Interested in the neuroscience of dietary decisions? Check out our lab's latest preprint led by Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ @tgro.bsky.social, @laurencf.bsky.social, Stefan Bode, @paulmgarrett.bsky.social Explainer thread below 1/n

The Centroparietal Positivity Traces the Path of Evidence Accumulation During Dietary Decisions

Each day we make dozens of decisions about food. These choices are informed not only by information that we receive from our senses, but also by our memories, values, cultural norms, and goals. Eviden...

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one of the funniest things I have ever seen

My band got featured in a local Melbourne magazine called Human Fly. They had nice things to say about our album!

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I feel like Bluesky has been pretty dead for a while. Are people on Threads?

I'm about 7 weeks into my sabbatical at Indiana University in Bloomington. While it's been really satisfying work-wise, being away from home, my partner, and my cats for this long has been... hard to say the least.

brb buying this

New preprint from Tan Nguyen! Ever wanted to know why violating a schema sometimes helps memory but sometimes hurts? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Nice review of my band's album from Thoughts Words Action! thoughtswordsaction.com/2026/05/29/s...

Snailgun - Glass Walls LP - Thoughts Words Action

If you paid attention to what’s happening on the contemporary underground music scene, you probably know how many bands deliver outstanding music, but if you

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Alanís Morrisette walked so that Avril Lavigne could run

Just got word that my most recent paper in Psych Review was selected as an Editor's Choice paper! It was a really nice honor to get, especially given that it's my favorite journal! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

today, the debut album from my band Snailgun released. it's been a lifelong dream to release an album. what was a great start to the day was getting sent this glowing review of the album by Backseat Mafia: www.backseatmafia.com/album-review...

Album Review: Snailgun unveil their shattering debut ‘Glass Walls’ ahead of live dates.

Naarm/Melbourne band Snailgun have just delivered their debut album ‘Glass Wall’, and it’s a deliciously scabrous affair filled with blistering post punk cathartic noise. The gene…

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Airports in Hawaii are strange places. At the Maui airport I met a TSA agent that was convinced I was Kenny Loggins and excitedly shook my hand. At the Honolulu airport in a lounge a woman was absolutely convinced I am a Twitter celebrity.

What's the deal with drift rate variability in the Diffusion Model of decision-making? Find out in our newest publication in Computational Brain and Behaviour Led by @jie-sun.bsky.social + @adamosth.bsky.social Come for the slow errors, stay for the joint modelling w/ EEG rdcu.be/e85Re

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

my band was featured in the new issue of Bad Batch Magazine, a rock magazine that focuses on the Melbourne music scene

I really need people outside of Seattle to know how much Krist Novoselic sucks

New prerint w/ my student Haomin Chen and collaborator Andrew Heathcote! Accumulator models are well known for being able to address choice and RT. Joint accounts of confidence are much less common. In this work, we explored 3 LBA models of confidence. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I have been really hurting over the news in Minnesota. I'm having a hard time finding the words for it even now. In short, I'm finding it very hard to be optimistic, and I'm very scared things could get much worse

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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As a memory researcher, I still find results that are really puzzling to understand or explain. Here's one by Henkel (2014) - taking a photo of something impairs your memory relative to passive viewing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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to those in the US - is Dave’s hot chicken good?

Really happy to announce that in 2026 I will be an Associate Editor at Psychological Review! It’s my favorite journal so this is a huge honor!

New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task. Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs! And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology! A thread!

my band has a new single called "It's Called Fear" - here's a spotify link: open.spotify.com/track/2nhuy0...

It's Called Fear

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my band just released a cover of "good luck babe" by Chappell Roan. we did a post punk version of it - it's as if Sonic Youth is playing it, complete with angular guitar stabs and disaffected vocals. not meant to be ironic at all - we love the original song! open.spotify.com/track/6RrOEZ...

Good Luck, Babe!

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This is doing the rounds at the moment and I find it a strange take. A thread

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Memory is not stored in the brain

A philosophical critique of the neuroscientific “storage” metaphor, exploring why memories may not be physically stored in the brain and how this challenges materialist views of mind and consciousness...

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Hollow Knight Silksong is amazing

It’s been a tough time. Yesterday we took Mabel to the vet because she was having a hypo episode. We unexpectedly ended up having to say goodbye to her. We are devastated. This is a photo from back in 2016 when I adopted her.