iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kara McGaughey @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New paper from my PhD out in @elife.bsky.social! 🎉 We asked: when the state of the world is changing, how does the brain adjust how much incoming evidence is accumulated? Turns out there isn't one answer—there are (at least) two. 🧵

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Mengting Fang @mtfang.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🎯New preprint! The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Evidence accumulation isn’t stationary. It is dynamically controlled to trade off information gain against cognitive effort. With Jiang Mao, Tobias Donner @donnerlab.bsky.social, Alan Stocker

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

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Kara McGaughey @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Go, Catrina and high-gamma activity!

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Kara McGaughey @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

@weratedogs.com -- We completed our puzzle to find that important dog parts have been redistributed. Our soccer-prodigy corgi was given a bonus limb at the cost of a friend's snoot. Athleticism unmatched. Anatomy concerning. We hoped for one of each piece, but everyone is still perfect. 13.5/10

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

With all the fuss over tylenol, we're missing a bigger issue: we don't know enough about medication safety in pregnancy because so few drug studies include pregnant people. And that harms both women and their fetuses. My latest @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

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There's a Dangerous Gap in Drug Research in Pregnancy

Less than 1 percent of clinical trials include pregnant or breastfeeding people. Experts say that needs to change

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Penn NeuroKnow 🧠 @pennneuroknow.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What do worms, mice, and leafcutter ants have in common? They're helping to uncover the power of neuropeptides — brain messengers that shape behavior and may hold the key to future drug discovery. @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social explains: pennneuroknow.com/2025/08/12/y... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

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Your brain’s behavioral blueprint: The chemicals behind how we eat, sleep, feel, and socialize

What do worms, mice, and leafcutter ants have in common? They’re helping scientists uncover the power of neuropeptides — chemical messengers in the brain that shape behavior and may hold the …

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Kara McGaughey @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Lots of fun with this piece for @pennneuroknow.bsky.social! After a great discussion of @jackiegio.bsky.social's recent paper at a journal club, I thought it would be the perfect addition to our recent series of posts on habits.

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