❗New Paper Alert ❗ We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social rdcu.be/eBZwE

Social inference brain networks in autistic adults during movie-viewing: functional specialization and heterogeneity - Molecular Autism

Background Difficulty in social inferences is a core feature in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). On the behavioral level, it remains unclear whether reasoning about others’ mental states (Theory of Mi...

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gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Behind the Scenes: Using Movies to Study the Human Brain

What happens inside your brain when you watch your favorite movie? Maybe you wonder what the character thinks or wants to do next? Since characters in movies often act like we do in real life, scienti...

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I was recently interviewed about my research and career for a blog post for WiNUK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social: www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...

Bridging the Gap: Dr Katie Mckinnon

In this new Bridging the Gap article, Dr Katie Mckinnon shares insights into neonatology, her career journey, and more!

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Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

Are we paying too much for biomedical research?

Trump's attack on NIH

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2025 FLUX Conference Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️ Local Organising Committee: Rhodri Cusack (Chair) Hugh Garavan John J Foxe Robert Whelan Catherine Fassbender Flavia H. Santos fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/

2025 Dublin - Flux Society

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Ditto :)

Asifa Majid@asifamajid.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.

We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Feel free to reach out with Qs

We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Feel free to reach out with Qs

If you’re interested in learning more about the masters programs in #deafed or #ASL and #deafstudies, I’m hosting an info session tonight at 6ET. It will be in ASL with interpreters. mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...

More good news to share 😁 The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa... Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team! Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams #devpsyc #psychscisky

Oooof. Not a single… Not a *single* K99 awardee at an HBCU. Ever. Ever? EVER.

Analysis of NIH K99/R00 Awards and the Career Progression of Awardees

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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1/ Hey #devscisky #psychscisky), I'm running into a problem where an online moderated developmental study (i.e. on zoom w/kids) gets a ton of signups from different emails with the same format that seem to be programmatically generated. They were one guy, no kid, didn't even pretend.

*New paper* W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes Mini thread below!

This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/

🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

Do you have an opening in your lab?? Is your institutions hiring?? Share it with the #neuroscience community by typing #neurojobs in your post to be added to the Neuroscience Jobs feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Loads of new psychologists and neuroscientists here this week! If you want to help more people escape from the old site, don't forget to share your invites with our pool using this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Excited to share an open dataset of 321 3-12yo children who completed our ToM booklet task, as well as all task materials + guides for administration & coding! Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/ Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.

Our new language fMRI dataset is now published in Scientific Data! And not only that it now includes nearly double the amount of data as the preprint version with up to 15 hours of fMRI per participant! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

A natural language fMRI dataset for voxelwise encoding models - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A natural language fMRI dataset for voxelwise encoding models

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