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Hannah Merseal

@hannahmerseal.bsky.social
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postdoctoral researcher @Penn. chaotic good. creativity, art, jazz, brains, networks.

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Exciting news: Abstract submissions for SfNC2026 are now open! This year, we are accepting both scientific abstracts and artist presentations. We encourage our greater community to submit and join us this June. Learn more about guidelines and requirements here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2026-sub...
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Abstract Submission Guidelines — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity
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Creativity Research Journal @creativity-journal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New in CRJ: Ke Ding, Amitai Shenhav & @yoedkenett.bsky.social show the left angular gyrus plays a causal role in creative thinking. Brain stimulation boosted flexible, interconnected semantic networks during storytelling. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/1040...
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The Causal Role of the Left Angular Gyrus in Creativity-Driven Restructuring
Creative problem-solving relies on the flexible reorganization of prior knowledge to reshape complex memory structures, yet the behavioral and neural processes supporting this transformation remain...
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's almost time to apply or nominate someone for the 2026 SfNC Awards! Each year, the Sarah A. Burgess Award, the Young Investigator Award, and the Dissertation Award are presented to outstanding members of our community. Applications open on 12/15/25. Learn more here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards
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SfNC Awards — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Over the past few years, our community has experienced remarkable growth. Did you know our membership, conference attendance, and content subscriptions have more than doubled? 🚀 So, thank you - our members make everything we do possible. New to SfNC? Learn more: www.tsfnc.org/become-a-mem...
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SfNC Membership — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity
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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Excited to co-chair SfNC 2026: Liberty to Create and welcome our creativity neuroscience community to Philly! Next year we’re bringing the arts back to center stage at FringeArts. If you work in creativity, neuroscience, or the arts, hope to see you there! 🎨🧠✨
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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics @pcfn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
How we subconsciously reach towards beauty 🫳 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...
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Are You Moved by Beauty?
Beauty is in the hand more than in the eye of the beholder.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"Ideally, it will not only inspire neuroscientists to make their studies more 'natural' but also encourage behavioral ecologists to tackle the neural basis of fascinating behaviors." @science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hands holding a copy of "Natural Neuroscience: Toward a System Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors" by Nachum Ulanovsky. Along the bottom of the cover is a skyline of trees. In the background and center, a faint drawing of the brain from a birds eye view.
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
'ggplothko' #aRt
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...
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Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)
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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Creativity Research Journal @creativity-journal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Why is it an exciting time to be a creativity researcher? We’re asking our editorial board, starting with Creativity Research Journal editor-in-chief Adam Green. See his thoughts below, and stay tuned for more insights and featured research: www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...
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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics @pcfn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We're catching up with Mariola as she wraps up her postdoc with us, looking at bright spots in the last 2 years and exciting future directions! Mariola, how did it all begin?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13/06/2025
The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.
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New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems
Puzzle-based experiments reveal limitations of simulated reasoning, but others dispute findings.
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 13/06/2025
Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity 𝐷=1626.05How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The science events summit is here in Philly this week! We’re at the Main Branch of the Philly library connecting and talking about the wild times we’re living through as science communicators. The session starting now is about how us adults perceive science in this moment.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers" All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back. (share link): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers
Nature Human Behaviour - Federal funding of science has been cut, and trainee scientists in the USA face an unstable and uncertain future. Nicole Rust explains how and why we should act to support...
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We spy some familiar faces to the SfNC community in this week's New York Times Creativity Challenge! Check out these short daily creativity exercises to flex those divergent thinking muscles @jamesckaufman.bsky.social @z-i-pringle.bsky.social @roger-beaty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Welcome to the 5-Day Creativity Challenge
Today, a fun way to feel less stuck.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/06/2025
"We cannot build bananas in America"
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6% These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 30/05/2025
🎯 Want to add eye tracking to your #PsychoPy experiment with zero coding? 👁️ This beginner-friendly tutorial uses MouseGaze to simulate tracking + covers ROIs, calibration, plugins & more! 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/f6uNKBFN82o #OpenScience #EyeTracking
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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Did you ever wanted to see a visualisation how two common brain 🧠 network parcellations (Yeo 7 vs. CAB NP) differ? Here is a small something I quickly cooked up because I was curious myself. #neurosky #neuro #brain #brainsky #neuroimaging Code: github.com/JAQuent/netw...
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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Going to #NetSci2025 next week? Check out the satellite on "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" Hear some great short talks & get involved: ▪️ Discussion on sharing data ▪️ Discussion on standards for describing data ▪️ Interactive software fair Complete details at netsci.nascol.net
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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
So grateful to @tsfnc.bsky.social for the dissertation award (handed to me by my forever mentor and pal @roger-beaty.bsky.social), for the vibrant community, and for picking me to co-chair next year's meeting in Philly! I can't wait to welcome my favorite society to celebrate all things creativity ❤️
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
ICYMI: SfNC. 2026. Philly. See you there 😎
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We have been enjoying this morning's sessions so much!!! Stay tuned for more this afternoon.
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
See you soon 👀
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
WE'RE STARTING!!! Our special symposium on AI & Creativity starts now in Paris and on Zoom #SfNC2025
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Creativity Research Journal @creativity-journal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Don't miss SfNC 2025 this week! Live now in Paris and on Zoom #SfNC2025
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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 16/05/2025
Douglas Adams
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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Dolly Parton Superbowl halftime, you cowards
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Insight predicts subsequent memory via cortical representational change and hippocampal activity - Nature Communications
Insight, involving representational change, can boost long-term memory. Here, in an fMRI study, the authors show that insight triggers stronger conceptual shifts in solution relevant brain regions and...
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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
SfNC 2025 is NEXT WEEK in Paris! 🧠 Check our FAQ for full schedule, maps, poster printing info & more: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2025-faq. Register by Thursday 5/15 to join our biggest and best meeting yet (and 10th anniversary péniche party)!
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Creativity Research Journal @creativity-journal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hi, Bluesky! 👋 We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...
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Creativity Research Journal
Publishes research on various approaches to the study of creativity, including behavioral, clinical, educational, genetic, psychoanalytic, social and more.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Preparations for @tsfnc.bsky.social 2025 in Paris are going well 🥖
A screenshot of a Duolingo lesson about "la baguette"
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Vasiliki Meletaki @v-meletaki.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you are in NYC, come on May 2- 3 @ the Center for Performance Research to watch the performance 'intero' choreographed by Spenser Stroud, performed by 3 amazing dancers and inspired by my PhD work on interoception and emotion perception. 🧠🫀🫁🩰 Info & tickets: www.cprnyc.org/events/eury-...
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@CPR | Eury German & Spenser Stroud: Cyclic — Center for Performance Research
Tickets: $25 Purchase Tickets Friday, May 2 at 7:30 PM Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 PM A split-bill evening of dance that fuses two distinct yet interwoven choreographic works that explore the se...
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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Lianglong Sun @longonga.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Happy to share that our article “Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome” is now published online at Nature Neuroscience @natureneuro.bsky.social ! Many thanks to all collaborators & data contributors, and the editor team & reviewers! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome - Nature Neuroscience
Sun et al. report human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome in 33,250 individuals, which highlights critical growth milestones and distinct maturation patterns and offers a normative...
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
After 24 hours on his feet, Cory Booker is defending the scientific research establishment of this country - calling out an experience like the one that drives me and SO MANY of my fellow scientists to do the work we do - that maybe we can do for others what we couldn't for our own loved ones.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
this is a cool thing guster did
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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Making some slides about network science and reflecting on how awesome SemNA is. All you need is some verbal fluency data and R thanks to @yoedkenett.bsky.social and Alex: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
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Vasiliki Meletaki @v-meletaki.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Nora Youn & I presented our findings on the impact of nature & music videos on aesthetic experience and physiology at the APA 10- Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts this weekend. More about the videos: aiaphiladelphia.org/news/context... @pcfn.bsky.social
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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics @pcfn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Live from APA Div10: How do creativity (and arts/aesthetics) researchers score on the AUT?
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
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Kristen Turner @kristenmturner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Elocutionists by @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social is a fascinating study of an artform that is now almost forgotten but was once a major force in US entertainment & movement training. She balances insightful analysis with entertaining biographies & stories of the women who led the industry.
Book cover of "The Elocutionists" featuring a woman in various expressive poses against a dark background with musical scores.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In case you find your anger flagging, this should revitalize it
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