Jay Van Bavel, PhD

jayvanbavel.bsky.social

19 October 2026 21:55

Two wrongs make a right when it comes to incivility Retaliatory incivility (i.e., incivility in response to someone else's incivility) is seen as less morally condemnable than initial incivility. This may create a vicious circle of conflict www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Earl K. Miller

earlkmiller.bsky.social

03 October 2026 12:58

Prefrontal beta strengthened with learning and tracked reward expectations, making it a potential marker that the cortex has learned the task, mirroring the decline in hippocampal activity. doi.org/10.1523/ENEU... #neuroscience

Katie Insel

katieinsel.bsky.social

15 September 2026 02:59

The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!

Dan Handwerker

danielhandwerker.bsky.social

13 September 2026 16:36

How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer

jenndsn.bsky.social

10 September 2026 10:44

An outstanding Dissertation Award talk by Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social on heterogeneity and idiographic (vs. nomothetic) approaches in developmental cognitive neuroscience. He made his case very well - and bonus: increased everyone's vocabulary! 👏 See more @ 1/ doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...