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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels. The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them. We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels.

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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one? In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵

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Manasi Malik @manasimalik.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Excited to share new work on how the brain makes social inferences from visual input! 🧠👯‍♂️ (With @lisik.bsky.social , @shariliu.bsky.social, @tianminshu.bsky.social , and Minjae Kim!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

How do we make new friends after moving? Primarily through work/classes or through friends of friends….and making friends via “friends of friends” predicts greater happiness, meaning, and psychological richness @chriswelker.bsky.social #SPSP2026

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Our BehaveAI paper has just come out! Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects. Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Download: github.com/troscianko/B... @uniexecec.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social @jimamclgalloway.bsky.social

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Šárka Kadavá @sarkadava.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🧵 New paper to appear in The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality: “Communicating from head to toe”, with @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social 🥰 We review evidence that language is fundamentally physical, shaped by anatomy and biomechanics from your skull to your soles. 🗣️🦵 [1/6]

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⋆⁺₊✧LT @littleidylls.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Interrupting my regular whimsical watercolor painting schedule to show you all my other creative outputs: science! 🥹

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Gabriel Fajardo @gabefajardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I’m excited to share my 1st first-authored paper, “Distinct portions of superior temporal sulcus combine auditory representations with different visual streams” (with @mtfang.bsky.social and @steanze.bsky.social ), now out in The Journal of Neuroscience! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Fig. 1. a. Visual and auditory regions of interest (ROIs). b. Responses in a combination of visual (e.g., early dorsal visual stream; Fig. 1a, middle panel) and auditory regions were used to predict responses in the rest of the brain using MVPN. c. In order to identify brain regions that combine responses from auditory and visual regions, we identified voxels where predictions generated using the combined patterns from auditory regions and one set of visual regions jointly (as shown in Fig. 1b) are significantly more accurate than predictions generated using only auditory regions or only that set of visual regions.

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Very excited to share @landrybulls.bsky.social's 1st lead-author preprint in my lab! Using datasets from MySocialBrain.org we measured people's beliefs about how mental states change in intensity over time, the dimensional structure of those beliefs, and their correlates: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇

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Landry Bulls @landrybulls.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Excited to share the preprint for my 1st 1st-author manuscript! @markthornton.bsky.social and I show that people hold robust, structured beliefs about how individual mental states unfold in intensity over time. We find that these beliefs are reflected in other domains of mental state understanding.

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Today, SCRAP Lab returned (right) to the Path of Life Garden in Windsor, VT - the site of our first in-person get-together as a lab 5 years ago (left) - to welcome our newest member, graduate student @gabefajardo.bsky.social!

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Effect of confound mass on true positive rates under FDR correction. Confound mass represents how large a confound is in terms of the product of its voxel extent and effect size. Results are shown at differing combinations of true effect size, true effect voxel extent, and sample size.

Inflated surface maps of meta-analytic z-statistics from Neurosynth for low-level confounds (top) and high-level cognitive tasks (bottom). Red reflects positive activations, blue reflects negative (de)activations, and darker colors indicate larger z-statistics. Maps are thresholded at |z| = 1 for visualization purposes.

Effect of confound effect size on true positive rates for task effects under FDR correction. Colors indicate sample sizes: N = 25 in blue, N = 50 in green, and N = 100 in orange. Effect sizes are reflected by the darkness of each color, with light shades representing d = .2, medium d = .5, and dark d = .8. The task brain maps and confound brain maps referenced in each panel are shown in Figure 3.

Effect of FDR-based publication bias on observed confound effects sizes. Simulated meta-analytic confound effect sizes are visualized through violin plots for each combination of task effect and confound effect examined in the neural data simulations. Meta-analyses featuring publication bias (orange) substantially inflate these effect size estimates in all cases, relative to meta-analyses featuring no publication bias (blue).

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New paper from me at Cognition and Emotion! "Deep neural network models of emotion understanding" I discuss how deep nets can be used as cognitive models of emotion perception, prediction, and regulation: doi.org/10.1080/0269... (h/t @ltjaql.bsky.social for the illustrations!)

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Grace Miao @graceqmiao.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Postprint: osf.io/987fm_v1 To appear in Proceedings of Cog Sci 2025 DIMS Dashboard for Exploring Dynamic Interactions and Multimodal Signals. The interdisciplinary @graceqmiao.bsky.social in the lead here! Developing a dynamic dashboard for a quali-quanti social neuroscience research cycle!

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Tommy Botch @tommybotch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Alternative title: "LLMs don't have ears (or eyes)" What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts? Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A putative neural correlate of mood! One big (scandalous?) idea, simple analyses, and the STRONGEST brain/behavior correlation I've EVER seen (which is shocking, given that it's mood). Work with: You-Ping Yang, @catrinahacker.bsky.social and Veit Stuphorn. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The representation of mood in primate anterior insular cortex

Understanding how the brain reflects and shapes mood requires resolving the disconnect between behavioral measures of mood that can only be made in humans (typically based on subjective reports of hap...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

SCRAP Lab had a great time at #SANS2025! Can't wait till next year!

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Gabriel Fajardo @gabefajardo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm THRILLED to announce that this fall, I will be joining the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Dartmouth as a PhD student!!! I'll will be working with the amazing @markthornton.bsky.social and the SCRAP Lab! 🌲🧠

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Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

For the Dartmouth PBS graduate student visiting day this year, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students! 🌶️🔥🥵

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Dominik Klement @dklement.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Transcribing multiple speakers with OpenAI’s Whisper? No problem. Check out our recent work at BUT Speech@FIT in collaboration with CLSP JHU. It is fully open-sourced. Do not forget to try out our demo: pccnect.fit.vutbr.cz/gradio-demo Read more in this thread 👇 [1/14]

Scheme of DiCoW target speaker ASR pipeline

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Amazing! Gaze-LLE, a model that estimates where people are looking! By Ryan et al (video by the authors)! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.09586 Code: github.com/fkryan/gazelle

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Finally published: “Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future” rdcu.be/d3bh9 All about metastability: what the heck it is, how to measure it in models and data, and how to interpret it in neuroscience!

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Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...

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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What role does #context play in human #cognition? In this review, we argue that the context-sensitivity of human memory and its hierarchical structure are the features that enable flexible planning, generalization, and behavior. New paper out lead by Martin Butz doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 29/11/2024

I think there is a way to do exploratory research very rigorously. Just use full transparency. Publish the entire github history for the analysis chain, nits, zits, and all. And of course, focus more on the strength of evidence than posthoc narrative building.

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

SCRAP Lab (+ friends & family) took a trip to the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) today! We met a kestrel and a corn snake, watched raptors being bed, toured the canopy walk, and made it out of a dino/bird-evolution themed escape room!

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Landry Bulls @landrybulls.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

🧵 Excited to share Oculizer, a Python module I've been developing for the past year! It enables automated control of programmable lighting fixtures, making them react to music in real-time. Here's how it works... (1/7)

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Mike Young @mkeyoung.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

🌍 We have just extracted a NEW global network of researchers and a global 100 scientist top ‘influencers’ on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I show that scientists are in a series of distinct communities: mikeyoungacademy.dk/communities-... 😀 All 'likes' and reshares appreciated!

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Communities of scientists are emerging on Bluesky - Mike Young Academy

Global network data: The ‘nicer’ alternative to X is fortifying its presence in fields that range from philosophy to chemistry, finance, and beyond.

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