Jim Thompson

GMU update:

In a delightful twist, the GMU board just approved a 1.5% raise for President Washington. There had been widespread speculation that the board might fire him today. There was considerable attendance and media at today's meeting. The closed session was nearly 4 hrs!

What's next?

Working at the med school at WVU is was shocking how much distant there was in Morgantown for faculty and for education in general, even from middle-class residents. All most all jobs there were linked to the uni or hospital, even the sketchy pharma industry

More figs than a Nature supplementary materials

Many times thought of making a bot that whenever someone mentions dopamine replies "that's not what it does"

Or I'm very, very quiet, but I'm sure that this mike that is aimed either at my belly button or six inches over my head will pick up my voice just fine

Our latest paper, led by @yizhang96.bsky.social, finds Pavlovian learning shapes empathy:

People can link another person's abstract mental states—like feeling good or bad—with reward. This shapes empathy in new situations where those feelings are perceived.

🥳Excited to share that our new paper is live at Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social! We show that Pavlovian learning can grow empathy for another person. 🧵👇

My take on "peak woke" discourse is always the same: that the people condemning "wokeness" were always a bigger problem than the things they were criticizing.

I think the Trump administration has basically vindicated my anti-anti-wokeness.

Trump admits that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young girls from him at Mar-a-Lago’s “spa” and brought them into his child sex trafficking ring. This includes Virginia Giuffre who died by suicide in April.

My t-shirt saying etc etc

I think you can still find it on YouTube. Far and away the best

Just a different team with Skelton and Valentini

Me out with the boys at Chasers 2am

Any journalist who is not asking this question should not be taken seriously

ANDRE THE GIANT "I don't like to speak badly of people. | have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face."

a man in a bathrobe is standing in a pool with ducks swimming around him Alt: a man in a bathrobe is standing in a pool with ducks swimming around him

c'maaahhhn!

Opinion | The Plot to Oust the President of George Mason University This campaign is not about policy. It’s about power.

This article is as clear and coherent about what is happening at Virginia institutions of higher education as anything I have read. It has nothing to do with antisemitism or civil rights; it is a coordinated and hostile political takeover.

This is an awesome thread - thank you and your lab!

Who is funding it? Big shrimp, obviously. Jumbo shrimp, if you like

This is quite good (and shout out to my colleague Lauren quoted therein). I'm curious though who the faculty are who initiated this complaint - surely this should be part of the public record www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (Official Video)

Shit. Vale Ozzy you beautiful crazy man. I honestly don't know which of the first 5 Sabbath albums is my favorite - at certain times of my life each has played a key role. I was lucky enough to see them in Hollywood in 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTp...

Weiters to Hollands to Doc to Acres youtu.be/oTwITJc5vxY?...

YouTube video by Carlton Blues Fans Sam Docherty kicks a goal on return - AFL Round 1 2022 - Blues vs Tigers

First game back after chemo in the preseason youtu.be/mZWWwwJQDts?...

Three knee recons, came back from cancer twice. Bled navy blue.

YouTube video by Carlton Football Club Full speech: Docherty announces retirement to the group 😭

I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING youtu.be/YeF2ZcQaTPg?...

Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind | PNAS Theories of the evolution of cooperation through reciprocity explain how unrelated self-interested individuals can accomplish more together than th...

Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"!

Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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A modern Reddit Classic. I hope this is true and not a work of fiction. The key moment in the thread is the remark “It doesn’t say OF MILK”.

Even if this is fake the whole thread is a masterpiece

Today’s FDA panel on SSRIs in pregnancy lacked balance and failed to reflect the evidence. Untreated depression and anxiety can lead to serious health risks for pregnant patients—SSRIs can be lifesaving. Patients deserve access to evidence-based, compassionate care. Learn more: buff.ly/NcCZno8