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Dani S. Bassett

@danisbassett.bsky.social
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Networks, neuroscience, control theory, curiosity, science of science 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️J Peter Skirkanich Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Dani S. Bassett @danisbassett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The group at Penn Talks Science is fantastic! Thanks so much for the opportunity to chat with you all.
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Dani S. Bassett @danisbassett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So looking forward to this upcoming meeting.
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Dani S. Bassett @danisbassett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New work from postdoc Christoffer Alexandersen! Addressing an important open question in Alzheimer’s disease using mathematical modeling.
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Joëlle Bagautdinova @joelleba.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Ever wondered how white matter tracts actually map onto the cortical hierarchy and cognition—beyond the usual “projection vs association” labels? Our new preprint tackles exactly that! 🧠✨ doi.org/10.64898/202... Thread below 🧵
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Anatomical White Matter Tracts Span the Cortical Hierarchy to Support Cognitive Diversity
Long-range white matter (WM) tracts support cognition by enabling communication between distant cortical regions, which are organized along a hierarchy defined by the sensorimotor-to-association (S-A)...
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Christoffer G. Alexandersen @cgalexandersen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
❗🧠 New review in IEEE RBME How network math models are reshaping how we think about neurodegenerative disease, from brain dynamics to disease progression "Network models of neurodegeneration: bridging neuronal dynamics and disease progression" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...
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Anh-Quan Pham @anhquanpham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🤖 Robotic manipulation tasks grow combinatorially, but data collection still scales linearly. Is there a better way to obtain expert datasets at scale?🤔 Excited to share our latest work, Iterative Compositional Data Generation for Robot Control. 📄 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.10891 🧵👇
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Arturo Hernandez @draehernandez.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Honored to have been interviewed for the next edition of the Cognitive Neuroscience textbook. @wwnorton.bsky.social @ron-mangun.bsky.social @danisbassett.bsky.social
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Nicole McNeil @nicolemmcneil.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thursday plans: 🖼️ Franco Matticchio
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Dani S. Bassett @danisbassett.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
How critically or favorably do we cite ourselves? How favorably do we cite collaborators? Do high h-index scholars cite more critically than low h-index scholars? Are some disciplines (or countries) more critical than others? Why? Check out our new manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09675
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Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My review of Alison Li's new biography of Harry Benjamin, Wondrous Transformations, has just been published in the American Historical Review - here's the free access link if you need it: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution.
Harry Benjamin occupies a complex position in trans people’s emotional and political narratives of our history. His 1966 book The Transsexual Phenomenon in
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The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky
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Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point
Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“But when the college committees were evaluating faculty with lower h-indices, evidence of bias against Black and Hispanic scholars surfaced—especially for women. In those situations, “underrepresented minorities, particularly women of color, are held to a different standard,” Madera says.” …
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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
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Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East
We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
hello friends! My publisher is looking for an illustrator for my children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals, which is about an 8 year old transgender boy who plays for his local boys football team. Do any of you have suggestions? - must be trans of some variety Reskeets appreciated
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
So proud of our team!!
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Our latest paper about the diversity-stability debate. We study here the linear stability of meta-ecosystems on networks that describe how discrete patches are connected by dispersal between them. Space and network sparsity can stabilize large #ecosystems journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Kylie Czajkowski @kylieis.online · 11/11/2024
Really love this post by Nicole Tietz-Sokolsaya: www.ntietz.com/blog/support...
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Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time | nicole@web
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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Python Test 218: Balancing test coverage with test costs - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya podcast.pythontest.com/episodes/218... Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when deciding which tests to write and how much testing is enough.
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Dani S. Bassett @danisbassett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Loved talking with @helenak.bsky.social at Nature @natureportfolio.bsky.social about @dalezhou.bsky.social's new paper in Science Advances on global styles of curiosity www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Study reveals three ways to disappear down a Wikipedia rabbit hole
Understanding how ‘hunters’ ‘dancers’ and ‘busybodies’ find information could help to improve the site and encourage better teamwork.
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks Andy! In @theatlantic.bsky.social I describe why the panic over smartphones is more likely to distract from than solve the problems that young people are facing today. Gift link is below: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens
It may only make things worse.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/11/2024
Nancy Mace has introduced a federal bathroom ban which would ban trans people from bathrooms in DCA and Dulles airports, national park bathrooms, museum bathrooms, and all federal building bathrooms.
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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is a great figure. For all the doom & gloom about climate inaction, we have made a big dent over the past 25 years. What started out as 3.5-4°C increase by 2100 is now down to 2-3°C. Of course, more work is urgently needed but this is progress! We don't let up now. h/t @hausfath.bsky.social
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yes!!! The review I've been looking for! Rapid-acting antidepressants like ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, and noninvasive stimulation (TMS) are thought to work by enhancing plasticity, but how, exactly? Grateful to @alexkwan.bsky.social and team for summarizing the evidence in this review.
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Tom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our review of the direct response of stomata to temperature just came out in an issue (OK, it was 3 months ago but I just noticed). We cover what (little) is known, & possible mechanisms and implications. Several more papers in the works. Watch this space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The poorly‐explored stomatal response to temperature at constant evaporative demand
The direct response of stomata to temperature (the response when evaporative demand is held constant by adjusting ambient humidity) is very poorly known. This review summarises the current state of k...
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Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Ph.D. 🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈 @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What are we reading today? 🤓📑 Todd, N. R., Nguyễn, D. M., Blackburn, A. M., & La, R. (2024). Associations between state policies and sexual minority mental health disparities. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. doi.org/10.1037/tps0... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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APA PsycNet
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Cindi SturtzSreetharan @clsturtz.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
And, another great one from DuBois, Puckett, and Robert-Paul Juster. "The study show that trans and nonbinary people who feel more connected to their communities have a more dynamic pattern of cortisol function, suggesting they can recover better from stress."
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How stigma hurts trans health
Researchers demonstrate a link between transgender people's exposure to gender-related stigma and cortisol, a key hormone in the stress response.
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