Prof Jon
@braindude.bsky.social
Brain insights from a former psych/neuro prof 🧠
President/Co-founder of Preflex Tech
Husband | Dad | Granddude
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President/Co-founder of Preflex Tech
Husband | Dad | Granddude
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/brain_dude_
The fact that science is under fire in the US is surprising, but it's nothing new. Governments and religions have always been afraid of science, which is crazy, because science isn't political or religious. Don't lose hope. Teach. Share. Wonder. Science is still the future.
May 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The fact that science is under fire in the US is surprising, but it's nothing new. Governments and religions have always been afraid of science, which is crazy, because science isn't political or religious. Don't lose hope. Teach. Share. Wonder. Science is still the future.
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In tomorrow's episode, Jon teaches Sean about the intricacies of emotional intelligence, discussing its components, the importance of self-awareness, and the role emotions play in decision-making and mental health. Listen on Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, or YouTube. #Neuroscience
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In tomorrow's episode, Jon teaches Sean about the intricacies of emotional intelligence, discussing its components, the importance of self-awareness, and the role emotions play in decision-making and mental health. Listen on Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, or YouTube. #Neuroscience
Now research is showing that microplastics in ultra-processed foods, like chips and soda, may cross the blood-brain barrier, potentially contributing to depression and anxiety.
Should I change my snack choices, or am I just too old for it to matter?
Should I change my snack choices, or am I just too old for it to matter?
May 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Now research is showing that microplastics in ultra-processed foods, like chips and soda, may cross the blood-brain barrier, potentially contributing to depression and anxiety.
Should I change my snack choices, or am I just too old for it to matter?
Should I change my snack choices, or am I just too old for it to matter?
Depression traps a person's thoughts in self-focus and rumination. Brains can get stuck.
But they can also change and heal.
Try connecting with others or seeking therapy. It's hard to take that first step, but it's essential to shift your neural tracks back towards hope.
But they can also change and heal.
Try connecting with others or seeking therapy. It's hard to take that first step, but it's essential to shift your neural tracks back towards hope.
May 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Depression traps a person's thoughts in self-focus and rumination. Brains can get stuck.
But they can also change and heal.
Try connecting with others or seeking therapy. It's hard to take that first step, but it's essential to shift your neural tracks back towards hope.
But they can also change and heal.
Try connecting with others or seeking therapy. It's hard to take that first step, but it's essential to shift your neural tracks back towards hope.
If you are connected in any way to teaching, training, or learning, you will get something out of this episode.
It turns out you can teach an old Sean new tricks! Tune in this week to hear Jon teach Sean the distinction between knowledge and skill in training, the role of attention in the learning process, and the importance of encoding and consolidation. #Podcast #Neuroscience
May 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If you are connected in any way to teaching, training, or learning, you will get something out of this episode.
Loneliness makes us feel bad. It fuels rumination and self-criticism. But research shows that even brief, meaningful interactions, like a shared smile, eye contact, or laughter can improve these. If you're feeling isolated and depressed, it's because you're human. Let's reach out to each other more.
May 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Loneliness makes us feel bad. It fuels rumination and self-criticism. But research shows that even brief, meaningful interactions, like a shared smile, eye contact, or laughter can improve these. If you're feeling isolated and depressed, it's because you're human. Let's reach out to each other more.
Speaking of the Met Gala...your brain puts on its own fashion show. Every thought you have gets ‘dressed’ by context, memory, and emotion before stepping onto the red carpet of your awareness.
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Speaking of the Met Gala...your brain puts on its own fashion show. Every thought you have gets ‘dressed’ by context, memory, and emotion before stepping onto the red carpet of your awareness.
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Episode 16, "I Got Patterns" dropped today. Listen on Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, or YouTube to hear Jon teach Sean how our brains recognize and interpret patterns in various contexts, from everyday life to storytelling and art. #podcast #Neuroscience
May 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Episode 16, "I Got Patterns" dropped today. Listen on Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, or YouTube to hear Jon teach Sean how our brains recognize and interpret patterns in various contexts, from everyday life to storytelling and art. #podcast #Neuroscience
Ever notice how quickly you grasp ideas from short videos or infographics? That's microlearning, and your brain LOVES it!
Neuroscience shows we process and remember things best in focused bursts. That's how social media works. More people should share knowledge this way.
Neuroscience shows we process and remember things best in focused bursts. That's how social media works. More people should share knowledge this way.
May 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ever notice how quickly you grasp ideas from short videos or infographics? That's microlearning, and your brain LOVES it!
Neuroscience shows we process and remember things best in focused bursts. That's how social media works. More people should share knowledge this way.
Neuroscience shows we process and remember things best in focused bursts. That's how social media works. More people should share knowledge this way.
If you're facing major changes in your life, keep a healthy mindset. New opportunities, new paths, new perspectives...flow with them.
Change doesn't have to be chaos, it can be growth.
Change doesn't have to be chaos, it can be growth.
May 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If you're facing major changes in your life, keep a healthy mindset. New opportunities, new paths, new perspectives...flow with them.
Change doesn't have to be chaos, it can be growth.
Change doesn't have to be chaos, it can be growth.
Our brains overreact to what’s most dramatic, not what’s most likely. It’s the availability heuristic—the same reason we fear plane crashes more than heart disease.
That's why we're more afraid of AI taking over the world than we are of its more likely risks, like algorithmic bias.
That's why we're more afraid of AI taking over the world than we are of its more likely risks, like algorithmic bias.
May 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Our brains overreact to what’s most dramatic, not what’s most likely. It’s the availability heuristic—the same reason we fear plane crashes more than heart disease.
That's why we're more afraid of AI taking over the world than we are of its more likely risks, like algorithmic bias.
That's why we're more afraid of AI taking over the world than we are of its more likely risks, like algorithmic bias.
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Have you ever experienced The Sean Effect? If you are not sure, listen to this week's episode that dropped today on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, and iHeart Radio. #podcast #Neuroscience
April 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Have you ever experienced The Sean Effect? If you are not sure, listen to this week's episode that dropped today on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, and iHeart Radio. #podcast #Neuroscience
Is 'The Sean Effect' a real thing? Have you ever experienced it? 👂🏻to find out!
Prepare for Episode 15, "The Sean Effect," airing tomorrow! Sean and Jon delve into the complexities of the human brain, exploring AI and cognition, the active nature of vision and perception, decision-making processes, heuristics, and biases. #neuroscience
April 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Is 'The Sean Effect' a real thing? Have you ever experienced it? 👂🏻to find out!
Science is apolitical. The scientific method is not biased. Yet science finds itself under attack. What gives?
Is it fear that inconvenient facts will challenge our worldviews? Or a power play to control which facts we collectively accept?
Is it fear that inconvenient facts will challenge our worldviews? Or a power play to control which facts we collectively accept?
April 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Science is apolitical. The scientific method is not biased. Yet science finds itself under attack. What gives?
Is it fear that inconvenient facts will challenge our worldviews? Or a power play to control which facts we collectively accept?
Is it fear that inconvenient facts will challenge our worldviews? Or a power play to control which facts we collectively accept?
👏🏻Left👏🏻Brain👏🏻Right👏🏻Brain👏🏻Don't👏🏻Work👏🏻Separately👏🏻
Your amazing 🧠 uses both hemispheres for pretty much everything it does. It's a team effort.
No more hoaxy quizzes. Let's bury that myth!
Your amazing 🧠 uses both hemispheres for pretty much everything it does. It's a team effort.
No more hoaxy quizzes. Let's bury that myth!
April 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
👏🏻Left👏🏻Brain👏🏻Right👏🏻Brain👏🏻Don't👏🏻Work👏🏻Separately👏🏻
Your amazing 🧠 uses both hemispheres for pretty much everything it does. It's a team effort.
No more hoaxy quizzes. Let's bury that myth!
Your amazing 🧠 uses both hemispheres for pretty much everything it does. It's a team effort.
No more hoaxy quizzes. Let's bury that myth!
My phone buzzing for every notification drives me crazy. Group texts the the worst! I want to be in the loop, but the constant barrage fragments my focus and I struggle to get my work done.
How do I tell people nicely to leave me off their mass texts?
How do I tell people nicely to leave me off their mass texts?
April 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My phone buzzing for every notification drives me crazy. Group texts the the worst! I want to be in the loop, but the constant barrage fragments my focus and I struggle to get my work done.
How do I tell people nicely to leave me off their mass texts?
How do I tell people nicely to leave me off their mass texts?
I loved recording this episode! 🎙️
If you haven't listened to the most recent episode yet, check us out on Spotify, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and YouTube. Tune in to hear Jon teach Sean about some really interesting brain phenomena. Don't forget to like and subscribe!
April 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I loved recording this episode! 🎙️
When scientists challenge consensus, we get breakthroughs.
When the uninformed challenge science, we get noise.
It's so noisy right now.
Let's not confuse scientific skepticism with ignorance.
When the uninformed challenge science, we get noise.
It's so noisy right now.
Let's not confuse scientific skepticism with ignorance.
April 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When scientists challenge consensus, we get breakthroughs.
When the uninformed challenge science, we get noise.
It's so noisy right now.
Let's not confuse scientific skepticism with ignorance.
When the uninformed challenge science, we get noise.
It's so noisy right now.
Let's not confuse scientific skepticism with ignorance.
"BRAIN PHENOMENA"
Our latest🎙️episode on @jonteachessean.bsky.social drops tomorrow (Wednesday). Sean and I discuss various mysteries of the brain, but lead with the idea that the brain tends to be rather proud of itself. Read more👇
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Our latest🎙️episode on @jonteachessean.bsky.social drops tomorrow (Wednesday). Sean and I discuss various mysteries of the brain, but lead with the idea that the brain tends to be rather proud of itself. Read more👇
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April 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"BRAIN PHENOMENA"
Our latest🎙️episode on @jonteachessean.bsky.social drops tomorrow (Wednesday). Sean and I discuss various mysteries of the brain, but lead with the idea that the brain tends to be rather proud of itself. Read more👇
🧵
Our latest🎙️episode on @jonteachessean.bsky.social drops tomorrow (Wednesday). Sean and I discuss various mysteries of the brain, but lead with the idea that the brain tends to be rather proud of itself. Read more👇
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That 'a-ha' moment you have? It happens when everything clicks. Your nonconscious brain connects seemingly unrelated dots and aligns patterns to bring everything together at once into a moment, a burst, of creative insight.
#BrainSpark
#BrainSpark
April 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
That 'a-ha' moment you have? It happens when everything clicks. Your nonconscious brain connects seemingly unrelated dots and aligns patterns to bring everything together at once into a moment, a burst, of creative insight.
#BrainSpark
#BrainSpark
Your brain uses imagination to bridge gaps in knowledge, which is why curiosity is one of its most powerful tools.
What are you curious about? What leap must your imagination take?
What are you curious about? What leap must your imagination take?
April 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Your brain uses imagination to bridge gaps in knowledge, which is why curiosity is one of its most powerful tools.
What are you curious about? What leap must your imagination take?
What are you curious about? What leap must your imagination take?
Are AI’s cross-modal algorithms a kind of digital synesthesia, where models ‘see’ the flavor of words or ‘hear’ the texture of thoughts? In our next @jonteachessean.bsky.social podcast episode, we dive into phenomena like synesthesia—where senses blend... similar to today’s AI? Listen Wednesday👂🏻
April 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Are AI’s cross-modal algorithms a kind of digital synesthesia, where models ‘see’ the flavor of words or ‘hear’ the texture of thoughts? In our next @jonteachessean.bsky.social podcast episode, we dive into phenomena like synesthesia—where senses blend... similar to today’s AI? Listen Wednesday👂🏻
"DANGER IS MY MIDDLE NAME"
This is our latest episode on the @jonteachessean.bsky.social podcast. Sean and I talk about how the brain processes fear and danger.
Check it out now!
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This is our latest episode on the @jonteachessean.bsky.social podcast. Sean and I talk about how the brain processes fear and danger.
Check it out now!
🧵
April 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"DANGER IS MY MIDDLE NAME"
This is our latest episode on the @jonteachessean.bsky.social podcast. Sean and I talk about how the brain processes fear and danger.
Check it out now!
🧵
This is our latest episode on the @jonteachessean.bsky.social podcast. Sean and I talk about how the brain processes fear and danger.
Check it out now!
🧵
Reposted by Prof Jon
We are now available on Amazon Music and iHeart Radio, as well as on Spotify and YouTube. Join us to see Professor Jon teach Sean about his brain. #podcast #neuroscience
April 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
We are now available on Amazon Music and iHeart Radio, as well as on Spotify and YouTube. Join us to see Professor Jon teach Sean about his brain. #podcast #neuroscience
Your brain is just a prehistoric alarm system with modern upgrades! The 'better safe than sorry' feature was great for avoiding predators 10,000 years ago...but overkill for email notifications in 2025! Learn more on our latest episode.
Spotify|YouTube
#BrainHacks #EvolutionaryHangover #Neuroscience
Spotify|YouTube
#BrainHacks #EvolutionaryHangover #Neuroscience
April 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Your brain is just a prehistoric alarm system with modern upgrades! The 'better safe than sorry' feature was great for avoiding predators 10,000 years ago...but overkill for email notifications in 2025! Learn more on our latest episode.
Spotify|YouTube
#BrainHacks #EvolutionaryHangover #Neuroscience
Spotify|YouTube
#BrainHacks #EvolutionaryHangover #Neuroscience