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Nils Kolling

@nilskolling.bsky.social
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Interested in how brains make decisions and maintain motivation over time. All opinions expressed are my personal ones. websites: sites.google.com/view/ecc-team/home

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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New preprint alert! doi.org/10.64898/202... Throughout life, we are often told to persist in the pursuit of our long term goals. However, the most important factor to consider in the real world for whether to continue pursuit or abandon one's goal is knowing how much progress you are making.
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Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys
Primates pursue goals over extended periods and over multiple steps. The ability to track progress and its rate is critical for such pursuit, yet the neural mechanisms of this tracking are unclear. We...
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Our book is officially out and there is even an audiobook version! Unfortunately, it’s not narrated by us, so you’ll miss out on our lovely Italian/French accents (a tragic loss for audiobook history). Apparently, Amazon.fr has only three copies left: THANK YOU! www.amazon.fr/Decision-Mak...
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NeuroecologyLab @neuroecologylab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Out in the UK today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Fox, the Shrew, and You
A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Problem is that it is extremely hard to get funding for cross species cognition and comparison of neural circuits across species emphasizing both similarities AND differences. Funding agencies incentivize "model system = human" claims and reviewers often hate on work in different model system.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, March 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Leonie Koban giving a talk entitled "Social influences on drug and food craving: from behavior to brain signatures" In person or online. Read more: www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Great student summerschool in Lyon on cognitive modelling, neuroscience and clinical applications: neurograduate.univ-lyon1.fr/summerschool/
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SummerSchool - NEUROSCIENCES
The next edition of the NeuroGraduate summer school will take place from the 6 to 9 July 2026 Program and details will be published here soon NeuroGraduate Summer School in Cognitive Neuroscience: 6th...
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Lisa Spiering @lspiering.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New bioarXiv paper out from the NEF team on the neural computations during multi-option reward learning in macaques: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Neural dynamics reveal foraging-like computations in the frontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex has a central role in flexible behavior. Computations for weighing alternatives, committing to an option, integrating evidence, and abandoning an option are dominantly formalized...
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Job Alert: Our team is looking for someone for a research assistant/manager position for between 6 months and 1 year. Application deadline end of August. Only CV and motivation letter needed. Our team wesite : sites.google.com/view/ecc-tea... . Please get in touch with me if you are interested.
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ECC Team
Team info The primary aim of our team is understanding of how the human brain implements reward-guided decision making, learning and plans into the future. For this, we focus particularly on the role ...
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Only ONE WEEK until #RLDM2025 ☘️ We can’t wait to welcome brilliant minds from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond for cutting-edge talks on reinforcement learning & decision making. Spaces are disappearing quickly so grab your spot before it’s gone! Register now 👉 rldm.org
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RLDM | The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
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Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots
Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration.
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Leonie Koban @leoniekoban.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Reminder to register for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until next week for early registration rates! (please retweet / share) sbdm2025.github.io
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12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
SBDM-2025
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
To accommodate for the fact we started official registrations late and the early bird deadline was during school holidays for many, we have extended our early bird registration deadline to the 15th of May! The main website can guide you through registration : sbdm2025.github.io
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12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
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Leonie Koban @leoniekoban.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates! sbdm2025.github.io
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12th Symposium on Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
SBDM-2025
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Early registrations for SBDM are closing soon (1st of May!). Make sure to pay before then if you want the reduced rates! sbdm2025.github.io
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Registrations for the Symposium for the Biology of decision making (SBDM) in Lyon 2025 are finally open! sbdm2025.github.io Please spread the message!
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
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a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thanks to everyone for comments on my Brain editorial. There've been lots of questions on solutions. I'm afraid it's unlikely that any supreme body is going to come to our rescue. We have to do it ourselves. The problems came one by one. We can dismantle them one by one.
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 10/03/2025
#Universities abroad see opportunity in a U.S. brain drain: “In a context where scientists in the #UnitedStates feel threatened or hindered…”, Aix-Marseille Université welcomes “scientists wishing to pursue their work in an environment conducive to innovation, excellence and academic #freedom”
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Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
These must be french rats! I smell a Ratatouille sequel in a wine cellar....
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A big thank you to all those who have been so positive about my new book. It's about how neurological patients can tell us so much about our selves, how personal and social identities are forged by different cognitive functions, and what it means to belong.
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 19/02/2025
please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It seems like psychologists aren't the only ones with problems understanding probability, but also astrophysicists! Either the probability is 2.3% or it isn't as we should have no idea which direction the new data will go towards if probability is properly calibrated!
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A while ago I collected some suggestions concerning "how to prepare a rebuttal letter". Journals do not provide explicit guidance on this and, in my experience as a reviewer and editor, a great diversity exists in their format.. psyarxiv.com/kyfus/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/16301...
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Thread by @StePalminteri on Thread Reader App
@StePalminteri: Just posted in @PsyArXiv a short where I collected some suggestions concerning "how to prepare a rebuttal letter". Journals do not provide explicit guidance on this and, in my experien...
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What a genius Sagan was
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - neural activity in freely moving conditions is richer and more generalizable than in restrained conditions
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Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys
The current understanding of primate natural action organization derives from laboratory experiments in restrained contexts (RCs) under the assumption that this knowledge generalizes to freely moving ...
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions). Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us! Deadline: 31.01.2025 The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
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Ausschreibung
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022. Interesting ’natural’ RCT www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022 - Nature Human Behaviour
This study uses a natural experiment with game console lotteries to identify the causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan (2020–2022). Results show that video gaming reduced psychol...
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Lisa Spiering @lspiering.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
🚀 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD! How do people know how much control they have in social contexts, and what are the neural mechanisms? tinyurl.com/erfp95ew With Jacquie Scholl, Matthew Rushworth, and Hailey Trier, Jill O'Reilly @nilskolling.bsky.social @mkwittmann.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Controllability and cause in human collaboration
There has been considerable interest in how we ascertain whether an environment is controllable and the neural mechanisms mediating this process. An especially acute version of this problem occurs whe...
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dickretired @dickretired.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
#neuroskyence This book is available in ebook format at a discounted price in November. www.amazon.co.uk/Understandin...
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Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex: Selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations (Oxford Psychology Series Book 53) eBook : Passingham, Richard: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Understanding the Prefrontal Cortex: Selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations (Oxford Psychology Series Book 53) eBook : Passingham, Richard: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
I found this take on "blue zones" and extreme aging a fascinating read. "The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death." theconversation.com/the-data-on-...
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‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
This is an 1892 photograph of the pile of bison skulls stacked outside of the Rougeville Glueworks in Michigan. It's just really hard to process how many skulls he's standing on. In the 19th century, the American bison population went from 50 million to around 500 individuals ...
A man stands on a literal mountain of skulls of bison.  Like, there's a stack thousands across, and possibly scores of skulls high.  The figures are indistinct.  It's just sort of hard to process the scale of it.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Old but good (2016): "we perform a 2,000 user, 250,000 trial online experiment to study the effects of slider appearance [Likert vs VAS]. We find that decorations along the slider considerably bias the distribution of responses" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
🚨New laminar MEG toolkit🚨I'm so happy to be at @biomag2024 to announce the release of laMEG, an easy-to-install implementation of the simulations and analyses from our laminar MEG papers github.com/danclab/laMEG AND if you wish you could use SPM from python, keep reading👇🧵
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Timothy Brady @timbrady.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
My department, Psychology at UC San Diego, just posted an assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to understanding behavior. Open area search, and more information can be found here: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04049
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Assistant Professor - Computational Mechanisms of Behavior (Department of Psychology)
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Still looking for postdoc. See more details here: sites.google.com/view/ecc-tea... Also, if you are interested in applying for a Marie Curie PostDoc Fellowship, get in touch. You'd be joining a great team with access to MEG, fMRI, TUS and electrode recordings in humans and animals 1/2.
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ECC Team - Postdoc
There are multiple ways to join the lab as a postdoc. See below for some concrete opportunities or just contact us directly to find out more!
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Jacqueline Scholl and I have wrote an opinion piece about recent work! We propose that behavioural modes are particularly helpful during complex, self-organized behaviour in temporally extended contexts (and could be coordinated by emotions): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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On the role of behavioural modes during temporally extended decision-making and their neural substrates
Everyday decision-making is broader than the types commonly studied in the laboratory. For example, food preference or gambling tasks lack many essent…
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
We got a press release about our recent paper in Nature Human behavior : www.psychreg.org/scientists-i...
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Scientists Identify Part of the Brain Necessary for Sunk Cost Biases
Have you ever noticed that cars in other lanes were moving faster, yet felt compelled to stick in the lane you chose first?
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Newest paper at Nature Human behavior! t.co/rr5UhPoImS I am very glad this found a good home as this was a proud lab achievement and truly collaborative work! And I think we learned something new about incremental goal pursuit and what keeps us on track (or allows us to abandon when necessary!)
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Great news for once: www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
Unglaublich. Neuen Zahlen zufolge pendeln in Paris zum 1. Mal mehr Fahrradfahrer von den Außenbezirken ins Zentrum als Autofahrer. Der Grund: Anne Hidalgo hat hunderte km neue Radwege gebaut. Das zeigt: "Build it and they will come" wurde erneut eindrucksvoll bewiesen😊 www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris
Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Really loved reading this paper : cell.com/cell-reports... by @malcolmmaciver 's lab, but it made me want to mount an airpuff machine on our automated robot, build a lego maze and put my 2 year old in it and I am not sure my wife would approve.... #neuroskyence
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
“Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt through individual trial and error.” 🐋🌱 #evobio 🧪
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Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature
Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt...
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Soon there will be great need for synthetic psychoanalysis so Dall-E can work out it's trauma of being trained on the internet. The images it creates give a glimpse on the darkness that lurks within. As Nietzsche said " Wenn man lange in einen Abgrund schaut, schaut der Abgrund auch in einen."
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
This is what Dall-E thinks neuroscience of Foraging is: #neuroskyence
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
A regular reminder that I am still looking for people to join my lab (mostly PostDoc level and research engineer with experience in brain stimulation), but this time with a picture dreamt up by Dall-E. (lab website for more info: sites.google.com/view/ecc-tea... ) #neuroskyence
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Loyal employees are targeted by managers for exploitation. And workers who agree to be exploited acquire stronger reputations for loyalty. The link between loyalty and exploitation creates a vicious circle of suffering. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
NeuroSpin is opening a position in ultra-high field functional MRI of cognitive functions, in order to optimally exploit its amazing 11.7 Tesla human magnet. Please spread the word!
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.
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