The algorithm knows no mercy. All I did was google 'what does 6-7 mean?'.

Me: I should start a podcast. The universe:

This is getting out of hand.

🥁🎉The Psychosis Collective proudly presents our first preprint 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝘈 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 starring Le He & Harriet Feldman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We wanted to understand how antipsychotics work. Thread🧵

Multilingual parenting theory: OPOL – one person, one language. Multilingual parenting reality: OSTL – one Satz, tres languages.

Glad to read in the Guardian today that some German concepts central to indoor wellbeing are becoming more widely appreciated 😅 Read on for a short glossary on indoor climate for those living with people raised in Germany

Last experiment before submission? 🤞

I was so busy conferencing that I only took one photo on arrival! Wonderful to see old friends, make new ones, and talk bottomless science. My goal for ACNP 2027: make it onto the @ahmarilab.bsky.social #fashionsOfAcnp feed 😀 #acnp2026 @acnporg.bsky.social

ACNP@acnporg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📸 One last favor: Share your favorite photo from the meeting and tag us! We’d love to see #ACNP2026 through your eyes. Until next year... stay inspired!

Lab member: can I show you some data? Me, 9am: YES Me, 8pm: YES Me, 3am: YES Me, while undergoing surgery: YES

For anyone who made it through the “Everything was better back then” moments of the holiday season: Reward sensitivity declines with age. That might explain why apples tasted like apples, music felt real, and TV was just better.

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LinkedIn got my thoughtful 2025 year-in-review reflection. Bluesky gets the stupidest thing I did in 2022: Booking travel to a conference in Maine, happily thinking “Cool, there’s a direct flight from London to Portland.”

New preprint from the lab! A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We use a novel task in mice, cortex-wide imaging and optogenetics, NPX recording and modelling to reveal a circuit mechanism that transforms abstract decisions to spatial actions.

A frontal motor circuit for economic decisions and actions

Flexible behaviour requires transforming abstract cognitive representations, such as value preferences, into concrete motor actions. During economic decision-making, individuals evaluate options to gu...

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Ready for a crash course in psychosis? My recent public lecture is now on YouTube! I explain what psychosis is, what we are doing about it in the lab, and what the future may hold. Watch & share👇 youtu.be/EUb3_5ecatU

A Crash Course in Psychosis – with Katharina Schmack

YouTube video by The Francis Crick Institute

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I somewhere heard the term #Bayesplaining 😂 I confess: guilty as charged. Exhibit A: my slide.

One great thing about having kids: you do all the fun things you would never do otherwise – and your body immediately reminds you why 😅 Still, the 45-second slide ride down this #London sculpture tower, the ArcelorMittal Orbit, was absolutely worth the stiff neck!

What would Francis Crick make of this? I really enjoyed being part of this conversation on consciousness with @anilseth.bsky.social @stevefleming.bsky.social @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social, hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social. Listen now!

The Francis Crick Institute@crick.ac.uk · 8mo ago

What can science tell us about consciousness? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the nature of consciousness. Listen now on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...

How often have you heard that schizophrenia is “80% genetic”? That number is almost certainly too high because it comes from twin studies that overestimate heritabilty. Great explainer of this phenomenon👇 #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychiatry

Sasha Gusev@sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

Introducing the 𝐏𝐈-𝐚𝐭-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🤯 When activated, it will auto-reply to your PI's frantic ideas for new experiments, analyses, and projects with "Great suggestion! Saving this for later" (aka: let's talk when you’re back and got some sleep) #sfn2025 #sfn25

Caption this! #sfn2025

Genius workspace, then and now. (Neither my desk nor my desktop look like this. Draw your own conclusions 😅)

“She [Rosalind Franklin] would have thought of herself simply as a scientist whose achievements should have been judged on their own terms, not as a ‘woman scientist’ striking a blow for the rights of women.” #notAWomanScientist (1/n)

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 9mo ago

'She certainly felt insulted when she found that the main dining room at King's, where scientists would meet for discussions over lunch or coffee, was open only to men; this un-Parisian attitude was hard to take even if not unusual in English colleges at the time.' www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

He: You spent money on an AIR PURIFIER? Me: [erupting into a 15-minute talk on air pollution in cancer and dementia, confidently citing studies I once skimmed] He: You really should be in sales. Me: That's half my job, using vague recollections of science to convince people to fund more science.

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1/7 I could be Katharina Rubi. So, why am I still Katharina Schmack-(suppressed giggles)-can-you-spell-that for me? Here’s a story about a dopamine-degrading enzyme that fell out of fashion. 🧵

Cycling through London and something tells me many wishes will come true 🪔

Yes, I’m of a certain age, but would it kill the supermarket self-checkout worker to at least hesitate for a second before pressing “visibly over 25”? #foreverYoung

Everything I say in this video is true! Join us to start your lab at the Crick – Europe’s largest indoor playground for scientists 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬!

The Francis Crick Institute@crick.ac.uk · 9mo ago

Crick group leaders work across disciplines, supported by core funding and mentoring to build ambitious, curiosity-driven research. Apply now to join us ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Good point! Let’s revive the tradition: if you recently read an interesting paper (doesn’t matter which field) please share!! #FridayPaperClub

Jan “Mosshead” Blaha 🧬🎨🦣@jahabla.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@odedrechavi.bsky.social What happened to paper Fridays?

Scenes from our lab Slack channel: “Ugh… that’s disappointing.” “Wait, let me check.” “Hold on, something’s funny…” “WHAT?!” “Ohhh… that’s actually interesting.” “Back to the analysis we go…” “No way… THE EXPERIMENT WORKED!” I love this team! The rollercoaster of science never gets old! 😍🔬

two elderly women are riding a roller coaster together and one is covering her face .

Alt: two elderly women are riding a roller coaster together and one is covering her face .

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