João Guassi Moreira
@jfguassimoreira.bsky.social
assistant professor UW Madison psych | studies neurodevelopment, emotion regulation, and decision-making | dumpster diving for psychic retrieval | views expressed my own
The Mamdani speech nearly had me in tears.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Mamdani speech nearly had me in tears.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.
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looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia
No words
🧵Trump's masked thugs shot a 24-year-old US citizen last Thurs in Ontario, Calif.
He had just left his home and saw a bunch of ICE agents surrounding a car.
He stopped and simply told them, "Hey, there's a bunch of kids about to be across the street because they're going to school."
He had just left his home and saw a bunch of ICE agents surrounding a car.
He stopped and simply told them, "Hey, there's a bunch of kids about to be across the street because they're going to school."
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
No words
Man, Rico Dowdle runs like someone has his family locked in a cabin somewhere and will only release them if he has a big game
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Man, Rico Dowdle runs like someone has his family locked in a cabin somewhere and will only release them if he has a big game
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
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My wife and I have started the ancient practice of "going to a local brewery on weekends when local sports teams are on and yukking it up with strangers who are clearly there to do the same" and gang it's a fucking balm for the soul
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My wife and I have started the ancient practice of "going to a local brewery on weekends when local sports teams are on and yukking it up with strangers who are clearly there to do the same" and gang it's a fucking balm for the soul
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A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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About 120 pages in, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan is a wonderful novel, with a note-perfect integration of near-collapse the backdrop for a compelling literary and historical mystery. I've always loved McEwan at the top of his form.
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
About 120 pages in, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan is a wonderful novel, with a note-perfect integration of near-collapse the backdrop for a compelling literary and historical mystery. I've always loved McEwan at the top of his form.
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
What a treat to listen to Dr. Susan Carey give a guest lecture on the discipline of Psychology, “then and now”, for us here at @uwpsych.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What a treat to listen to Dr. Susan Carey give a guest lecture on the discipline of Psychology, “then and now”, for us here at @uwpsych.bsky.social
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after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
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I think this is one of the more important articles I've written in my career. Draws on lots of research and data. I hope it can be a reference for people and that it will make a positive impact. Goes out to all Strength In Numbers readers tomorrow morning: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I think this is one of the more important articles I've written in my career. Draws on lots of research and data. I hope it can be a reference for people and that it will make a positive impact. Goes out to all Strength In Numbers readers tomorrow morning: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
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Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...
October 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...
Excited to share my latest preprint, a study from my postdoc days on the social neuroscience of mental representational change! Leveraging two cohorts of first year high schoolers, we used RSA to show that spontaneously evoked mental representations of known others grow more idiosyncratic with time
Getting to Know You: Neural Representations of Other People Grow More Perceiver-Specific Over Time https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.677973v1
September 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Excited to share my latest preprint, a study from my postdoc days on the social neuroscience of mental representational change! Leveraging two cohorts of first year high schoolers, we used RSA to show that spontaneously evoked mental representations of known others grow more idiosyncratic with time
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Finally published:
“Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨
“Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨
Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition | PNAS
Our ability to understand and control complex systems of many interacting parts remains
limited. A key challenge is that we still do not know how b...
www.pnas.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Finally published:
“Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨
“Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨
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Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons:
-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones
-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons:
-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones
-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones
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The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.
I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:
“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:
“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.
I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:
“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:
“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
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Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.
That view is exceptionally naive.
As @narosenblum.bsky.social and I wrote last fall, “basic scientific research [is] a long-term investment, one that only governments have the time horizon to make, and it brings enormous payoffs.”
It can’t just be moonshots and looking for unicorn behemoths.
As @narosenblum.bsky.social and I wrote last fall, “basic scientific research [is] a long-term investment, one that only governments have the time horizon to make, and it brings enormous payoffs.”
It can’t just be moonshots and looking for unicorn behemoths.
Basic Science Is The Foundation Of Future Cures
Injecting partisan politics into American basic science would be terrible for the US: for the economy, and for development of future treatments for diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
www.infotimes.us
September 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.
This policy initiative is antithetical to the current consensus in developmental science, and has a very good shot of making crime worse in the long run.
House lawmakers voted to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults and to treat young people more harshly in the D.C. justice system — fulfilling a top request from the Trump administration despite universal opposition among top D.C. elected officials.
House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults
The House also voted to restrict judges from giving lighter sentences to young adults, among 14 D.C. crime-related policy proposals from the GOP.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This policy initiative is antithetical to the current consensus in developmental science, and has a very good shot of making crime worse in the long run.