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Emily Finn

@esfinn.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth. PI of the Functional Imaging & Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab. thefinnlab.github.io

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The @nasonline.org has elected @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor James Haxby as a member, recognizing his distinguished research in computational cognitive neuroscience, including how thoughts and perceptions can be decoded from brain activity patterns.
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James Haxby Elected to the National Academy of Sciences | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The professor specializes in computational cognitive neuroscience and neural decoding.
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In the first #SANS2026 session on social learning @csavasegal.bsky.social shows that self-generated interpretations anchor how we remember ambiguous social info, even when others offer a different take, and how neural shifts help us make the shift
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So bummed to be missing #SANS2026, but be sure to check out the first symposium tomorrow morning (Thurs 9:30a), "New Directions in Social Learning & Memory"! @csavasegal.bsky.social will share some cool new work on how we remember our own vs another person's interpretation of ambiguous social info
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Huge congrats to @monicarosenb.bsky.social, an amazing scientist and even better friend
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This one feels good 😊 Humbled and honored to be in the company of Spence Award winners, past and present. All credit goes to mentors, colleagues, and especially members of my lab -- thank you!!!
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Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
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Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty
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Stephanie Simpson @stefsimpson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Is it time to put rest to rest? A great article by @esfinn.bsky.social , which cleverly lays out some unfound assumptions in the field of and an integrated way forward: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... It should be required reading for anyone using #resting-state or task-based #fMRI!
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Having severe FOMO for missing #OHBM2025, but please reach out if you are interested in postdoc opportunities in our lab! Enjoy the science and sunshine!!
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Not long after I started my lab, a prominent scientist told me it was “impossible” to be a successful PI and a mother Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can! #HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Alternative title: "LLMs don't have ears (or eyes)" What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts? Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social
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Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We're excited to hear this year's Young Investigator Award recipients @esfinn.bsky.social @andrebastosof.bsky.social talk about their award-winning research! And exciting to see them with some past winners @freekvanede.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social Join us in the Grand Ballroom! #CNS2025
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Two posters from our lab at #CNS2025 this morning! First, Kay Liang @kay-qiliang.bsky.social shows differences in how we perceive social interactions when we’re actually involved in them (first person) versus passively watching them (third person) at poster D99
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This afternoon (Sun 1:30-3:30p) at #CNS2025, Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social, Janice Chen, James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social, and I will be speaking in Symposium 1: Creating the structure of ongoing experience. Come by for a dose of narratives, events, causality etc @cogneuronews.bsky.social
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
*So* honored to be a co-recipient of the CNS Young Investigator Award (along with André Bastos)! This was a fun interview. Really looking forward to the conference!
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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
For the Dartmouth PBS graduate student visiting day this year, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students! 🌶️🔥🥵
The panelTrying some nuggetsUh-ohFeeling the burn
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Amy Kuceyeski @amykooz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
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WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain
YouTube video by Women in Data Science Worldwide
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This paper sets up a bit of a straw man in that I don't think most people who use movies and stories as fMRI stimuli assume that all movies will (or should) evoke the same response. In a naturalistic neuroimaging expt, the movie *is* the task...
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Between-movie variability severely limits generalizability of “naturalistic” neuroimaging
“Naturalistic imaging” paradigms, where participants watch movies during fMRI, have gained popularity over the past two decades. Many movie-watching studies measure inter-subject correlation (ISC), wh...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
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Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience
Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Jeremy Manning @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚 (Reply with 🙋 if you'd like to be added!) go.bsky.app/LGRYMvQ
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi new followers! My lab studies when/how/why the same input can provoke different interpretations in different people (or in the same person across time). But we also do fun stuff with human-AI alignment and conversation. Hoping we can make bsky like the old days of science Twitter; miss that!
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Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🚨 Steven Frankland and I are recruiting jointly-advised graduate students to work on high-level cognition! They will be part of the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth and earn their Ph.D. in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Deadline: Dec 1: pbs.dartmouth.edu/graduate-pro...
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Graduate Program in Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Dartmouth College Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are now on Bluesky! Follow this account for research, learning resources, events, news, and job postings.
Moore Hall, Dartmouth College
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Our lab (thefinnlab.github.io) is excited to review PhD applications this cycle! Check us out if you wanna do interesting stuff with brains and behavior in the woods 🌲🧠🌲Apply to Dartmouth Psych&Brain Sciences via Guarini School of Grad Studies (graduate.dartmouth.edu/admissions-f...) by Dec 1!
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Functional Imaging and Naturalistic Neuroscience Lab
About us
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Very excited for this search -- please apply!!
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Hongji Kim @hongjikim.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
📢 Exciting news! My first first-author paper on brain decoding of spontaneous thought is now available on PNAS. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me
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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
My group is looking for a post doc who is passionate about high field layer fMRI methods, time series analysis, or functional contrast mechanisms. fim.nimh.nih.gov/positions-av...
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Positions Available | Section on Functional Imaging Methods
SFIM Postdoctoral Fellow The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applications for a post-doctoral position in the Section on Functional Imaging Methods, directed by Dr. Peter A. Bandett...
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Just got reviews back on a grant. It's still in funding limbo, but one reviewer wrote such beautifully supportive comments of me and my work that I'm tearing up at my desk. I don't know who this reviewer is, but if you're reading this: thank you, this type of encouragement means so much.
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
🚨I need your help, academic BlueSky! For those who navigated parental leaves as faculty, what worked or didn't work for you/your labs navigating that experience? Please repost widely to help us gather ideas & I'll compile them for our Resources Website to share with all!
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Hey @sansmeeting.bsky.social, I'm having trouble creating a user account on the Conference Manager site (stuck in an endless "Pending User email loop). I reached out to the contact # on the SANS site, but am wondering if this is a known issue? Midnight abstract deadline fast approaching 😬 thanks!
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Luke Chang @lukejchang.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.
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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Applications for NIH Independent Scholars Program due March 1. For scholars who have a commitment to building a diverse Intramural Research Program at NIH. <4 years post PhD. Independent positions & funding with mentorship from existing faculty.
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Independent Research Scholar Program | NIH Office of Intramural Research
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Nice write-up of our recent paper using fMRI data from the movie 500 Days of Summer, where we found evidence that the brain does on-the-fly unscrambling of temporal information to put a nonlinear narrative back in chronological order: nautil.us/your-brain-w...
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Your Brain Wants a Linear Story
Artists may jumble time for dramatic effect. But your unconscious is always putting the narrative in order.
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
New paper from @thaliawheatley.bsky.social, me, @stolkarjen.bsky.social & @lukejchang.bsky.social at Perspectives on Psychological Science! "The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds" Read about why we think that this is an auspicious moment for interaction science! Link: doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Devastatingly sad news. My good friend, colleague, and a treasured scientist at the NIH for over 20 years, Dr. Sean Marrett, has passed away today. I wrote a short obituary for him. www.thebrainblog.org/2023/12/13/a...
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A few words for Dr. Sean Marrett, who passed away yesterday, Dec 12, 2023
It is with sadness that I convey the news that Dr. Sean Marrett, a treasured NIMH staff scientist for the intramural program’s Functional MRI Facility (FMRIF) for over 20 years, has passed away. Sea...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Hello World! We have now received 500 submissions to Imaging Neuroscience, with 50 of these already published. direct.mit.edu/imag/issue Huge thanks for your support in moving our field away from for-profit publishers.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟳 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 Jealousy is real... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #imaging
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
NEW PREPRINT! Social cognitive regions of human association cortex are selectively connected to the amygdala www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We studied two parallel distributed networks within the canonical default network (DN) in individuals using 7T fMRI.
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Kiara Sanchez @kiarasanchez.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
I'm hiring a lab manager! The Social Identity in Dialogue (SID) Lab at Dartmouth is seeking a full-time lab manager interested in the social psychological study of interracial interactions, relationships, and conversations about race. Pref. apply by Jan 9 searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/71464
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Research Assistant I
The Dartmouth Social Identity in Dialogue Lab (PI: Kiara L. Sanchez) seeks a full-time research assistant to design, conduct, and analyze studies of interracial interactions, relationships, and conver...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 21/11/2023
Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies look at women’s health. Here’s how to change that - wonderful piece by @emilyjacobs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies look at women’s health. Here’s how to change that
A new initiative challenges the severe neglect of women’s brain health from puberty through to pregnancy and menopause. A new initiative challenges the severe neglect of women’s brain health from ...
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Caroline Charpentier, PhD @carocharp.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
So I guess this is my intro to bsky, and with this comes our new lab website, thanks to amazing lab manager Xiaodi (Sara) Hu: sociallearninglab.wixsite.com/my-site We are also hoping to recruit a PhD student starting Fall 2024! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky #BehSciSky #compneuro #cpsy
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Home | My Site
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 08/11/2023
Functional neuroimaging as a catalyst for integrated neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41... - fun toi write this with @macshine.bsky.social and @esfinn.bsky.social !
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
One month until the deadline (Dec 1)! We're excited to read applications and get to know prospective students!
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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
📣 Now out in J Neuro, led by @hleemasson.bsky.social: Using EEG-fMRI fusion we find that observing others' touch events (social vs. non-social) is processed in a feedforward manner through social perceptual brain regions www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Methods overview: Video features, fMRI data, and time-resolved EEG data were linked via RSA to examine the neural dynamics of observed social touch perception
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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
In a new TiCS article, @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social and I review a growing body of behavioral, neural, and computational evidence that social interactions are automatically extracted by the human visual system: tinyurl.com/nhh2dhxt #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence
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