Matt Wall

Finally, an award I might stand a chance at winning! 🤣

In academia, the pinnacle of achievement is a pdf no one can access and I think that's beautiful

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

you know what fair

Quiche Lorraine is the perfect food. Eggs, cheese, bacon, pastry - what more could you want? Not sure who Lorraine was, but she was obviously a genius.

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Billions of dollars on AI nonsense and microsoft still doesn't know that 'data' is plural. 🙄

Fair point.

Single-dose psilocybin rapidly and sustainably relieves allodynia and anxiodepressive-like behaviors in mouse models of chronic pain - Nature Neuroscience Hammo et al. show that a single dose of psilocybin rapidly and sustainably relieves both chronic pain and anxiodepressive-like behaviors in mice by restoring prefrontal activity through partial agonism at 5-HT2A and 5-HT1A receptors.

New paper in Nature Neuro, with very impressive results (in mice):
Single-dose psilocybin rapidly and sustainably relieves allodynia and anxiodepressive-like behaviors in mouse models of chronic pain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this is art 🥹

Yep. General Elsevier evilness. No longer doing free work for profit-driven publishers (I mean... unless I really, really want to).

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Review request comes in from 'Neuroimage':

Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Death by misinformation… 😠

Famous close-up still from Alien3 with the alien menacing Ripley.

"We would like to thank the reviewers for their helpful and constructive critiques."

Thanking the reviewers

Fair point.

Which just makes the terribly slow progress in psychiatry look all the worse... 🤨

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Likely explanation is that they're trying to patent it or form a spin-out company based on that IP, and therefore need to 'protect' it. Still not... great though.

It is peak academic to just get so angry about something that you’ve been bottling up that you finally explode and

Write a long poem

In rhyming meter

With footnotes 🥰

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"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets."
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How Psychedelics Affect the Brain: What We Know, and What We Think We Know Twenty years into the Psychedelic Renaissance, neuroscientists still struggle to understand how psychedelics work and how to rectify misconceptions about these drugs.

New easy-to-read article in The Scientist on how psychedelics work, inconsistencies in leading narratives (no punches were pulled…), and work coming out of our center on the impact of psychedelics on memory. With Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff.
www.the-scientist.com/how-psychede...

Thanks for the reminder! 😢

I joined Bluesky in Sep. 2023. There was a brief few months there when I just followed a bunch of nice science-y accounts, starter packs etc., and it was great, but ever since it's been:
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