Phil Deming
@phildeming.bsky.social
I study emotion, psychopathy, and the brain.
Postdoc in psychology at Northeastern University.
On the academic job market.
Ph.D. in psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
philipdeming.com
Postdoc in psychology at Northeastern University.
On the academic job market.
Ph.D. in psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
philipdeming.com
Check out our new paper, where we used 7T fMRI to map out a brain system central to sensing and regulating the body! Based on prior animal studies - which tracked white matter traveling to/from the body - we mapped this system from cerebral cortical networks down to subcortex and brainstem nuclei.
Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI - Nature Neuroscience
The brain is constantly monitoring the systems in the body. Here the authors use 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging to map a large-scale brain system for body regulation in humans, includin...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Check out our new paper, where we used 7T fMRI to map out a brain system central to sensing and regulating the body! Based on prior animal studies - which tracked white matter traveling to/from the body - we mapped this system from cerebral cortical networks down to subcortex and brainstem nuclei.
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To kick things off, I’m organizing a monthly “how-to” workshop series ft. leading scientists who will share practical/technical skills w/ the global SP-SIG community. If you or anyone you know is interested in participating, please reach out!
@ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
To kick things off, I’m organizing a monthly “how-to” workshop series ft. leading scientists who will share practical/technical skills w/ the global SP-SIG community. If you or anyone you know is interested in participating, please reach out!
@ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function - Nature Neuroscience
Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI studies of psychedelics.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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That’s right—open neuro AND behavioral (+ESM) data! So looking forward to the cross-field conversations about methods!
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Incredible, and just in time for our launch of the Boston precision brain & mental health hack tomorrow @northeasternu.bsky.social ! We will be introducing this resource there—excited to see what comes of it
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
That’s right—open neuro AND behavioral (+ESM) data! So looking forward to the cross-field conversations about methods!
🧠✨
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Psychopathy - a devastating disorder that upends victims' lives - may be best understood as a disorder of allostasis (the brain regulating the body) and interoception (the brain sensing the body).
New preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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New preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Psychopathy - a devastating disorder that upends victims' lives - may be best understood as a disorder of allostasis (the brain regulating the body) and interoception (the brain sensing the body).
New preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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New preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We are now inviting submissions for the 11th biennial meeting of SSSP that will be held at the Dallas Marriott Downtown in Dallas, TX, USA on May 6-9th, 2026. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2025. Please see tinyurl.com/352zbztk for submission guidelines.
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In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty.
This increase starts before bills are signed into law.
Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.
This increase starts before bills are signed into law.
Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty.
This increase starts before bills are signed into law.
Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.
This increase starts before bills are signed into law.
Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.
The brain constantly senses and regulates the body. These sensory and regulatory signals are not merely background signals of interest only to physiologists. Instead, these 'allostatic' signals are central to neural and cognitive function. Great new work from our lab led by @jtheriault.bsky.social.
Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The brain constantly senses and regulates the body. These sensory and regulatory signals are not merely background signals of interest only to physiologists. Instead, these 'allostatic' signals are central to neural and cognitive function. Great new work from our lab led by @jtheriault.bsky.social.
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📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.
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Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
September 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague!
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September 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague!
Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895
Please RT apply.interfolio.com/172895
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Men suppress emotions more than women?
New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.
#PsycSci 🧪
New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.
#PsycSci 🧪
(PDF) Men Do Not Suppress Emotions More than Women in Everyday Life: Evidence from Large Scale Experience-Sampling Data
PDF | Expressive suppression—hiding the outward expression of emotions—has been linked to negative mental health outcomes in Western samples. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
www.researchgate.net
September 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Men suppress emotions more than women?
New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.
#PsycSci 🧪
New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.
#PsycSci 🧪
Some scientists think emotions are sharply-defined types - each moment of joy is similar to the next, but different from moments of anger.
We found evidence for a different view: the lines between emotions are more blurry.
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tinyurl.com/2pmdwty2
We found evidence for a different view: the lines between emotions are more blurry.
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tinyurl.com/2pmdwty2
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tinyurl.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Some scientists think emotions are sharply-defined types - each moment of joy is similar to the next, but different from moments of anger.
We found evidence for a different view: the lines between emotions are more blurry.
1/
tinyurl.com/2pmdwty2
We found evidence for a different view: the lines between emotions are more blurry.
1/
tinyurl.com/2pmdwty2
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Very interesting approach: while meta analytic analyses for brain correlates of psychopathy are not consistent, they overlap with default mode and subcortical networks and with lesion networks related to antisocial behaviour: tinyurl.com/54tkukj8 by some @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social members
Mapping the Psychopathic Brain: Divergent Neuroimaging Findings converge onto a Common Brain Network
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and antisocial features. Its neural und…
tinyurl.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Very interesting approach: while meta analytic analyses for brain correlates of psychopathy are not consistent, they overlap with default mode and subcortical networks and with lesion networks related to antisocial behaviour: tinyurl.com/54tkukj8 by some @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social members
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Loving the program for #OHBM2025 ! If you’re into subcortical measurement (@alexkfischbach.bsky.social) or brain stats (@halleeshearer.bsky.social), we’ve got some additions for you 👇🏽
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June 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Loving the program for #OHBM2025 ! If you’re into subcortical measurement (@alexkfischbach.bsky.social) or brain stats (@halleeshearer.bsky.social), we’ve got some additions for you 👇🏽
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Network analysis for the PCL-R: finding both, a one factor and a four-factor-structure; Lack of Empathy showed strongest connection to all four factors: tinyurl.com/5fmcx87j
Network structures of psychopathy: unidimensional and multidimensional approaches
Network analyses offer a viable alternative approach to understanding the nature of mental disorders. The current study was conducted to advance our u…
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June 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Network analysis for the PCL-R: finding both, a one factor and a four-factor-structure; Lack of Empathy showed strongest connection to all four factors: tinyurl.com/5fmcx87j
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The BASE Lab is hiring. See below for more information, and please share!
www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
www.bu.edu
May 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The BASE Lab is hiring. See below for more information, and please share!
www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
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The SSSP Early Career Event (online) is just one week away and a program packed with new research on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits is waiting for you: check out the details and register to attend here: psychopathysociety.org/page/ECE2025
Early Career Event 2025 - Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy
The SSSP Early Career Event (ECE) Planning Committee is excited to announce the 2025 edition of the ECE, our biannual virtual conference dedicated to students and early career professionals in the field of psychopathy.
psychopathysociety.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The SSSP Early Career Event (online) is just one week away and a program packed with new research on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits is waiting for you: check out the details and register to attend here: psychopathysociety.org/page/ECE2025