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Matt Wall

@mattwall.bsky.social
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Psychologist & fMRI-nerd. 🧠 + psychedelics, cannabis, sex hormones. Instrument botherer. The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. My stuff: linktr.ee/mbwall My vids: www.youtube.com/channel/UChaSxw9NuB…

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Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI @elh-institute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’re looking for a PhD researcher in high-resolution laminar fMRI! 🔬 Laminar fMRI of Hippocampus 🌍 International, interdisciplinary team 📍 Essen, Germany | 4-year PhD position | 75% part-time ℹ️ Subject to the approval of the funder 👉 Apply by 30 September 2026: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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Penguin's Job Application
Alt: Penguin repeatedly hits a sign labelled “Job Application”.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 16h
Save us from the meno-preneurs and their useless shit www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
Many products aimed at women over 45 lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, consumer watchdog Which? found
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No hell deep enough for this.
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever
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Rosalind McAlpine @rosmcalpine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're now recruiting UCL MRes/MSc students (eg Cog Neuro / Brain Sciences) for the 2026/27 academic year to join several research projects involving psilocybin and nitrous oxide. If you're a student on one of these programmes and would like to find out more, email ucjurgm@ucl.ac.uk or dm here 😊
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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We got a new review/model on why we think psychedelics might be particularly useful in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Good work @htmcgovern.bsky.social on carrying this through the finish line.
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Resetting the hippocampal buffer: a neurocognitive account of psychedelic therapy for anxiety-related psychopathology - Psychopharmacology
Psychedelics (hallucinogenic 5-HT2A agonists such as psilocybin) are being investigated for their potential to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety-related psychopathology. Despite promising...
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is true! I received a very apologetic email from a student once saying they couldn't afford the fee to download my paper. 💔 I was absolutely delighted to send her a free copy!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Next AFNI Bootcamp: Oct 20-22, 2026! Classes cover: FMRI visualization, full subject-level processing, alignment, regression modeling, and quality control. Registration is free & open to both NIH and non-NIH researchers. Registration+details: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp Please share widely.
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AFNI Bootcamp: October 20th - 22nd, 2026 | afni.nimh.nih.gov
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Morning!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026
after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?
The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 🔗 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS
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TWO RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS Group
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu       The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Co...
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great. Now do school uniforms. Ridiculous we make kids dress up as little executives when no-one even wears these things anymore. Ties are just a big arrow pointing at your dick.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Better make the most of October folks… (Published in Science in 1960: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026
Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
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Man Lying on a Pile of Money
ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do try to resist the urge to be all old-man-shaking-fist-at-cloud but I just had to send something registered post (passport docs for my kid) and it cost NINE POUNDS FUCKING NINETY-FIVE PENCE. Jesus.
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tor @torwager.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
neuromarkers.io : Browse, view, and download fMRI neuromarkers, population-level predictive brain models that can be applied to new studies and populations
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Neuromarkers · CANlab
Population-level brain patterns for new studies. Browse, explore, and download published neuromarkers.
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Cunningham & O’Connell Laboratories at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience are recruiting a 3-year postdoc for the MAP-IT project! 🧠 Using OPM-MEG to improve localisation of epileptogenic tissue in glioma-associated epilepsy. Ideal start: Q1 2027.
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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 13/09/2026
The Rolling Stones formed in 1962 and are still releasing records in 2026. That’s like if a band that formed in 1898 was still releasing records in 1962.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Counterpoint: Two billionaires have just flushed £72m down the drain on a wildly unpopular twat who doesn't stand a chance of actually forming a government.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝘀? It seems like a boring visualization change but quite important! fMRI maps have been thresholded for 3+ decades so as to emphasize peaks of activation. This paper argues for a different approach. rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Opposing fascism, supporting the RNLI, upholding the rule of law. Not difficult.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong?
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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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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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Liam Browne @liamebrowne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣 Updated application link for the postdoc in my lab at UCL. A great opportunity to develop neurotechnology for chronic pain using neural implants, in vivo recordings, and adaptive control in mice. Applications are open now - please repost/share widely. #neuroskyence #painresearch #NeuroJobs
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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Dr Allison Andrews @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here’s the thing: you could, in theory, train an ‘AI’ model by hand. No computer, just pen and paper. Then determine the response to a prompt, also by hand. It would likely take many years even with a team of thousands working on it, but it is possible. Ask yourself: would the paper be thinking?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This man delivers a no-bullshit takedown of Trump and his MAGA supporters, no fucks given. We should all be this mouthy and vocal. And I love his hat.
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Ingrid Ivarsen @ingridfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This was in the Byline Times article on him from a few weeks ago
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🤣 🧵
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
I wish I could stay longer to keep discussing ways to conceal illegal foreign contributions to my political party, but I'm late to lecturing on ethics at Cambridge University where I am a live-in landlord for multiple students.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So... @cam.ac.uk any thoughts on this?
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Sally @sallyapiacere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An even more interesting question for @cam.ac.uk following #c4news expose of Reform, and James Orr's special role in it.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It remains striking that Cambridge University – which has rightly found itself subject to immense scrutiny in recent days over its academic appointments process – did not answer any of Byline Times' questions re Cambridge Professor James Orr, Reform's Head of Policy, and his activities there. Why?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
First report on fMRI data from the absolute monster 11.7T Iseult MRI scanner at the NeuroSpin centre in France. Cool stuff. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Human fMRI at 11.7T: Assessing Feasibility, Stability, and Reliability on the Iseult Scanner
Abstract. Ultra-high-field MRI promises major gains in BOLD sensitivity but introduces severe challenges such as RF field inhomogeneity, B0 field inhomogeneity, motion and vibration-induced field vari...
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