Welcome to episode 2 of Neuroscience in Film! @danipalombo.bsky.social had the chance to binge the two Inside Out movies with her kids and decided to share her insights with us. First up: are memories actually emotionally coloured like they are in the films? Stay tuned for Part 2!

Neuroscience in Film: Inside Out

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At long last, I’ve just publisehd a new substack post on the sublime intersubjective art of clowning and the art of training attention attention to “the we-ness between us.” open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Clowns

Architects of interbeing space

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**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories** Looks very interesting. #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Preserving a Lifetime of Visionary Work open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...

Preserving a Lifetime of Visionary Work

Go Fund Me Link

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In Stories for Healing Earth the odyssey, “An Open Pickup on the High Seas,” continues. In which my father, John Todd, escapes with his life by sail only to encounter a sea serpent. And over the years hunts down the scientific explanation behind the mythical beast. open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...

An Ocean Pickup on the High Seas

Part 2: The Sea Serpent

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New preprint of a theoretical paper with @evanthompson.bsky.social. We discuss using information theoretic approaches to test the role of emergent interaction dynamics hypothesized by #ParticipatorySensemaking on attention and agency — using dance improv as a laboratory: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Third Entity: Participatory Sense-Making, Agency, and Attentional Dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps... New paper by @beckety.bsky.social and yours truly.

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....

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Depression may impair avoidance of aversive events, and aversive events may increase depression. Here is one of the possible depressive loops. "Depression levels are associated with reduced capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events in young adults." www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

Depression levels are associated with reduced capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events in young adults

Depression and anxiety are often characterized by altered reward-seeking and avoidance, respectively. Yet less is known about the relationship between depressive symptoms and specific avoidance behavi...

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New in #eNeuro from Tomm et al: The more depressive symptoms a person has, the more they struggle with learning to actively avoid unpleasant stimuli. @ubcpsych.bsky.social‬ https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025

I should also be sure to say that wrt building on @dr-stan.bsky.social's lab’s rodent research I should acknowledge that the direct inspiration came from some of the PhD research carried out by @ppiantad.bsky.social!

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1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Depression Curbs Ability to Actively Avoid Unpleasant Events

Depression in young patients is linked to difficulty in taking action to avoid something unpleasant, while the ability to withdraw and not act remains intact.

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I just published a new substack on death and loss and radical hope when meaning as we know it slips from under our feet: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Death, Grief, and Radical Hope

Crepe myrtle’s confetti of flowers.

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My mother, Nancy Jack Todd, died May 30. This substack note is my first of many articulations of a personal tribute to her. substack.com/@beckettodd/...

Rebecca Todd on Substack

This note is a first tribute to my mother, Nancy Jack Todd, who died peacefully at home in the evening of May 30, in sunlight, with John and her grandson Max holding her hands. Other obituaries and t...

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My mother-in-law, the inestimable Nancy Jack Todd, has left us. Here's a piece about her by her daughter and my partner, @beckety.bsky.social substack.com/@beckettodd/...

Rebecca Todd on Substack

This note is a first tribute to my mother, Nancy Jack Todd, who died peacefully at home in the evening of May 30, in sunlight, with John and her grandson Max holding her hands. Other obituaries and t...

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@beckety.bsky.social in dialogue with Yuri Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux: Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World

Notice the texture of the lands where you are.

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Here I interview two of my heroes, Yuria Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux, who articulate and foster our enmeshed relationship with the more than human world. We need what they are offering so desperately, I'm excited to amplify their words and actions here: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World

Notice the texture of the lands where you are.

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New Love and Philosophy podcast from @lovephilosophy.substack.com with me, aerial dancer/philosopher Shay Welch & "frequency barista" penijean gracefire on complexity fatigue & the "third entity" - the interactive process that takes on a life of its own lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/complexity...

Complexity Fatigue & the 3rd Entity

Listen now | are we making any sense together in this world?

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This is a letter calling on Canadian federal party leaders asking them to make a historic investment in Canadian research sovereignty. If you're a Canadian researcher please sign it! CC @mark-carney.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca 🍁 🧪 www.linkedin.com/posts/dylanm...

National Letter | Dylan MacKay

If you are a researcher in Canada (professor, postdoc, graduate student, librarian, technician, clinician scientist, research associate, director, manager, person with lived or living experience, etc)...

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A review of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "an engaging and accessible account of the state of the art, through the words of some of the leading figures involved in mapping the psychiatric territory."

Conversations in critical psychiatry

Published in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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🧠 Are you completing a PhD in neuroscience or psychology and seek a competitive postdoc abroad? Join my lab at CIMeC as a Marie Curie Fellow. We study abstract concept from newborns to adult using fMRI, EEG & more. Reach out for ideas! Call opens May 8, 2025. 🔗https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/per2con

Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬

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If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.

If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.

By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee

Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.

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Wonderful new piece by Steve Rose on my dad John Todd’s always-visionary work in ecological restoration and design, from the New alchemy Institute in the 1970s to today's vision of a fleet of sailing ships to clean up polluted coastal waters open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...

'YODA' FOR SCIENTISTS: A NEW ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN

‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future' by Steve Rose

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My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.

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Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease — a Review by Mara Mather www.nature.com/articles/s41... @maramather.bsky.social #neuroscience

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Substantially reworked version Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value osf.io/preprints/os... #complexity

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

New substack post on holding people in personhood when they are in danger of losing it in the eyes of the world — with artscientists Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenaizi Ariane Boulet.  open.substack.com/pub/becketto... in Personhood open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Holding in Personhood

Oh, the days, they waste away, like an unplayed game.

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I just published a new substack post focusing on "holding in personhood." Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenazi, & Ariane Boulet describe their work using dance, music, and technology to hold people in relationship when communication channels are restricted: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Holding in Personhood

Oh, the days, they waste away, like an unplayed game.

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I just spent an 8 hour drive listening to Andrea Hiott's Love and Philosophy podcast. It's now officially my favorite podcast --fascinating conversations that get to the heart of what matters. Recommend! www.youtube.com/@waymaking23 @lovephilosophy.substack.com

Love & Philosophy

Love is the answer. Philosophy is the practice. Paradox is the portal. Connecting head and ❤️ with Andrea Hiott. Research conversations beyond usual bounds, not always easy. Bringing together the pat...

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