Joey Dunsmoor
@joeydunsmoor.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist who studies emotion and learning and memory and fear of ducks.
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Manoj Doss not exist
2 days ago
Check out our recent review on how psychedelics don’t simply enhance cognitive flexibility by Raquel Kosted,
@drjjdonegan.bsky.social
, Josh Cisler, and Greg Fonzo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Psychedelics do not always enhance cognitive flexibility: The potential role of time-varying effects on reward learning processes
Although research on psychedelics (hallucinogenic serotonin 2 A or 5-HT2A agonists) has shown initial promise in ameliorating a range of psychiatric c…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763426002459
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Ross Otto
4 days ago
New work by former undergraduate student Ziqi Fu, in collaboration with
@annaweinberg.bsky.social
, finds that impulsive people don't make riskier choices, but they sure make risky choices faster! Just out in Affective Science
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Off the Cuff: Self-Reported Positive Urgency Predicts Rapid Choices During Risky Decision-Making - Affective Science
Impulsivity is a multifaceted personality trait reflecting a tendency to act on immediate urges, often linked to maladaptive real-world behaviors. One facet of impulsivity, Positive Urgency—the tenden...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42761-026-00377-6
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Manoj Doss not exist
18 days ago
Was quoted in
@theatlantic.com
regarding efforts to create new psychedelic drugs. Lol they mention my disdain for the overhyped Hopkins playlist.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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The New Science of Psychedelic Drugs
University researchers are looking for ways to engineer better mind-altering therapeutic experiences
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/06/engineering-perfect-psychedelic/687528/?gift=S4EwRLGNogt2Kqjs1lNdf4WQ7drNOvqeMJZF6H3isP4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Wanting to complain to someone about a show that none of your friends watch, care about, or have even heard of is so frustrating.
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Deepu Murty
2 months ago
Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
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Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed
While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
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Manoj Doss not exist
2 months ago
I'm looking for a post-bac research assistant to help run our studies on the impact of psychedelics on memory! Preferably with an interest in cognitive neuroscience (not just psychedelics or clinical research) and knowledge of coding/data analysis.
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
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Research Associate I
Job Posting Title: Research Associate I ---- Hiring Department: Department of Psychiatry ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA ---- E...
https://utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/UT-MAIN-CAMPUS/Research-Associate-I_R_00045822
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I don't play favorites, but one of my favorite new papers from our lab. 99% of credit goes to Dr. Patrick Laing: Effects of novelty and reward-based fear extinction on memory generalization
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effects of novelty and reward-based fear extinction on memory generalization
Fear extinction forms new memories that are typically weaker and less generalizable than the original fear memory. Using a test of behavioral pattern …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796726000756
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Chris Baker
3 months ago
The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at:
bit.ly/4bYlbxw
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Sam Wang
6 months ago
Explain to Congress how important it is to keep multiyear funding of NIH grants in the funding bill. This protects against Russell Vought's trick, which is to make this year's NIH budget cover multiple years of research in advance. Tell your Congresscritter. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
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John Thorp
7 months ago
this was my first project upon coming to grad school in nyc from north carolina, and directly came out of giving myself the formidable – though gloriously concrete – task of reading everything
@joeydunsmoor.bsky.social
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New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after.
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Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis
Episodic memory allows us to remember when an event occurred by situating it within a coherent temporal context. Pavlovian fear conditioning, a widely…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725003233?dgcid=coauthor
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New paper alert. 🚨 Lock your doors. 🔐 Hug your dog 🐕 Neural Reinstatement of Encoding Context Mediates the Switch between Fear and Extinction Recall.
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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Neural Reinstatement of Encoding Context Mediates the Switch between Fear and Extinction Recall
Abstract. Fear conditioning and extinction generate conflicting memory representations for a conditioned stimulus (CS). Retrieval of either memory is largely determined by the context where the CS is ...
https://direct.mit.edu/jocn/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/jocn.a.93/132809/Neural-Reinstatement-of-Encoding-Context-Mediates?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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todd gureckis
12 months ago
Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0:
todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s...
Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.
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I haven't posted on here much, but this new paper from the lab seems like as good reason as any: How the nature of weak learning and retention interval affects behavioral tagging of episodic memory.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-41359-001?doi=1
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Manoj Doss not exist
over 1 year ago
What happens if you inhibit the amygdala during the formation of emotional episodic memories? Simple answer, right? We thought so too but ended up finding memory enhancements after inhibiting the amygdala via transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS). 1/2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Enhanced Episodic Memory Following Putative Inhibition of the Amygdala via Transcranial Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
The amygdala is considered crucial to the formation of emotional episodic memories, but causal evidence in humans is limited due to challenges in non-invasive neuromodulation of deep brain structures....
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645800v1
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Dr. Glaucomflecken
over 1 year ago
Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.
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Charles Ornstein
over 1 year ago
ICYMI: Sen. Ted Cruz flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ted-cruz-woke-grants-national-science-foundation?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=charlesornstein
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bachlab
over 1 year ago
📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information.
www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
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Sam Cooper PhD
almost 3 years ago
#HiSciSky! I'm a clinical psy sci postdoc at UT w/ master of fear
@joeydunsmoor.bsky.social
. I study threat generalization + psychopathology using fMRI + quant modeling + HiTOP + psychometrics. On the faculty job market! Most importantly, have a dog named Frank. #psychscisky #clinpsy #neuroskyence
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Deepu Murty
almost 3 years ago
I’m excited to announce the Adaptive Memory Lab is moving to Univ. of Oregon summer 2024. I’ve been a lucky duck to forge such great relationships at Temple and am looking forward to developing new ones. I’ll be recruiting grad students next year so feel free to reach out. #OMG/OregonMemoryGroup
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Hi. I'm joining this now. First post, a job ad for TT neuroscience faculty position at UT Austin. Join Austin. A city on the groooOOW.
apply.interfolio.com/131347
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