Ooooooh. Super interesting. This will be a game changer. It's not often I'm excited to update modeling pipelines...

This makes me think back to this beautiful and underappreciated paper by @talyarkoni.com @jake-westfall.bsky.social and @nichols.bsky.social
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/1-2...

Turkey season. The time is nigh.

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...

Super interesting! Reminds me of a point from Danziger's "Naming the Mind": That "motivation", as a term, was coined in the 20th century, largely to cover the ambition of early psychologists to explain ALL human behavior, which was thought impossible earlier.
www.amazon.com/Naming-Mind-...

Carnivale.

Had this thought hit me like a Lovecraftian horror this morning.
Or put another way:

They intended for it to be
The Microsoft Office suite
Of the mind.

The 6th edition of "The Handbook of Social Psychology" is launching today. For free! Online! I was super fortunate to contribute a chapter with @lisafeldmanbarrett.com on philosophy of science. Check out all the chapters at www.the-HSP.com.

Oh probably tons! That would be a great project! You've seen the Gonzalez-Castillo paper too right?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

There are real consequences to this sort of hype.
Cut NSF to 1/3. Let AI pick the winners.

I guess we'll come back to this in a year and see where we are.
archive.is/hqs2K