Reposted by Phil CorlettWill @evolvingmoloch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Dolls are incredibly widespread but not universal cross-culturally. In addition to functioning as toys, dolls are commonly used for supernatural purposes to punish enemies, heal or protect, increase fertility, or embody spirits. New paper in EHB www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 05917
Reposted by Phil CorlettWu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Applications for WTI’s junior faculty search in neurocognition are due October 15. Apply today to join our interdisciplinary research community at Yale! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/189343 Deadline: October 15, 2026 Details: wti.yale.edu/opportunities/faculty-neurocognition #KnowTogether @yale.edu 062
Reposted by Phil CorlettThe Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A systematic review of 14 studies found no link between social media use and worse paranoia or hallucinations in psychosis. Venting and problematic use tracked with poorer mood and sleep. Mostly cross-sectional data. buff.ly/6geUNsU #Psychosis #SocialMedia 062
Reposted by Phil CorlettShitMyReviewersSay @shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"It's early in the year but difficult to imagine any paper overtaking this one for lack of imagination, logic or data—it is beyond redemption"static.klipy.comSkeleton: My Honest Reaction MemeALT: Skeleton: My Honest Reaction Meme 062
Reposted by Phil CorlettMel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Good to see that our opinion piece on grand theories of consciousness is out. #consciousness #neuroskyence #philsci #philsky🧠 #neuroscience #brain 🧪 12913
Reposted by Phil Corlettmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am able to take on new doctoral students through this amazing initiative! If you are interested please reach out to me by email to discuss. 15223
Reposted by Phil CorlettMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A Toronto man ran 1,105 kilometers (687 miles) over a year, carefully planning his routes to form the shape of a dancing figure. Original post 834767
Reposted by Phil CorlettDavid Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Amazing story from @celinazhao.bsky.social. First time, I’m pretty sure, we’ve interviewed an AI agent for a story. Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgExclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us whyTo get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent 2159
Reposted by Phil CorlettRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback 504152557
Reposted by Phil CorlettBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Zhuo-Hua Pan wuz robbed. I saw his *functional* optogenetics work in retina *years* before others in the field. 3325
Reposted by Phil Corlettbbrfoundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Congratulations to the BBRF Goldman-Rakic Prize Recipient, Dr. Sheena Josselyn, for their Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience! . Memory and Engrams . Register & Learn more: ow.ly/z0jz50X0gwk . University of Toronto 0468
Reposted by Phil CorlettNobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” 241083514
Reposted by Phil CorlettDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This cloud looks frozen in place for hours, but air is rushing through it the whole time. Lenticular clouds form over mountains and often get mistaken for UFOs. 461567237
Reposted by Phil CorlettMark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New Preprint! "Facilitation and Attenuation of Learning to Novel and Familiar Stimuli Through Contextual Mismatch: Experimental Evidence and a Computational Model" By @jialinshi.bsky.social and me. osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 1129
Reposted by Phil CorlettJialin Shi @jialinshi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Check out our W-ACE model: how we use Rescorla-Wagner to explain standard/reverse latent inhibition!! 074
Reposted by Phil CorlettPhil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve been working with this DLPFC/prediction error/delusions finding for about 20 years. Often when I present, people ask, are the errors coming from within DLPFC or its inputs? Now we (think we) know… 0132
Reposted by Phil CorlettJonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You swear it will never happen to you and then… 1193
Reposted by Phil Corlettneurosock @neurosock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mix. selectivity is everywhere in cortex: from vis. to PFC This paper relates to Cover's theorem but the typical explainer kind of sucks I'll try to explain how the theory relates to the paper, and the importance of "weird" neurons A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI 25320
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve been working with this DLPFC/prediction error/delusions finding for about 20 years. Often when I present, people ask, are the errors coming from within DLPFC or its inputs? Now we (think we) know… 0132
Reposted by Phil CorlettStefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 01/10/20261/ Very proud of this preprint — and especially because it marks a first step for our lab in a new direction: using what we know about learning not only to diagnose misconceptions, but also to correct them. zenodo.org/records/2303... 12110
Reposted by Phil CorlettPhil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New from Sarah Fan and our predictive coding team: prediction errors are bottom up in people with delusions (and top-down in psychics): osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 24316
Reposted by Phil CorlettChaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026pouring one out for mturk today 210513
Reposted by Phil CorlettJustin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On Vibe Scholarship via @briandavidearp.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy #AI #ethics #publishingbriandavidearp.substack.com"Vibe critiques" are coming: the unbearable asymmetry of bullshit revisitedFrom vibe coding to vibe "critiquing" -- and what this means for academics who work on controversial topics 164
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Possibly! Hard to make those sorts of claims without a task and model, imho, which is why I find these data so compelling and exciting 020
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sarah did a beautiful job wrangling these data and developing connectivity pipeline to relate directional connectivity to aberrant computations and delusions 030
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It could potentially be an objective test for delusions versus more inert weird beliefs 140
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is exciting because it’s an objective neural means to distinguish believers that are hard to sort based on behavior alone. 120
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We explored what might be different in psychics - it looks like their weaker blocking derives from a topdown PE from DLPFC to thalamus. Different regions, different direction 220
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Finally we subjected that circuit to directional effective connectivity analysis. The prediction error comes bottom up from insula to dlpfc in patients - this effect also correlates with delusion related distress 141
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Next we studied the functional coupling between the insula and DLPFC - this distinguished controls from those without odd beliefs 130
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In a recent meta-analysis we found Insula was a prediction error hub. We had never studied it during causal learning. In our experiment we found Insula activity related to causal learning prediction errors 130
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We studied Kamin Blocking of causal learning in people with schizophrenia, psychics with lots of esoteric beliefs, and controls. Blocking is weaker in people with weird beliefs, because they have aberrant prediction errors - which relate to responses in DLPFC 162
Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New from Sarah Fan and our predictive coding team: prediction errors are bottom up in people with delusions (and top-down in psychics): osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 24316
Reposted by Phil CorlettNeuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Does the brain have visual areas dedicated to food? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "The response to non-food images with 'gooey' material properties was as high as the response to food."biorxiv.orgApparent food selectivity reflects multiple non-food image propertiesThree recent publications have reported selective fMRI responses to images of food in the human ventral visual pathway. However, all three studies were based primarily on the Natural Scenes Dataset (N... 0143
Reposted by Phil CorlettNicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science in the Human Nature Lab! We have a cutting edge research agenda in human social chemosignaling. Scientists with an interest in olfaction and AI or with experience in GC/MS or animal chemosignaling are especially encouraged. Please repost.academicjobsonline.orgYale University, Sociology - Human Nature Lab Job #AJO30989, Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science, Sociology - Human Nature Lab, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US 297
Reposted by Phil CorlettIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780861994
Reposted by Phil CorlettCaitlin Vander Weele, PhD @caitvw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So proud of everything we have built in the past 6 years, and all the SUPER cool science we've touched along the way 🧪 Shaping how science makes it's way out into the world is both an honor and an absolute joy! 0113
Reposted by Phil CorlettbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Chronic semaglutide treatment attenuates cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking and cocaine-induced stereotypy in male and female rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 055
Reposted by Phil CorlettbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026HGFX: a validated Python/JAX reproduction of the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter toolbox www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Reposted by Phil Corlettthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161881291
Reposted by Phil CorlettBPS Research Digest @researchdigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A recent case study describes a paradoxically silent side to Tourette's syndrome: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...bps.org.ukExtreme vocal-blocking tics lead to mutism for boy with Tourette’s | BPSA recent case study describes a paradoxically silent side to the condition. 033
Reposted by Phil CorlettBiological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In our latest episode of The Biological Psychiatry Podcast, we sit down with Dr. @sidchop.bsky.social from @orygen.org.au and the @unimelb.edu.au to discuss his latest work distinguishing the effects of psychotic illness and antipsychotic medication on the brain.thebiologicalpsychiatrypodcast.riverside.comDifferential Effects of Psychotic Illness and Antipsychotics on the BrainIn this episode of The Biological Psychiatry Podcast, Dr. Elvisha Dhamala sits down with Dr. Sidhant Chopra from Orygen and the University of Melbourne to discuss his recent paper published in Biologi... 189
Reposted by Phil CorlettDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As I’ve said before, I prefer the term “language researcher” 614828