Two days late!

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

End products :-)

Happy Holidays to all who celebrate. My thoughts are with those for whom this period can be difficult, or has become difficult. Wishing a little joy, especially if it feels dark right now.

Beef Wellington, becoming.

I STAND WITH BARRY WHITE

@carlzimmer.com We modeled brain activity word-to-word during your Fresh Air podcast with Terry Gross in this paper.

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

My 2026, defined by the top Movie when I was 10 - more of the 2025 same

This was accepted for publication! Thank you @schizbulletin.bsky.social

Isolating neural signatures of conscious speech perception with a no-report sine-wave speechparadigm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.26.568128v1

📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

the analogy I use with friends and family all the time is the jump from collegiate to professional sports. as soon as I explain it that way, it clicks in their brains what the academic job market is like.

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

Preprint updated --> Key new results: we found a brain-behavior correlation between performance on an RL task (under short feedback delays) and short-delay RPE signals in the 'cognitive' cerebellum! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My latest feature for @sciam.bsky.social explores the research connecting problems with interoception to a wide variety of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders, eating disorders, & PTSD. This work is ultimately circling in on a central message: the body & mind are inextricably intertwined.

PNAS: Perception of own centrality in social networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420334122?af=R

It was so much fun having you in the lab @kjedlovszky.bsky.social - we are just getting started!

Wrapping up an incredible three months at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social 👋 time flies when you're having a good time Thank you @philcorlett.bsky.social for having me in the lab and to the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for funding this visit!

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜? We employed Switching Linear Dynamical Systems to investigate the dynamics of resting-state networks They are dynamic, not static! Work with Xiaoyu Zhao with lots of new methods. Thread. #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The nosology of addiction as a medical condition In the evolution of addiction nosology, we have observed a gradual but inexorable progression toward an understanding that is both more scientific and more humane www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We built on Higgins et al. (2018) symmetry-based disentangled representation learning (SBDRL) framework and introduced a mathematical framework to incorporate world transformation relationships arising from an agent's actions into the agent’s representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@actlab.bsky.social is a great scientist, a wonderful musician, and a mensch - I am so glad he’s my friend and colleague

From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk: www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio... @actlab.bsky.social

Neural pathways of voice perception: a comparative dMRI study between humans and macaques. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.691583v1

Viewpoint: Measuring and modeling financing variables is essential for evaluating how behavioral health policies are implemented and their impact on outcomes. ja.ma/44lYYp7

youtu.be/svbv0ArjPGU?... Theme from The Princess Bride. I have no idea how this collab came about. Knopfler was in Dire Straits and Willy led the house band at CBGB. Somehow it’s perfect. Like the movie

Dynamic functional connectivity following cochlear implantation: Predicting speech outcomes and exploring brain network dynamics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Nearly 30% of CI people get limited benefit - fNIRS study measured brain activity for AO & VO speech at 1 mo & 1 y postimplantation ...

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions. Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)

Loose coupling between Ca2+ channels and release sensors as a synaptic correlate of higher order brain function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694355v1

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️

“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

happy holidays

I was interviewed about my research and my experience with the viral response to my DPhil viva! Video here 👇 youtu.be/v_46GqZDZCk?...

Spectacular art from Harol Bustos for today's essay: Basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs: zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines. Alex Kwan for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop... #sciart

Using brain lesions and DNN models, this article suggests that human visual perception is modulated by language.

Lively portrait art by Michela Buttignol for Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her career pivot As chief editor of Nature Neuroscience, Wiseman applies skills she learned in the lab to manage the journal. by Katie Moisse @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/f...

oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Brains are designed for dimensionality reduction. Simulated Complex Cells Contribute to Object Recognition Through Representational Untangling doi.org/10.1162/NECO... #neuroscience

To chime in on holiday manuscript review discourse: I rejected an invite for a 10 day deadline but noted in the comments that I would be happy to if the deadline was instead 1 month - the editor was pleased with my offer. Win-win!

Went to a corporate Christmas party as a plus one. Introduced myself as VP of emerging markets. I now have a team of 10 and a PA.

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Quick post on @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social new paper! We found people looked more at novel foods at an experimental buffet, including insects that they find gross! People suppress disgust avoidance when making foraging decisions. Blog: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/12/fora... Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

And it's out now in Cortex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary below 🧵