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Matthew Lieberman

@socialbrain.bsky.social
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UCLA social neuroscientist, co-founder of Resonance Inc., Substack: bit.ly/3BdpdTb

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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
resonance.info is a social network that connects people who are genuinely compatible based on how they see the world. No scrolling - just genuine connections and breaking the ice through games and 'fast friends'. Substack here t.co/akwPhWco8t - available for research studies.
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Resonance — Find Your People
Take the Resonance survey, get a free report on how you experience the world, then join the network that introduces you to the people you are most compatible with. Created by a UCLA social neuroscient...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Who knew? Isaac Newton was a real a-hole www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8qHEUVw/
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Newton and Hooke's Centennial Grudge#science #podcast #foryou #Isaac Newton #Robert Boyle
TikTok video by Science
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
For the academics, Claude Opus Extended is absolutely superior for doing reference-backed analysis of science-based queries. So far it has not hallucinated any papers and I only rarely disagree with its interpretations. Major upgrade.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Excited to share new work from @bear_goldstein, @shannon47burns & my lab! We’re introducing a dynamic analytical approach for Hyperscanning called Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQA) that captures the complex coupling traditional methods often miss.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Just in case you weren't sure if the latest version of Grok went from being Elon's biggest critique to his biggest fan gizmodo.com/11-things-gr...
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11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone
Grok explained:
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Gemini 3 is blowing my mind. I've been using it to edit my writing and it is on a whole other level compared to ChatGPT and Claude. It is a vastly deeper "thinker".
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Very excited to share this amazing work that @beargoldstein.bsky.social just published from our lab. He did amazing work including creating a new technique that does for time series what MVPA did for spatial detail in the brain.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Tomorrow I am teaching Searle's Chinese room in my consciousness class and to add a bit of irony, I have this AI teach it. In the first comment, I have the 2023 version. Pretty amazing how far AI video has come.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Scientists may have found the genetic mutation that led humans to have bigger brains. If it can be modulated that would have huge consequences for the future. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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An ancient enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage promotes neural development and cognitive flexibility
HAR123 is a conserved enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage that exerts neural functions.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Pretty awesome for all of UCLA's Jewish faculty to wake up today to find out all of our grants have been suspended because Trump is fighting anti-Semitism - an issue near and dear to his heart.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
You get about 100 million breaths. So does every other animal big or small. Don't waste them. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Tell me you have no prefrontal cortex without telling me you have no prefrontal cortex
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Favorite new TikTok channel. I could teach a whole class on this www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hAY4d5/
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Best memories start at BARBERCHOPS
TikTok video by Barberchops
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Smart piece on AI and college degrees: "students cheating with ChatGPT aren't lazy—they're rational actors in an irrational system They're using 21st-century tools to game 19th-century assessments for 11th-century credentials. The real scandal is that we're still pretending the old game matters."
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What Good Is a College Degree When AI Knows Everything? Grab the Job Skills That Matter in an AI World
We live in a hyper-inflating knowledge economy, and everything we think we knew about jobs and college is eroding. So what do we do? This post lays out a path forward for an AI future...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is where all the social psych folks are these days, right? Does anyone know if Zimbardo got the idea for the Stanford Prison Experiment from the Third Wave Experiment that took place in Palo Alto (where Stanford is) 4 years before. Never seen a connection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi...
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The Third Wave (experiment) - Wikipedia
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Is someone you love applying to college in the next 3 years? The lessons I learned in my new substack post including: the statistics you can find are mostly meaningless (Lesson 6) and early decision (ED) is mostly a scam (Lesson 12). Here is the link: open.substack.com/pub/matthewl...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is pretty brilliant on multiple levels
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Wisdom of the crowd takes 5 time world chess champion to a draw www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/s...
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Magnus Carlsen held to draw by 143,000 opponents in largest ever online chess game after 46 days of competing | CNN
Magnus Carlsen is vastly successful against just one opponent. And even when he came up against many more, the Norwegian showed he can hold his own.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Mental health interventions in the classroom do not help and sometimes makes things worse www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Excited to share my new TiCS paper, currently free to download. After 40 years since I was first obsessed with consciousness, I finally wrote a paper directly about it. A thread on the paper's plot line below. 1/8
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Cool new "marshmallow" self-control study. It's about interpersonal emotion regulation. gizmodo.com/new-twist-on...
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New Twist on Famous Marshmallow Test: What Happens When You Add a Second Kid?
New research gives the famous marshmallow test a makeover, showing that having support from a buddy makes children more likely to resist temptation and wait for a bigger reward.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Maybe we shouldn’t be so doom and gloom about students using ChatGPT for learning. This is consistent with my own experience. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Awesome work from @mollycrockett and co on the limits of the limits of introspective accuracy x.com/that_adammor...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The cuts to NIH and NSF will cost 100s of billions in the short term and will reduce GPT by ~7% over the next 25-30 years
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The scientific catastrophe has formally arrived. This is what Trump's budget would do to science funding in the US. Science funding after WWII is what made the US the powerhouse it is. Is there any US advantage Trump won't squander?
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The scientific catastrophe has formally arrived. Trump's budget for next year would cut scientific funding by 40% (NIH) to 55% (NSF). NIH would no longer fund psychology (though neuroscience would get its own institute). This would be a disaster if passed. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Trump budget proposes drastic cuts for US scientific research
The White House wants to reduce U.S. health spending by more than a quarter next year, with the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facing the brunt of billions of dollars in cuts.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Academics - ever wonder what the book of your lecture course would look like? I have the transcript of my class and it would be over 800 pages. Looks like someone needs an editor.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
How has Google not figured out it is sitting on a non-monetized gold mine. Create an LLM trained on every manuscript and article in Google Scholar. Every scientist would pay $20/month to be able to speak to a full up-to-date literature.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If you use ChatGPT a lot (and have 'memory' turned on so it knows everything from all your conversations) ask it "Based on everything you know about me, what are my biggest blindspots about myself". Very eye opening.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor - Nature
A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specif...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For academics - Just asked ChatGPT Pro (decided to try for a month) to critique a manuscript of mine and to tell me what different camps would likely push back on. Too humbling to share here but outstanding review. Suggested multiple next studies to run. Very valuable.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Which would you rather lose - your impulses & emotions (good and bad) or your entire capacity for self-control? Also, tell me if you are over or under 25.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The published version of the IIT critique letter is out. I signed it because I think IIT is fundamentally problematic because it assumes information and representation are primary qualities that exist independent of human minds. My take below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience
Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Parents rejoice. Have children is protective against your brain aging. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
psilocybin may not be all rainbows and unicorns www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/h...
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Psychedelic trips can go bad. That may have serious consequences, study says | CNN
Visiting the emergency room due to a bad psychedelic trip was linked to over twice the risk of death within five years for some people, a new study found.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
All the graduate admissions and hiring freezes. All of American science is f’d. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Pitt, Vanderbilt, and USC have paused all PhD admissions. This is how science does and the dark ages return. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Partisan animosity is at century highs and the last few weeks have not helped. A great time to learn about open-mindedness. Check out our new Psych Review paper just how. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... (1/5)
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APA PsycNet
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Tells you everything you need to know about the composition of X users these days. Also, not sure how much longer I can stand it there. Can only handle so much willful ignorance. I miss all of you being there and balancing things out.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New tax proposal from House Ways & Means committee leaked and is a huge attack on higher ed and a giant cash grab for wealthy and corporations. Read the tax section specifically. www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump signed a new EO officially breaking democracy and engaging in profound doublespeak, ordering the ending of the 'weaponization of govt' by a new broad investigation into the previous administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
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A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution
The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might have acted illegally and directs agencies to seek evidence.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Will the Oscars have their John Henry moment this year? Both Timothee Chalomet and Adrian Brody had Oscar worthy performances this year, but AI was used to make Brody's Hungarian sound authentic, while Chalomet not only learned to play guitar for the role, and not only sang all the songs himself...
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‘The Brutalist’ Sparks Backlash After Editor Reveals Use of AI in Dialogue and Buildings, but Says It’s ‘Nothing That Hasn’t Been Done Before’
Brady Corbet's 'The Brutalist' has sparked backlash on social media after its editor admitted to using AI in the film.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Funny how the far right gets really upset that some people want to be called they/them, but the second Donald Trump decides to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, they are getting triggered that Apple did not immediate change the name on their maps. gizmodo.com/apple-deadna...
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Apple Deadnamed the Gulf of America and Conservatives Are Triggered
Tech companies aren’t moving fast enough for America’s most sensitive politicians.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Heil Trump! Oy
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Milan Kundera
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
In Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the talents”, written in 1993, there is a fire raging in Los Angeles in the 2020s with a newly elected authoritarian president with the slogan “Make America Great Again”. Also, Butler is buried in Altadena where the Eaton fire is. Crazy. apnews.com/article/octa...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and ec...
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
No ifs, ands, or butts - no metal in the MRI scanner! gizmodo.com/woman-enters...
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Woman Enters MRI With Butt Plug, Ends Up In Hospital
The woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was being taken out of the machine.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Almost everything you need to know about pre-reflective vs. reflective consciousness. Also, Culkin was brilliant in this movie ('A Real Pain')
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Anyone know why this classic has disappeared from Google Scholar?
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hppy Nu Yr! Its is my last day as Editor-in-Chief at SCAN after 20 years. I wanted to say thanks to all of the incredible Associate Editors over the years (too many to name) and to all who submitted amazing work to SCAN. I'm especially grateful to be leaving SCAN in Ajay Satpute's capable hands.
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