Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Man, why is everything got to be about politics on bluesky? 011
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comNeural Signatures of Cognitive Control Predict Future Adolescent Substance Use Onset and FrequencyAdolescent substance use is a significant predictor of future addiction and related disorders. Understanding neural mechanisms underlying substance us… 000
Reposted by Jacob LeeRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 05/02/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses .ALT: a man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses . 072
Reposted by Jacob LeeJosh Lee @josh-lee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I received an email from NIH stating that applications are being removed from an upcoming study section. I am dismayed that NIH is folding. 1119058
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comReinforcement learning processes as forecasters of depression remissionAspects of reinforcement learning have been associated with specific depression symptoms and may inform the course of depressive illness.We applied su… 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comEmotional words evoke region- and valence-specific patterns of concurrent neuromodulator release in human thalamus and cortexWords represent a uniquely human information channel—humans use words to express thoughts and feelings and to assign emotional valence to experience. … 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024New paper! Congratulations to @dongilchung.bsky.social, Mark Orloff. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...journals.plos.orgSocial conformity is a heuristic when individual risky decision-making is disruptedAuthor summary When humans make decisions in social situations, we typically weigh both our individual preferences and information about what others choose. There are also common circumstances where i... 022
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Would RFK even get confirmed by the Senate? I sort of doubt it. 100
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 22/10/2024www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comReinforcement learning processes as forecasters of depression remissionAspects of reinforcement learning have been associated with specific depression symptoms and may inform the course of depressive illness.We applied su… 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 21/10/2024 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...royalsocietypublishing.orgRegulation of craving for real-time fMRI neurofeedback based on individual classification | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesIn previous real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback (rtfMRI-NF) studies on smoking craving, the focus has been on within-region activity or between-region connectivity, neglectin... 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 06/09/2024but if you are writing and advertising your software for others to use, maybe even publishing papers about how great it is, then resist the urge to make your software do more; wait until you know it actually does what you advertise and does it well. Writing good software is HARD. 2/ 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 06/09/2024A big trap academic-written software falls into is being more interested in adding new functionality than providing robust, stable workflows or user experiences. This is fine if its just for you, of course, but ... 1/ 110
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 26/05/2024Valuation is intact! some of our work www.nature.com/articles/sre...nature.com 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024If you don't have the technical chops to pull it off, then hire someone who does. Anything less is just shifting the burden onto your participants, and onto all your professional colleagues who do put in the effort. 9/9 010
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024And, here is the most frustrating part of this. 90% of the time a social psychology experiment uses deception it isn't necessary to the study. It's done because making interactive multi-participant tasks is a technical challenge, or because they haven't thought hard enough about how to do it. 8/n 130
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024So, to sum: 1. You harm participants (however slightly) 2. You harm science 7/n 100
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024The one exception is when an experimental economist tells me something. I believe them. Because they too have earned a reputation. Deception is taboo in experimental economics, and I have never personally been debriefed in an economics study where they told me they lied. Just doesn't happen. 6/n 120
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024When I am told that I will be interacting with another participant online, I don't believe them. Why should I? The past dozen social psychology experiments where they've told me so debriefed me that they had deceived me. Face it, they've earned a reputation. 5/n 120
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024Social psychology experiments, particularly online ones, are perhaps the worst offenders in this regard. I say so from personal experience participating in studies on Mechanical Turk and Prolific. 4/n 120
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024multiple studies, each run independent of the other. This is particularly true on platforms like Mturk & Prolific. If a person participates in one study and they learn in the debriefing that they were deceived, will they believe what the researcher says in the next study? Why should they? 3/n 110
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024they fail to do their duty of beneficence to participants, and to science itself. First, deceiving participants actually does harm. No one likes to be lied to, even about the little things. Second, you are not running your study in isolation. Participants often contribute to multiple studies. 2/n 100
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 25/05/2024Deception is sometimes necessary in order to run an experiment. However, it should be a last resort, necessary to the study design, or impractical to do without it. A large number of studies that deceive participants don't really need to. They do it because its easier. As such, ... 1/n 130
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 20/04/2024Recent work on voltammetry shows that there is a lot of useful information in the background that conventional methods throw away. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... 000
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 20/04/2024Using some kind of static site generator for that? Went that way away from wordpress for my personal site because there really wasn't any need for something like that (e.g. comments) 100
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Congratulations @vanessabrown.bsky.social et al. Reinforcement-Learning-Informed Queries Guide Behavioral Change @decisionneurop.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journalsSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 053
Jacob Lee @jacobilee.bsky.social · 26/12/2023Glad Tim's kolam stuff got published. My brother @josh-lee.bsky.social introduced us more than a decade ago. I was interested in generative cultural constructs like Dwight Read's algebraic kinship terminologies. Considered volunteering on the project; didnt work out tho. Ended up at a neuro lab. 010
