UCLA social neuroscientist, co-founder of Resonance Inc., Substack: https://bit.ly/3BdpdTbhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3mtzbfjacns22resonance.info is a social network that connects people who are genuinely compatible based on how they see the world. No scrolling - just genuine connections and breaking the ice through games and 'fast friends'. Substack here t.co/akwPhWco8t - available for research studies. https://resonance.info26 Aug 2026 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzbfjacns22https://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3mguiaamxah2oWho knew? Isaac Newton was a real a-hole www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8qHEUVw/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8qHEUVw/12 Mar 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguiaamxah2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3mfcpuveazk27For the academics, Claude Opus Extended is absolutely superior for doing reference-backed analysis of science-based queries. So far it has not hallucinated any papers and I only rarely disagree with its interpretations. Major upgrade.20 Feb 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcpuveazk27https://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3mcad6jkrfc2sExcited to share new work from @bear_goldstein, @shannon47burns & my lab! We’re introducing a dynamic analytical approach for Hyperscanning called Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQA) that captures the complex coupling traditional methods often miss.12 Jan 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcad6jkrfc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3m66cdbzzrs2mJust in case you weren't sure if the latest version of Grok went from being Elon's biggest critique to his biggest fan https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-better-than-anyone-200068925421 Nov 2025 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3m66cdbzzrs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3m5ypxktpcs24Gemini 3 is blowing my mind. I've been using it to edit my writing and it is on a whole other level compared to ChatGPT and Claude. It is a vastly deeper "thinker".19 Nov 2025 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ypxktpcs24https://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3m36s5nqto22rVery excited to share this amazing work that @beargoldstein.bsky.social just published from our lab. He did amazing work including creating a new technique that does for time series what MVPA did for spatial detail in the brain. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Oct 2025 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3m36s5nqto22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3m2nm6exij22fTomorrow I am teaching Searle's Chinese room in my consciousness class and to add a bit of irony, I have this AI teach it. In the first comment, I have the 2023 version. Pretty amazing how far AI video has come.08 Oct 2025 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2nm6exij22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lwmd52hlsc24Scientists may have found the genetic mutation that led humans to have bigger brains. If it can be modulated that would have huge consequences for the future. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adt053417 Aug 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwmd52hlsc24https://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lvdypmfc7c2tPretty awesome for all of UCLA's Jewish faculty to wake up today to find out all of our grants have been suspended because Trump is fighting anti-Semitism - an issue near and dear to his heart.01 Aug 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvdypmfc7c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lujhja3ygk2wYou get about 100 million breaths. So does every other animal big or small. Don't waste them. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06390-6.pdf22 Jul 2025 02:29 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lujhja3ygk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lujdtkz6kk2hTell me you have no prefrontal cortex without telling me you have no prefrontal cortex22 Jul 2025 01:24 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lujdtkz6kk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3ltlkyn2j6f2cFavorite new TikTok channel. I could teach a whole class on this www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hAY4d5/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hAY4d5/10 Jul 2025 05:12 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltlkyn2j6f2chttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lslsgzneq22pSmart piece on AI and college degrees: "students cheating with ChatGPT aren't lazy—they're rational actors in an irrational system They're using 21st-century tools to game 19th-century assessments for 11th-century credentials. The real scandal is that we're still pretending the old game matters." https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/what-good-is-a-college-degree-when27 Jun 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslsgzneq22phttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3ls37t5nqis2pThis is where all the social psych folks are these days, right? Does anyone know if Zimbardo got the idea for the Stanford Prison Experiment from the Third Wave Experiment that took place in Palo Alto (where Stanford is) 4 years before. Never seen a connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)#:~:text=As%20the%20movement%20grew%20outside,920 Jun 2025 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls37t5nqis2phttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lqpgdgtcf226Is someone you love applying to college in the next 3 years? The lessons I learned in my new substack post including: the statistics you can find are mostly meaningless (Lesson 6) and early decision (ED) is mostly a scam (Lesson 12). Here is the link: https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewlieberman/p/twenty-lessons-from-the-college-application?r=s961&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web03 Jun 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqpgdgtcf226https://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lqb5entv222hThis is pretty brilliant on multiple levels28 May 2025 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqb5entv222hhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lpp6wpo7bk2zWisdom of the crowd takes 5 time world chess champion to a draw https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/sport/magnus-carlsen-vs-the-world-draw-chess-spt-intl21 May 2025 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpp6wpo7bk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lpolymjtfu2bMental health interventions in the classroom do not help and sometimes makes things worse https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/mental-health-lessons-school-dont-work-mindfulness?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4FvbtH7WKW58oLwfIc9ovwsrhi7WrQtF6556MuOGo9yu9J3pUUTrQs2-j73Q_aem_6VtiaK4MsjcZHTJSpl43xg21 May 2025 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpolymjtfu2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lpkg5kires2kExcited to share my new TiCS paper, currently free to download. After 40 years since I was first obsessed with consciousness, I finally wrote a paper directly about it. A thread on the paper's plot line below. 1/819 May 2025 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpkg5kires2khttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lp2vlgca6k27Cool new "marshmallow" self-control study. It's about interpersonal emotion regulation. https://gizmodo.com/new-twist-on-famous-marshmallow-test-what-happens-when-you-add-a-second-kid-200060115213 May 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2vlgca6k27https://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3loxd7ntyl42gMaybe we shouldn’t be so doom and gloom about students using ChatGPT for learning. This is consistent with my own experience. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4_E8wsyu61ujwEktU0r8bzp9ipB7j5jiO8ggzO-egxSTx1BIW-zb2vpYCt3w_aem_hdhKS436Iczd1Mt9gg9k8g12 May 2025 06:19 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3loxd7ntyl42ghttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lovtdfzzhx2oAwesome work from @mollycrockett and co on the limits of the limits of introspective accuracy https://x.com/that_adammorris/status/1921256977449062785?s=46&t=XALnimWNG2scMF4C3sO94w11 May 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lovtdfzzhx2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lobrtc52is2bThe cuts to NIH and NSF will cost 100s of billions in the short term and will reduce GPT by ~7% over the next 25-30 years03 May 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lobrtc52is2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lobrdim5ek2bThe scientific catastrophe has formally arrived. This is what Trump's budget would do to science funding in the US. Science funding after WWII is what made the US the powerhouse it is. Is there any US advantage Trump won't squander?03 May 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lobrdim5ek2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lobqpx32ik2yThe scientific catastrophe has formally arrived. Trump's budget for next year would cut scientific funding by 40% (NIH) to 55% (NSF). NIH would no longer fund psychology (though neuroscience would get its own institute). This would be a disaster if passed. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-budget-proposes-drastic-cuts-us-scientific-research-2025-05-02/?utm_source=chatgpt.com03 May 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lobqpx32ik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lo2223phps2xAcademics - ever wonder what the book of your lecture course would look like? I have the transcript of my class and it would be over 800 pages. Looks like someone needs an editor.30 Apr 2025 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo2223phps2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lntgsrcjcs2lHow has Google not figured out it is sitting on a non-monetized gold mine. Create an LLM trained on every manuscript and article in Google Scholar. Every scientist would pay $20/month to be able to speak to a full up-to-date literature.27 Apr 2025 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lntgsrcjcs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3ln7rmpkbfk2gIf you use ChatGPT a lot (and have 'memory' turned on so it knows everything from all your conversations) ask it "Based on everything you know about me, what are my biggest blindspots about myself". Very eye opening.20 Apr 2025 04:07 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln7rmpkbfk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/socialbrain.bsky.social/post/3lm3fxxqymb2tThe line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08742-405 Apr 2025 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:tvk4y2kn7pbdlfdeak7zf4be/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm3fxxqymb2t