@mymirrorneuron.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist studying early life trauma and personality
Be curious and humble open.substack.com/pub/gurwinde...
Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
Intelligence is not rationality
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November 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Be curious and humble open.substack.com/pub/gurwinde...
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It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
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A new study shows that a lobbying group for the private health insurance industry used Meta platforms to sow doubt about universal healthcare.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
Generating opposition to universal health care policies in the United States: An analysis of private health industry advertising on Meta platforms
In 2019, the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future (PAHCF), a private health industry lobby group, launched a campaign across Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram) to generate opposition to univ...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A new study shows that a lobbying group for the private health insurance industry used Meta platforms to sow doubt about universal healthcare.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
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New Paper! 📣 Have you ever had a clear understanding of your emotions, but you still couldn't seem to stop ruminating on them? In a sample of adolescents, @lisastarr.bsky.social and I looked at emotion differentiation, emotion regulation (traits and behavior), and brooding. 🧵 1/4
Negative emotion differentiation in adolescents: unpacking linkages with emotion regulation traits and behaviours, rumination, and depression
Negative emotion differentiation (NED), or the ability to parse negative emotions (NEs) with precision, is theorised to facilitate emotion regulation (ER), but research examining the link between N...
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June 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New Paper! 📣 Have you ever had a clear understanding of your emotions, but you still couldn't seem to stop ruminating on them? In a sample of adolescents, @lisastarr.bsky.social and I looked at emotion differentiation, emotion regulation (traits and behavior), and brooding. 🧵 1/4
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Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it.
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex
Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events that must be segmented and organized at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. In this work, we...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it.
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2)
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University.
That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...
That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable
hub.jhu.edu
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University.
That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...
That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...
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A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
Gum is ruined www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...
Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds - American Chemical Society
Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles called microplastics. Now, chewing gum could be added to the list. In a pi...
www.acs.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Gum is ruined www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...
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Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…
propub.li
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
Medicare-for-all: popular with the public, but not included in our political discourse, in part because it’s marginalized and barely discussed by corporate media
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fair.org/home/deny-de...
Deny, Defend, Disinform: Corporate media coverage of healthcare in the 2024 presidential elections
Corporate media had a hard time finding “big” plans for healthcare because they chose to look for them only in the two major parties’ platforms.
fair.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Medicare-for-all: popular with the public, but not included in our political discourse, in part because it’s marginalized and barely discussed by corporate media
fair.org/home/deny-de...
fair.org/home/deny-de...
Cold temperatures were associated with more internalizing symptoms and heat exposure was associated with more attention problems in adolescents. Interestingly, heat exposure was not associated with increased violence, casting doubt on the “heat-aggression” theory www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Ambient Temperatures Linked to Psychiatric Symptoms in Youth
Colder and warmer ambient temperatures were associated with significant increases in psychiatric issues among adolescents from two population-based birth cohorts in Europe.
www.medscape.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Cold temperatures were associated with more internalizing symptoms and heat exposure was associated with more attention problems in adolescents. Interestingly, heat exposure was not associated with increased violence, casting doubt on the “heat-aggression” theory www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Epigenetic changes in preschoolers from a rural Chinese county revealed crucial links to early neurodevelopmental risks.
by Chang R, Wei M (...) Zhang J et 2 al. in Gene #MedSky
📖 read the article:
by Chang R, Wei M (...) Zhang J et 2 al. in Gene #MedSky
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Association between epigenome-wide DNA methylation changes and early neurodevelopment in preschool children: Evidence from a former impoverished county in Central China
Existing epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) investigating the association between DNA methylation (DNAm) and child neurodevelopment have been pre…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Epigenetic changes in preschoolers from a rural Chinese county revealed crucial links to early neurodevelopmental risks.
by Chang R, Wei M (...) Zhang J et 2 al. in Gene #MedSky
📖 read the article:
by Chang R, Wei M (...) Zhang J et 2 al. in Gene #MedSky
📖 read the article:
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Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
![This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters.
Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sox6xar4qdc3ujhi5h4whtlh/bafkreiazjyxk6foryp6lzxcqbls62uaokwhjrjmnzg5uqpdimg77xrt26a@jpeg)
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
Healthcare insurance companies continue to violate federal mental health law parity law www.propublica.org/article/depa...
Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds
The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.
www.propublica.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Healthcare insurance companies continue to violate federal mental health law parity law www.propublica.org/article/depa...
FDA black box warnings that antidepressants could increase risk of suicidal thoughts led to decreased prescriptions and increased suicide rates www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Should the FDA Reconsider Antidepressant Boxed Warnings?
For nearly 20 years, antidepressants have carried suicide risk warnings for young people. Now, experts are questioning if the FDA should reconsider these warning labels.
www.medscape.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
FDA black box warnings that antidepressants could increase risk of suicidal thoughts led to decreased prescriptions and increased suicide rates www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Newly published research from Greenland. Adverse Childhood Experiences were correlated with adult substance use, particularly cannabis, and more significantly in women www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... in
Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among individuals in treatment for substance use disorder: are ACE associated differently across type of abuse and quantity of consumption?
This study aimed to 1) describe the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in relation to the type of substance used (alcohol or cannabis) among adults seeking treatment for Substance Us...
www.tandfonline.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Newly published research from Greenland. Adverse Childhood Experiences were correlated with adult substance use, particularly cannabis, and more significantly in women www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... in
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First paper from my lab, led by a wonderful and bright PhD student, Penny Peng! 🥹 Check it out!
Where does attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder fit in the psychopathology hierarchy? A symptom-focused analysis.
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APA PsycNet
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December 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
First paper from my lab, led by a wonderful and bright PhD student, Penny Peng! 🥹 Check it out!
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I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers.
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers.
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
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Love that the graph of lifetime nostalgia evokes the cover of unknown pleasures - a record for which I feel intensely nostalgic
December 18, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Love that the graph of lifetime nostalgia evokes the cover of unknown pleasures - a record for which I feel intensely nostalgic
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1/4 🧪 🔭 #cosmology
This graphic by Pablo Carlos Budassi provides a logarithmic map of the entire observable universe, thanks to data (updated as of May 2022) by researchers at Princeton University.
Map source: www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/map-of-th...
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This graphic by Pablo Carlos Budassi provides a logarithmic map of the entire observable universe, thanks to data (updated as of May 2022) by researchers at Princeton University.
Map source: www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/map-of-th...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:00 AM
1/4 🧪 🔭 #cosmology
This graphic by Pablo Carlos Budassi provides a logarithmic map of the entire observable universe, thanks to data (updated as of May 2022) by researchers at Princeton University.
Map source: www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/map-of-th...
(Tap on the image)
This graphic by Pablo Carlos Budassi provides a logarithmic map of the entire observable universe, thanks to data (updated as of May 2022) by researchers at Princeton University.
Map source: www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/map-of-th...
(Tap on the image)
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Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable
The Ns justify the means
The Ns justify the means
December 7, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable
The Ns justify the means
The Ns justify the means
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The Emotional Entitlement Scale --- measures the extent to which people feel entitled to certain emotional experiences (e.g., "I deserve to enjoy life", "I am allowed to feel bad."). psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
December 8, 2024 at 3:18 AM
The Emotional Entitlement Scale --- measures the extent to which people feel entitled to certain emotional experiences (e.g., "I deserve to enjoy life", "I am allowed to feel bad."). psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...