Adam Turnbull
adamgturnbull.bsky.social
Adam Turnbull
@adamgturnbull.bsky.social
Academic interested in mind wandering/spontaneous thought/self-generated thought, emotion/emotion regulation, aging/Alzheimer's Disease, and non-pharmacological/behavioral interventions.
lol "buddy" you don't know ball that's fine. watch the games, if it's clear the player is just throwing it up because they've felt contact they don't call it a shooting foul. Jokic does it every time and never gets the call. have to be in the shooting motion when fouled for it to be a shooting foul
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
players do the "throw the ball at the basket when touched" thing all the time and it's never called a shooting foul. can't call it like that at the end of the game.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
WRONG. Ball don't lie.
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Thank goodness karma chose just a slap-on-the-wrist, make him suffer a little
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Reposted by Adam Turnbull
And the next step? Full voxel-level modeling.

Recent numerical advances cracked the scalability barrier. Voxel-level hierarchical modeling is now feasible, revealing just how punishing traditional multiple-comparison adjustments really are.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.12825
SIMBA: Scalable Image Modeling using a Bayesian Approach, A Consistent Framework for Including Spatial Dependencies in fMRI Studies
Bayesian spatial modeling provides a flexible framework for whole-brain fMRI analysis by explicitly incorporating spatial dependencies, overcoming the limitations of traditional massive univariate app...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
biased because I just saw Diego Bohórquez give a very impressive talk but any of his work on gut-brain connections (e.g. www.science.org/doi/full/10....)
A gut-brain neural circuit for nutrient sensory transduction
A neuroepithelial circuit that connects the intestinal lumen to the brain stem in one synapse has been identified.
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
for broader terms like "intelligence", I'm not sure. it's why I avoid these sorts of terms completely. it probably changes depending on the field, but if these terms emerged out of human-focused work then there will always be people that don't think they apply to non-human processes
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I would say yes... based on the logic that what we want to understand is what humans do, so we come up with a term to describe a process, then we come up with measures that capture that process (imperfectly). I think it matters when using that term that we are describing the same process.
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I think you can get at different aspects of the process by looking at neural activity vs. behavioral paradigms. But I think something could do well at certain episodic memory tests with a process that varies significantly from what people that study it in humans mean when they use the term.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I guess I use episodic memory as an example because I believe the tests are a particularly lazy proxy of the process that are good at picking up major dysfunction but miss a lot else (which is why many people studying episodic memory as a process don't use these basic tests in their work).
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I think we have a range of measures of outcomes and a range of measures of process, and some combination of those (depending who you ask) would comprise episodic memory. I do think that the process is part of our definition of these terms (although we've often forgotten this in human research too).
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I sort of agree, but is the operationalization of a concept all it is scientifically? I wouldn't use "intelligence" when studying humans or AI (too broad and poorly defined), but if AI can do episodic memory tasks, does it have episodic memory? I would say no...
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Too much whiskey and rye
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I think it was February, I remember it made me shiver
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Music literally died that year
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM