Beck Todd
Cognitive neuroscience, affect and cognition, participatory sensemaking through food and dance
- Reposted by Beck ToddWelcome to episode 2 of Neuroscience in Film! @danipalombo.bsky.social had the chance to binge the two Inside Out movies with her kids and decided to share her insights with us. First up: are memories actually emotionally coloured like they are in the films? Stay tuned for Part 2!
- At long last, I’ve just publisehd a new substack post on the sublime intersubjective art of clowning and the art of training attention attention to “the we-ness between us.” open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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- Preserving a Lifetime of Visionary Work open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- In Stories for Healing Earth the odyssey, “An Open Pickup on the High Seas,” continues. In which my father, John Todd, escapes with his life by sail only to encounter a sea serpent. And over the years hunts down the scientific explanation behind the mythical beast. open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- New preprint of a theoretical paper with @evanthompson.bsky.social. We discuss using information theoretic approaches to test the role of emergent interaction dynamics hypothesized by #ParticipatorySensemaking on attention and agency — using dance improv as a laboratory: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Beck ToddThe Third Entity: Participatory Sense-Making, Agency, and Attentional Dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps... New paper by @beckety.bsky.social and yours truly.
- Reposted by Beck ToddI’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
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- I should also be sure to say that wrt building on @dr-stan.bsky.social's lab’s rodent research I should acknowledge that the direct inspiration came from some of the PhD research carried out by @ppiantad.bsky.social!
- 1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
- 1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
- 2. In contrast, depression scores were NOT linked to differences in capacity to learn to inhibit a response to avoid the sound. So depression levels were linked to learning active but not inhibitory avoidance. This article does a good job of linking findings to patterns observed in the clinic.
- I just published a new substack on death and loss and radical hope when meaning as we know it slips from under our feet: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- My mother, Nancy Jack Todd, died May 30. This substack note is my first of many articulations of a personal tribute to her. substack.com/@beckettodd/...
- Reposted by Beck ToddMy mother-in-law, the inestimable Nancy Jack Todd, has left us. Here's a piece about her by her daughter and my partner, @beckety.bsky.social substack.com/@beckettodd/...
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- Here I interview two of my heroes, Yuria Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux, who articulate and foster our enmeshed relationship with the more than human world. We need what they are offering so desperately, I'm excited to amplify their words and actions here: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- New Love and Philosophy podcast from @lovephilosophy.substack.com with me, aerial dancer/philosopher Shay Welch & "frequency barista" penijean gracefire on complexity fatigue & the "third entity" - the interactive process that takes on a life of its own lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/complexity...
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- Reposted by Beck ToddIf elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.” The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration. Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
- Wonderful new piece by Steve Rose on my dad John Todd’s always-visionary work in ecological restoration and design, from the New alchemy Institute in the 1970s to today's vision of a fleet of sailing ships to clean up polluted coastal waters open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- Reposted by Beck ToddMy paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.
- Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease — a Review by Mara Mather www.nature.com/articles/s41... @maramather.bsky.social #neuroscience
- Reposted by Beck Todd𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Substantially reworked version Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value osf.io/preprints/os... #complexity
- Reposted by Beck ToddI'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739
- New substack post on holding people in personhood when they are in danger of losing it in the eyes of the world — with artscientists Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenaizi Ariane Boulet. open.substack.com/pub/becketto... in Personhood open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- I just published a new substack post focusing on "holding in personhood." Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenazi, & Ariane Boulet describe their work using dance, music, and technology to hold people in relationship when communication channels are restricted: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- I just spent an 8 hour drive listening to Andrea Hiott's Love and Philosophy podcast. It's now officially my favorite podcast --fascinating conversations that get to the heart of what matters. Recommend! www.youtube.com/@waymaking23 @lovephilosophy.substack.com
- Reposted by Beck ToddPhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory. All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
- A mix of both success stories and concrete suggestions for solutions to tackle as yet unresolved issues, Todd's narrative provides an important addition to the conversation about specific ways we can address the planetary crisis.
- ...using windmills and injections of bacteria to restore the health of a polluted New England pond, working with community members in a South African village to protect an important river.
- The book chronicles ecological interventions he has created over the course of his career. Each chapter offers a workable engineering solution to an existing environmental problem: healing the aftermath of mountain-top removal and valley-fill coal mining in Appalachia...
- A stand-out from the sea of despairing messages about climate change, well-known sustainability elder John Todd, who has taught, mentored, and inspired such well-known names in the field as Janine Benyus, Bill McKibben, and Paul Hawken.
- Just posted! My dad, ecological designer John Todd reading from his book, Healing Earth: Chap 3, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/oceanark... Part 2 of Chap 3 can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/oceanark... Need to start with chap 1? Here it is! open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- Just posted! My dad, ecological designer John Todd reading from his book, Healing Earth: Chap 3, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/oceanark... Part 2 of Chap 3 can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/oceanark... Need to start with chap 1? Here it is! open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 "theoretical framework to analyse individual variability in biological and artificial systems that perform flexible decision-making tasks" Looks like must read! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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- Reposted by Beck ToddNew preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- I just published a new substack piece with Naila Kuhlmann, @penijean.bsky.social, & @neuroyogacara.bsky.social on multiple levels of sensory/perceptual/attentional/cultural difference that separate all of us, &their thoughts about how to communicate across them: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- Reposted by Beck ToddNEW PAPER: How do we advance mixed methods in mental health research? doi.org/10.1136/bmjm... Mixed methods are widely recognised as valuable in mental health research, but aren’t as embedded as we’d hope and there are a lot of challenges that individual researchers and teams must navigate… 1/
- Reposted by Beck Toddplease retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!
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- Reposted by Beck Todd"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
- Caio is having a good day. Another preprint on which he's first author -- this time, describing pathways through the connectome for indirectly stimulating subgenual cingulate cortex in the context of depression. Neuroanatomical pathways of TMS therapy for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 2) ...As well as the social and political implications of their thinking.
- New post in which @participha.bsky.social and Ezekiel Di Paolo talk about the experiences and thinkers that influenced their concept of participatory sensemaking and how their ideas are evolving. What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- New post in which @participha.bsky.social and Ezekiel Di Paolo talk about the experiences and thinkers that influenced their concept of participatory sensemaking and how their ideas are evolving. What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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- Reposted by Beck ToddHuman brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry. Some new results to inform this debate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Beck ToddWeak and unstable prediction of personality from the structural connectome direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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- Reposted by Beck ToddNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sarah Faber, A.R. McIntosh, et al: Mapping multi-modal dynamic network activity during naturalistic music listening direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
- New paper from Adam Anderson's lab at Cornell showing evidence of visual "affective affordances" - predicting human valence ratings from low level image statistics independently of centrally modulated valence arising from image content and arousal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- My dad, John Todd, just posted a recent talk on his new vision for fleets of SAILING ECO-MACHINES to remediate coastal waters open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- In this new substack post I interview philosopher and aerial dancer Shay Welch on the first-person experience of borderline personality disorder & using “living to die” as a strategy for managing existential boredom open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- Reposted by Beck ToddThe limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- I just published a new substack post featuring visionary systems thinker & community organizer Greg Watson. Watson is a great story teller and his stories of communities self-organizing out of devastating conditions, dare I say it, kindle a of hope in dark times. open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
- Check out philosopher Jelena Marcovic's wonderful new Aeon piece, "A Grief with No Name" on grieving cultural loss: aeon.co/essays/ident...
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- Reposted by Beck ToddThe EJN special issue, "The Relevance of a Philosophical Toolkit to Advance Neuroscience," is here! Explore how interdisciplinary approaches can deepen our understanding of the brain and mind Co-edited with @smellosopher.bsky.social, I Sarto-Jackson, M Kunze onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14609568...
- Reposted by Beck ToddEverything is everywhere all at once. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
- Also reposting this brand new paper looking at coordination dynamics in relation to subjective experience from an enactive perspective.
- With so many new people flooding onto Blue Sky I thought I'd re-post this just-out cognitive neuroscience paper from my lab - the fruit of many years and much labour.
- Our paper led by Mana Ehlers w James Kryklywy, @brandonforys.bsky.social, et al. is finally out! We model neural instantiation of specific affective information acquired with learning. It's the result of a huge amount of work and persistence in the face of obstacles: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
- Reposted by Beck ToddSome resources i've curated for the cognitive and computational neuroscience communities on bluesky! First, a twin set of starter packs. go.bsky.app/2n84SRMat://did:plc:nylio5rpw7u3wtven3vcriam/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lamqle67652i
- Wondering out loud: Is there a haptic research (cog neuro and comp sci) starter pack out there?
