Professor Dean Mobbs
@fearbrain.bsky.social
Professor at Caltech
Director: Caltech Brain Imaging Center
Www.deanmobbslab.com
Dad of amazing daughter, Liverpool Fc, Retro synthwave(in order).
Director: Caltech Brain Imaging Center
Www.deanmobbslab.com
Dad of amazing daughter, Liverpool Fc, Retro synthwave(in order).
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
April 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
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new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
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aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
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OSF
osf.io
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
🧠📈
aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
🧠📈
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Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam!
Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.
More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir
Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.
More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir
Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
Vacancy — Postdoc Investigating Human Sources of Bias in AI Face Classification Models
How are human ideologies and prejudices amplified by AI models? How do human biases get into AI model training data? And how does the output of such models influence the decisions and behaviors of use...
bit.ly
March 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam!
Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.
More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir
Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.
More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir
Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
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US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!
ON SALE TODAY! 🧠💻
Christopher Summerfield's (@summerfieldlab.bsky.social) "brilliant" (@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social) THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS charts the evolution of intelligent talking machines and helps us understand how they work and how we can use them.
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/41WoPTB
Christopher Summerfield's (@summerfieldlab.bsky.social) "brilliant" (@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social) THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS charts the evolution of intelligent talking machines and helps us understand how they work and how we can use them.
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/41WoPTB
March 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!
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🚨 New lab paper!🚨
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour
Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨 New lab paper!🚨
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
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Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications.
A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures.
Few main takes will follow
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures.
Few main takes will follow
osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications.
A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures.
Few main takes will follow
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures.
Few main takes will follow
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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yup, that’s the distinguished scientist Elon Musk FRS
@royalsociety.org
@royalsociety.org
A Neo-Nazi Helped Incite U.K. Riots. Elon Musk Criticized His Sentencing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/w...
A Neo-Nazi Helped Incite U.K. Riots. Elon Musk Criticized His Sentencing.
Andrew McIntyre, a British extremist who played a key role in fomenting last summer’s unrest, was sentenced last week to seven years in jail.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
yup, that’s the distinguished scientist Elon Musk FRS
@royalsociety.org
@royalsociety.org
Our new paper on the neural systems relating to safety. Great work by Sarah Tashjian and the lab(not on Bluesky).
Is it safe yet... 😟? How does our brain estimate our safety by integrating external threats with other information? @fearbrain.bsky.social &co reveal the contribution of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex subregions to our sense of safety... 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4adf9qB
January 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our new paper on the neural systems relating to safety. Great work by Sarah Tashjian and the lab(not on Bluesky).
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🧵 How do we know Trump is full of sh** when he shrieks about “hydrants running dry”?
Because in 2016, a horrendous wildfire hit Gatlinburg Tennessee.
Hydrants ran dry and 14 people died. A higher death toll than the LA Fires.
But Tennessee had a GOP governor, so newly-elected Trump posted:
Because in 2016, a horrendous wildfire hit Gatlinburg Tennessee.
Hydrants ran dry and 14 people died. A higher death toll than the LA Fires.
But Tennessee had a GOP governor, so newly-elected Trump posted:
![Excerpt from Wikipedia:
“President-elect Donald Trump
tweeted: "My thoughts and prayers are with the great people of Tennessee during these terrible wildfires. Stay safe!"[24][25]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dc7hahfvdre6baxdjs65icls/bafkreiajnjn2tx2blwmkbcsvyhmxos3kpxydkj4jymyunw5v7d6vqs74p4@jpeg)
January 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
🧵 How do we know Trump is full of sh** when he shrieks about “hydrants running dry”?
Because in 2016, a horrendous wildfire hit Gatlinburg Tennessee.
Hydrants ran dry and 14 people died. A higher death toll than the LA Fires.
But Tennessee had a GOP governor, so newly-elected Trump posted:
Because in 2016, a horrendous wildfire hit Gatlinburg Tennessee.
Hydrants ran dry and 14 people died. A higher death toll than the LA Fires.
But Tennessee had a GOP governor, so newly-elected Trump posted:
Completely agree with Sam. This system needs to change. We need to bring the money back into research and/ or increase the salaries of post docs etc
I wish the government would understand that open access mandates are (on their own) invitations for profit-seeking publishers to gouge authors, universities, and funders by charging exorbitant fees. The government should directly support open access publishing, so that they can control costs.
January 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Completely agree with Sam. This system needs to change. We need to bring the money back into research and/ or increase the salaries of post docs etc
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I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st.
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
January 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st.
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
FYI - We went to the moon😜. Photos of each of the six Apollo landing sites photographed from low orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The astronauts' tracks, as well as the rover and other items, are clearly visible.
December 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
FYI - We went to the moon😜. Photos of each of the six Apollo landing sites photographed from low orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The astronauts' tracks, as well as the rover and other items, are clearly visible.
Jupiter and the moon over Toulouse
December 14, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Jupiter and the moon over Toulouse
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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination
Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
I agree - I love this movie
i think INTERSTELLAR is a bona fide masterpiece — maybe nolan's greatest film — and i'm not at all ashamed to say that i weep every time i watch it.
Interstellar’s Most Enduring Quality Is What People Used to Hate About It
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi spectacle is fascinating precisely because of what so many pegged as its fatal flaw in 2014: its unabashed emotionality.
www.vulture.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:59 PM
I agree - I love this movie
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Me on the way home from karaoke after drinking a bottle of soju: ohhh that’s my website
December 6, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Me on the way home from karaoke after drinking a bottle of soju: ohhh that’s my website
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The early steps of rewriting the shameful history of Trump’s 2020 coup attempt.
Ken Chesebro is asking a Georgia court to invalidate his guilty plea last year in the Georgia 2020 election RICO case.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ken-che...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ken-che...
Ken Chesebro Wants Out Of His Guilty Plea In Georgia
The man who helped to develop and implement Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election is asking a Georgia court to invalidate his guilty plea last year in the sprawling state RICO case.
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:28 PM
The early steps of rewriting the shameful history of Trump’s 2020 coup attempt.
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🧠📈 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Enacting welfare legislation [...] without strong scientific evidence is a societal and political choice that risks creating scientific and interpretational problems as well as major policy challenges, including [...] unintended consequences. ... "
"Enacting welfare legislation [...] without strong scientific evidence is a societal and political choice that risks creating scientific and interpretational problems as well as major policy challenges, including [...] unintended consequences. ... "
Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates
The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have included these taxa under welfare regulation in recent years. Regulation of welfare requires use of scie...
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December 5, 2024 at 7:57 AM
🧠📈 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Enacting welfare legislation [...] without strong scientific evidence is a societal and political choice that risks creating scientific and interpretational problems as well as major policy challenges, including [...] unintended consequences. ... "
"Enacting welfare legislation [...] without strong scientific evidence is a societal and political choice that risks creating scientific and interpretational problems as well as major policy challenges, including [...] unintended consequences. ... "
This is Ket @ketikagarg.bsky.social; she is a postdoc in the lab and freaking awesome! She put this together over a weekend. Bonus: Ket is on the job market for an Assistant Professor position! Here is her website: ketikagarg.com
1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...
December 3, 2024 at 4:20 PM
This is Ket @ketikagarg.bsky.social; she is a postdoc in the lab and freaking awesome! She put this together over a weekend. Bonus: Ket is on the job market for an Assistant Professor position! Here is her website: ketikagarg.com
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First time this has happened.
December 3, 2024 at 7:54 AM
First time this has happened.
I’ve personally experienced and seen anger at talks. Likewise, we have all experienced the angry reviewer. Both cases are unprofessional and unscientific. Yes, debate, but anger has no place in science (maybe one exception is pseudoscience or religion rejecting real science…).
December 3, 2024 at 7:48 AM
I’ve personally experienced and seen anger at talks. Likewise, we have all experienced the angry reviewer. Both cases are unprofessional and unscientific. Yes, debate, but anger has no place in science (maybe one exception is pseudoscience or religion rejecting real science…).
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Huge congrats to @talvaldivia.bsky.social on her first first-author paper accepted at Emotion! An outstanding contribution to what we know about how children, teens, and young adults bring to mind emotion words. Check it out! Many thanks to coauthors for an excellent collab!
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
December 2, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Huge congrats to @talvaldivia.bsky.social on her first first-author paper accepted at Emotion! An outstanding contribution to what we know about how children, teens, and young adults bring to mind emotion words. Check it out! Many thanks to coauthors for an excellent collab!
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
Excellent paper from @mjcrockett.bsky.social et al. And gives more reason to leave that toxic shit hole called Twitter/X!
Now out in @science.org: misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵
Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵
December 2, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Excellent paper from @mjcrockett.bsky.social et al. And gives more reason to leave that toxic shit hole called Twitter/X!