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Join us for our May Seminar!
We’re excited to welcome Buddhist teacher & author Andy Karr in conversation with @kevinberryman.bsky.social for a thought-provoking discussion: Mind vs Brain – Is There More to Consciousness?
📅 Thursday 1 May 2025
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Some of our vendors are cancelling production of new products, delaying manufacturing of existing lines, shutting down shipping while tariff turmoil plays out. So, what does a small business like mine do? We're called the "backbone of the American economy." Well, Trump is breaking that backbone.
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland.
Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies.
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🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
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Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
#academicsky
Very happy to report that the Special Issue of Biological Psychiatry:Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging dedicated to mindfulness is now published!
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The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
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Some actual facts about the impact of NIH funding
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Congrats Vaibhav!!
Did you know we could end not just hunger but all poverty in America if we just collected taxes on billionaires?
Not taxed them more, not changed the laws, if we just *collected* what they are supposed to pay, there would be no more poverty.
Instead, the richest man on earth is stealing from you.
Screenshot of the title, author list, and abstract of a publisher paper. Auto-text: Behaviour Research and Therapy 187 (2025) 104717 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Behaviour Research and Therapy BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND ELSEVIER journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/brat Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study Nur Hani Zainal a ", Christian A. Webb b , Lauren S. Hallion C; * Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore " Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, USA * Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA ABSTRACT Although uncontrollability is the core feature of perseverative thought that best accounts for its relationship to psychopathology, other features - for example, valence and content - have also been identified as potentially clinically relevant in their own right. We describe results from a proof-of-concept study that examined the extent to which major underlying features of worry could be used to predict which of three common cognitive regulatory strategies (mindful acceptance; focused attention meditation; and thought suppression) would help regulate that worry. N = 40 adults selected for high trait worry (80% also met criteria for one or more DSM-5 anxiety-related diagnoses) generated and provided feature ratings for three idiographic thought topics. Participants then attempted to control each worry using each of the three strategies during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a within-subjects design with a total of 468 observations. We used Bayesian multilevel modeling to test preregistered hypotheses regarding the extent to which each of five empirically-derived underlying dimensions of a worry (uncontrol- lability; negative valence; self-focus; apprehension; and social-memory content) could be used to predict which strategy would be most efficacious for regulating that worry. We did not find support for our preregistered hypotheses; however, in exploratory analyses, we found that mindfulness-based strategies were particularly effective compared to thought suppression for thoughts rated as higher (versus lower) in uncontrollability. Future research should test these principles in larger samples, using more diverse expressions of perseverative thought.
Can we skip classifying thoughts into “types”? What if we match on dimensions instead?
Hani Zainal, Christian Webb, and I investigate at Behaviour Research and Therapy:
Direct Mapping of Intervention to Thought Features: A Bayesian Proof-of-Concept Study
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2025.104717
MRI scanner speaking into a microphone.
We're thrilled to announce the BlueSky debut of the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging!
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Happy to share a new article about changes in rsFC related to decrease self-judgement following self-compassion practice. In short, decreased PCC-amygdala connectivity and increased connectivity of PCC with dlPFC, dmPFC and IFG. With Diane Joss, Liz Hoge, Mike Datko et al
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Just joined BlueSky. Happy to see a Contemplative Science group has already formed
@contemplativeneuro.bsky.social
Thanks Dave for starting this!
Hello Roshi! Nice to see familiar faces here. I just joined today....
Here is a good beginning to a Contemplative Research Starter Pack. Suggestions welcome. I'll try to keep it updated as more people migrate over to the blue sky 🙏 #contemplativeresearch #contemplativescience #mindfulness #meditation #yoga #breathwork #psychedelics go.bsky.app/StDaiA6
