Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!
I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com
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Does anybody have a clue if John Searle is still alive?
I was going to berate you/them for implying they knew cognitive I thought it was but was the paper too interesting
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Outside of the crazies I dont see this very often. Ie people deservedly scrutinizing psychology then inferring physics is also not worth pursuing or funding. Maybe im wrong though, would love to see examples
I suppose that's fair and i wouldnt attack science as an enterprise. However, I wasn't really referring to "fake" science so much as bad science - which is obviously hard to put an objective number on. And I'm also bias being in psychology/psychiatry which atleast somebody has memeified
Seems kinda strawmany as ive never heard any make that generalization. However, i didnt listen to the podcast so maybe im missing the reference. Clearly alot of variation between fields though either way it seems.
I don't really understand you're arguing for here. You're seemingly acknowledging at least some fields are largely capable of a lot of junk science - but other scientists or people shouldn't call them out for it because it aligns with some right-wing pundits narratives? And thus should instead...?
New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!
Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠
Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!
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That which people whom I don't like are typically bad at
Definitely seems to be the case
Wish I were able to have more conversations with such overly-confident neuroscience people !
How many times have you been told the cerebellum was probably going to be simple?
Separate Ways though, for sure . That music video is also one of the funniest in history
Fair enough. That choice still wouldn't make it on my top 5 journey songs though.
Fleetwood? :) Would be my choice, even though not very high on my list.
Those are mostly terrible songs, yikes
We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
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First 🟦 sky post!
Ever struggled with allocating your time across different tasks? In this project, we looked at how cognitive constraints, like time pressure & cognitive load, affect how people prioritise different goals.
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We have a new paper 🤸♀️ out in PNAS from recently graduated Dr Sean Kelley - in 3 large samples, we built personalised emotion networks from 8 weeks of twice daily mood sampling and tested how that related to changes in depression... 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The vagal afferent pathway and its theorized function in allostatic behavior. Interoception encodes bodily demands that arise once an allostatic set point, such as a sufficient nutrient supply, is unmet. Interoceptive signals can be evoked by changes in bodily states (e.g., lack of nutrients) or emulated by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
Is the vagus nerve primarily regulating 'rest & digest'? In our new TiCS review, we outline that it is time to expand our perspective on vagal signaling to include 'strive to survive' as a second survival mode.
Work w/ @glassybrain.bsky.social
#neuroscience
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A practical guide to selecting and blending approaches for clustered data: Clustered errors, multilevel models, and fixed-effect models. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... latest gem from @dmcneish.bsky.social
It's not just rhythms. It is transient bursts of rhythms.
Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function
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Amen.
that study was done with beta-blockers just for context :)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... maybe helpful