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Jordan Theriault-Brown

@jtheriault.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @Northeastern. Psychology + Biology. Neuroimaging, brain metabolism + mental health. Director of IASLab with ‪Lisa Feldman Barrett & Karen Quigley www.affective-science.org www.jordan-theriault.com

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're very happy to announce that SPAN2027 will be held at NYU on May 20-22, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness 🧠 A call for proposals will come soon!
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think this is a real breakthrough moment for metabolically-grounded models of cognition! Congratulations @davidcolaco.bsky.social and @phaueis.eurosky.social on your paper and commentary!!
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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response. Please share #philsci #philsky #cogsci
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Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling - Volume 49
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026
Our lab is growing! We're looking for a graduate student to start next fall (applications due on Dec 1) and a postdoctoral researcher to start soon (ad coming soon; starting date is flexible, probably some time next year). subjectivitylab.org
subjectivitylab.org
The Subjectivity Lab · Duke University · Jorge Morales, PhD
Duke interdisciplinary research group led by Dr. Jorge Morales studying vision, mental imagery, consciousness, and introspection.
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Jones' Rule 8. "Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy."
The trolley problem. The road runner is on one of the trolley tracks, and Wile E. Coyote is in charge of the switch.

When he throws the switch, the trolley falls vertically through the tracks. A trick of the perspective means he is actually underneath, not beside the track, so he is flattened by the trolley.
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👉 Tenure-track opening in neuroscience @crchum.bsky.social @umontreal.ca crchum.carrieresante.gouv.qc.ca/poste/profes...
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(Nīwe) Exit Music (For a Film) youtu.be/DHspDQZKvwg?...
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Running up that hill Cover in Early Middle English BARDCORE/MEDIEVAL version. Original by Kate Bush.
YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New tenure track position call for cognitive science at UCSD: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two #Developmental TT positions at McGill.. Could include people who study #language and #multilingualism. Please forward to colleagues/advanced trainees who might wish to join us in Montreal, Canada! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
Tenure-Track Position (Assistant Professor), Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh man, really looking forward to reading this.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes, but stories of "civilizations" and "swarms" of "rogue agents" are MUCH more exciting.
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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New tenure-track faculty position at Duke! The Neurobiology department is looking for a computational neuroscientist. Join a highly collaborative & interdisciplinary community. My time at Duke has been amazing so far & we would love the opportunity to collaborate with you! Applications due Dec 1.
academicjobsonline.org
Duke University, Neurobiology
Job #AJO32697, Tenure Track Assistant Professor - AI/ML Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This lizard thing. aka "Life"
“Humans are great at agency and terrible at book learning,” Alexander told me. “Lizards have agency. We got the agency with the lizard brain. We only got book learning recently. The AIs are the opposite.” He still thinks it’s only a matter of time before they catch up. “If you were to ask an AI how should the world’s savviest businessman respond to this circumstance, they could create a good guess. Yet somehow they can’t even run a vending machine. They have the hard part. They just need the easy part that lizards can do. Surely somebody can figure out how to do this lizard thing and then everything else will fall very quickly.”
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department, UCI cognitive sciences, is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of computational social cognition. Further information including the application can be found at: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
recruit.ap.uci.edu
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
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Gang Chen @gangchen6.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Does the brain really favor a particular threshold of statistical evidence, or should one simply let the statistical tail wag the science dog? Why not show the continuity of evidence in fMRI results rather than drawing an arbitrary boundary? More information, greater transparency & reproducibility.
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Shannon Burns, PhD @shannon47burns.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Are you studying human neuroscience broadly defined, and enjoy working with bright and motivated students? If so we'd love to see your application for this TT position at Pomona College! Review of applications begins on Oct 1.
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
UVA Psychology is hiring a Developmental Psychologist (TT Assist. Prof.) this year!! We're looking for folks with computational or formal approaches to cog dev. Please share widely!! Review begins Oct 1 apply.interfolio.com/192030
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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
Open-rank tenure-track faculty position
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Biomedical scientists - a reminder that NIH proposes to "improve" peer review by hiding impact scores from Program Officers and applicants, and binning applications into broad categories of "Most competitive,""Competitive," or "Not discussed." Please provide feedback before the October 13 deadline!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026
We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are hiring a new director for our brain imaging center at Northeastern University (Boston) in the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please spread the word. I'm on the search committee happy to speak with anyone who is interested. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experientia...
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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Super excited to announce that I've joined Neuroblox as a Research Staff Scientist! We're building a multi-scale comp neuro platform for mechanistic modeling of cognition, behavior and mood. www.neuroblox.ai
neuroblox.ai
Neuroblox | In Silico Neural Circuit Modeling for Neurotherapeutic Design
Neuroblox provides the first multiscale and mechanistic neural circuit simulation platform built to elicit cognition, mood, and behavior for designing neurotherapeutics.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'tis the season* in Boston! Mind your vehicle height on Storrow Drive/Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive. Here's my map of some popular locations to sardine-tin the roof of your truck. (*'tis not the season. There is no season. The whole thing about students being to blame is a myth!)
A map of "Storrowing" crashes where over-height vehicles strike overpasses or signs on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, and Memorial Drive in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each overpass and sign has dots indicating the number of crashes at that location, and there is also a timeline showing crashes by date, which are spread throughout the year, with no particular concentration around university move-in dates.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29/08/2026
A paper in Nature Communications presents a fully integrated smart ring that measures multiple chemical biomarkers from osmotically extracted sweat without iontophoresis, validated for daily analysis in both healthy and type 1 diabetic individuals. go.nature.com/4gyZ1D7 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the overall vision of CHARM.
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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Congrats to @sarahrobins.bsky.social and @felipedebrigard.bsky.social , great philosophers who are also lovely humans.
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reposting with a new title. :) If you're looking for an embodied and dynamical systems approach to norms (and morality) as a means of stabilizing a social niche (and model of the world), look no further! This summarizes our work published here: tinyurl.com/3jybeuxe and here: tinyurl.com/3zpfcaaf
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Our brains use morality to save energy
<p><em>We are often guided by a gut sense of good and evil. But where does that feeling come from? Psychologist <strong>Jordan Theriault-Brown</strong> argues it has its roots in how a brain manages t...
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My behavioral neuroscience lab at Northeastern is looking to recruit two new research techs! Job description and link to apply is here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Laboratory Technician - The Shansky Lab
About the Opportunity Job Summary The Shansky Lab is seeking a full-time technician to conduct National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded behavioral neuroscience research. The position includes lab ma...
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I ran a trainee-focused workshop today on "your online academic presence"—slides here in case they are useful for anyone else! jpeelle.github.io/online-acade...
## Start here

As an academic you should have:

1. A personal website with a stable URL
2. A completed LinkedIn profile
3. A Google Scholar profile (as soon as you have 1 publication)

Whether it's worth going beyond these depends on your personal goals.
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Brian Wiltgen @wiltgenlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Come work with the fantastic faculty at UC Davis! Great place to live and do science 🧪 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Biological Bases of Behavior
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New article at IAI. (Title is a bit misleading, I'd say something more like, morality is how the brain maintains a stable niche in a social environment—but read & judge for yourself). This is a quick and accessible summary of work published here: tinyurl.com/3jybeuxe and here: tinyurl.com/3zpfcaaf
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Morality is a trick our brains use to save energy
<p><em>We often treat our gut sense of good and evil as a reliable moral compass. But psychologist <strong>Jordan Theriault-Brown</strong> argues it’s something else altogether, an energy-saving trick...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Trustworthy scientific knowledge requires more than replicability. It flourishes when a scientific community is sufficiently diverse (in people and in methods) and open to criticism.”
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us for the Philosophy & Neuroscience Palooza at the PSA! 🧠 8:30-10:00am: DSPNW's “Neurophilosophy at 40” featuring Patricia Churchland 🧠10:15-11:45am: SPAN's meet the author session with David Sussillo 🧁 🍇🥯 Light breakfast will be served at each session!
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 19/08/2026
Are our gut senses of good and evil a reliable moral compass? | bit.ly/4ghfmfI Psychologist Jordan Theriault-Brown argues morality is in fact an energy-saving trick of the brain. Our brains crave a predictable world, and moral feelings enforce rules that make our behavior predictable.
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New article at IAI. (Title is a bit misleading, I'd say something more like, morality is how the brain maintains a stable niche in a social environment—but read & judge for yourself). This is a quick and accessible summary of work published here: tinyurl.com/3jybeuxe and here: tinyurl.com/3zpfcaaf
iai.tv
Morality is a trick our brains use to save energy
<p><em>We often treat our gut sense of good and evil as a reliable moral compass. But psychologist <strong>Jordan Theriault-Brown</strong> argues it’s something else altogether, an energy-saving trick...
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yale Neuroscience is hiring another computational neuroscience position this year! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, or growing neuro-AI community at Yale/WTI!
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Nepsie @nepsie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ma vie avec @vilain.bsky.social 😔
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sharing this for any who can help (knowing everyone is stretched thin). An international PhD student at my uni lost both parents, and his dept is raising funds to help him continue his studies while managing medical and bills and funeral costs on a PhD stipend. Anything helps, including reposting.
gofundme.com
Donate to Supporting Helder in a Time of Loss, organized by Janardan Surendran
Helder Prece is a dedicated PhD student from Angola, studying in the United Sta… Janardan Surendran needs your support for Supporting Helder in a Time of Loss
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sharing this for any who can help (knowing everyone is stretched thin). An international PhD student at my uni lost both parents, and his dept is raising funds to help him continue his studies while managing medical and bills and funeral costs on a PhD stipend. Anything helps, including reposting.
gofundme.com
Donate to Supporting Helder in a Time of Loss, organized by Janardan Surendran
Helder Prece is a dedicated PhD student from Angola, studying in the United Sta… Janardan Surendran needs your support for Supporting Helder in a Time of Loss
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Allow me to bring this one-paragraph banger of a story by Jorge Luis Borges to your attention, my fellow modelers.
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
this would be a huge blow to US biomedical science. the K99/R00 program has historically played a key role in recruiting top international post-docs to stay in the US to start their own labs.
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Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For those in New York, Northeastern is hiring a full time teaching assistant professor at the NYC campus (formerly Marymount Manhattan College) for General Biology, General Biology labs, and a ‘Biology and Society’ course. Please apply asap and spread the word to those interested!
new-england.hercjobs.org
Assistant Professor - Biology in New York City, NY for Northeastern University
Exciting opportunity in New York City, NY for Northeastern University as a Assistant Professor - ...
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
hell ya
Nothing in neural activity makes sense except in the light of dynamics and cybernetics
• temporal structure in addition to the spatial structure
• abstract mechanisms and organizing principles
• real-time coupling with the environment (embodied)
• agency and control objectives (cybernetic)
sensory
environment
Park, I. M., Vermani, A., de Polavieja, G. G., Gallego, J. Á., Esfahany, K., Saxena, S., Orger, M., Ijspeert, A., Dowling, M., McNamee, D., Turaga, S. C., Mainen, Z., Paton, J.J. and Renart, A. (2026). Integrative Neurocybernetic Modeling in the Era of Large-Scale
Neuroscience.. http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23903
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026
"Understanding" and "statistical extrapolation" *can* often lead to the same place, but when they *don't*, "understanding" provides a way forward, while "extrapolation" founders. 18/
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