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Phil Deming

@phildeming.bsky.social
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I study emotion, psychopathy, and the brain. Postdoc in psychology at Northeastern University. On the academic job market. Ph.D. in psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. philipdeming.com

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New paper: We argue that psychopathy is a disorder of allostasis and interoception - the process by which the brain senses the internal conditions of the body and regulates those conditions in a context-appropriate manner. w/ @clare-shaffer.bsky.social 1/ doi.org/10.1016/j.av...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/07/2026
Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn
The graphic displays an image of Russell Vought and the logos of Stand Up for Science, teh American Association of University Professors, and the American Federation of Teachers. The graphic reads: "VIRTUAL & ACCESSIBLE, REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO! OMB DEADLINE DAY, Monday, July 13th, 2 - 3PM ET, The Fight is Just Beginnig, Learn what comes next in the fight, Hear from scientists, experts, and MoCs, Learn how the proposal will effect you".
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Updated preprint: @clare-shaffer.bsky.social and I synthesize brain evidence to argue that psychopathy is a disorder of allostasis and interoception (regulating and sensing the body, respectively). 1/ doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar
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Protect Academic Life in Iran
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Using this article to shamelessly promote my own work. Dr. Marsh states that people with psychopathy show "pretty consistent differences in an area of the brain called the amygdala." My own work shows otherwise. 1/
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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The Abstract submission date has been extended to 15 December 2025. We look forward to more of your best work being submitted for our SSSP 2026 conference. @ssspstudents.bsky.social psychopathysociety.org/page/Upcomin...
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to share my latest research with @urneuroscience.bsky.social. @drnathanasmith.bsky.social and everyone were great hosts - our conversations will certainly shape my research going forward. Read my research here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm very excited to share my research with the Rochester neuroscience community!
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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Enjoyed this read on the growing field of #interoception neuroscience. Of course, I was also excited to see the article twice cited our lab's recent work, spearheaded by Jiahe Zhang and @jtheriault.bsky.social. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...
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Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside
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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Neat that my review of Zhang et al.'s "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI" was quoted in this Research Briefing. It was one of my favorite papers I reviewed in 2024! rdcu.be/eOlTT by Jiahe Zhang, @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and others
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Evidence from 7 Tesla fMRI of intrinsic network supporting allostasis in the human brain
Nature Neuroscience - Functional connectivity analyses using ultra-high precision 7 Tesla functional MRI identified a unified system for allostasis and interoception that included more than 96% of...
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This looks like a super useful for anyone doing fMRI work. Congrats to @halleeshearer.bsky.social, @sneuroble.bsky.social, @alexkfischbach.bsky.social and their team!
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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Check out our new paper, where we used 7T fMRI to map out a brain system central to sensing and regulating the body! Based on prior animal studies - which tracked white matter traveling to/from the body - we mapped this system from cerebral cortical networks down to subcortex and brainstem nuclei.
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Alex Fischbach @alexkfischbach.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
To kick things off, I’m organizing a monthly “how-to” workshop series ft. leading scientists who will share practical/technical skills w/ the global SP-SIG community. If you or anyone you know is interested in participating, please reach out! @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function - Nature Neuroscience
Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI studies of psychedelics.
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
That’s right—open neuro AND behavioral (+ESM) data! So looking forward to the cross-field conversations about methods! 🧠✨
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Psychopathy - a devastating disorder that upends victims' lives - may be best understood as a disorder of allostasis (the brain regulating the body) and interoception (the brain sensing the body). New preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/
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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty. This increase starts before bills are signed into law. Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The brain constantly senses and regulates the body. These sensory and regulatory signals are not merely background signals of interest only to physiologists. Instead, these 'allostatic' signals are central to neural and cognitive function. Great new work from our lab led by @jtheriault.bsky.social.
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Anthony Vaccaro @agvacca.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague! Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Men suppress emotions more than women? New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality. #PsycSci 🧪
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(PDF) Men Do Not Suppress Emotions More than Women in Everyday Life: Evidence from Large Scale Experience-Sampling Data
PDF | Expressive suppression—hiding the outward expression of emotions—has been linked to negative mental health outcomes in Western samples. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Some scientists think emotions are sharply-defined types - each moment of joy is similar to the next, but different from moments of anger. We found evidence for a different view: the lines between emotions are more blurry. 1/ tinyurl.com/2pmdwty2
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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UW-Madison research drives startups. Federal science cuts stall our mission. | Opinion
Academic science is fertilizer of the economy. It creates soil where innovation thrive. Some who don’t know about how things grow think it’s manure.
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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Very interesting approach: while meta analytic analyses for brain correlates of psychopathy are not consistent, they overlap with default mode and subcortical networks and with lesion networks related to antisocial behaviour: tinyurl.com/54tkukj8 by some @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social members
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Mapping the Psychopathic Brain: Divergent Neuroimaging Findings converge onto a Common Brain Network
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and antisocial features. Its neural und…
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Alex Fischbach @alexkfischbach.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Spatial heterogeneity of CSF related-noise in fMRI: why it matters and what we can do about it. My work at #OHBM2025 provides evidence for taking a region-specific approach when isolating CSF artifact in the subcortex. Swing by #P1358 on Fri/Sat to discuss!
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Loving the program for #OHBM2025 ! If you’re into subcortical measurement (@alexkfischbach.bsky.social) or brain stats (@halleeshearer.bsky.social), we’ve got some additions for you 👇🏽
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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Network analysis for the PCL-R: finding both, a one factor and a four-factor-structure; Lack of Empathy showed strongest connection to all four factors: tinyurl.com/5fmcx87j
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Network structures of psychopathy: unidimensional and multidimensional approaches
Network analyses offer a viable alternative approach to understanding the nature of mental disorders. The current study was conducted to advance our u…
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Nick Wagner @nickjameswagner.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The BASE Lab is hiring. See below for more information, and please share! www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
To the @northeasternu.bsky.social community: huntnewsnu.com/86941/editor...
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Op-ed: Northeastern, use your power - The Huntington News
Each of us within the Northeastern community has power. We must use it.
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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The SSSP Early Career Event (online) is just one week away and a program packed with new research on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits is waiting for you: check out the details and register to attend here: psychopathysociety.org/page/ECE2025
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Early Career Event 2025 - Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy
The SSSP Early Career Event (ECE) Planning Committee is excited to announce the 2025 edition of the ECE, our biannual virtual conference dedicated to students and early career professionals in the field of psychopathy.
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Nick Wagner @nickjameswagner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Don't miss @nicolehuth.bsky.social's presentations at #SRCD25!! Symposium: Examining Adversity and Biomarkers as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Development from Infancy through Emerging Adulthood Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00 AM Room: 205D
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Neuroscientists should embrace variability in neuroimaging studies, according to researchers who showed that decision-making is associated with subtypes of brain activity. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/dur...
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During decision-making, brain shows multiple distinct subtypes of activity
Person-to-person variability in brain activity might represent meaningful differences in cognitive processes, rather than random noise.
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Synchrony between neuronal activity and the respiratory cycle has been observed in numerous brain regions and across many species. Tort et al. discuss the mechanisms by which brain activity is modulat...
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Science under attack: a growing list of statements from journals @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @plos.org theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos... @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... @embopress.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 22/02/2025
Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research
By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding proposals.
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Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New paper alert! Have you ever looked at single-trial fMRI activation maps? If so, you know that they are super variable. Here we show that the variability is not just noise. In fact, the same task can consistently elicit different activation patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multiple brain activation patterns for the same perceptual decision-making task - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show the brain uses multiple activation patterns to perform the same task. Even the default mode network, which is often inactive during focus, plays a role.
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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you ignore the political spin, this is a list of excellent scientific studies. NSF funded these projects to improve science ed for kids, strengthen energy infrastructure, solve questions of the mind, etc. Congrats to all the awardees! www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
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Celia Ford @celiaford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Josh Miller @jdmiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New special issue out in PDTRT on externalizing psychopathology. Co-led by R. Waller, E. Verona, @drlynam.bsky.social and me. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Introduction is free to download. Check it out!
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