Nicola Grissom
@nicolagrissom.bsky.social
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Nicola Grissom
@nicolagrissom.bsky.social
· May 20
Very happy to announce our paper!
"Sex mechanisms as nonbinary influences on cognitive diversity"
A pleasure to contribute to this special issue of Hormones and Behavior about how to be less binary and more inclusive in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Sex mechanisms as nonbinary influences on cognitive diversity"
A pleasure to contribute to this special issue of Hormones and Behavior about how to be less binary and more inclusive in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If you want to figure out what this poster says (or discover the secret of life) come and hang out at the dopamine dinner.
Tomorrow Sunday 8pm-End. Waterfront bar & grill. Share with friends, even serotonin people will feel welcome.
Tomorrow Sunday 8pm-End. Waterfront bar & grill. Share with friends, even serotonin people will feel welcome.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you want to figure out what this poster says (or discover the secret of life) come and hang out at the dopamine dinner.
Tomorrow Sunday 8pm-End. Waterfront bar & grill. Share with friends, even serotonin people will feel welcome.
Tomorrow Sunday 8pm-End. Waterfront bar & grill. Share with friends, even serotonin people will feel welcome.
I fell ill and so can't be there as planned but #SfN25 this morning has awesome posters from lab members @nicglewwe.bsky.social and @micaelaporod.bsky.social
This morning #SfN25 check out @micaelaporod.bsky.social’s poster KK17, part of dream team collab with @nicolagrissom.bsky.social
#SfN25 attendees - make sure to head to the posters when you get to the meeting on Saturday afternoon (V7-V11: Gretchen, Megan, Margaret, Louisa, Bella) and Sunday morning (KK17: Micaela) to hear about our work. We're printing the posters now and they look rad.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I fell ill and so can't be there as planned but #SfN25 this morning has awesome posters from lab members @nicglewwe.bsky.social and @micaelaporod.bsky.social
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This morning #SfN25 check out @micaelaporod.bsky.social’s poster KK17, part of dream team collab with @nicolagrissom.bsky.social
#SfN25 attendees - make sure to head to the posters when you get to the meeting on Saturday afternoon (V7-V11: Gretchen, Megan, Margaret, Louisa, Bella) and Sunday morning (KK17: Micaela) to hear about our work. We're printing the posters now and they look rad.
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This morning #SfN25 check out @micaelaporod.bsky.social’s poster KK17, part of dream team collab with @nicolagrissom.bsky.social
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This is one of the most profoundly beautiful pieces I have read in a long time
This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is one of the most profoundly beautiful pieces I have read in a long time
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✨smart 🐁 experiments… read 🧵👇
Hi everyone, the lab has been enabling my professional interest in doing weird shit with touchscreens (as opposed to my personal interest)
Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll
but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead
Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll
but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead
April 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
✨smart 🐁 experiments… read 🧵👇
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Free NIH cognition and neuroscience workshop Apr 23, 11–5 ET, online. Register now.
Reasoning algorithms across species, models, diagnoses & development. 🧪🧠
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/46b514...
Reasoning algorithms across species, models, diagnoses & development. 🧪🧠
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/46b514...
March 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Free NIH cognition and neuroscience workshop Apr 23, 11–5 ET, online. Register now.
Reasoning algorithms across species, models, diagnoses & development. 🧪🧠
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/46b514...
Reasoning algorithms across species, models, diagnoses & development. 🧪🧠
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/46b514...
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Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start:
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
November 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start:
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
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Touchscreen response precision is sensitive to the explore/exploit tradeoff https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619903v1
Touchscreen response precision is sensitive to the explore/exploit tradeoff https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619903v1
The explore/exploit tradeoff is a fundamental property of choice selection during reward-guided deci
www.biorxiv.org
October 24, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Touchscreen response precision is sensitive to the explore/exploit tradeoff https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619903v1
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Sex-biased computations underlying differential set shift performance in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646712v1
April 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sex-biased computations underlying differential set shift performance in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646712v1
Hi everyone, the lab has been enabling my professional interest in doing weird shit with touchscreens (as opposed to my personal interest)
Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll
but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead
Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll
but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead
April 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hi everyone, the lab has been enabling my professional interest in doing weird shit with touchscreens (as opposed to my personal interest)
Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll
but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead
Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll
but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead
Reposted by Nicola Grissom
I had a fabulous visit to the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction at UMN. Was so lovely to meet with everyone. Thanks to my wonderful hosts Nicola Grissom and Jocelyn Richard!! @nicolagrissom.bsky.social @jocelynrichard.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I had a fabulous visit to the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction at UMN. Was so lovely to meet with everyone. Thanks to my wonderful hosts Nicola Grissom and Jocelyn Richard!! @nicolagrissom.bsky.social @jocelynrichard.bsky.social
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I feel like given today's caloritic availability the brain is too small for our available diets. Our brains could use more folds I feel like they could be something more inkin to a mandal bulb in complexity and design. Also I am not qualified to be giving hot takes on Neuroscience.
November 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I feel like given today's caloritic availability the brain is too small for our available diets. Our brains could use more folds I feel like they could be something more inkin to a mandal bulb in complexity and design. Also I am not qualified to be giving hot takes on Neuroscience.
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I wrote about what Laura Helmuth accomplished at Scientific American, and what her resignation means for science journalism, and for me personally
defector.com/do-not-accep...
defector.com/do-not-accep...
Do Not Accept An Unscientific American | Defector
Laura Helmuth was named editor-in-chief of Scientific American in March 2020, shortly before the magazine was set to celebrate its 175th year in print. Helmuth, who had previously directed health and ...
defector.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I wrote about what Laura Helmuth accomplished at Scientific American, and what her resignation means for science journalism, and for me personally
defector.com/do-not-accep...
defector.com/do-not-accep...
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-Neuron subtypes: can we just ignore them?
-Did evolution make brains recurrent to annoy us?
-Neuropixels should be the name of an imaging tool
-Did evolution make brains recurrent to annoy us?
-Neuropixels should be the name of an imaging tool
Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start:
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 AM
-Neuron subtypes: can we just ignore them?
-Did evolution make brains recurrent to annoy us?
-Neuropixels should be the name of an imaging tool
-Did evolution make brains recurrent to annoy us?
-Neuropixels should be the name of an imaging tool
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Due to widespread confusion about its status, the hippocampus can be the most overrated cortical region AND the most overrated subcortical region.
November 19, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Due to widespread confusion about its status, the hippocampus can be the most overrated cortical region AND the most overrated subcortical region.
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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All that energy spent on memory when some of us just want to forget. So overrated.
November 19, 2024 at 11:16 PM
All that energy spent on memory when some of us just want to forget. So overrated.
Very smooth brained of you 😌 "Being sure" is the hobgoblin of a brain bedevilled by wrinkles
My daughter called my son “smooth-brained” the other day. Now I’m not sure if it was an insult!
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Very smooth brained of you 😌 "Being sure" is the hobgoblin of a brain bedevilled by wrinkles
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A real pleasure to talk with The Transmitter about our recent perspective on being less binary when thinking about sex mechanisms in cognition!!
Read if you like hearing me rant (I know you do) or want to get your mind blown (natural consequence of my rants)
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Read if you like hearing me rant (I know you do) or want to get your mind blown (natural consequence of my rants)
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Accounting for a mosaic of sex differences: Q&A with Nicola Grissom
Breaking the binary view of sex traits can enable researchers to represent the broader complexity of behavior and cognition.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
A real pleasure to talk with The Transmitter about our recent perspective on being less binary when thinking about sex mechanisms in cognition!!
Read if you like hearing me rant (I know you do) or want to get your mind blown (natural consequence of my rants)
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Read if you like hearing me rant (I know you do) or want to get your mind blown (natural consequence of my rants)
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
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Prefrontal: SO OVERRATED.
Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start:
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
November 19, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Prefrontal: SO OVERRATED.
Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start:
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
November 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Hello numerous people who joined and followed! I want to hear your neuroscience takes, but not the same old debates. There's so much we can discuss that's truly new. Here I'll start:
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
-The brain: too big, or not big enough
-Most overrated region of cortex
-manifolds: isn't just one fold sufficient
I really love these results from the perspective of individual differences in decision making in animals. As a field we assume that animals should be "optimal" in tasks, without questioning what the implications would be evolutionarily if this were actually true (bad, bad implications, see below)
I love how different models converge on monocultures being harmful and pluralistic cultures/epistemic diversity leading to better outcomes in the aggregate. See also our work showing how homogeneous scientific populations get stuck in weird ways, not being able to make or recognize discoveries.
November 9, 2024 at 10:55 PM
I really love these results from the perspective of individual differences in decision making in animals. As a field we assume that animals should be "optimal" in tasks, without questioning what the implications would be evolutionarily if this were actually true (bad, bad implications, see below)
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Related: welcome back to Bluesky fellow nerds
One key skill in science and in life is knowing when to leave. I switched labs in my second year of grad school, then switched jobs in my second year on the tenure track. Better to admit that you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room.
November 7, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Related: welcome back to Bluesky fellow nerds
Related: welcome back to Bluesky fellow nerds
One key skill in science and in life is knowing when to leave. I switched labs in my second year of grad school, then switched jobs in my second year on the tenure track. Better to admit that you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room.
November 7, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Related: welcome back to Bluesky fellow nerds
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One key skill in science and in life is knowing when to leave. I switched labs in my second year of grad school, then switched jobs in my second year on the tenure track. Better to admit that you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room.
October 26, 2024 at 6:52 PM
One key skill in science and in life is knowing when to leave. I switched labs in my second year of grad school, then switched jobs in my second year on the tenure track. Better to admit that you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room.