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Jason Chein

@mindimager.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience @Temple U. Cognitive neuro, cognitive control, adolescent brain development, digital media/social media, working memory, risk taking, cognitive enhancement. Director of TUBRIC, PI of CABLAB (sites.temple.edu/CABLAB)

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Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Jason Chein, PhD, (@mindimager.bsky.social) will explore how digital behaviors may interfere with the development of key executive functioning abilities & cognitive skills at the next #AskTheExperts webinar “Meltdowns to Mindfulness (Part 2: Adolescence).” Register ➡️ bit.ly/4erBODK
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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust - Nature Neuroscience
This Comment calls on scientists to acknowledge how insufficient communication and limited engagement beyond academia have deepened the divide between science and the public. Restoring trust requires ...
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models. #Neuroskyence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction
AbstractFunctional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional co...
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A deserving recognition for an incredible scientist and a great colleague. Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
So excited that our work on children’s ability to discern real from AI-generated content received this recognition. We show that kids systematically misjudge some types of AI content as human, and that kids who use more technology in the home are worse at AI detection. Way to go Allison and team!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is great, and freely accessible!
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Beyond honored! Credit to the amazing students and collaborators who I’ve had the incredible privilege to work beside along the way.
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This new article by @aaronjfisher.bsky.social, @mindimager.bsky.social, et al. is important for cogneuro research b/c it discusses the common yet problematic assumption that inferences based on group averages are applicable to inherently intraindividual processes. (1/3)
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Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience
Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…
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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 19/04/2025
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
screenshot of semantic distance R package information
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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thinking about fMRI study designs for brain-based prediction? Updated preprint!
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The research grants canceled this week will stop treatments in rural communities, will stop the study of cures for conditions that affect all people, and will take away jobs from lower and middle class folks who live in “red” states. Period.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/03/2025
With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.
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Here are 4 ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time
With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate...
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 14/03/2025
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Rakoen Maertens @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
|| New Publication (Nature Communications) Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s414... Press Release www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03... Key Findings * Inoculation works * Effects dissipate * Booster shots remedy this (1/10)
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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press! We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My lab’s latest paper, with @vpmurty.bsky.social. Memory for a scary real-world event (a haunted house) is reflected in the “authenticity” of expressed memories, but listeners mistakenly think accuracy is reflected in how “analytic” the expressed memory is - oops! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Linguistic properties of memory expression differentially relate to accuracy, specificity, and perceived veracity - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
When communicating our memories to others, we use specific language to represent and express those memories. However, whether the linguistic properties associated with memory expression, such as commu...
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
And now this!? These moves are going to complete destroy land at NzIH that do incredible and important work
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Former NIH director weighs in on the status of science in today’s America. A good summary of where we are, and why its bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Scientist unite!
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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jeanette-mumford.bsky.social @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 15/01/2025
Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis - Amazing work by @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social and @demidenko.bsky.social and many thanks to all of our collaborators! If you are using the monetary incentive delay (MID) task you should definitely read this.
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Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis
In task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), collinearity between task regressors in a design matrix may impact power. Researchers often optimize task designs by assessing collinearity betwee...
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of pulvino-cortical connections in newborn human infants is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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An intrinsic hierarchical, retinotopic organization of visual pulvinar connectivity in the human neonate
Despite the immaturity of the visual cortex, infants exhibit remarkable perceptual abilities. The pulvinar is hypothesized to support perceptual abilities in infancy and even scaffold the initial development of cortical visual areas. Here, Ayzenberg et al. examined the organization and maturity of connections between the pulvinar and the visual cortex.
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dickretired @dickretired.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I am devastated to share the news that Professor Eleanor Maguire has died at the age of 51 after 3 operations and proton beam therapy for a spinal tumour. She was internationally renowned for her work on navigation, episodic memory and brain plasticity. #neuroscience #psychology
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Democratic Values can be embedded directly into Social Media via the recommendation algorithms dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... A social media feed that downranks anti-democratic content reduces partisan animosity compared to engagement-based algorithms (d=.25).
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 31/12/2024
Geoengineering could save 400,000 lives annually by 2080, a study finds. There is a 61% probability that the benefits would outweigh the risks from air pollution and ozone loss caused by the injection of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
 A person blocks the sun with a red umbrella. Stock photo.
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Bobby Parker @legionbobo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It helps if you imagine auto-correct as a tiny elf in your phone who's trying so hard to be helpful but is, in fact, quite drunk.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Excited that our study on individual differences in human discernment of generative-AI texts (masquerading as social media news posts) is out in #ScientificReports. Main findings and some examples you can test yourself on in this thread ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human intelligence can safeguard against artificial intelligence: individual differences in the discernment of human from AI texts - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Human intelligence can safeguard against artificial intelligence: individual differences in the discernment of human from AI texts
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Psych version
Breakfast club meme of five people sitting on a table with labels describing them as clinical, cognitive, social, dev, and quant psych
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
For those trying to access this, yes the pay wall is down - just enter an email for free registration if needed. @natureportfolio.bsky.social opened this up in response to requests from parents, youth, and educators who are suspicious of the story sold in this book. Thank you!
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In his TEDx talk, Steve argues that "education is not the filling of a pail," but "the lighting of a fire." As teachers, we should present ourselves to our students NOT as "distant experts," but as "fellow travelers" who are on the same fun learning journey (but a little bit ahead). Check it out.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Very cool. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans
Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
www.jmir.org/2024/1/e59585 There are some things to quibble over, but this is a pretty nice summary of where the research evidence points us.
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Ten Myths About the Effect of Social Media Use on Well-Being
This viewpoint reviews the empirical evidence regarding the association between social media use and well-being, including life satisfaction and affective well-being, and the association between socia...
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Oxford’s “brain rot” definition misconstrues its use among gen A. The term references mental deterioration from digital media use, but also the lingo, culture, and aesthetic that emerges from shared online experience. It’s “cheeky, and self-aware” with pride and humor in it. time.com/7199246/brai...
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‘Brain Rot’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year
See the shortlist—and what other dictionaries chose as their terms of 2024.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Maybe I’m just late to the party, but yes, there’s a place to search starter packs @blueskystarterpack.com. And there’s a search feature here: blueskystarterpack.com.
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Bluesky Starter Packs: Find the Best Bluesky Accounts
Find the best Bluesky accounts to follow with curated starter packs. Browse 35,000+ packs across tech, art, music & more.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
go.bsky.app/Fsz1TyW
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A growing share of U.S. adults say the federal government should take steps to restrict false information online, even if it limits freedom of information. The share of U.S. adults with this view has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.
Chart showing support for the U.S. government and tech companies restricting false information online has risen steadily in recent years.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Here's a starter pack for folks interested in the psychology of digital media and technology. I'll be encouraging others into the arena: go.bsky.app/Fsz1TyW
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Here's a starter pack for folks interested in the psychology of digital media and technology. I'll be encouraging others into the arena: go.bsky.app/Fsz1TyW
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality). Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab elifesciences.org/articles/93689
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Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits
Interactions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.
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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you haven’t heard yet about the emergence of AI “agents” - generative AI models that designed to “do things”, like complete digital tasks, heres a good read on why we might want to be concerned: www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/26/1...
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We need to start wrestling with the ethics of AI agents
AI could soon not only mimic our personality, but go out and act on our behalf. There are some things we need to sort out before then.
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Special Issue at Developmental Psychology! New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott @sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social 1/3
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