New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrew N. Van, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, et al: Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Glad to highlight a chapter from our lab in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions: “Maladaptive Decision-Making in Older Adults: Confirmation Bias and Financial Exploitation,” led by @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Update: the book is now officially out! Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is available from Springer here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Huge thanks again to @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social, and all of the contributors.

New work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social

The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

Check out our new review titled "Contributions of default mode network to subjective valuation and maladaptive decision making" now out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science! @dfareri.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8Js8MqMi...

The impact of AI is already producing a massive flood of content in so many creative industries--I don't know how we are going review or evaluate all this stuff. The peer review system was already at a breaking point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery @nature.com The first multi-agent system capable of fully automating both hypothesis generation and data analysis for experimental biology.

My first first author preprint is out! Couldn’t be done without @jenyangyi.bsky.social, @dvsmith.bsky.social, Chelsea Helion, plus stellar support from Daniel Sazhin, Cooper Sharp, and Avi Dachs.

🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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/

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

Cortex is rhythmic: Brain rhythms coordinate over large distances. The strongest phase organization spans up to 8–16 cm of cortex. The dominance of large-scale phase dynamics in human cortex, from delta to gamma doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroscience

Effects of 40-Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation on cognition and neural markers in Alzheimer’s disease: a randomized, sham-controlled trial link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New preprint from the lab led by Shenghan Wang! 🚨

Interesting suggestion: "rather than flat fees, a journal could offer a substantial prize for the most constructive review in a given period, preserving the social motivation while adding a material incentive." Problem: could only apply to submissions that get *accepted* for pubn. 🧪🗃️

Related to the posts on reduced NIH Fellowship numbers, I note that I'm seeing graduate school admissions offers for one program that are at roughly 25-40% of the number of offers in the years just prior to 2025. How have your programs been responding to the chaos? Any change in offer numbers?

🧠 What makes threat memories so hard to forget? 🐍😱 Using focused ultrasound we provide causal evidence that the human amygdala drives rapid threat learning 🐍⚡ and determines how resistant those memories become to subsequent extinction 🐍🚫 🆕📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

"Neighborhood street connectivity and hippocampus volume in older adults" Impressive study linking hippocampal volume in later life and street connectivity: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

‼️ We are on track for a staggering 98% reduction in posted NIH funding opportunities this year relative to historical norms. Political review and red tape are blocking approval of funding announcements across the board. See Elizabeth Ginexi’s analysis: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...

Our book chapter on intertemporal choice in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is now available. We review individual differences, dopamine, and methodological approaches from model-agnostic analyses to integrated discounting drift-diffusion models. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

NeuroBrain is now open source! Real-time AI pipeline that filters Bluesky's firehose into a curated neuroscience feed using a local LLM. Includes a step-by-step guide for building your own AI-curated feed on any topic. github.com/micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain

Excited to share our new preprint on how feedback improves pain assessment accuracy when people learn from nonverbal reactions! See @yilizhao.bsky.social thread below.

A recent paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com raised concerns about the lesion network mapping method. Our team of 16 coauthors analyzed >1000 lesions and 34 symptoms and found that "The methodological foundations of lesion network mapping remain sound" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI. "The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves." www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

NIH is “…the largest government-funded biomedical research agency in the world, and until recently was the envy of scientists across the globe. The president’s attacks on this legacy have been relentless and all-encompassing…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease "Exposure to air pollution, particularly PM2.5, has been linked to an increased risk of AD, likely through pathways such as neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and vascular injury." journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

New paper in Current Directions in Psych Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... After countless arguments about what tasks ppl should/should not offload to AI, we instead argue that genAI can be used *augment* research protocols in novel ways. I.e. use AI to make better psych experiments!

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

“Dario Amodei, who is probably the most safety-focused CEO in the AI industry, has publicly predicted that AI will eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. And many people in the industry think he’s being conservative.” fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...

The new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions" is out! Here is my chapter on consumer attention. 👀Thanks to @dvsmith.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social @dfareri.bsky.social for their excellent leadership as editors. #science #attention #eyetracking #marketing

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 work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social

Ketone body beta-hydroxybutyrate restores neuronal Tau proteostasis via ketolysis-independent mechanism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702936v1

Check out @orielf.bsky.social & I's chapter "Emotion and Choice: The Integral Role of Emotion in Constructing Value" in the new volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions, edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @dfareri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Chapter 📖 "Decomposing Economic Choices with Drift-Diffusion Models" with @krajbichlab.bsky.social and Xiaozhi (Taro) Yang is out in, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions" edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yey56tup

New discovery! Value-based decisions reorganize neural state space. Options are first encoded in orthogonal subspaces Then the selected option rotates into a "readout subspace". Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision making. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience

📣 New book chapter Excited to see my chapter "The Neural Mechanisms of Strategic Decision-Making" finally out in a new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions", edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and Dominic Fareri. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

~1 yr into the NIH Director’s term, he mentioned the same talking points from his ongoing media tour. Disappointed that these talking points were not supported with programs or operational updates from the past year in this role. Moreso claims about ideology. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia. First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty. Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records.

🧵 New paper in @NatureComms Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026) Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇 rdcu.be/e0VcO

Dissociable neuronal substrates for positive and negative valence stimuli in the nucleus accumbens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.24.701496v1