Matt Wall

What do you mean I have to publish another paper after I am done with this one. That doesn't sound right. That sounds like a pyramid scheme

Cool!

New paper from @m93-alharbi.bsky.social's PhD, where we show that short sessions of @beatsaberofficial.bsky.social over a week can improve motor performance in dyspraxic young people, significantly more so than a tablet-based control task for some outcomes. [data and paper linked below]

God-awful fucking amoral, flat-out racist decision. Appalling.

Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Easy problem to solve - AI peer review. Job done. 😏

They are going to sell a squillion of these.

One of the wildest things about the AI movement is that people suddenly consider it not just acceptable but good to say, in front of the internet, their own bosses, and everybody: “I have stopped doing the majority of the job you hired and are paying me to do.”

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Why can’t you tune your guitar? Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…

Unfortunately, the venn diagram overlap of people who like math and people who play the guitar is not large. But if you fall within it: www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-...

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?

Has your leader eroded trust in elections by attempting to bring them under his direct control and/or stoking false claims of voter fraud?

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

Principles for proper peer review

Or worse: Here's what I would do if I had this data. I refer to points #4 and #5 in Principles for Proper Peer Review:
4. Don’t write the paper for the authors
5. Respect the authors’ time and effort
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

No, really?!

Great work, and great thread.

Towards Molecular Selectivity in Pharmacoimaging: Comment on van den Bosch and Cools Abstract. Molecular-enriched fMRI promises to bridge the gap between neurotransmitter systems and macro-scale network dynamics, yet empirical support has remained elusive. Commenting on van den Bosch ...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

We wrote a commentary in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social on a really nice recent paper from van den Bosch & Cools where they provide the first real attempt at validating REACT (molecular-enriched fMRI).

Here's what they found and what we think it means 👇

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

GOD YES. It should be a constructive process. It should be about offering suggestions to improve the paper, not pointing out minor flaws or telling the authors that you would have done it differently.

To be entirely clear: every "AI" company should have bright red ethical lines against things like genocide and weapons systems and surveillance and consent violations and shepherding an encroaching fascism, and those lines should be placed way earlier than anthropic and openAI's seem to be.

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research!

Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

Totally reasonably position.

(Yes, I know - not all reviewers are lazy, prejudiced, etc. I do my best with reviews, and I know most people do the same, but still - there are... issues.)

Given the vagaries of human-powered peer-review (time-poor reviewers not reading things properly, reviewers having personal prejudices/enmities, including offensive comments, rarely actually completing reviews on time, etc.) maybe the inevitable AI-powered review process actually won't be so bad?

However, contrary to our second hypothesis, we didn't see any difference in this effect in our two age groups (adolescents - 16-17, and adults - 26-29). Suggests cannabis use can affect the reward pathways, but adolescents are neither particularly vulnerable or resilient to this effect.

We showed that reward system function (measured by the MID) decreased over 12 months in PWUC (people who use cannabis) relative to controls (non-cannabis users). We saw similar effects in ROIs and whole-brain (voxelwise) analyses.

The association between cannabis use and brain reward anticipation: a 12-month longitudinal study of adults and adolescents who use cannabis and age-matched controls - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - The association between cannabis use and brain reward anticipation: a 12-month longitudinal study of adults and adolescents who use cannabis and age-matched controls

🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨
Wonderful work from the longitudinal arm of our cannabis-users study showing how brain reward-system function changes over 12 months in regular users. 🧵⬇️ #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gosh if only someone had warned them about this

Matt Badloss

Labour’s *majority* in Gorton and Denton in 2024 – just 19 months ago – was 13,000+. Tonight it got fewer than 10,000 votes total, on an almost identical turnout. In its heartland. That’s what a collapse of your core vote looks like.