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Junaid Merchant

@dingobuck.bsky.social
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An epidemiology trench coat wearer who is definitely NOT a psych, cogneuro, and data scientist in disguise trying to get a job 🥸 🥼 ⚙️ 🧠 💻 🇵🇰 🎨 📈 👨🏽‍💻 🕺🏽 🎶 junaidmerchant.github.io

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"What I take from Aaron is that the best way to be truly productive on the margin, is to try to build for other people and connect them together."
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2025
The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 31/07/2025
📢 @markkho.bsky.social & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & mental health 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Apps are reviewed on a rolling basis 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809
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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Current NIH worker seeking formers NIH workers and community allies. 👀👋🏻
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Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"! Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind | PNAS
Theories of the evolution of cooperation through reciprocity explain how unrelated self-interested individuals can accomplish more together than th...
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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadsamara.bsky.social with Zaid Zada, @vanderlab.bsky.social, and Uri Hasson titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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AdamT @damadam.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
NIH is soliciting public comments on the very thorny challenges Generative AI poses to data sharing initiatives. I hope the Open Science community will weigh in. Comments are due by July 15th.
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Merchant et al. perform a meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive systems involved in real-time social interaction doi.org/10.52294/001... @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Junaid Merchant @dingobuck.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
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9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22/05/2025
We don’t always know what questions will change the world. But public science has a way of answering them anyway. Federal science funding isn’t just lines in a budget. It’s a vote for progress, for possibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
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9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
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Fatima Goss Graves @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Ice has arrest Mayor Baraka, a candidate for NJ governor. We have moved into the phase where they are testing whether they can arrest political opponents. If you wondered when you should speak up, it's now. Definitely now. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
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Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility - Insider NJ
Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Once again, the country owes a debt of gratitude to those brave folks within NIH who are helping us understand the machinations behind the scenes at NIH. /fin
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a little girl is sitting on a bed and saying `` thank you you da best '' .
ALT: a little girl is sitting on a bed and saying `` thank you you da best '' .
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Alert! Developmentalists & all who care about young children - the next few weeks are a critical period for federal budget development - this is an ideal time to get your voice out there on behalf of children. I have a template you can use to write a local op-ed. It's easy - I just sent mine in.
draft of my op-ed highlighting the threats to child development in the president's proposed 2026 budget
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Judge Young: A couple requests going forward: - Please provide a list of grants actually affected (I HAVE THIS!!!) - To HHS lawyer, "I understand gov't is against DEI. But this is about healthcare for all Americans. "Respectfully, I just don't know what [DEI] means" here. I need a definition.
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Pollcat, AKA Scott Keeter @pollcat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We took a broad look at social trust in America today. With a survey of almost 37,000 people we were able to look at levels of trust across the states and even in metro areas. Check out our new report here www.pewresearch.org/SocialTrust
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Americans’ Trust in One Another
Americans trust each other less than they did a few decades ago. We explore why this is, and why some are more trusting than others.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/04/2025
3/ A sweeping Israeli Channel 13 investigation has exposed the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s 19-month war on Gaza. Nine top Biden officials acknowledged avoiding real pressure on Israel—even as the death toll surpassed 30,000.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB
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Dan Peterson @danjonpeterson.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
#neuroskyence #neuroimaging
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Should statistics respect science more? Our third speaker Gang Chen (@gangchen6.bsky.social) argues that strict adherence to statistical conventions may obscure rather than clarify, and suggest ways in which rethink about how we model our data and report our results:
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Pre-registration of Multiverse Analyses walkthrough @johnflournoy.science johnflournoy.science/multiverse-p...
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Prereg the Multiverse - Pre-registration of Multiverse Analyses
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Dr. Paul Bloom's Interactive multiverse analysis explorer! pbloom.shinyapps.io/amygdala_mpf...
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Interactive multiverse analysis explorer!
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Cosme Lab Specification curve analysis (SCA) tutorial dcosme.github.io/2019/06/28/s...
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Specification curve analysis (SCA) tutorial | DANIELLE COSME
This tutorial was presented at the University of Oregon Developmental Seminar, May 3, 2019. The repository can be found at: https://github.com/dcosme/specification-curves/ div.grey { background-colo...
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just attended the Best Practices in Methods session at #SANS2025 so many practical takeaways! From Dr. Clelland and Dr. Cosme's push for SCA (links below), to Dr. Chen’s approach to voxel activation reporting, and Dr. Burns guidance on motion exclusion for hyperscanning—super useful insights!
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Gang Chen @gangchen6.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For those who think more data just means more headcount, here’s a quirky twist: the number of data points per individual actually matters--a lot. If you're into a bit of rigor, this article highlights a factor that’s often overlooked. Thanks for the shoutout! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hyperbolic trade-off: The importance of balancing trial and subject sample sizes in neuroimaging
Here we investigate the crucial role of trials in task-based neuroimaging from the perspectives of statistical efficiency and condition-level generali…
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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
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Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze
America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It has quotes from Senators talking about the value of research. 2/n
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers. 1/n .
A letter to Republican Senators from concerned federal workers at NIH.
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NIH employees writing to Republican senators, quoting the senators' own statements about the value of NIH research, begging Congress to stop the reckless cuts that are killing biomedical research and simply allow the flow of $ that Congress has already appropriated for NIH.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025
Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...
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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I left my favorite scarf in a meeting room and when I returned today it was lovingly folded up waiting for me. Then I walked home and arrived just in time to help my neighbor unload a bunch of plants from her car. May we remember we can still do small things for one another, despite everything ❤️
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Some institutions are not standing on the sidelines--thank you University of Maryland
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🧵This is so damn cool!!! And, of course, NIH $$$ were used in this study
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Dani Cosme @dcosme.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My congressional district is projected to lose $182M annually in economic activity due to federal funding cuts to the NIH. This is a massive loss not only for health researchers & those that directly benefit from advancements, but also for our community as a whole. Cc @repdwightevans.bsky.social
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/04/2025
“It’s like, what if we took this digital community that exists, and what if we made it in real life?” Meet the "TheoBros" who are building community offline.
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Christian "TheoBros" are building a tech utopia in Appalachia
What could go wrong?
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/04/2025
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
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How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
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John Rosevear @jrosevear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Former journalist here. This is IMPORTANT. When you're telling people about your protest plans, include your local media!
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
the way in which the US economic system seems to kill people who can't cope with it is a genuine public health emergency, but the rate at which it seems to kill people who are by any reasonable criterion succeeding is also a serious policy issue
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 10/04/2025
Really important work!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Do you like genes and estimating heritability? Then @gangchen6.bsky.social and D. Moraczewski have important news for you. Conventional estimation methods ignore measurement error, leading to a bias. Don't worry: hierarchical modeling to the rescue! www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 03/04/2025
Researchers at Annenberg and @umdscience.bsky.social show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. Learn about their project and view the interactive map here:
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Data-Driven, Interactive Map Shows Local Economic Impact of Cuts to Federal Funding for Health Research
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This banner is showing up on NIH data repositories. If you use data from these archives you may want to consider what you need access to in the near and far term for your research
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
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Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards
As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.
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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sexuality and race data from the @altcdc.altgov.info’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, backed up and parsed by @dingobuck.bsky.social 🙌🏻🤘
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