@ralisonadcock
Psychiatrist Neuroscientist of memory, motivation, and the architecture of hope. Committed to joy, courage, and mental flourishing as outcomes for graduate research training! adcocklab.org dibs.duke.edu
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
“History is full of people who out of fear, ignorance, or a lust for power, have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must never let it happen again.” -Carl Sagan, Cosmos Episode 13 “Who Speaks For Earth”
Woke Sinatra
For a Merry Christmas
Turkish participants in this study on loneliness cite government control of their lives and policies, leading to economic hardships, thus also the need to work longer hours, as limiting their opportunities to spend time with others.
Democracy helps mental health.
Yep
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Ratings buttons in academic recommendation portal that switch polarity from one item to the next.
Dear Rec Letter Portals designers: Please explain this choice.
Our python workshop is returning! Undergraduate educators, join us on July 27-30 for "Coding with Allen Institute Data."
No prior coding experience needed. Travel, meals, & stipend included.
Apply by Feb. 2 at: https://alleninstitute.org/events/educator-coding-workshop-2026/
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Shameless plug:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
So the Border Patrol announced that they arrested >250 people in their North Carolina invasion, but that only 44 had any criminal record at all.
Some of those "criminal" records include shoplifting and driving with an expired registration. Some were U.S. citizens.
www.wunc.org/2025-11-19/b...
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all." Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗 By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."
Love this so much. 💜
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
How do we help wankers like this understand that just
not being an asshole and doing their share of the dishes is their “best shot”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
! I hope they are nice to her.
She seems unfazed :)
I don’t regret it after all
Thank you!
I bet I will regret asking but I am so curious what you’re referring to
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o... "The world of print is orderly, logical, rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected to make arguments, and propose theses..with print culture came the prestige of reason, hostility to superstition, and the rapid development of science"
Happy to see this work out today
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@dukebrain.bsky.social @neurosciencenow.bsky.social
NYT is looking for scientists to tell them about their projects that were cut by the administration for a new series on “lost science”: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Hello world!
Only a year late, but I am now at the NUS Centre for Sleep and Cognition, where I will be directing the Dynamic Brain & Memory lab!
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪 👇 read the 🧵 for all the posts being cut - health statistics in US will disappear
Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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