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Darius Suplica

@dsuplica.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist interested in attention & memory | MD-PhD student @ Yale, formerly UChicago

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Late cross-modal biases in neural spatial representations revealed by EEG decoding www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Late cross-modal biases in neural spatial representations revealed by EEG decoding
During audiovisual perception, spatial information from vision and audition is combined, often producing biases such as the ventriloquist effect. While these interactions are well documented behaviour...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our new preprint w/ @edvogel.bsky.social presents a neural marker of a competition/interaction taking place in working memory between memory and current goals. We label it r-CDA Check out preprint for details about r-CDA and other interesting neural dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is probably Y. Entercolitica, which causes appendicitis like symptoms and is transmitted mostly through uncooked pork and not Y. Pestis
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026
calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!
I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Moving my registration from CA-12 to CT-3 and looking up the ballot access laws was a trip. It seemed like there was an almost successful effort to force a primary but it failed by 6 delegates
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Probably? In case A you provide data to a third party in order to use a service they provide for your benefit, but in case B using the service at all involves broadcasting your IP to the world. It's like using your laptop on a park bench vs in an office building
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Chong Zhao @zhaochong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New paper: across 3 EEG experiments, we examined how do we edit WM at test. Imagine you were asked to memorize 4 colored squares during encoding: at test, when you were given a single test probe, are you able to remove the items at irrelevant positions (upper), or do you have to keep'em (lower)? 1/n
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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Check out my poster at #VSS2026 in banyan breezeway tomorrow afternoon! We find that stimulus memorability parameters (hit and FA rate) robustly affect performance in a task with no recognition memory requirements (visual search with trial-unique images). With @utochkin.bsky.social and Ed Awh
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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@vssmtg.bsky.social l | Distracted during talks? Maybe your brain has better things to do. 🌊☀️🍹🏖️ Sunday, May 17, 9:30am, Talk Room 1 — I’ll present our new goal-competition theory with @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social.
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If you are at #VSS2026 check out our poster 36.320 in the Sunday afternoon session. I'll tell what we learned about the neural signatures of stimulus memorability from EEG decoding in a large visual memory dataset In collaboration w/Leo Chang, Ed Vogel (@edvogel.bsky.social), and Ed Awh
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 01/05/2026
A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Someone did it! github.com/nickvido/us-...
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GitHub - nickvido/us-code: United States Code as a Git repository — check the commit history, view diffs. Data starts in 2013.
United States Code as a Git repository — check the commit history, view diffs. Data starts in 2013. - nickvido/us-code
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is literally me - I think law is so interesting (especially the interaction of law and science/medicine), but would never want to be a lawyer. I'm starting a MD/PhD program, so I can't really justify a third doctorate and want to have a real job tho
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I don't think they seem to understand how hashing works...
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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Spatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load. In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load. doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
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Ziyao Zhang @bulezz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression
In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans often face the challenge of filtering out salient stimuli that are presently irrelevant to their tasks. Recent evidence suggests that ...
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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thank you! Wishing you the best in Adelaide!
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thanks Will!
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 18/09/2025
How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
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Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task
Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...
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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex
Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Additionally, using representational similarity analysis (RSA) we found that both the breath of spatial attention and the modality of remembered items reliably predicted some variance in EEG activity. However, a purely item-based measure of storage explained unique and separate variance!
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Splitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules
Abstract. A defining feature of human cognition is our ability to respond flexibly to what we see and hear, changing how we respond depending on our current goals. In fact, we can rapidly associate al...
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
That godawful NYT article on an "unpublished study on puberty blockers" was favorably cited by Thomas (p22, fn9)! Bad reporting can easily construct a narrative that science is "biased" which is then weaponized
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
And, this is how even "liberal media" like NYT nonstop pushing anti-trans bias (like turning a researcher not wanting to publish a null result with some methodological issues into a controversy) has caused so much harm -- it's all the narrative
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Basically saying "you can ignore scientific consensus as long as I can find some made-up evidence of bias." Maybe, just maybe, people who have advanced training in a field actually do know more (this is why overturning Chevron was terrible too)
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Not looking forward to this getting quoted - may be one of the dumbest words committed to judicial opinion. Don't assume that "experts" are correct, but assume that judges are better at science than scientists?
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
And this is why musk, Vance etc are so opposed to scientific funding - they see any line of inquiry that doesn't generate profit for themselves as "wasteful." They want it to reinforce their ideology first and then search for truth ... Which is just bad science
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It's valuable to distinguish science as a method from science as applied. Obviously the questions asked, methods used, etc are biased as a result of the human element. But those are more a flaw of people instead of science itself
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johno_5 @johno5.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
UChicago has ~$108 million in NIH grants. According to most recent F&A rate info I found (2019-20), UChicago has an F&A rate of 62% for on-campus grants, so around $67million in F&A support. If the rate is cut to 15%, that’ll be a loss of $50 million in support. That’s thousands of jobs lost
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/12/2024
One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. propub.li/3BQjJ1e
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The problem here was that they jumped to make the diagnosis based just on symptoms when it probably wasn't supported by the evidence. Dr. Pham omitted findings from the pediatrician (expanding head) and neurosurgeon (chronic hematomas) which would have supported another cause
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The parents filed a lawsuit against the hospital for refusing to provide medical records from the birth (probably also a HIPAA violation). The hospital says they purged (!!!) the records. Looks like the hospital might be doing shady stuff to cover something up. trellis.law/doc/22095065...
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COMPLAINT & JURY DEMAND FILED - DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATIONREDACTION MAY BE NEEDED October 14, 2024
COMPLAINT & JURY DEMAND FILED - DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATIONREDACTION MAY BE NEEDED October 14, 2024. Read court documents, court records online and search Trellis.law comprehensive lega...
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 22/12/2024
variable names *are* code comments
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I find it pretty useful as a smart autocomplete tool, saves a lot of time as long as you double check. Also use it (I know this is bad) to write comments when too lazy to Wouldn't use it to write anything critical tho, and wouldn't pay for it
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I don't \n\n know why would you do that?
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Terrific! Paywalls are disappearing! No more 12 month embargo between when NIH funded work appears in a journal and when it becomes accessible to all (as of December 2025). www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...
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NIH issues new policy to speed access to agency-funded research results
The 12-month embargo period before manuscripts resulting from NIH funding must be made publicly available is removed.
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
And a big part of the polarization is that the people they work well for (hardworking but need extra effort to get the material), really like it, but the people they don't (either lazy/unmotivated or people who are generally ahead of the class/find it easy), really hate it
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I think flipped classrooms *probably* end up teaching better but feel worse to students, mostly because they involve a lot of relatively unengaging asynchronous content, and tend to teach less material (or more slowly) than traditional lectures (plus for some and minus for others).
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 16/12/2024
A modern staging of Agamemnon where the chorus is referred to as “chat.”
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The more I hear people describe outsourcing basic reading comprehension to GPT the more I start to think the luddites had a good idea
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