Alexey Tolchinsky
@tolchinsky.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist and researcher investigating anxiety disorders, Acute PTSD, dissociations, OCD, Affective Neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis, application of nonlinear dynamical systems to psychology
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Our paper is published. Co-authored with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social , Chris Fields, @lancelotdacosta.bsky.social ta.bsky.social, Daniel Friedman, Rachael Murphy, David Pincus
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
this work presents a computational model of dissociations
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
this work presents a computational model of dissociations
Do you think such concepts as "signature" and "password" would still be used 10 years from now?
December 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Do you think such concepts as "signature" and "password" would still be used 10 years from now?
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
Total investments in AI in 2025 are estimated to be on par with what the US spent on two wars - in Iraq and Afghanistan, over the course of 13 years
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...
The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue
You must leave now, take what you need you think will last.
garymarcus.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Total investments in AI in 2025 are estimated to be on par with what the US spent on two wars - in Iraq and Afghanistan, over the course of 13 years
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...
why the story of eternal existence (in the cloud or otherwise) is dangerous
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-danger...
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-danger...
The danger of eternal bliss
Upload your mind to the cloud and all bets are off
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
why the story of eternal existence (in the cloud or otherwise) is dangerous
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-danger...
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-danger...
Two related texts. On AI taking our jobs fear
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
And on how this and "digital immigration" related to fear of immigrants
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
And on how this and "digital immigration" related to fear of immigrants
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
The Last Interpreter
Inuit resilience in times of AI
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Two related texts. On AI taking our jobs fear
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
And on how this and "digital immigration" related to fear of immigrants
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
And on how this and "digital immigration" related to fear of immigrants
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
A must-read review. It argues that brain areas are only one of several organizing principles and are not especially central, given their weak correspondence to function. Cytoarchitecture and connectivity are a starting point, not the endpoint.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization - Nature Neuroscience
Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas in neuroscience from the ...
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A must-read review. It argues that brain areas are only one of several organizing principles and are not especially central, given their weak correspondence to function. Cytoarchitecture and connectivity are a starting point, not the endpoint.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
CNS and immune system are deeply connected! Continuous crosstalk regulates #homeostasis and #neuroinflammation. Disruptions can drive #neurodegeneration, impacting cognitive function. Key areas: #gutbrainaxis #bloodbrainbarrier #circadianrhythms #Neuroscience #Immunology #Alzheimers t.co/LGun6OuCjX
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2025.1590002/full
t.co
July 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
CNS and immune system are deeply connected! Continuous crosstalk regulates #homeostasis and #neuroinflammation. Disruptions can drive #neurodegeneration, impacting cognitive function. Key areas: #gutbrainaxis #bloodbrainbarrier #circadianrhythms #Neuroscience #Immunology #Alzheimers t.co/LGun6OuCjX
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
Liquid biopsies are paving the way for a new era of cancer screening. Detecting tumor-derived analytes in body fluids, these non-invasive tests could provide early diagnosis for everyone! #LiquidBiopsy #CancerScreening #EarlyDetection #PrecisionOncology t.co/z60uD5OzmV
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-00885-9
t.co
July 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Liquid biopsies are paving the way for a new era of cancer screening. Detecting tumor-derived analytes in body fluids, these non-invasive tests could provide early diagnosis for everyone! #LiquidBiopsy #CancerScreening #EarlyDetection #PrecisionOncology t.co/z60uD5OzmV
Useful paper.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Citation
"linguistic plausibility can mimic judgment without undergoing evaluation."
That is the definition of "Narrative Fallacy"
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/embr...
#AI
#LLM
#judgement
#epistemic
#narrativefallacy
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Citation
"linguistic plausibility can mimic judgment without undergoing evaluation."
That is the definition of "Narrative Fallacy"
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/embr...
#AI
#LLM
#judgement
#epistemic
#narrativefallacy
OSF
osf.io
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Useful paper.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Citation
"linguistic plausibility can mimic judgment without undergoing evaluation."
That is the definition of "Narrative Fallacy"
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/embr...
#AI
#LLM
#judgement
#epistemic
#narrativefallacy
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Citation
"linguistic plausibility can mimic judgment without undergoing evaluation."
That is the definition of "Narrative Fallacy"
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/embr...
#AI
#LLM
#judgement
#epistemic
#narrativefallacy
An essay about AI-related anxiety
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
#AI
#LLM
#worry
#jobs
#unemployment
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
#AI
#LLM
#worry
#jobs
#unemployment
The Last Interpreter
Inuit resilience in times of AI
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
An essay about AI-related anxiety
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
#AI
#LLM
#worry
#jobs
#unemployment
alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i...
#AI
#LLM
#worry
#jobs
#unemployment
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
All Evo is Evo-Devo.
Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.
Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
All Evo is Evo-Devo.
Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.
Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.
Voices, Hallucinations, Demons, Spirits & Psychotherapy - a conversation with Jack Raycroft-Sherry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4-...
#psychosis
#hallucinations
#voices
#delusions
#psychotherapy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4-...
#psychosis
#hallucinations
#voices
#delusions
#psychotherapy
Voices, Hallucinations, Demons, Spirits & Psychotherapy | Alexey Tolchinsky
YouTube video by Jack Roycroft-Sherry
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Voices, Hallucinations, Demons, Spirits & Psychotherapy - a conversation with Jack Raycroft-Sherry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4-...
#psychosis
#hallucinations
#voices
#delusions
#psychotherapy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4-...
#psychosis
#hallucinations
#voices
#delusions
#psychotherapy
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
Final version is out: @LPiolopez
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Atavistic Genetic Expression Dissociation (AGED) DuringAging: Meta-Phylostratigraphic Evidence of Cellular andTissue-Level Phylogenetic Dissociation"
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Atavistic Genetic Expression Dissociation (AGED) DuringAging: Meta-Phylostratigraphic Evidence of Cellular andTissue-Level Phylogenetic Dissociation"
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Atavistic Genetic Expression Dissociation (AGED) During Aging: Meta‐Phylostratigraphic Evidence of Cellular and Tissue‐Level Phylogenetic Dissociation
Aging represents an atavistic over-representation of differential expression in the most ancient genes and under-representation in the evolutionary youngest genes for two multi-tissue aging databases...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Final version is out: @LPiolopez
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Atavistic Genetic Expression Dissociation (AGED) DuringAging: Meta-Phylostratigraphic Evidence of Cellular andTissue-Level Phylogenetic Dissociation"
🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Atavistic Genetic Expression Dissociation (AGED) DuringAging: Meta-Phylostratigraphic Evidence of Cellular andTissue-Level Phylogenetic Dissociation"
🧪
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
We are hiring at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings www.politics-of-feelings.com for a part-time RA (ideal for people with BSc/MSc before they start their PhD) to help the Centre's research on emotions and politics. Please spread the word www.jobs.london.ac.uk/internal/Job... | Deadline 16/12
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We are hiring at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings www.politics-of-feelings.com for a part-time RA (ideal for people with BSc/MSc before they start their PhD) to help the Centre's research on emotions and politics. Please spread the word www.jobs.london.ac.uk/internal/Job... | Deadline 16/12
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
If you make a system that can self-replicate and is capable of mutation in a way that can respond to selective influences, that doesn't mean it's alive. Who agrees with that?
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you make a system that can self-replicate and is capable of mutation in a way that can respond to selective influences, that doesn't mean it's alive. Who agrees with that?
Reposted by Alexey Tolchinsky
Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Home - ESCAN 2026
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
escan2026.eu
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
A conversation with Diana Moga, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social and me on autism - diagnosis, treatment, biases, models, prevalence of trauma, environmental issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-...
#autism
#ASD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-...
#autism
#ASD
Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A conversation with Diana Moga, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social and me on autism - diagnosis, treatment, biases, models, prevalence of trauma, environmental issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-...
#autism
#ASD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-...
#autism
#ASD
"The tech capital spending in 2025, is equal, relative to GDP to The Moon Landing, the Manhattan project, the Interstate Highway System, electrification of farming, the Triborough bridge, the Midtown tunnel, the Golden Gate bridge and the Hoover Dam."
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"The tech capital spending in 2025, is equal, relative to GDP to The Moon Landing, the Manhattan project, the Interstate Highway System, electrification of farming, the Triborough bridge, the Midtown tunnel, the Golden Gate bridge and the Hoover Dam."
I was asked to review a paper. Turns out to be an AI-generated mimicry. I can imagine editors are flooded with this now, especially from universities in certain countries that have rapidly growing citation indexes.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I was asked to review a paper. Turns out to be an AI-generated mimicry. I can imagine editors are flooded with this now, especially from universities in certain countries that have rapidly growing citation indexes.
When you get a younger body, does you mental age change?
A conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Thomas Pollak. We also talked about cancesusceptibility/resilience, brainwashing, regenerative medicine and other topics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8u...
A conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Thomas Pollak. We also talked about cancesusceptibility/resilience, brainwashing, regenerative medicine and other topics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8u...
Discussion with Alexey Tolchinsky and Thomas Pollak 2
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
When you get a younger body, does you mental age change?
A conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Thomas Pollak. We also talked about cancesusceptibility/resilience, brainwashing, regenerative medicine and other topics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8u...
A conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Thomas Pollak. We also talked about cancesusceptibility/resilience, brainwashing, regenerative medicine and other topics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8u...
RIP Paul Ekman
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
RIP Paul Ekman
