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🧵1/ Ever wondered what makes for a good conversation? Shannon Burns, PhD Diana Tamir Communication Neuroscience Lab @L_MwilambweT, Lily Tsoi and I used fMRI hyperscanning to answer this question by tracking the dynamics of naturalistic conversations. Now out in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Check out this terrifying firestorm in Wrightwood at the ski resort the same place I was covering that blizzard on foot last spring. Terrifying footage of the fire wall advance

From /u/Joscience on /r/losangeles, aerial view of the #BridgeFire Tues night 9/10.

ATTN: Prospective Psych & Neuro doctoral students Sign-up for the Boston College Pre-Doctoral Mentorship Program for 1-on-1 mentorship to psych & neuroscience doctoral programs. Sign-up ASAP, deadline 11/15. For more information and FAQs please visit: shorturl.at/fklxY

Interventions that enable individuals to circumvent obstacles, offer social support, provide incentives, and highlight healthy social norms are very effective at changing behavior. Changing emotions, attitudes, and beliefs, doesn't help much. nature.com/articles/s4415…

Excited to share our new research on how we project our own personality structures onto others! Our paper "Self-Other Mirroring in Personality Structure" is currently under review. Check out the preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya… [1/n]

For those using, and particularly teaching, Python for neuroimaging analysis - has anyone made the switch from Pandas to Polars? Recommendations on why/how?

ONE MORE WEEK to apply to our computational neuroscience position Pomona College! If you study the computational processes of the brain (broadly defined), and value both teaching and research opportunities, we'd love to see your application.

How do we reach agreement? @HaranSened,Shannon Burns, PhD Diana Tamir Communication Neuroscience Lab @L_MwilambweT, Lily Tsoi and I just published a preprint on the conversational dynamics supporting agreement. Dive in to see how exploring diverse perspectives makes a difference. [1/8] 🧵

Very honored to share that our paper on how (and why) strong situations impact behavioral variance is finally out at *JPSP*! 🌷☺️ Isabel Thielmann Reinout E. de Vries, daniel balliet Check it out ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi00…

1/ I've long wondered why executive function in childhood predicts life outcomes. Why does juggling information in mind, shifting between tasks, and controlling our impulses matter so much? I'm increasingly convinced that our early answers missed something fundamental.

Last night's northern lights were captured on many ALERTCalifornia cameras. Check out this compilation time-lapse captured in Modoc and Lassen Counties. Thanks to everyone who tagged us in their captures and look for all sorts of phenomena 24/7 at cameras.alertcaliforna.org.

Excited to share a new project! 🎉🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… How do we navigate between brain states when we switch tasks? Are dynamics driven by control, or passive decay of the prev task? To answer, we compare high-dim linear dynamical systems fit to EEG and RNNs🌀 ⏬

🚨Social and Affective Neuro folks, the submission portals for abstracts and symposia are open🚨 We're hoping to broaden the audience at SANS, so if you've ever been SANS-curious but haven't applied, now is the time come! See you in Chicago! socialaffectiveneuro.org/conference/

Failures are hard to learn from, not just because they are unpleasant, but also because they appear uninformative, research by Ryan Carlson and Ayelet Fishbach suggests. Overcoming these difficulties requires addressing both emotional and cognitive barriers: buff.ly/3ynp3HD

I'm extremely excited to launch the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician in January 2025 (job ad soon). Reach out to chat!

This comprehensive work (224 refs!) synthesizes years of our thinking on the connection between synchronization, uncertainty, and creativity, unpacks how disrupting our habits (de- and re-sync) drive creative breakthroughs. bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 2/2

New Paper: Stanford researcher (Joon Sung Park) discovers how to clone human personalities and inject them into AI Agents 🧠 This builds on last year's paper which put 1000's of fully automated agents in a simulated town. The results are wild. 👇

Pomona College is looking for a two-year visiting assistant professor in human neuroscience! If you want to be in SoCal in the next couple years, please consider applying or let me know if you have any questions! …aremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/POM-faculty-jo…