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Jae-Young Son
@jaeyoungson.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Brown University. Social neuroscientist researching how we make memories of networks; cognitive neuroscientist researching how we make networks of memories.

Misadventurer; reluctant optimist; amor fati.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 1d
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 1d
Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album

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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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Yang Teoh @yyangteoh.bsky.social · 5d
Check out @orielf.bsky.social & I's chapter "Emotion and Choice: The Integral Role of Emotion in Constructing Value" in the new volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions, edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @dfareri.bsky.social

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Emotion and Choice: The Integral Role of Emotion in Constructing Value
In the centuries-long history of decision-making research, emotion’s role in choice has only been investigated relatively recently. Early theories of decision-making, which conceived of emotions...
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 9d
Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 10d
momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 23d
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.

I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 29d
Defending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.”

A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.

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Lauren DiNicola @laurendinicola.bsky.social · Jan 6
** Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher! **

We are seeking a postdoc to help examine how brain networks might change within individuals across transitional times, such as adolescence & pregnancy!
Please share widely and apply at the link! #NeuroJobs

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Research Associate in Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position to work in the DiNicola Lab. The DiNicola lab uses a precision neuroscien...
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · Dec 17
🔭 Did you miss out on the inaugural Curiosity, Information-Seeking, & Exploration conference? Videos of our entire 2-day program are now available: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CISE2025 @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social
Curiosity, Exploration and Information Seeking Conference 2025 - YouTube
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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Dec 16
Finally: it is critical to ask ourselves what we can do to make sure that this never happens again. Acts of gun violence are not a foregone conclusion.

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Moms Demand Action is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence.
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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Dec 16
I am so amazed at how the community has stepped up. Please consider donating or providing mutual aid to support their efforts.

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brown uni community resources | Linktree
links to resources for community members affected after the shooting
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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Dec 16
I’m thinking of the two undergrads who were killed, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, and their families. May their memories be a blessing. I’m thinking about the students who were wounded, who are still in critical condition in the hospital, and their families.

www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
Victims of Brown University shooting identified as search for gunman continues
The Brown University community is mourning the loss of two students who were killed in a shooting on campus on Saturday.
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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · Dec 16
Feeling so much love and heartbreak for the Brown University community. For almost a decade, this is where I’ve worked, been trained as a scientist and scholar, made so many magical and happy memories, have met lifelong friends. This campus, and its people, will always feel like home to me.
Photo from Brown University campus, many years ago. It is autumn, and the leaves are changing color. Photo from Brown University campus, many years ago. The photo depicts the Science Library against a beautiful pink sky, as the sun is setting. Photo from Brown University, many years ago. The sun is setting over the main campus. The gigantic sculpture “LampBear” (affectionately referred to as “Blueno”, and which has since been removed) is visible. I am wearing my Brown PhD regalia and standing in front of the famous Van Wickle gates, which are only open for commencement and graduation.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Dec 13
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School

She was one of the Clinton 12, Black students who broke a race barrier by entering a Tennessee high school in 1956 in the face of harassment by white segregationists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Goldfarb @evgoldfarb.bsky.social · Dec 11
How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol
The stress-related hormone cortisol alters dynamic brain networks predicting memory and arousal to promote emotional memories.
www.science.org

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Mick Bonner @mickbonner.bsky.social · Dec 11
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Lauren Atlas @laurenatlas.bsky.social · Dec 11
Delighted to share our latest article on brain mechanisms of pain, appetitive & aversive learning, led by @yilizhao.bsky.social & In-seon Lee, out now in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! We show that brain mechanisms of expectancy are domain general, not unique to pain! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Dec 11
NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.

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Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social · Dec 10
Officially out! In this review, Aaron Chuey and I discuss how existing work on ToM mostly focused on a single individual’s mental states (e.g., what Sally thinks). Extending ToM, we argue for ToMS—an understanding of how multiple individuals communicate and influence each others’ minds. t.ly/u4rtb
Theory of Minds: Early Understanding of Interacting Minds
The idea that we understand others’ actions in terms of their underlying mental states has shaped decades of developmental research on social cognition. Existing work, however, has primarily focused o...
www.annualreviews.org

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Dec 10
🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite.
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Photosgraphs showing refitting lithic pieces of flint objects. CAPTION: Extended Data Fig. 2: Heat shattered handaxes from Barnham.a. Central part of heat-shattered handaxe with 25 refitting pieces excavated from within a small zone (35 cm across) in Area I East. b. Top part of heat-shattered handaxe from Area I East. c. Heat-altered handaxe from Area I East. Images showing two pyrite pseudomorphs analysed with various methods. CAPTION: Figure 2.2. Pyrite pseudomorph specimen 3818. (a–e) Photographs and (f–g) focus variation microscope images of fracture surfaces; (h–k) textural features of the oxidised pyrite fragment observed under the scanning electron microscope. Photos of heat-altered handaxe and two pieces of altered pyrite. CAPTION: a, Heat-altered handaxe from palaeosol in Area I East with close-up of fractured surface caused by fire. b, Fragment of pyrite found on the surface of palaeosol in Area IV(6). c, Fragment of pyrite from palaeosol in Area VI, found in association with concentrations of heated flint. Photos showing excavation in Area 1 East, from different angles including a close-up of section. Reddened sediment layer is visible. CAPTION: a, Before excavation in 2022 from north–west, showing truncation by commercial excavation of RCS within palaeosol complex. Sections A–A′, B–B′ and position of sampling column are indicated. b, Adjacent area from north under excavation in 2024. c, Partly excavated RCS within palaeosol complex in 2023 from north-west showing sampling locations and column.

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · Dec 9
Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:

1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.

2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
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David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · Dec 9
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Dec 8
Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position
Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change
lindsay-lab.github.io

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Alexandra Keinath @atkeinath.bsky.social · Dec 8
Another new paper from the lab: Predictive theories like the SR imply that navigators who navigate differently should have cognitive maps which differ in predictable ways. Here we show that this holds in mouse hippocampal CA1.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Environmental representations in mouse hippocampal CA1 reflect the predictive structure of navigation
Predictive theories of cognitive mapping propose that these representations encode the predictive relationships among contents as experienced by the n…
www.sciencedirect.com

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Dec 8
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · Dec 6
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com

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Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · Dec 5
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Dec 5
“Charles Norman Shay, who as a 19-year-old medic on D-Day repeatedly saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach, turning them on their backs, dragging them ashore and binding their wounds, died on Wednesday at his home in Thue et Mue, France, near the site of the Normandy invasion. He was 101.”
Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101
www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social · Dec 4
🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946
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Nicholas Menghi @nichome.bsky.social · Dec 2
Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7)
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The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks
Nature Communications - Here, the authors show learning tasks with similar structures can initially cause interference and slow down learning, but both the brain and artificial networks gradually...
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