Please consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

What's with the revival of "limbic"? In recent cog neuro textbooks, papers, and scientific talks, I've seen more of the "limbic system" than I have for years. Affective neuroscientists argued that this idea should be thrown out *25 years ago*. Why are we backsliding? #friendsdontletfriendssaylimbic

For those who think more data just means more headcount, here’s a quirky twist: the number of data points per individual actually matters--a lot. If you're into a bit of rigor, this article highlights a factor that’s often overlooked. Thanks for the shoutout! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AI can be helpful with programming & writing, but *the better you are at those things, the more useful AI is.* Early on, when you're just starting out with either, it can "actually be very disruptive to the learning process" to use AI instead of doing it yourself. @markthornton.bsky.social #SANS2025

"Highlight, don't hide" @gangchen6.bsky.social makes an impassioned argument that thresholding (reflective of a "binary" yes/no approach to analysis) holds back our science, making it less transparent and less reproducible. Instead, be a facilitator - share uncertainty and evidence! #SANS2025

Really interesting to consider how taking (& reporting!) all the forking paths in analytical decisions gives a more robust picture of effects, as a “multiverse analysis” approach (h/t Dani Cosme) details here: dcosme.shinyapps.io/explore-sca/ #SANS2025 #commscience

@gangchen6.bsky.social making a strong case that statistical power is related to the number of participants, but ALSO to the number of datapoints *per person* (i.e. number of trials). An excellent point we often have to argue for in my lab's own work!! Couldn't agree more. #SANS2025

At #SANS2025, enjoying the first debate on how to approach our science: big consortia or small labs? @thaliawheatley.bsky.social beautifully frames small labs as a kind of "collective intelligence." #ScrappyAudaciousNimbleScience

At #SANS25? 🤗 Von Monteza, advised by @p1sh.bsky.social & myself, is presenting "Temporal contexts of effort and arousal: decision speed and pupillometry illuminate the experience of choice difficulty during a novel risky decision-making paradigm" 👁️ Poster P3A6, Sat 12-3 @sansmeeting.bsky.social

Von's work is super cool - uses a novel task we've built, the Denver Bespoke Gambling Paradigm (DBGP) to quantify and manipulate decision difficulty on a per-person basis, giving us unique opportunities to control and study how folks respond to variations in decision difficulty! Stop by!

At the opening remarks of #SANS2025, which are 🔥 on doing science on identity, emotion, community, our brains & wellbeing in the current climate is still necessary and beneficial, even when actively being threatened. @sansmeeting.bsky.social

This was lots of fun. So much great energy and excitement, and so, so many excellent questions.

“Riveting storytelling” practically begs for stories that are only loosely tethered to the truth

You can actually see the sci comm win in the transcript of the two hosts talking: BARBER: Wow. OK, so no lizard brain. SELYUKH: Forget it. Our brains are too complex for these basic metaphors.

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It’s official! It’s been a journey, but by the confluence of lots of luck, late nights, great collaborators, & an endlessly supportive professional and personal community… I received tenure! I'll be processing this surreal feeling for a long time - but some celebrations are in order for now!

our first data paper (with @dfareri.bsky.social), which describes our initial fMRI work examining age-related differences in social reward processing and social decision making. thanks to SRNDNA for supporting this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to be in a great symposium "Affect Shapes Economic Decision-Making" today with Karolina Lempert, Candace Raio, and Joey Heffner. If you're at #AffectScience2024, come by Salon 9 now!

During a debate on how brain decoding can (not?) help us understand the structure of emotion at #AffectScience2024, Phil Kragel argues that if we want to understand the structure of emotion, ignoring context might be helpful. Not sure I agree. Esp. with emotion, context might be *the point*.

At #AffectScience2024, and really enjoying @ajaysatpute.bsky.social's conference-opening talk on how our assumptions about the structure of emotions can interfere with our ability to study the structure of the same. The threat of circularity is big.

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