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Clark Roberts

@darkhat.bsky.social

Misanthropic Altruist. PDoc MIT | PhD NeuroPsychiatry Cambridge | Jazz, Philosophy, Capybaras, Dynamic Systems, and the Sources of Human Misery.

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Does anybody have a clue if John Searle is still alive?

25.04.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was going to berate you/them for implying they knew cognitive I thought it was but was the paper too interesting

03.03.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms WASHINGTONβ€”Amid efforts to prove himself as an effective chair of the performing arts organization, President Donald Trump was reportedly unable to focus in a national security meeting Friday, distracted by the pressure of booking the Kennedy Center’s upcoming Summer Jazz Series. According to sources, the sound of his Cabinet members’ voices was essentially white noise […]

Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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25.02.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4372    πŸ” 488    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 30

Outside of the crazies I dont see this very often. Ie people deservedly scrutinizing psychology then inferring physics is also not worth pursuing or funding. Maybe im wrong though, would love to see examples

12.02.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I suppose that's fair and i wouldnt attack science as an enterprise. However, I wasn't really referring to "fake" science so much as bad science - which is obviously hard to put an objective number on. And I'm also bias being in psychology/psychiatry which atleast somebody has memeified

11.02.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems kinda strawmany as ive never heard any make that generalization. However, i didnt listen to the podcast so maybe im missing the reference. Clearly alot of variation between fields though either way it seems.

11.02.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't really understand you're arguing for here. You're seemingly acknowledging at least some fields are largely capable of a lot of junk science - but other scientists or people shouldn't call them out for it because it aligns with some right-wing pundits narratives? And thus should instead...?

11.02.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!

Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠

Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

21.01.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 279    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7

That which people whom I don't like are typically bad at

15.01.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely seems to be the case

10.11.2024 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wish I were able to have more conversations with such overly-confident neuroscience people !

11.01.2024 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How many times have you been told the cerebellum was probably going to be simple?

11.01.2024 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Separate Ways though, for sure . That music video is also one of the funniest in history

10.01.2024 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fair enough. That choice still wouldn't make it on my top 5 journey songs though.

10.01.2024 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fleetwood? :) Would be my choice, even though not very high on my list.

10.01.2024 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those are mostly terrible songs, yikes

10.01.2024 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
Please share widely! 1/4

08.01.2024 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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First 🟦 sky post!

Ever struggled with allocating your time across different tasks? In this project, we looked at how cognitive constraints, like time pressure & cognitive load, affect how people prioritise different goals.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PhDSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

01.12.2023 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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We have a new paper πŸ€Έβ€β™€οΈ out in PNAS from recently graduated Dr Sean Kelley - in 3 large samples, we built personalised emotion networks from 8 weeks of twice daily mood sampling and tested how that related to changes in depression... 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

07.11.2023 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The vagal afferent pathway and its theorized function in allostatic behavior.
Interoception encodes bodily demands that arise once an allostatic set point, such as a sufficient nutrient supply, is unmet. Interoceptive signals can be evoked by changes in bodily states (e.g., lack of nutrients) or emulated by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)

The vagal afferent pathway and its theorized function in allostatic behavior. Interoception encodes bodily demands that arise once an allostatic set point, such as a sufficient nutrient supply, is unmet. Interoceptive signals can be evoked by changes in bodily states (e.g., lack of nutrients) or emulated by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)

Is the vagus nerve primarily regulating 'rest & digest'? In our new TiCS review, we outline that it is time to expand our perspective on vagal signaling to include 'strive to survive' as a second survival mode.
Work w/ @glassybrain.bsky.social
#neuroscience

authors.elsevier.com/a/1iALr4sIRv...

29.11.2023 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

A practical guide to selecting and blending approaches for clustered data: Clustered errors, multilevel models, and fixed-effect models. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... latest gem from @dmcneish.bsky.social

29.11.2023 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not just rhythms. It is transient bursts of rhythms.

Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
#neuroscience

30.11.2023 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amen.

27.11.2023 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that study was done with beta-blockers just for context :)

19.11.2023 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... maybe helpful

19.11.2023 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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