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Dorit Kliemann @doritkliemann.bsky.social · Aug 27

❗New Paper Alert ❗

We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess
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Social inference brain networks in autistic adults during movie-viewing: functional specialization and heterogeneity - Molecular Autism

Background Difficulty in social inferences is a core feature in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). On the behavioral level, it remains unclear whether reasoning about others’ mental states (Theory of Mi...

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 20

with thanks and credit to co-authors:
@melissathye.bsky.social @selinaabel.bsky.social @katiemckinnon.bsky.social @naiti.bsky.social @jskelton.bsky.social (not on bsky: dr lorena jiménez-sánchez, dr kadi vaher, robina rubin, rebekah smikle)

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 20

gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Behind the Scenes: Using Movies to Study the Human Brain

What happens inside your brain when you watch your favorite movie? Maybe you wonder what the character thinks or wants to do next? Since characters in movies often act like we do in real life, scienti...

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Dr Katie Mckinnon @katiemckinnon.bsky.social · Mar 25

I was recently interviewed about my research and career for a blog post for WiNUK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social:

www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...

Bridging the Gap: Dr Katie Mckinnon

In this new Bridging the Gap article, Dr Katie Mckinnon shares insights into neonatology, her career journey, and more!

www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org

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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · Feb 9

Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

Are we paying too much for biomedical research?

Trump's attack on NIH

dickaslin.substack.com

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Dr Flavia H Santos @flavinska.bsky.social · Jan 31

2025 FLUX Conference
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️

Local Organising Committee:

Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos

fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/

2025 Dublin - Flux Society

fluxsociety.org

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Jan 31

Ditto :)

Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · Jan 31

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Nov 12

Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN

A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Dec 11

We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Feel free to reach out with Qs

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Dec 11

We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Feel free to reach out with Qs

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Nov 19

(I usually picked the palm tree scene)

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Nov 19

I had to do a double take bc I honestly always saw that as an ice cream cone… mind blown

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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · Nov 2

If you’re interested in learning more about the masters programs in #deafed or #ASL and #deafstudies, I’m hosting an info session tonight at 6ET. It will be in ASL with interpreters.

mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...

Inquiry Form : BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development

A College's premier information gathering and delivery service. Help prospective students gain insight into the college or university by collecting information and delivering personalized content to t...

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Oct 24

Totally agree

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ManyBabies @manybabies.org · Oct 18

More good news to share 😁
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!

Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams

#devpsyc #psychscisky

Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in ea...

Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an attractive methodological addition to in-person eye-tracking in the lab. However, there is a lack of systematic researc....

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · Oct 17

Oooof. Not a single… Not a *single* K99 awardee at an HBCU. Ever. Ever? EVER.

Analysis of NIH K99/R00 Awards and the Career Progression of Awardees

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

www.biorxiv.org

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · Oct 13

1/ Hey #devscisky #psychscisky), I'm running into a problem where an online moderated developmental study (i.e. on zoom w/kids) gets a ton of signups from different emails with the same format that seem to be programmatically generated. They were one guy, no kid, didn't even pretend.

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · Oct 12

*New paper*

W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS

The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes

Mini thread below!

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Oct 12

Yael Niv and Laura Williamson (Princeton) developed curriculum for a 7-week summer course in 2021; it was excellent. Looks like it’s being delivered as a full course at Princeton now: nivlab.princeton.edu/teaching

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · Oct 9

This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence | U.S. Copyright Office

Copyright law

www.copyright.gov

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Oct 7

🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!

🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do you have an opening in your lab?? Is your institutions hiring?? Share it with the #neuroscience community by typing #neurojobs in your post to be added to the Neuroscience Jobs feed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 22

Loads of new psychologists and neuroscientists here this week! If you want to help more people escape from the old site, don't forget to share your invites with our pool using this google form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 28

>10 yrs of data collected in saxelab, w/ >40 items per participant. Sample includes neurotypical & autistic children, and children assessed longitudinally

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Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to share an open dataset of 321 3-12yo children who completed our ToM booklet task, as well as all task materials + guides for administration & coding!

Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/

Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.

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