adanvers

adanvers, 10 months ago to Neuroscience

New blog post on Psychology Today!

I'm finally reading Pessoa's The Cognitive-Emotional Brain, and I wrote a brief essay on it. I'm staying pretty high level, even though the book is pretty detailed and technical.

I hope to write a few posts on general thoughts as I read through it. I wish I'd gotten to it in grad school, because there's a lot of thoughtful analysis there!

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202307/thinking-versus-feeling-in-the-brain

#PsychologyToday #Pessoa #Damasio #Neuroscience

adanvers, 1 year ago to neuroscience

New blog post on TMS! It's a basic explainer on the technique. I heard from some readers of my post last week that things were a bit "over their heads"--so I wanted to give more background.

Comments here welcome!

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202306/tms-stimulating-the-brain-back-to-health

#Depression #TMS #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #PsychologyToday

adanvers, 1 year ago to internet

DANG! 47%!

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99339-47-of-all-internet-traffic-came-from-bots-in-2022

#Bots #Internet

adanvers, 1 year ago to psychology

From Simine Vazire!

"when there is a mismatch between a journal's reputation and its actual practices ...

all you need to do ... is figure out what these journals actually are selecting for, and be good at that. of course that might not be easy or possible for everyone, for example if a journal is selecting for famous authors or fancy institutions. but for some people, that will be a lot easier than producing high quality science."

https://sometimesimwrong.typepad.com/wrong/2023/05/unearned-prestige.html

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adanvers, 1 year ago to random

I've never felt more positive about Ed Sheeran. He definitely gets copyright right.

"Copyright was designed to benefit the middlemen and gatekeepers, such as the record labels, over the artists themselves. That’s why the labels have a long history of never paying artists. ... modern copyright is stifling rather than incentivizing music creation — directly in contrast to what we’re told it’s supposed to be doing"

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/

#Copyright #EdSheeran

adanvers, 1 year ago to random

"It's rare to see such big changes in life span year to year, but the pandemic claimed nearly 417,000 lives last year — more than even the year before — making COVID-19 the third leading cause of death for the second consecutive year.

Kochanek and his colleagues had hoped the release of new vaccines might make for a healthier 2021, ... But they were wrong. In fact, COVID-19 accounted for about 60% of the decline in life expectancy."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/22/1144864971/american-life-expectancy-is-now-at-its-lowest-in-nearly-two-decades