Richard Huskey

Without the flexible scheduling of community college I wouldn’t have been able to complete the first step of my academic career. Great @nytimes.com article about how recent ed challenges affect CC and hurt communities and people who depend on them.

Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends - Nature Human Behaviour Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students.

Shen et al. show that pre-existing neural similarity in strangers predicts future friendship and changes in social distance over time in an emerging social network of MBA students. @carolynparkinson.bsky.social, @lisashen-yixuan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

A community college trained my dad as a heavy equipment mechanic. A community college helped me, a working-class kid with no clue, transfer to a university. Community colleges launched friends into trades and college degrees; pathways to opportunity are now at risk www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Great work @kyliewoodman.bsky.social and @medianeuro.bsky.social !

Psychopathology and Gaming Disorder in Adolescents This cohort study uses data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study to examine directional longitudinal associations between psychopathology and gaming disorder among adolescents.

Read the article here: ja.ma/4o9EM1N

“Why is my teen addicted to video games?”
Our new study in JAMA Network Open shows that psychopathology is a key driver--not an outcome of gaming disorder!
Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social challenges may underlie gaming disorder.
Treat the root, not just the game. 🎮🧠
#commsky #psychsci #gaming

Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...

Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.

Hear, hear!

“We advocate for… a more constructive mindset in which different dimensions of progress in neuroscience are explicitly acknowledged and their value is recognized - to temper their respective limitations and build on each other’s strengths.”

THIS WEEK the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Minds in the Making workshop brings you Vanessa Bermudez and @togelius.bsky.social in conversation about LEARNING 🧠💪 x DESIGN 🛠️! And what makes GAMES awesome for learning. Wednesday July 16th, 12pm-1pm PT. Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Major updates to our ConversationAlign R package - submitted to CRAN and JOSS today. If you're interested in computing alignment and main effects for >40 psycholinguistic dimensions in naturalistic conversation, this is the package for you reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/Conversation...

Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...

Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.

Affect and Decision Making: Insights and Predictions from Computational Models In recent years interest in integrating the affective and decision sciences has skyrocketed. Immense progress has been made, but the complexities of each field, which can multiply when combined, prese...

You’ve probably already seen this, and it certainly seems more constrained relative to your more domain-general goal, but maybe of use? Even if just as another example where people have made progress thinking about emotion and compitarional models www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Opinion | Here Is the Science of Why You Doomscroll

Check out Emily's op-ed for @nytimes.com on how small shifts in how we think can help us make choices that are better aligned with our values! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o...

This looks excellent!

@sansmeeting.bsky.social

Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a new piece, Dr. Robin Nabi and I discuss the space between fear-based bans and full digital freedom: The Digital Middle. (See link below)⬇️
There is a middle ground but it is up to each parent to evaluate where there child is at and what is best for them
#commsky #psychsky

Hippocampal systems for event encoding and sequencing during ongoing narrative comprehension - Communications Biology Distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the encoding and sequencing of narrative events during ongoing comprehension, revealing how episodic memory integrates past and present information into c...

🧠📖 New paper out! How does the brain make sense of a story?

Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415...

What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?

led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️

Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence Abstract. Across three studies, we examined how balance theory can be used to predict interdependent character evaluations. Leveraging the propositions of

From Joe Francemone and me: Moral information about one character doesn’t just shape how we see them—it reshapes how we see others around them. In social networks, moral judgments spread through contrast or assimilation depending on how the network is structured.

academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE

Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 2)Congrats to these presenters!!🎉

Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25

Swing by @b-wheeler.bsky.social poster session at 1:30 to snag one of our exclusive MNL 3D printed brain keychain. 🧠
She is also on the job market this year 👀👀
#ica25

Excited to present at #ICA25 Today!

🗓 1:30pm | Poster #70 | Centennial Foyer (Regency)

“Is Academic Online Bullying a Widespread Phenomenon? A Study of Scholarly Discourse on Twitter/X”

If you're attending, stop by to discuss our findings...and pick up a fun brain keychain while you're there! 🧠

Attending #ICA25? I’m presenting twice!

Today (Sat) 10:30-11:45: imagination interventions motivate pro-environmental behaviors

Mon 12-1:15: affective framing of news headlines influences engagement, donations, and memory

@falklab.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @penncssm.bsky.social @appc.upenn.edu

Communication and Change Dedicated to advancing the understanding of communication in the context of rapid technological and societal transformation Promotes communication research ...

Dr. Robert F. Potter and I are co-editing a special issue on "Dynamics of Human Communication" for the journal Communication and Change. If you're interested, feel free to check out the details below or come chat with me at ICA! #ICA25
link.springer.com/journal/4438...

A great photo of @rachaelkee.bsky.social inspiring us with her brilliant ideas for a sleep and media data donation app.
KEEp your eye out for her at #ica25

#ica25 here we go! See ya’ll soon!