Jonny Smallwood

In a non trivial way the #climate_crisis is reducible to shortcomings in human intelligence. This idea is behind my new release with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude: "Hot Summer Nights". Please check it out! Spotify open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model Time for new approaches: o True/False → Content that misleads o Belief → Behavior o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings

the scenario we all feared

Congrats @josephsalvo.bsky.social and @rementurus.bsky.social !

When I started my PhD (and until my 1st fac appt) I believed advances in large-scale neuro would come from more powerful modeling. There’s still a place for that oc, but we’re still in imaging infancy, and the best value per $ in terms of new insight comes from well designed common sense experiments

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🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" doi.org/10.1371/jour... We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

Almost missed that this is out! Former postdoc Liz Necka led this long overdue FMRI study formally comparing two types of pain modulation: Placebo analgesia & predictive cues. TLDR: these are NOT the same! Placebo analgesia reduced cue effects, & brain mechanisms were nearly all dissociable. 1/4

Hi world - its been a hard year with #cancer meaning I missed out lots of fun things. It would mean a lot if you checked out my new album of tracks. Out on all platforms including #Soundcloud (free). Let me know which tracks you like and a special prize if you work out the two levels to the project

Congrats @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com et al! This looks great.

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

It does, it does!

A Friday afternoon post to share our new paper (pre-print)! We modelled brain & behaviour & physiology from 27 unconstrained social learning interactions. Learning emerged from non-linear brain-gaze coupling and asymmetric neural dependencies suggesting mutual prediction. Full thread below ⬇️

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️ direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr... ☎️ DM me for more details.

This looks interesting👇

Predictive processing models posit top-down influences of internal models on brain processing at multiple levels...but how deeply does predictive info penetrate into perception? What are the limits? New paper with @rotembot.bsky.social and @fmristats.bsky.social link.growkudos.com/1mmf28pbmkg

This looks cool!! cc @hardigirl.bsky.social @ravenwallace.bsky.social

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

RIP Ozzy. You blazed your own trail.

Excited to share my first publication! TLDR; mind-wandering is contagious & classmate behavior can cause an increase in task-unrelated thoughts! Thank you to my collaborator, @michaeljkane.bsky.social for guidance throughout this project. You can read it here - online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (mostly cortex) Can someone recommend a recent review that is *assessible* to beginning PhD students. More/somewhat mathematical is fine. thanks #neuroskyence

So excited to share this new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @benjyb.bsky.social! We report that people are consistently slower to report that their imagery is weak than to report that it is vivid ✨🤔

Also on Tidal! tidal.com/browse/album...

Listened to this album in the car the other day, driving through a heatwave. In captures the feeling of cruising down a freeway with the radio on while also having a minor existential crisis about the world and your own role in its demise.

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰 And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

cc ‪@michaelgaebler.com You were right I have fixed the links now

This is a great opportunity!

In a non trivial way the #climate_crisis can be reduced to shortcomings in human intelligence. This is the idea that is behind my new release with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude. Please check it out! Spotify open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

A man who was critically injured on Wednesday after he entered an MRI room on Long Island and was pulled into the machine by his chain necklace died the next day, the authorities said on Friday.

This is a pretty cool exploration of dissonance in music. youtu.be/tCsl6ZcY9ag?...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

My painting BLUEBONNETS

Looks like @natneuro.nature.com should proof read their posts.

Hot Summer Nights! Listen now on Spotify open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hi world - its been a hard year with #cancer meaning I missed out lots of fun things. It would mean a lot if you checked out my new album of tracks. Out on all platforms including #Soundcloud (free). Let me know which tracks you like and a special prize if you work out the two levels to the project

Part of a wicked cool project to model brain systems: Scientific Machine Learning of Chaotic Systems Discovers Governing Equations for Neural Populations doi.org/10.48550/arX... #neuroscience #neuroblox

#heatwaves in Europe and Canada the week "Hot summer nights" (my new #climatechange themed album) was released.

open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now. If you would like to help: Stream it a few times Post reply mentioning a track you like by name. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/hot... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...

#heatwaves in Europe and Canada the week "Hot summer nights" (my new #climatechange themed album) was released.

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now. If you would like to help: Stream it a few times Post reply mentioning a track you like by name. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/hot... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...