Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned. Both by Watson AND his critics. Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Great 🧵 Particularly useful advice on personal statements: "This is an EXAMPLE of the KIND of thing I would like to study" ➕ please don't recap other parts of the app in the personal statement. Great to incorporate specific points to support your narrative, but no need to merely repeat info.

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VISUAL AREAS ARE THE ONES YOU USE FOR VISUALS.

The forks glitch is hilarious and I'm glad someone ran into it today and posted, since I missed it entirely the first time around.

This news was surprising until I found out the French are suspending Shein's e-commerce site because its listings include "childlike sex dolls." Other reporting also suggests weapons listings. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two things can be true: 1. I think it's absurdly hilariously wild that we're in a place where a don't-*don't*-be-evil tech firm has PR for a merch drop. (Facebook-branded Labubu when?) 2. For a hot second, I absolutely coveted the Chrome T-Rex Xmas sweater.

OMG, a decent "dopamine detox" press article that also uses my preferred (Parkinson's) example for why the term is nonsense. "That is not how dopamine works...Fully “detoxing” from it would be disastrous. Parkinson’s disease, for example, is caused by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons."

NEUROSCIENCE-BASED FOOTWEAR "tap into the mind-body connection by activating sensory receptors in the feet" Technically any shoe does that, I think? Curious if this might be acu-pressure-ish, or massaging? about.nike.com/en/newsroom/...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Did not have "The Getty made me do it" on my bingo card.

Just filled out two online forms - an academic submission site and a trade publisher site - asking for the submitter's Twitter account, but no space to share other social media accounts like bsky. Friendly reminder that if you have backend control of these types of forms you can change this!

On the plus, side, it turns out that the 5th re-install of Tobii Pro Lab software really is the charm 😅

I'm doing the thing where you procrastinate on the important task by working on useful but less pressing tasks. Being honest with myself about this has not helped me stop doing it.

Is this like when people tried freezing their credit cards in ice to make it harder to impulse shop? www.designdevelopmenttoday.com/industries/c...

Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So it turns out BYU didn't get fined, and McGowan announced he's giving the funds estimated for this to the players, and used some of it to pay off student lunch debt in the SLC and Provo school districts.

This is *so* interesting to me - the United States restaurant chain winner is... Din Tai Fung. sherwood.news/business/din...

Yes, this. I hate this. Why do all these contracts say "we own your face in perpetuity?" I have actually fired up the editing function in Acrobat and sent contracts back with "in perpetuity" blacked out.

I'm amused to often be the "bad parent" who doesn't mind video games - the science I've seen seems to suggest that the dose makes the poison, and the effects vary across games. This post (and original article) appear to agree. communities.springernature.com/posts/video-...

lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children

There's a lot of great stuff in this excellent 🧵+paper, but this jumped right out: [LLMs] "inherently excludes the same people who are already underrepresented in cognitive science" 🤦🏽‍♀️ I can't believe I hadn't already worried about that.

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Industry press on a cool recent JNeuro paper. Their take, firms targeting you based on friends' neural activity- seems implausible? But suggests a neat science idea- who synchs to whom? Can we identify "influencers" whose neural sig is an attractor? www.inc.com/bill-murphy-...

Hello #neuroeconomists and decision (neuro)scientists - did I miss you in this starterpack? Just reply to this post or DM if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/1K9Suh

I did not know all my life needed was a Bosch-based piñata, but well, HERE WE ARE.

Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).

There is now strong, converging evidence that OFC neurons signal expected uncertainty. We manipulated probabilistic outcomes, and Zhang & Zhou changed reward delay and magnitude, finding OFC neurons dynamically modulate outcome-coding sensitivity based on variance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For those interested in methods for analyzing a specific frequency of neural activity as a series of discrete events, the CBASS code is posted here with an excellent wiki by @q-perrenoud.bsky.social: github.com/cardin-higle...

Important to celebrate the wins!

No. No no no no no. Cop takes a LOADED RIFLE into an MRI room. Yeah, you know what happened to the gun. I'm glad no one was killed, but I do mourn the scanner. They had to quench, and it's reported as "damaged" www.sfgate.com/cannabis/art...

Shoutout to @bshev.bsky.social for presenting his amazing research titled "Distinct food attribute representations emerge across binge-type eating disorders" at the 2025 Society for Neuroeconomics meeting this past weekend! 🧠💡 #SNE2025 @lauraaberner.bsky.social @kiante.bsky.social

Sometimes we CAN have nice things. We just have to remember that the things are nice 🥰

why does Stanley Milgram look like he's about to release the best industrial noise 7" of 1981

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

I did two PhDs (yeah, I *know*) and had my tenure clock reset after moving universities. So despite my age in years, I'm used to being on a low step of the academic hierarchy. In the last week, multiple people have referred to me as "senior faculty" and it is *messing with my head*

This dude is absolutely living his best life and I hope they are happy forever

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academic book authors- she’s talking to you too!

That’s a wrap for #SNE2025! Grateful for the chance to share some of our recent work as a spotlight this year and thankful to the society for supporting me as one of this year’s travel award winners along with @gloriawfeng.bsky.social, @jaehyungwoo.bsky.social, Laura Globig, and Minho Hwang)!

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

This is only the second year that the Society for Neuroeconomics has offered a Mid Career Award, and we are delighted to announce @ccruff.bsky.social as the 2025 winner!

A huge congratulations to @drnikkisullivan.bsky.social and Kiyohito Iigaya, the 2025 winners of the Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award!

Congrats to the brilliant @haoxuefan.bsky.social on her best dissertation award at #SNE2025! 💫 @socforneuroecon.bsky.social