social Michele Morningstar @profmorningstar.bsky.social · Dec 11
Excited to share this: @eriknook.bsky.social and I are hosting a pre-conference on Developmental Affective Science before this year's @affectscience.bsky.social (March 12, 2026). If you're thinking of attending #SAS2026, consider joining us for the pre-con too! ✨
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆?
@lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too.
Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon.
youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns
Prof. Lucina Uddin from UCLA discusses her views on brain networks as studied with functional MRI
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
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December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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cientificolatino.com
Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!!

This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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laraffington.bsky.social
💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge

I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What ideas would you add? 💡

#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
This piece was seemingly about the words we use to describe emotions but behind it is a discussion about what makes them harder to study than other brain functions. From a philosophy of science perspective, it's a fascinating (measurement) problem!

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Understanding the debate around terms in emotion research requires appreciating why emotions are more challenging to study than other brain functions. To investigate memory, for example, researchers often design a memory test for which there are ground-truth correct and incorrect answers to the questions posed. In contrast, emotion is a subjective experience for which there is no ground truth—no one but you really knows how happy, anxious, scared or disgusted you are. This subjectivity makes emotions much more difficult to measure than other brain functions, especially in animals, because we cannot ask them how they feel. The most extensively used measure of emotions is applied by simply asking people questions about their feelings, such as: “On a scale from 1 to 5, how upset are you?”. However, measures of subjective experience are limited to humans who can communicate and cannot be applied to nonhuman animals or young children. A second type of emotion measure probes biological reactions triggered by emotions, including facial expressions or galvanic skin responses; often, however, these responses do not map cleanly onto subjective reports. Other versions of physiological measures seek to quantify how emotions are reflected in dynamic patterns of brain activity (or their proxies, such as fMRI results). A final way to measure emotion is to induce an emotion and measure how it changes a person’s behavior on a well-defined task, such as a paradigm for risky decision-making. These different ways of measuring emotions set the stage for debates about what these measures should be called, centered around the evidence they provide.
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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nature.com
Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain

go.nature.com/4839zaL
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing.
go.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social
The Stanford Psychophysiology Lab (PI: James Gross) is hiring a new lab manager! If you have a superstar student interested in emotion, please share this ad with them! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Job ad: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

#psychjobs
Social Science Research Coordinator in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
The Department of Psychology’s Psychophysiology Lab is seeking a full-time Social Science Research Coordinator (RC) position. The RC will be an...
careersearch.stanford.edu
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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affectscience.bsky.social
Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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mikeyassa.bsky.social
Landed at #SfN and we have lots of fun new results to share. See below for Yassalab poster presentations. If you want to talk #Alzheimers or #mentalhealth come chat with us.

#SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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maruofan.bsky.social
Taking just another small step towards trying to reduce the stigma attached to borderline personality disorder & psychiatric illnesses - at ISSPD2025.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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brynnsherman.bsky.social
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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fishingwithzack.bsky.social
We’re hiring in Quantitative Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the program and please share widely!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Assistant Professor
Primary responsibilities of the position will include conducting high quality research, publishing in peer reviewed journals and broader dissemination, seeking external funding for research, teaching ...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
🗣 Join the Stress Measurement Network for a webinar digging into "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬"

Date: November 7, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDT
Sign up here: www.stressmeasurement.org/event-detail...
#psychscisky #healthpsych #affectsci
The Biological Cost of Chronic Stress: Allostatic Load and Newer Conceptualizations 7 November 2025 9am -12 pm PDT
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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osherlab.bsky.social
🧠 We are accepting graduate students for fall 2026! 🧠

If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply!

Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!
Cognition and Brain Circuitry Laboratory
www.davidosher.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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jtheriault.bsky.social
Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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brynnsherman.bsky.social
Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!

www.momentslab.org
Moments Lab
www.momentslab.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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katiehoemann.bsky.social
Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/
Join – EMIC
www.emotionsincontextlab.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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scottehensley.bsky.social
To be clear, these kinds of breakthroughs are going to come to a screeching halt with the current NIH funding cuts. This new treatment is only possible because of decades of basic research. What might be possible 20 years from now if we don't destroy basic research?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease
Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
The Theory of Constructed Emotion: More Than a Feeling
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
#neuroscience
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May 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM