Rent assistance is a HUGE need right now. People have drained their savings in hiding for months and now they’re losing their homes too. If you need ideas about where to send your money:

Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience? Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited that this textbook, edited by @dfareri.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social & @thepsychologist.bsky.social is out now! And so happy to have been invited to contribute. Here’s my chapter on the role of memory, esp. semantic memory, in temporal discounting: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nina Raduner, Silvia Brem, et al: Neural and behavioural differences in multisensory statistical and reinforcement learning across development and task variants doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Watch MADDOW "IF THEY BUILD THEM THEY WILL FILL THEM" This detention center is at Fort Bliss near El Paso TX. Houses roughly 3K human beings They're in TENTS Horrendous conditions 3 PEOPLE DIED THERE, ONE DEATH now a homicide Call Your Reps PLS 202 224-3121

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

in an ideal world the trauma this couple went through *shouldnt* resonate stronger than a latino family terrorized by ice. but we dont live in that world. we live in the real world. so i applaud it when the most minnesota people possible link arms with us and FIGHT like this.

Love to see leaders using their platforms for good. Check out the links in this thread for ways to help in Minneapolis!

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Let’s do better. Links to other victims of ICE/CBP God Fund Me sites are provided in the comments. Please R/T.

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Third world shit right here.

A friend here in Minneapolis who knew Alex Pretti just texted our group that Alex was "super cool laid back and a great guy"

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Alex Pretti was a scientist.

ICE agents beat and executed a man in public in Minneapolis this morning

🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️

NIH grant writing people, do you have thoughts on the use of "I statements" in F fellowships and K training grant apps? I thought someone told me once to use "I will", "I propose" in training-focused apps to emphasize independence, but maybe it sounds arrogant?

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

This is how internment camps become death camps.

Why in the world are we not screening all pregnant people for iron deficiency when we know it’s associated w/ bad outcomes for mom & baby, affects the vast majority of pregnancies & is easily diagnosed & treated?! Oh I forgot. We don’t care about women or children. tinyurl.com/Ironpreg

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

something light

New paper in @acamh.bsky.social's JCPP! We found that early adversity doesn't affect positive emotions uniformly-- youth follow 4 distinct developmental trajectories. & This heterogeneity matters for understanding depression/anxiety risk. 🧵 1/5 📊 Paper: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited for the 1st lab paper to be live @biologicalpsych.bsky.social ! @emilyrperkins.bsky.social @keananjoyner.bsky.social and I discuss testing biology as simultaneous + unique predictors of different levels of psychopathology hierarchies 1/7🧵 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

New Stage 2 RR published in Clinical Psych Science: doi.org/10.1177/2167... contrary to what some claim, urgency DOES NOT moderate associations between affect and alcohol/cannabis use in EMA data. Take a look for a comprehensive test of this idea and let us know what you think!

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Amazing, not only the mPFC encoded categorical scales, but also it did it independently of linguistic similarity, suggesting construct-sensitive integration during self-report and a neural basis for psychological assessment. #cogpsyc #cognition #perpsy #socialpsyc

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

New paper & a thread on the results 👇 ‘Reward-specific learning parameters change across normative adolescent development and are blunted in youth with high risk for depression’ acamh-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/doi/full/10....

🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data! Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210... Code: github.com/DepressionCe...

It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

#RewardSignals #neuroskyence

#RewardSignals #neuroskyence

½ New preprint shows cue-evoked phasic dopamine in the NAc tracks persistent incentive salience, not outcome value updates. In ST rats under omission, dopamine remained high for cues even as reward was cancelled, mirroring persistent attraction #RewardSignals #neuroskyence doi.org/10.64898/202...

Way back in 1999, Kenji Doya sketched a big picture theory of the brain: 1️⃣The cerebellum is specialized for supervised learning 2️⃣The basal ganglia are for reinforcement learning 3️⃣The cerebral cortex is for unsupervised learning How does this hold up in 2026? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Do people judge what is going to happen in unknown situations differently depending on their socioeconomic position? Yes, if you experience lower socioeconomic position, you think the big rewards are even more unlikely to come your way: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Very happy to share our paper on the "summer slide" in kid's cognitive test scores is out now in @pnas.org! We find a replicable dip in performance across multiple domains of cognition in >23,000 kids across 4 datasets! Check out the 🧵 from @ariellekeller.bsky.social below! 👇

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

This is an important study but psilocybin potentially promoting brain tumor growth is consistent with human studies suggesting SSRIs may worsen survival outcomes in glioma

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her. The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693206v1