Exciting work by an incoming postdoc Andrea deVarda (Andrea de Varda). Multilingual neural net LMs have enough of a shared inter-language component so that you can train an LM-to-brain mapping model using, say, English+Tamil and then predict brain responses to Italian. Pretty wild,eh?

New Pub! Our paper, “Agent-Based Modeling for Psychological Research on Social Phenomena,” has been accepted for publication in American Psychologist: doi.org/10.1037/amp000… You can read the preprint here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Nature research paper: Impact of Amazonian deforestation on precipitation reverses between seasons go.nature.com/3Dkwl1m

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv

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matrix should modify its UI. it's annoying to interact with multiple communities with multiple channels + individual users. I (as a central node to my social network) would have gotten my friends to switch if it wasn't an experience downgrade Id love to access the data though

pushing chat gpt to the limit. if anyone knows the song Im talking about PLEASE let me know

critical innovation in the Not Letting Tech Corps Transmute Your Time Into Their Money space. I have like 20 and will be carrying them around so accost me in real life if you'd like a sticker

massive if true! supports my theory of affective communication and sentiment being intrinsically tied to memory storage

Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

will enthusiastically participate in making this the New Conference Dress Norms