Hilary Richardson
@hilaryrichardson.bsky.social
Lecturer (Asst. Professor) at the University of Edinburgh 🏴. Developmental cognitive neuroscientist. Mom. Michigander ✋. she/her(s).
https://richardsonlab.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
https://richardsonlab.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
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❗New Paper Alert ❗
We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess
@hilaryrichardson.bsky.social
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We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess
@hilaryrichardson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eBZwE
Social inference brain networks in autistic adults during movie-viewing: functional specialization and heterogeneity - Molecular Autism
Background Difficulty in social inferences is a core feature in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). On the behavioral level, it remains unclear whether reasoning about others’ mental states (Theory of Mi...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
❗New Paper Alert ❗
We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess
@hilaryrichardson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eBZwE
We found some (but overall weak) evidence for greater differential responses in brain networks underlying theory of mind inferences than those involved in empathic responses in autism. #neuroskyence #autism #openaccess
@hilaryrichardson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eBZwE
gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Behind the Scenes: Using Movies to Study the Human Brain
What happens inside your brain when you watch your favorite movie? Maybe you wonder what the character thinks or wants to do next? Since characters in movies often act like we do in real life, scienti...
kids.frontiersin.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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I was recently interviewed about my research and career for a blog post for WiNUK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social:
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
Bridging the Gap: Dr Katie Mckinnon
In this new Bridging the Gap article, Dr Katie Mckinnon shares insights into neonatology, her career journey, and more!
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I was recently interviewed about my research and career for a blog post for WiNUK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social:
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
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Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
dickaslin.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
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2025 FLUX Conference
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️
Local Organising Committee:
Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos
fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️
Local Organising Committee:
Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos
fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/
2025 Dublin - Flux Society
fluxsociety.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
2025 FLUX Conference
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️
Local Organising Committee:
Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos
fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️
Local Organising Committee:
Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos
fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/
Ditto :)
Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ditto :)
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Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN
A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.
A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.
November 12, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN
A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.
A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.
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We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Feel free to reach out with Qs
Feel free to reach out with Qs
December 11, 2023 at 6:03 PM
We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Feel free to reach out with Qs
Feel free to reach out with Qs
We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Feel free to reach out with Qs
Feel free to reach out with Qs
December 11, 2023 at 6:03 PM
We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Feel free to reach out with Qs
Feel free to reach out with Qs
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If you’re interested in learning more about the masters programs in #deafed or #ASL and #deafstudies, I’m hosting an info session tonight at 6ET. It will be in ASL with interpreters.
mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...
mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...
Inquiry Form : BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development
A College's premier information gathering and delivery service. Help prospective students gain insight into the college or university by collecting information and delivering personalized content to t...
mywheelock.bu.edu
November 2, 2023 at 9:16 PM
If you’re interested in learning more about the masters programs in #deafed or #ASL and #deafstudies, I’m hosting an info session tonight at 6ET. It will be in ASL with interpreters.
mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...
mywheelock.bu.edu/literacyhuma...
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More good news to share 😁
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!
Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams
#devpsyc #psychscisky
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!
Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams
#devpsyc #psychscisky
Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in ea...
Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an attractive methodological addition to in-person eye-tracking in the lab. However, there is a lack of systematic researc....
doi.org
October 18, 2023 at 7:46 PM
More good news to share 😁
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!
Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams
#devpsyc #psychscisky
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!
Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams
#devpsyc #psychscisky
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Oooof. Not a single… Not a *single* K99 awardee at an HBCU. Ever. Ever? EVER.
Analysis of NIH K99/R00 Awards and the Career Progression of Awardees
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 17, 2023 at 1:35 AM
Oooof. Not a single… Not a *single* K99 awardee at an HBCU. Ever. Ever? EVER.
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1/ Hey #devscisky #psychscisky), I'm running into a problem where an online moderated developmental study (i.e. on zoom w/kids) gets a ton of signups from different emails with the same format that seem to be programmatically generated. They were one guy, no kid, didn't even pretend.
October 13, 2023 at 7:34 AM
1/ Hey #devscisky #psychscisky), I'm running into a problem where an online moderated developmental study (i.e. on zoom w/kids) gets a ton of signups from different emails with the same format that seem to be programmatically generated. They were one guy, no kid, didn't even pretend.
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*New paper*
W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS
The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes
Mini thread below!
W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS
The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes
Mini thread below!
October 12, 2023 at 3:26 PM
*New paper*
W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS
The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes
Mini thread below!
W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS
The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes
Mini thread below!
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This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright law
www.copyright.gov
October 9, 2023 at 8:19 PM
This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/
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🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
October 7, 2023 at 12:37 PM
🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
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Do you have an opening in your lab?? Is your institutions hiring?? Share it with the #neuroscience community by typing #neurojobs in your post to be added to the Neuroscience Jobs feed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
September 4, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Do you have an opening in your lab?? Is your institutions hiring?? Share it with the #neuroscience community by typing #neurojobs in your post to be added to the Neuroscience Jobs feed.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Loads of new psychologists and neuroscientists here this week! If you want to help more people escape from the old site, don't forget to share your invites with our pool using this google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
August 22, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Loads of new psychologists and neuroscientists here this week! If you want to help more people escape from the old site, don't forget to share your invites with our pool using this google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Excited to share an open dataset of 321 3-12yo children who completed our ToM booklet task, as well as all task materials + guides for administration & coding!
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/
Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/
Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.
August 28, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Excited to share an open dataset of 321 3-12yo children who completed our ToM booklet task, as well as all task materials + guides for administration & coding!
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/
Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/
Led by Koraima Sotomayor Enriquez, w/ Rebecca Saxe & Hyo Gweon.
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Our new language fMRI dataset is now published in Scientific Data! And not only that it now includes nearly double the amount of data as the preprint version with up to 15 hours of fMRI per participant!
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
A natural language fMRI dataset for voxelwise encoding models - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A natural language fMRI dataset for voxelwise encoding models
www.nature.com
August 23, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Our new language fMRI dataset is now published in Scientific Data! And not only that it now includes nearly double the amount of data as the preprint version with up to 15 hours of fMRI per participant!
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence