Corn bread in a waffle iron is next level!!!

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Do late adolescents and emerging adults who live in a communities with higher violent crime rates exhibit altered reward-related neural activation? This question was recently investigated in a sample of 101 adolescents. Read more in BSAM, free for the week! #healthpsych #psychscicky

✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level #neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions

My first paper with @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! rdcu.be/eACGf TL;DR: asymmetric learning rates can be induced by shifts in tonic dopamine giving rise to pessimistic/optimistic biases in agents or animals undergoing reinforcement learning .

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Matthew Mattoni, Thomas M. Olino, et al: Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠 Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience. Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read this whole thread 👇

What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!

When nothing worked, this did. Precision functional mapping is here for treatment-resistant depression. This is what hope looks like. 💡

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works. *Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of. Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial. 1/2

🎯 Adversity was linked to all of the non stable positive affect groups. It was rare for a child who experienced a few different adversities to be in the high-stable positive affect group /3

🆕 RESEARCH: Not all kids respond to early adversity the same way. We examined data from ~7,400 children for 4 years and found something notable about positive emotions & mental health outcomes... doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 🧵 #MentalHealth #ChildDevelopment #Resilience /1

More attention here please.

'Untangling the multifaceted VTA responses to stress' by Urszula Skupio, Alexander Harris & Abigail Polter @ampolter.bsky.social @dralexharris.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you attempt to get a COVID vaccine this fall and are denied, ask your doctor to write you a script so that the pharmacy has to give you one.

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models. #Neuroskyence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

A colossal effort from the NARC lab: we reviewed the recent advances in drug addiction research from the lens of the impaired response inhibition and salience attribution model. A one stop shop for theory, severity, recovery, and novel directions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.

A Transdiagnostic fMRI Dataset With 300+ Deeply Phenotyped Subjects Across Resting and Task States | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"lower-SES individuals are more other-focused than high-SES individuals...participants reported liking similar-SES partners more than different-SES partners"

Umm my non-science friend wanted to roast me, and fed my papers into chat GPT. I would have guessed that deeply hurtful comments would have to come from people that know me well, but ouch.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

🧐four subnetworks within the Action Mode Network related to decisions, action implementation, feedback, and the bodily self

1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

It seems an apt time to re-up our preprint describing crises that (especially academic) clinical psychology faces under fascism, as well as opportunities we see for moving forward with purpose. I neglected to say this in my first post, but feedback is very welcome.

This will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.

🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Correction: in the US. Spoke with Pauline, who stayed up until 5AM finishing the installation for today. She described an emotional experience pulling together the research of the missing. Family members still don’t know where some folks are being held. They were grabbed at work and on the street

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

First #NIH staff stood up. Now #EPA staff are doing the same. This is courage. This is bravery. What Zeldin represents at EPA is political interference, censorship and rollbacks of key protections.

I'm putting together a new grad seminar on the psychology of social class/socioeconomic status for this fall. I'm interested in highlighting new work/ideas/topics in this growing field and would welcome any suggestions! (And please don't hesitate to suggest your own work.)

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Our big behavioral precision mapping preprint is out. Based on 1,486,950 observed choices in a reward learning task, we show that BMI is associated with higher and more variable learning rates. Binge eating was associated with lower reward sensitivity. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new paper coming out of our lab uses six years of longitudinal data to examine links between the chronicity and timing of maltreatment and risk-related functional connectivity across adolescence. Read it here! (Open-access in DCN) doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Not that it matters, but my MOSAIC was scored a 14. Reviewed in study section w non-MOSAIC K99s. I'm to write another grant that may not be funded, that doesn't provide transition to faculty funds, instead of doing the work that was reviewed so highly? That's the best use of time & tax payer money?

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge. "...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I co-chair a year-long program called #NIH Academy (with our AVP for Strategic Research Initiatives), designed to support ECR's targeting their first R01. Today I learned that after 9 mos of hard work, her mechanism expired - 3 days before it was due. 🧵 1/ grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

While I was unfortunately unable to travel to Belgium for the conference, I have uploaded the recording+slides+code for my #SAA2025 talk on multilevel multiple imputation for EMA research here: osf.io/xjg24/files/...

My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!

Why do alcohol and negative mood increase bad decision making on the IGT? Through increased reward (but not punishment) learning rates! New preprint from @jonasdora.bsky.social & @kevinmking.bsky.social

New preprint with @hollysully.bsky.social & @kevinmking.bsky.social: Alcohol intoxication and negative mood similarly affect reward learning but not punishment learning in the Iowa Gambling Task doi.org/10.31219/osf...

ARTE released a nice trailer for the upcoming documentary on the vagus nerve, which will cover our ongoing work on gut-brain interactions. It also features @neurometabolic.bsky.social, so I am sure it will be worth watching 👀 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

A free training workshop on PsychoPy, perfect for research trainees! #visionscience #cogsci #workingmemory #vss2025

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.