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Andrew E. Papale

@andrewpapale.bsky.social
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Staff scientist | neuroscience | decision-making | fMRI | motor skill learning | schizophrenia Physics and math enthusiast. Friendly with R, Matlab, and Python.

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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#neuroskyence #schizophrenia #glia
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
7T MRSI during acute psychosis reveals hemispheric asymmetry — right thalamic NAAG/Glx elevation suggesting possible astroglial activation, left thalamic NAA/NAAG reduction suggesting neurodegeneration, with opposing GABA lateralization in caudate and thalamus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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7T magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of subcortical neurometabolites across antipsychotic treatment in acutely symptomatic early-phase schizophrenia spectrum disorders - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of subcortical neurometabolites across antipsychotic treatment in acutely symptomatic early-phase schizophrenia spectrum disorders
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Tayler Sheahan @taylersheahan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I'm recruiting a postdoc! The Sheahan Lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin is looking to add a postdoctoral fellow to our team to expand our work studying the neurobiology of itch and pain in the central nervous system. Please share and reach out if you have any questions!
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Pitt Psychiatry @psychiatry.pitt.edu · 02/03/2026
Findings from a recent study suggest that exploration targets are identified through coordinated activity binding prefrontal default network value representations to posterior hippocampal maps. Find out more: bit.ly/4ua2lLe
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 15/02/2026
New neuromapr #rstats package is available from GitHub! Highly experimental, early adopters and bug identifiers are super welcome to report issues! github.com/lcbc-uio/neu... #neuroscience #rstats #neuroimaging
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If this result generalises, then the field's great dendritic computation dream is over
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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
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neuroimaging | Satterthwaite Lab | UPenn
www.satterthwaitelab.com Homepage for Satterthwaite lab neuroimaging | neurodevelopment | adolescence | psychiatry | machine learning | network science
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Alex Dombrovski @alexdombrovski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@andrewpapale.bsky.social 's new explore/exploit paper in JNeurosci with @vanessabrown.bsky.social @drangelaianni.bsky.social Michael Hallquist & Bea Luna: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
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Prefrontal default-mode network interactions with posterior hippocampus during exploration
Hippocampal maps and ventral prefrontal cortex (vPFC) value and goal representations support foraging in continuous spaces. How might hippocampal-vPFC interactions control the balance between behavior...
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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And now for something completely different! In this new lab preprint led by Ceci Westbrook, we find a link between successful control of repetitive thought and increased activity in attention-related brain networks. By contrast, default mode activity was not associated with regulatory success.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts). Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Reading the "Networking" chapter about the internet in "Algorithms to Live By." Are healthy relationships in social psychology characterized by interactions that mirror TCP packets in Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) algorithms?
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
does nature, in the form of neural ensembles, prefer winner take all (first past the post) voting or ranked choice voting? Making an analogy to Democratic systems on this primary election day. Can a neuron represent multiple simultaneous and competing options?
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Given the forces acting on a golf ball during a putt and the shape of the green, how many possible paths can it take to get to the hole? On any particular path, what is the margin of error on the magnitude and direction of the force applied by the club? ⛳️
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling! One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info 🙏Please RT and share! 🙏 Let met tell you more...
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Intro SEM Information — SMaRT Workshops
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Keenan Crane @keenancrane.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We often use discretization to approximate continuous laws of physics, but it also goes the other way: You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems! Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Has anyone applied big O notation to derive constraints on decision-making algorithms on the timescale of neural processing? 🤔
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Excited to share a summary of a new preprint looking at exploration in ventral prefrontal cortex and hippocampus using fMRI. A 🧵...1/15
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Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b
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Temporal fMRI Dynamics Map Dopamine Physiology
Spatial variations in dopamine function are linked to cognition and substance use disorders but are challenging to characterize with current methods. Because dopamine influences blood vessel dilation,...
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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Please share: FT RA opening in my lab w/ June/July start. Join a team studying cognitive risk for internalizing psychopathology during the transition to college. Good preparation for PhD (current RA is starting her PhD this fall, with me!) #PsychSciSky brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...
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Research Assistant - Psychology
Brandeis University is delighted to announce a job opportunity as a Research Assistant in the Snyder lab. The Research Assistant will assist the Principal Investigator in research projects involving c...
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Jared Simpson @jaredsimpson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are recruiting a Principal Investigator in Computational Biology at @oicr.on.ca: oicr.bamboohr.com/careers/378. This position is in downtown Toronto, adjacent to the University of Toronto where your university appointment would be. Please contact me if you have any questions!
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Mid-Career to Senior Principal Investigator
About OICR   OICR is Ontario’s cancer research institute. We bring together people from across the province and around the world to improve the lives of everyone affected by cancer. We take on the big...
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CMU Neuroscience Institute @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Carl Olson, Professor of the Neuroscience Institute at CMU, died Nov. 23, 2024. Carl was a renowned neuroscientist who provided insights into fundamental issues in the neural basis of cognition. Read more about Carl's life and legacy in his published obituary. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My academic department (at Wesleyan University, CT, US) is searching for a one-year Visiting Professor position in Developmental Psychology. Great place to teach for a year! Apply here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Visiting Professor of Psychology
Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology. The Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University invites applications for a one-year visiting professor in developmental psychology to begin Septembe...
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Dear trainee friends (et al.), 'Tis true that parts of the sky are falling & this is distracting. However, if you happen to have done A THING (paper, etc.), we want to support you. Don't hold back from letting us know. So we can learn and 👏. We're still here for the science. Sincerely, Everyone
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Prefrontal default-mode network interactions with posterior hippocampus during exploration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Prefrontal default-mode network interactions with posterior hippocampus during exploration
Hippocampal maps and ventral prefrontal cortex (vPFC) value and goal representations support foraging in continuous spaces. How might hippocampal-vPFC interactions control the balance between behavior...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It might be fun 2 explore defining and categorizing simple shapes with the curvature method. Biologically, how do different joints and body compositions constrain curvature of movement trajectories? Could this lead to better control algorithms for robotics? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature
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Curvature - Wikipedia
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Confirmed (by many sources) news about 50 NIH Study Sections being allowed to announce meetings in the Federal Register. As usual, MANY more questions than answers... 1/2
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Good story up on funding lag from WESA, an NPR station in Pittsburgh. www.wesa.fm/health-scien... 1/2
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As research universities head to court, WESA analysis finds NIH grants lagging during Trump admin
Experts in education research funding, former NIH staffers and researchers themselves said it’s hard to narrow down one cause for the delay, but they all agreed that confusion created by a flurry of e...
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Unfortunately, this seems ever more relevant.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025
Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Thoughts today: What is the psychology of why we find destruction (e.g. demolition of a building, a car crash) exciting and worth watching? Is it different than the impulse to break things ourselves?
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I'm imagining a future where a trained therapist delivers targeted TMS during CBT at the precise moment when they share a method of coping or rethinking a troubling situation the patient shares with them. Someday maybe the patients themselves could have mobile stim devices.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
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Captain Hooks @captainhooks-lab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here’s a brief summary of our new paper with @andrewpapale.bsky.social on ‘Symmetry in frontal but not motor and somatosensory cortical projections’ now @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3... 1/24
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hot take: It's far more likely the cortex is based on intuitive geometrical principles like movement through imaginary spaces that Jeff Hawkins lays out in "A Thousand Brains" than statistical concepts like probabilities that we use to analyze cortex and that underlie modern AI.
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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Does anyone know the history of why Bell labs and other industry sponsored basic research enterprises dried up?
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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 06/11/2024
I'm glad you're still here. I'm glad you're choosing to be here and be kind.
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Do any of my contacts have an MBA and a PhD/MD? How do the two degrees train you to think differently about problems? Do you think there could be a cleverly designed assessment to tease apart the differences in training and problem solving between the two?
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Want to be my colleague? NYU is looking to hire an Assistant Professor appointed in both Neural Science & Psychology with a focus on human cognitive neuroscience. #psychscisky #neuroskyence #neuroai apply.interfolio.com/153500
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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Academics! Where do you prefer or hope to publish? Have a few minute to tell us? My group at CU Boulder is surveying the publication preferences of academics in a pairwise comparison survey called Publish or Comparish. → tinyurl.com/PubPrefs Thanks for considering & pls share with colleagues!
Map JournalsCompare JournalsVisualize & Share
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 11/07/2024
The discoverability of feeds is really lacking. Here's a list of just science feeds:
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
Exploration of contralateral cortico- cortical, -striatal and -thalamic anatomical connectivity from M1, S1, and two premotor areas in mouse. Strong bilateral symmetry in premotor but not S1 or M1. Premotor symmetry largely absent in corticothalamic projections. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Symmetry in frontal but not motor and somatosensory cortical projections
Neocortex and striatum are topographically organized for sensory and motor functions. While sensory and motor areas are lateralized for touch and motor control, respectively, frontal areas are involve...
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Bluesky Smiling at me Nothing but bluesky Do I see
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
How much does a graduate student cost per year in your program? I'm putting together a list of how much graduate students cost departments/faculty at different universities. Please contribute to the attached google sheet and please RT! Thanks! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Graduate Student Cost Sheet
Sheet1 University,Department,Total Cost,Stipend,Tuition,Other,Out of Pocket for Students,Comments University of Michigan,Psychology,$108,616,$43,788,$60,328,$4,500,$0,All costs are fully covered for ...
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Do memories of good things produce positive RPEs?
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Andrew E. Papale @andrewpapale.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
When you add 1+1 = 2 in Matlab, is it theoretically possible to compute how many transistors flipped state? Thinking about Marr's levels of analysis and what constitutes a 'mechanism.'
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Matt Bothwell @mattbothwell.com · 04/02/2024
Google scholar word cloud! Built using this; t.co/mrkKxYHtRH
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