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Mike Schmidt

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Neuroscientist, curious about math, fMRI, psychiatry, moods, and individual differences.

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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 09/12/2025
Out last week in JAMA Open (doi.org/10.1001/jama...). In this huge study, they followed 30 million people for 4 years. The vaccinated people had 74% lower risk of death by COVID and 25% lower risk of death by anything, and the vaccinated people started out older with more heart disease. Tell RFK Jr.
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 30/06/2025
It's clippy again!
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 21/05/2025
"Machine vision systems—which have neither bodily states nor conscious thoughts—can predict with remarkable accuracy how humans will feel about the things they look at." 👀🔥 The perceptual primacy of feeling (PNAS Jan 2025) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence #vision #affectsci
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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JJ Cutuli @jjcutuli.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What's it like at some agencies right now? I'm fresh off a conference where I got to speak to a bunch of people still at some important agencies. What's the climate like? Why are you staying? Generally the responses felt like this, and we are all Maggie:
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 06/05/2025
All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are now available in one convenient place! Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: www.allenneuraldynamics.org/tools 🧠📈
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Open Tools | Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
We are doing science in the open. Our data and tools are openly available to the community.
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 06/05/2025
There's also doi.org/10.1038/s442..., where ketamine vs placebo was masked by anesthesia during surgery, so there shouldn't be any placebo effect. But it was "surprisingly high" anyway. They've reanalyzed the data to look at the opioid system as a cause in doi.org/10.1016/j.ja....
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Randomized trial of ketamine masked by surgical anesthesia in patients with depression - Nature Mental Health
In this clinical trial, a single dose of intravenous ketamine delivered during surgical anesthesia had no greater effect than placebo in acutely reducing the severity of depressive symptoms in adults ...
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 04/05/2025
So very excited [these](www.foundationalpapersincomplexityscience.org) arrived today!! I doubt I'll ever get through them all, but I always get inspiration and ambition from the complex systems perspective.
All four hardcover volumes of Fundamental Papers in Complexity Science
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 27/04/2025
I found joy today, not cold, but slightly chilled, emerging from the shade into the warm sunshine.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/03/2025
In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
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Stuart Watt @morungos.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I think we have enough evidence to now argue that AI is not getting exponentially better, or even linearly better. It is asymptotically converging on a level of inadequacy, and even that is only happening because the data thieves are still stealing everything that isn’t nailed down.
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Have not been able to tear myself away from exploring these just received spatial transcriptomics data from the septum and surrounding nuclei in human 🧠. Fascinating to explore since there are no comprehensive spatial gene expression data across these regions yet available in human brain.
Graph based clustering of transcriptome-wide spatial gene expression in a section of human brain including the septum and other surrounding brain nuclei
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Karla Holmboe @karlaholmboe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/02/2025
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Now accepted at Nature Computational Science: Nicole shows how #Bayesian #hierarchical #models can explicitly model major #source of #population #stratification in 10,000 ABCD subjects. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 02/01/2025
This looks like amazing new work from my colleagues at Stanford demonstrating the opponent interactions of DA and 5HT in reinforcement learning.
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Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin - Nature
Nature - Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼–𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Interesting paper but top-down causation seems to be way of capturing how micro-level entities respond to *aggregate state* of all other micro-level entities #complexity ht @evanthompson.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
💯 Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly. But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word. So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 10/12/2024
I need this!! Now, how highly should I prioritize reading this paper, and which to-do list should I put it on?
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 10/12/2024
Try the sites listed at www.sci-hub.pub, but before you do, learn about the context at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub to determine your comfort level with the legality of "stealing" publications your tax dollars funded.
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 09/12/2024
I finally got a chance to watch that talk last night, and I agree it was excellent. We've been debating different regression schemes for training similar classifiers for a long time and this discussion was helpful. Thanks for sharing, Deon!
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 02/12/2024
Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool.skewed.de Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N #networkscience
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 08/12/2024
"Reproducibility is hard" - nice piece by @petebachant.me on trying reproduce one's previous work.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Took me two solid days of data munging and coding but I finally figured out how to create these gorgeous connectome/circle plot diagrams. This is the Yeo 7-network brain parcellation, with major connections in a group of healthy adults.
A VERY PRETTY brain connectome diagram.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/12/2024
Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 06/12/2024
@frauleindoktor.bsky.social shares the details and writes insightfully about this spontaneous engagement in doi.org/10.1016/j.bp....
Figure 1 from the paper describes the methods.
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 06/12/2024
We've been analyzing emotion regulation patterns of brain activity lately. Depressed people who regulate more when asked, after seeing negative images, regulate better. But those who regulate more when not asked think more about suicide after stress.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Nudge for scicomm (~spring) Many of you (& me) want to help with the next steps in the US. How? Science may take a hit in 2025. Spring is a great time for public-facing efforts that unpack what scientists do and why it matters. *Now is pitch time!* Imagine if we all did 1 thing? To consider:
Science is awesome
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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations”, a solo paper by yours truly, making the case that brain activity flow shifts are essential to mental flexibility (and quite interesting too!) Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
lmfao what
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
btw, just a reminder: do NOT buy this book! (it's free for download at the OUP website, coz it is open access) despite the title & cover art, it is a monograph written for nerdy researchers. don't let the false salesmanship fool you. you probably won't like it...
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 23/11/2024
Breathing modulates network activity in frontal brain regions during anxiety 🐀🧠🫁 Journal of Neuroscience www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #Neuroskyence #affectsci
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Breathing modulates network activity in frontal brain regions during anxiety
Anxiety elicits various physiological responses, including changes in respiratory rate and neuronal activity within specific brain regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Previous researc...
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SJo @sjo09.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
xcited to share our new results! We (huge team effort led by post-doc extraordinaire Sylvie Lesuis) examined the effects of acute stress on threat memory generalization and engram ensemble architecture. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stress disrupts engram ensembles in lateral amygdala to generalize threat memory in mice
Stress induces aversive memory overgeneralization, a hallmark of many psychiatric disorders. Memories are encoded by a sparse ensemble of neurons acti…
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 24/11/2024
I just discovered this paper, and I'm very excited by it. I've been failing to find things in thalamic nuclei, but still hopeful these small regions contain enough signal to be useful. I'll start probing hypothalamus as soon as I can find the time. Thanks for your amazing work!
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 24/11/2024
This is an exciting finding about an important question. Great work! The AHN is difficult to segment in human fMRI, but @dariaeajensen.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1038/s414... made it work anyway. Here's to extending these findings to humans. Kudos!!
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Nuclei-specific hypothalamus networks predict a dimensional marker of stress in humans - Nature Communications
The association between connectivity of the hypothalamus and stress is not well understood. Here, the authors show connectivity between hypothalamic nuclei and other subcortical structures is predicti...
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 23/11/2024
Last month, I desperately needed a review comparing all the different functional networks proposed over the last 20 years. While collecting literature to start putting one together, I found that @lucinauddin.bsky.social and WHATNET have already covered it with doi.org/10.1162/netn.... Thanks!
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This paper is not that well cited, but still one of my favorite papers (I am not an author) showing that resting-state correlations (aka functional connectivity) is biologically meaningful.
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 17/11/2024
I think doi.org/10.1038/s415... is my favorite paper of 2024. Lynch, et al. describe a doubling in size of the salience network in depression, then show it's more trait than state. Now we need to figure out what these networks really mean, both as correlated activity, and from a human perspective.
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Frontostriatal salience network expansion in individuals in depression - Nature
Precision functional mapping shows that the frontostriatal salience network occupies nearly twice as much of the cortex in people with depression, and this was unaffected by mood changes and detected ...
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 17/11/2024
I'd love to be a part of this conversation. Thanks!
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Mike Schmidt @mfs.ms · 17/11/2024
I just re-read @esfinn.bsky.social's connectome fingerprinting paper doi.org/10.1038/nn.4... today. It's a nice paper that's seeding good ideas for other analyses, and giving me hope that they might work without hours of resting-state data per subject.
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Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that every individual has a unique pattern of functional connections between brain regions. This functional connectivity profile acts as a ‘fingerprint’ that can accurately identify t...
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