João Guassi Moreira
@C_Shamballa
@UWPsych ast professor researching affective, social, and cognitive neurodevelopment | Director of @cdnlab_uwisc | Love me a good dive bar, movies, and baseball
A new statistical test identifies groups of variables that are mutually coupled and can be represented in a causal graph as single, aggregated nodes, which allows the extraction of hierarchical structures from observational data go.aps.org/4m9JDyy
Brand new in PNAS: Subnets of the AMN (action-mode network) for decision-making, action, feedback & the bodily self pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…. Great explainer thread 🧵 bsky.app/profile/gordon…
Daniel Palencia, 100mph Fastball and 89mph Splitter, Overlay
With all this talk of expansion, maybe MLB should consider giving St. Louis a team?
Banger thread by Darby highlighting how our current policies don’t align with what mothers and families want, drawing example of more effective polities from other countries (that also happen to have market-based economies)
This piece ignores that part-time work - the arrangement that 32% of mothers say they want - is actually much more common in countries you'd consider "socialist." The secret is healthcare that's not tied to employment, and affordable, flexible childcare. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/why-dont-mor…
Trade on July 30, 2021: Javier Báez and Trevor Williams to the Mets. Pete Crow-Armstrong and cash to the Cubs. Today, Báez and PCA were named All-Star starters. @MLBNetwork
The @BABLab_UCLA is excited to be hiring a Staff Research Associate for our NIMH-funded Teen Bugs study investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Please send your best people to join our wonderful team! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072
Daniel Palencia is officially a Certified Beast.
Massive congrats to @betory9178 for receiving the #OHBM Merit Award for his work on identifying “a domain general neural signature of perceived object beauty”🌹 #ECR @OHBM_Trainees
Really excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadmsamara with @zaidzada_, Tammy Vanderwal, and @HassonLab titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…
It’s such a dumb idea that archaeologists are chronically covering up lots of cool secret shit they don’t want you to know about. Yeah all these career obsessed status hounds are preventing the public (and their employers and the people who fund their grants lol) from seeing all…
A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making Review by Christin Schulze and colleagues tinyurl.com/4jp9ayuc
So what is Jay complaining about? That his freedom was being violated by being asked to write this down? or did he not believe then what he believes now?
DOGE employee says "I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," fraud was minimal, and abuse was "relatively nonexistent" npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-…
"No student should lose valuable time and mental energy over something as fundamental as health care." scim.ag/43oejnR #ScienceWorkingLife
C/DH Moisés Ballesteros will wear number 25. Last worn by INF Gage Workman earlier this season. #Cubs
Cubs 2025 WS title confirmed
ABC News just confirmed he's a Cubs fan
Hope these guys had fun!
Never seen anything like this at Wrigley, Dodgers fans descend on the friendly confines