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Jim Coan

@jimmycoan.bsky.social
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Exploring human connection through science and art. Inventor of Social Baseline Theory. Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Lab. Host of the podcast “Circle of Willis." linktr.ee/jimcoan

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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am. My newest Substack post.
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Dubito, Ergo Cogito, Ergo Sum
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am
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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
These points are supported by our paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Should US medical and psychological organizations advocate for neutral and nonpartisan standards of care based on the best available empirical evidence?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
2/2 And while I'm at it: Reminder that DC has more residents than two entire states w total of 3 Reps and 4 US Senators (WY and VT, closing in on ND). We pay *more* federal tax per capita than any other jurisdiction—really, top even NY and CA. And have zero vote in Congress. Statehood for DC.
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This piece by Ethan Watters is about 4 years old, but I think it's more urgent now. Remember, there was a time when *thousands* of therapists practiced these now discredited interventions, and millions of people took it all to be established scientific truth.
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Opinion | The Forgotten Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement (Published 2022)
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is the most important piece of science writing in recent memory. Read it for the specific content, but read it also as a contemporary case study in the politics of health science. And it's amazingly well written.
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The Painful Truth About Long Covid
There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You Are a Pain in the Ass My commencement speech to UVA's 2026 Cognitive Science graduates.
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You Are a Pain in the Ass
My commencement speech to UVA’s 2026 Cognitive Science graduates
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Thread, up and down.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Merry X-Mas (Infowars is over)
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Great work here. 👇
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Artemis II is finally home! What an amazing, groundbreaking and inspiring journey! 🥹  Grateful to every scientist, engineer, technician, and the extraordinary crew who made this mission possible. We can’t wait to see all of the amazing science that come from this mission! 🚀❤️
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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Interesting, useful, and clear thinking from Dr. Frith.
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum
The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This obituary for James Coyne contained too much bullshit for me. It labors to construct a fictional “iconoclast“ from what was mere harassment and defamation. That is not a service to the field. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience
A detailed digital composite image based on the 1947 historical photograph of geneticist Barbara McClintock. McClintock, with her characteristic short hair and round glasses, is seated at a microscope, using tweezers in a Petri dish. While based on the original photo distributed for her AAUW award, this image presents a significantly expanded and fictionalized laboratory environment. The simple wooden workbench is now densely populated with a vast, colorized collection of complex glassware, numerous amber-colored reagent bottles, intricate distillation columns, and botanical specimens relevant to maize cytogenetics, creating a rich, illustrative narrative of her "jumping gene" research context that was not present in the original photo. The expanded background shows complex vintage laboratory cabinetry. This image explicitly states it is a composite: a digital recreation where Seriously Scientific has taken the historical figure and placed them into an augmented, complex fictionalized environment. Based on original source from Smithsonian Institution Archives. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A story about what happens when a community decides that feeling right is more important than being correct—and how “ethics“ can become the approved vocabulary for enforcing that preference. open.substack.com/pub/jimcoan/...
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Lost in a Shopping Mall
An Experience With Controversial Research
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
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CarbonPlan @carbonplan.org · 10/02/2026
Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Please, *please* spend a lot of time doing a full public Republican investigation of a triumphant performance by the most charismatic human being on earth.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you're a Post journalist who got laid off today: 1. [pats bench] come sit by us, is it time to go get that book deal?; and 2. even if not, I'd be happy to comp you a free year's subscription to "How to Glow in the Dark" if you reach out this week. neonliterary.substack.com?utm_campaign...
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How to Glow in the Dark | Anna Sproul-Latimer | Substack
Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary. Click to read How to Glow in the Dark, a Substack publication with tens of thousands...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre: every time I meet with Trump he immediately makes clear how angry he is that he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize and demands that Norway give it to him immediately. I explain that the Nobel Committee, not the government of Norway, awards this prize.
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Støre til næringslivet etter Trumps tolltrussel: – Vi skal ivareta norske interesser
Statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre sier at han forstår at varselet om straffetoll fra USAs president Donald Trump vekker bekymring i norsk næringsliv.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12/01/2026
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They are desperate to frame a 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot as a well-trained “domestic terrorist.”
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
for a real life example, cf this subthread started 2025-12-05, still ongoing www.drroyspencer.com/2025/12/uah-...
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle. This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 07/01/2026
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/12/2025
Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) 🛠️🧪 • about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line, which is currently a record low for the current date. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between October and January by looking at the decadal average line positions.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
/3 He’s never loved, he’s never been loved, and he’s never been happy, he never will be. He’ll die unhappy. But not as unhappy as he deserves.
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
👇👇👇
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Der Spiegel
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This is frickin amazing
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This finding is in mice but it provides an extraordinary insight into the health benefits of exercise in cancer. When obese mice exercise, glucose redirects away from tumors and to muscle, reducing tumor size by 60% via metabolic competition between healthy and cancerous tissues. ow.ly/2C6Q50XFPgu
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Precancer exercise capacity and metabolism during tumor development coordinate the skeletal muscle–tumor metabolic competition | PNAS
Higher exercise capacity and regular exercise training improve cancer prognosis at all stages of disease. However, the metabolic adaptations to aer...
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Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Psilocybin ‘recovering’ forgotten sexual trauma in anorexia patients. It’s the recovered-memory sorcery again, chemically mediated this time. Ethical red flags everywhere. 🤦‍♂️
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Here's another one: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... So basically, it seems @springernature.com requires clinical trials in Scientific Reports to adhere to rigorous standards, but you can still publish an uncontrolled study of a drug, with no registration, control, blinding or whatever.
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Comprehensive analysis of Guanfacine treatment in autism spectrum disorder with comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Scientific Reports
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often co-occurs with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), exacerbating functional challenges. Standard ADHD treatments are often less effective and less well...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hi @springernature.com How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials? pubpeer.com/publications... #autism
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PubPeer - Unveiling the multitarget mechanism of Liuwei Dihuang decoct...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Unveiling the multitarget mechanism of Liuwei Dihuang decoction in autism spectrum disorder via network pharmacology and molecular docking (2025)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
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