David V. Smith
@dvsmith.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Temple University. Using fMRI and tES to understand how we make social and economic decisions.
Hi all! I’m looking for a full-time RA / lab manager (start date: late Aug or Sept, 1 year of funding guaranteed). Ideal candidate is a recent grad w/ relevant research experience. App review has begun, so if you’re interested, please apply here ASAP, by 7/12! Thx! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...
Hiring Research Assistant, - Garden City, N.Y.
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · last mo.NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
New lab paper ! "Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons" led by @xinyuanyan.bsky.social. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons
The human brain has the remarkable ability to comprehend and express similar concepts in multiple languages. To understand how it does so, we examined…
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Is brain circuit targeted TMS better than standard clinical TMS for treating depression? New study led by Joe Taylor @braincircuits.bsky.social out today in @jamapsychiatry.com says yes! Connectivity- vs Scalp-Based Targeting of Accelerated TMS for Depression jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Connectivity- vs Scalp-Based Targeting of Accelerated TMS for Depression
This randomized clinical trial estimates the effect size of connectivity- vs scalp-based targeting of accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.
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ComCat: Combating Covariate Effects in Brain Analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.18.733200v1
Happy to share that our paper on objective quality assessment for "precision" fMRI is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social A recap of what it does, what's new since the preprint, and code you can run on your own data. cell.com/neuron/fullt...
I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
This eliminates public access to (checks notes) all tables and cross-tabs from the 2020 census Post from Cornell Prof John Abowd, who spent much of his career expanding access to government data www.linkedin.com/posts/john-a...
Trump admin eliminating access to many microdata sets that economists use Probably not intentional, just the bumbling fumbles of unqualified appointees Effect is the same
Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 2mo agoFrom former U.S. Census Chief Scientist John Abowd on LinkedIn, what Census data products are affected by Commerce's new policy? A devastating set of answers including all ACS Public Use Micro Samples www.linkedin.com/posts/john-a...
RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social
JOB OFFER RESEARCH ASSISTANT - CONSCIOUSNESS Research group (D.S.)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...
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Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds. Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths. Make no mistake: this is fascism.
Alarm Grows Over Vought Plan to Give Trump Cronies Control of Federal Grant Money | Common Dreams
"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the
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The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran. Today's post explores two fun facts: 1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!) 2. Even so, stocks rose on the news. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...
How to Price A Liar
For the 50th time this year, we're on the cusp of peace. Apparently.
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The authors of the latest PSPI provide an overview on the latest in fraud research. They also strive to highlight the urgency of fraud’s impact. @sdukehan.bsky.social
To Fight Fraud, Psychological Scientists Issue a Call to Arms
Scams are now one of the most common crimes in the world. In the most recent issue of PSPI, real-life accounts are used to illustrate how pervasive and indiscriminate fraud can be.
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In “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling“ journalist Danny Funt explores the fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to enact sports betting laws.
He wrote the book on sports gambling’s rise. Here’s what he thinks you should know.
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Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New MEG preprint out! Huge congrats to postdoc Rohit Yadav. We (among other things…) decoded explore-exploit decisions in the human brain, revealing the lateral frontopolar cortex kicks off the shift to exploration hundreds of milliseconds before the choice itself. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrew N. Van, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, et al: Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Glad to highlight a chapter from our lab in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions: “Maladaptive Decision-Making in Older Adults: Confirmation Bias and Financial Exploitation,” led by @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Maladaptive Decision-Making in Older Adults: Confirmation Bias and Financial Exploitation
Financial exploitation of older adults has become an increasingly urgent public health issue, with annual losses exceeding $10 billion in the United States. This exploitation often stems from age-related cognitive deficits, such as impairments in working memory...
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Update: the book is now officially out! Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is available from Springer here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Huge thanks again to @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social, and all of the contributors.
Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions
This book provides comprehensive coverage of core topics and recent advances in the field of neuroeconomics and highlights emerging trends in the field.
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David V. Smith@dvsmith.bsky.social · last yr.🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)
The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...
Opinion | Get the Federal Science Money Flowing
The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
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Check out our new review titled "Contributions of default mode network to subjective valuation and maladaptive decision making" now out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science! @dfareri.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8Js8MqMi...
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The impact of AI is already producing a massive flood of content in so many creative industries--I don't know how we are going review or evaluate all this stuff. The peer review system was already at a breaking point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery @nature.com The first multi-agent system capable of fully automating both hypothesis generation and data analysis for experimental biology.
My first first author preprint is out! Couldn’t be done without @jenyangyi.bsky.social, @dvsmith.bsky.social, Chelsea Helion, plus stellar support from Daniel Sazhin, Cooper Sharp, and Avi Dachs.
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3mo agoDifferences in other-directed emotion regulation tracks connectivity between amygdala and prefrontal regions during fairness decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.724908v1
🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
Postdoc and Research Technician Positions — Rutledge Lab
Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.
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Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...
New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature
In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.
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Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed
While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...
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