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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 2h

Yes! Well, kind of, IMO. The brain is for allostasis first - the maintenance of bodily states within a viable range. But one means of such control is through behavior. And a good way to figure out what to do is through cognition. (And a good way to do cognition is to do it consciously... 😊)

Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 22h

Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 2h

No disagreement here! We're just trying to set the dependencies in order. Particularly interested what you think of the last section, where we try to think about a "cognition-first" vs. "allostatis-first" account might lead one to different conclusions about cognitive decline in Alzheimer's.

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 22h

Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 22h

Also excited to make use of azimuthal maps in this paper to flatmap the midline cortical surface without making cuts. Watch this space for more on this technique from grad student Josh Paul @joshprod.bsky.social, and check out this poster from CNS if this is of interest!
bsky.app/profile/yuta...

Yuta Katsumi, PhD @yutakatsumi.bsky.social · Mar 30

If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 22h

Huge thanks to @yutakatsumi.bsky.social mi.bsky.social, Heinning Reimann, Jiahe Zhang, @phildeming.bsky.social , Brad Dickerson, Karen Quigley, + @lisafeldmanbarrett.com!

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 22h

Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
September 2,1946

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1-NANCY IS WALKING DOWNTOWN

NANCY: NOBODY HAS NOTICED MY NEW HAIR RIBBON

P2- NANCY SEES A BILLBOARD THAT READS WATCH THIS SPOT, AND IT SHOWS FOUR HANDS POINTING TO THE CENTER OF THE BILLBOARD

P3- NANCY IS NOW STANDING IN THE CENTER OF THE BILLBOARD SO THAT ALL FOUR HANDS ARE POINTING TO HER NEW HAIR RIBBON SHE IS WEARING

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 1d

ME: ugh why does my back hurt all the time

ALSO ME:

Tim Robinson super slouched on a chair looking at his phone like a doofus

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 12d

We started our RL debate series!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0A0...

RL Debate Series: Eli "abolish the value function" Sennesh

YouTube video by Sensorimotor AI

www.youtube.com

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!!

Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 7d

Really interesting! It seems the form is at capacity. Any chance of new slots opening up?

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 9d

𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆
This short book by Moreno and Pereto' looks very interesting. One more on the understanding of biological agency.
And it's open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 12d

And we can see, in creatures that developed nervous systems especially, that they can act *for reasons*, based on the meaning of neural patterns. Living systems literally incorporate knowledge about the world to guide their behavior adaptively. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience

The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 14d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 14d

Grim Fandango for sure. Also Hypnospace Outlaw!
Also, embarrassing to admit, but Nier Automata was genuinely excellent, and gets bonus points for working within the genre of escapist slop, but then ultimately putting that frame into question and rising above it. Was brought to tears by the ending.

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 15d

If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

(SW2025) Control theory approaches for analysing, modeling, and manipulating brain activity and cognitive function – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience

bernstein-network.de

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 22d

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939

#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

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apply.interfolio.com

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 22d

Very cool!

Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 22d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 23d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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𖤐B𖤐 @neuroyogacara.bsky.social · 22d

I'm bumping this job announcement up again, for folks who might have missed it last time!

𖤐B𖤐 @neuroyogacara.bsky.social · 27d

I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710

Assistant Professor, Georgetown University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

philjobs.org

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 23d

@nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @bwz-brain.bsky.social, genuinely curious for your take here, as it would help clarify a lot.

When you say "FFA does face processing", do you mean that face processing implies FFA activity? Or do you mean that FFA activity implies face processing?

Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 23d

The reverse claim, FFA->FP means
~FP
∴ ~FFA.
i.e., if the task doesn't involve face processing, you should not see FFA activity.

The question was which claim is meant when saying "The FFA does face processing".

FP->FFA seems totally reasonable, but means FFA is not be unique to face processing.

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 23d

Just to press on this a bit more, because I'm bummed this never got a response: It's useful because it shows what negative evidence implies for different claims.

FP->heart
no (~) heart
therefore (∴) ~FP. (obviously)

For FFA, it would mean:
FP->FFA
~FFA
∴ ~FP, which I think most would accept.

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Bowen Zheng @bwz-brain.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m not sure how useful this form is for characterizing part of the brain that does specific computation though. The heart is an important part of keep me alive to do face processing, but it does’t seem useful to say face processing -> heart is active. though it’s logically correct.

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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 23d

Great to see that people are reading Danziger!
I increasingly started to get interested in questions about cultural specificty of psychological kinds toward the end of my book as well.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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