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Rob Chavez

@robchavez.bsky.social
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Associate professor and neurobumpkin at University of Oregon. Attempting to study social cognitive neurons and oligodendrocytes with human neuroimaging. New Mexican expat, but I have friends everywhere. csnl.uoregon.edu

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our latest paper led by Taylor Guthrie with former undergrad RA Aussie Frost. We show that multivariate fMRI signals can decode the identity of specific individuals within the DMN and in the absence of visual features or other lower-level sensory information. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yep..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎵 My tongue's the only muscle on my body that works harder than my heart.. 🎵 amyleesterling.github.io/human-brain/...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
At least we have influential people with big platforms to help right the ship... ⚰️
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Big congratulations to undergrad RA superstar Debbie Okeke for successfully defending her honors thesis "Investigating Neural Patterns In Dynamic Facial Processing Using Representational Similarity Analysis." Debbie started as a freshman in my lab and we are so proud of all that she has accomplished
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It's true. But some people are doing the hard work and not getting the credit for it. Unfortunately, these efforts are often completely overlooked by folks both within and outside of the subfield. For example, here are two posters from a social neuro conference last month. They weren't alone.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Popularity of brain regions and networks in every available SANS (@sansmeeting.bsky.social ) program over the years. Now, animated! Looking forward to seeing everyone next week in La Jolla for #SANS2026.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My new obsession is ggsegSchaefer for plotting stat maps of our preferred brain parcellation atlas. So easy to customize, manipulate, and make pretty (...even if my general aesthetic tastes remain questionable).
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Yup..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Today, the RAs in my lab told me I have "girl dad energy." I've got some practice...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Are you telling me she's almost qualified for emeritus status?!!.. 😉
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
No adversaries..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Uhh... well ...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Code red.... Does anyone know a not-by-hand hack to grade 493 scantrons without a scantron machine? ⚰️
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
But for real, I think my wife has legit won this game... ⚰️
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Could have been worse..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The way that we do this in neuroimaging (with 3D brains), is to just to have 3 different views of the same plot but highlighting 2 dimensions at a time. You can't see everything in one plot, but you can as a whole. Folks do the same thing with the results of 3D multidimensional scaling solutions.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
(MY EYES...THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING)
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Everyone keeps stealing my bit!
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Me just realizing our Fall term starts in a week..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
A lady at the coffee shop this morning asked me if the gray in my hair was real or if I dyed it that way to look cool... ⚰️
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
That goes double if it was at the Launchpad..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Lest we let PsyArXiv become full of more stuff like this...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Don't worry. He also teaches in the undisputedly objective area of... *professional ethics*
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Yes. And (thanks to folks like you!) so damn easy to make pretty.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Life in US academia this year..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🥹
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Blame the muse, Yann LeCun..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And my only lasting contribution to neuroscience.. 😉
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Eh, you're closer than I am..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ragtag 1980s mestizaje family in Socorro, New Mexico...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
11yo Daughter: Light joke tailored to my interests. Pure, clever sweetness. 8yo Son: Our cat peeing on a hippo (my favorite animal) who is also peeing while they both eat lettuce. Unhinged chaotic sweetness. ❤️❤️
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"Metaphorical brain talk" is a seductive habit that I see everywhere. I feel strongly it creates more confusion than clarity, even when invoked for causes that are just (e.g., neurodiversity). If we want to talk about brain things, we have to take the brain seriously. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I understand..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Perennial live shot of my brain.... ☹️
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I love SANS, this year was no exception. Happy to get to see @dfearagon.bsky.social present a slice of the stuff we've been working on, and catch up with some of my favorite people. I'm already looking forward to next year. #SANS2025
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Finally, @markthornton.bsky.social reveals his true self.... (as well as a very balanced argument about the use of AI/deep-learning in psychology and neuroscience) #SANS2025
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Beats by Rob™️, finally headed to Chicago... Excited for #SANS2025
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We found both allocentric & egocentric similarity during interpersonal perception were represented in non-overlapping brain systems and in opposite directions. This has important implications for psychological theories of social perception and the interpretation of brain activity during mentalizing.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The round-robin design allowed us to calculate behavioral similarity ratings based on both subjective within-perceiver ratings of targets as well as group-consensus ratings of targets to model to neural similarly measures. (spoiler: within-subject easily worked the best)
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We adapted the notion of spatial allocentric and egocentric reference frames to person knowledge distances to show that people encode both other-to-other and self-to-other differences within separate brain systems, using a round-robin design (N=108) within 20 real-world social groups.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Lean in... (Congrats to my student and collaborator Rachel Jacobson for spearheading all of this.)
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I share the "science, fuck yeah" stereotype with with you about the standard Sagan enthusiast crowd... But I also agree that the more I did in, the more I think he was the real deal and blisteringly shrewd and prophetic.
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I'll have to remind myself of the wisdom of creamiest_jalapeno here the next time I start to feel like the grass might be greener..
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
yep
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My first paper was published in 2009... Today was the first time in my career that I've ever seen a officially printed hardcopy of any my work. 📚 📖
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
But really.. csnl.uoregon.edu/research/
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