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@knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
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affect mapping / psychic plumbing (#affectiveneuroscience , #neuroeconomics , #neuroforecasting , #neurophenomics , etc.) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ sfba.social/@knutson_brain, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
Secret to not caring about any of this: Buy an #EV.
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@darthbluesky.bsky.social We already told him NO. (read the comments)
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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Here is our new collaborative paper on the origin of cholinergic and monoaminergic signaling. The data suggest that biogenic amine signaling is thus not a bilaterian innovation but an ancient mode of cellular communication that evolved from generalist to […] [Original post on biologists.social]
Main biosynthetic pathways of biogenic amines and their evolution. Diagram showing key steps of the main pathways for the production of biogenic amines. The main enzymes that catalyze each reaction are shown, as well as, alternative
enzymes that may promiscuously catalyze the same reaction.
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Sue.
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@casbsstanford.bsky.social No pressure, though… ;)
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Six years ago, we published "Three Nobels, a Supreme, and More" about the insane 1977-78 CASBS fellows class. Then, this week, Robert Hall won the Nobel Prize. Hall was in the 1977-78 CASBS class. So, we happily updated the article & its title: "Four Nobels, a Supreme, and More" ➡️ bit.ly/4dCTRp8
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Reminded of this classic from @briannosek. Appears to be a de novo schema, but I am not 100% up to date on #BehaviorChange scholarship, so maybe it links up (or doesn't) with the wider literature in ways I don't know […] [Original post on mastodon.online]
Schematic of a triangle. From top to bottom, labels are


Make it required : policy
Make it rewarding: incentives
Make it normative: communities
Make it easy : user interface/experience
Make it possible: infrastructure
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@xankarn Solitary confinement for exercising his first amendment rights?
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@youranoncentral.bsky.social As predicted, datacenters are sitting ducks…
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@cdarwin So who should we hold reaponsible?
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@Nonilex Now do the White House / Mar a Lago …
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Botox paralysis
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@ddayen.bsky.social All of them must be held accountable to the American taxpayers for destruction of property.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s not complicated. Trump is Putin’s bitch. Always has been. Always will be.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Yeah, I believe this was impeccably timed. mastodon.social/@benroyce/117428707…
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⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (@benroyce@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 video #Zelensky: "When our strikes reached #Yandex’s #datacenters, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many #socialMedia platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer #bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were" https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339 #Russia #UkraineWar
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
All the editors of Elsevier's 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 just resigned in protest at Elsevier's firing of one editor and attempt to hire new editors without involving the current board. The Game Theory Society is cutting off its association with the journal, and "exploring the establishment of […]
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 07/10/2026
Special Issue Call for Submissions: "Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science" www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... Edited by @heatherurry.io @tombeckers.bsky.social
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science”
Editors: Tom Beckers and Heather UrryOne way a journal can earn its reputation for quality is to take active steps to vet the articles that appear within its pages after publication. To that end, Psyc...
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@thetnholler.bsky.social Congress : Cut off their funding (now).
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
This. #Project2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There it is
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well of course. Apply for a 2027-28 CASBS residential fellowship & join a multidisciplinary community of social & behavioral scientists like no other. Deadline: Oct 30. Start here: bit.ly/3STrBaK Want the best year of your professional life? Exit surveys strongly suggest it will be. #SEENatCASBS
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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain. @CNN reports: flip.it/WPbA-5 #NobelPrize #Medicine #Science
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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for technique that helps decode mysteries of the brain | CNN
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain.
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Timothy Snyder (historian) wrote: "The term that I came up with is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us." copy: @renewedresistance […]
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Visualize (and realize) post-oligarchy prosperity …
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1173796882… There is another way…
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Was thinking maybe he is actually following his own healthcare advice...
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How does a (transnational) elite network coordinate & mobilize, what institutions serve as their key gatekeepers, & what are the "bonding agents" in those networks? In our kickoff fellows seminar of the year, @ebharrington.bsky.social proposed new mechanisms that will inform a new empirical project
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social OT but why does he look like beef jerky?
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Sunset on the quad ( #Stanford ) …
Sunset on the Stanford quad…
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Q: Does trickle-down economics work? A: "I would have to go with 'no'." Check out my smart @casbsstanford.bsky.social colleague historian Eli Cook explaining capitalism: www.wired.com/video/watch/tech-supp…
wired.com
History Professor Answers Capitalism Questions
Historian of American capitalism Professor Eli Cook joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about capitalism.
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Some of the best advice out there on personal finance (and also how to give a talk) -- by the inimitable @justinwolfers : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9evhYa32g
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 01/10/2026
Congrats to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social on receiving a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship - very well deserved!
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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WOW, someone with integrity, how refreshing for a change. Thank you Jack Smith 🙏
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: c.im/@shonin/117357996532271781 #GreenEnergy leapfrog : Cuba edition …
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@gwynnion/117356504… #IdiotTest
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/11735… Hedonic torpedoes … ( #rats )
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@mathowie The opposite direction, fortunately (though the Nazis ripped the swastika off of other ancient religions)…
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Amen bro.
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: universeodon.com/@jaykuo/1173512693… #sucker test …
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117350705… Prediction : Increasing value…
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
*Neal Stephenson making his extensive case for hand-writing fiction with pen and paper. nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writi…
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Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@elfin How about we remove the cameras instead? ( #SmashFascismChallenge )
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Where we’re headed with respect to writing : Human-created badges. (if does not pass verification, instant sequestration or deletion)
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@2legged First Amendment something something…
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@russpoldrack.org WTH …
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@xankarn Ditto! (and I will even pay)
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@davidho.bsky.social Where is the FU / MYOB option?
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
@xankarn Pangram FTW! #Slopotomized colleagues note : This will come for everyone …
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bk @knutson-brain.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
RE: social.coop/@judell/117317939878221… Corollary: Then we should also recognize (and disincentivize) the opposite of intelligent behavior in machines…
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