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Clark Roberts
@darkhat.bsky.social
Misanthropic Altruist. PDoc MIT | PhD NeuroPsychiatry Cambridge
| Jazz, Philosophy, Capybaras, Dynamic Systems, and the Sources of Human Misery.
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Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!

I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com

Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
DeckerLab
www.deckerlab.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!

Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠

Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
Please share widely! 1/4
January 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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First 🟦 sky post!

Ever struggled with allocating your time across different tasks? In this project, we looked at how cognitive constraints, like time pressure & cognitive load, affect how people prioritise different goals.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PhDSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 1, 2023 at 5:38 AM
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We have a new paper 🤸‍♀️ out in PNAS from recently graduated Dr Sean Kelley - in 3 large samples, we built personalised emotion networks from 8 weeks of twice daily mood sampling and tested how that related to changes in depression... 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 7, 2023 at 10:20 AM
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Is the vagus nerve primarily regulating 'rest & digest'? In our new TiCS review, we outline that it is time to expand our perspective on vagal signaling to include 'strive to survive' as a second survival mode.
Work w/ @glassybrain.bsky.social
#neuroscience

authors.elsevier.com/a/1iALr4sIRv...
November 29, 2023 at 9:26 AM
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A practical guide to selecting and blending approaches for clustered data: Clustered errors, multilevel models, and fixed-effect models. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... latest gem from @dmcneish.bsky.social
November 29, 2023 at 10:20 PM
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It's not just rhythms. It is transient bursts of rhythms.

Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
#neuroscience
November 30, 2023 at 12:58 AM