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We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess
@hilaryrichardson.bsky.social
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with thanks and credit to co-authors:
@melissathye.bsky.social @selinaabel.bsky.social @katiemckinnon.bsky.social @naiti.bsky.social @jskelton.bsky.social (not on bsky: dr lorena jiménez-sánchez, dr kadi vaher, robina rubin, rebekah smikle)
gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
I was recently interviewed about my research and career for a blog post for WiNUK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social:
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
2025 FLUX Conference
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️
Local Organising Committee:
Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos
fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/
Ditto :)
Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN
A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.
We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Feel free to reach out with Qs
We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Feel free to reach out with Qs
(I usually picked the palm tree scene)
I had to do a double take bc I honestly always saw that as an ice cream cone… mind blown
If you’re interested in learning more about the masters programs in #deafed or #ASL and #deafstudies, I’m hosting an info session tonight at 6ET. It will be in ASL with interpreters.
mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...
Totally agree
More good news to share 😁
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!
Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams
#devpsyc #psychscisky
1/ Hey #devscisky #psychscisky), I'm running into a problem where an online moderated developmental study (i.e. on zoom w/kids) gets a ton of signups from different emails with the same format that seem to be programmatically generated. They were one guy, no kid, didn't even pretend.
*New paper*
W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS
The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes
Mini thread below!
Yael Niv and Laura Williamson (Princeton) developed curriculum for a 7-week summer course in 2021; it was excellent. Looks like it’s being delivered as a full course at Princeton now: nivlab.princeton.edu/teaching
This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/
🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
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Do you have an opening in your lab?? Is your institutions hiring?? Share it with the #neuroscience community by typing #neurojobs in your post to be added to the Neuroscience Jobs feed.
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Loads of new psychologists and neuroscientists here this week! If you want to help more people escape from the old site, don't forget to share your invites with our pool using this google form:
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>10 yrs of data collected in saxelab, w/ >40 items per participant. Sample includes neurotypical & autistic children, and children assessed longitudinally
Excited to share an open dataset of 321 3-12yo children who completed our ToM booklet task, as well as all task materials + guides for administration & coding!
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/
Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.
Our new language fMRI dataset is now published in Scientific Data! And not only that it now includes nearly double the amount of data as the preprint version with up to 15 hours of fMRI per participant!
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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