Yes, but neural activity ≠ behavior or experience. Multi-modal investigations of emotion in autistic people are needed, and I will keep saying this until the work is funded 😅

MDautismcrisis.bsky.socialJan 11, 2024 11:37am

Finding "no evidence for altered amygdala activity during processing of emotional faces in autism..." molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... these results "might help to move away from viewing emotion processing in autistic individuals as inherently disordered"

Autistic and non-autistic individuals show the same amygdala activity during emotional face processi...

Background Autistic and non-autistic individuals often differ in how they perceive and show emotions, especially in their ability and inclination to infer other people’s feelings from subtle cues li...

Just had to google the plural of ‘corpus’. Living the academic dream.

Attending campus visits for faculty positions can leave postdocs 1000s of $s out of pocket, which can take months to be reimbursed. This is an undiscussed barrier in academia which must impact diversity. I’d be interested in hearing people’s experiences and thoughts.

My job is now 90% saying variations on “rubbish in, rubbish out” to graduate students.

This week it’s a 1am interview

The amount of times I tell my partner who works in finance an anecdote about academia and he says “ah yes, they used to do that in investment banking”…

Unanticipated startle sits at the border of reflex & emotion, and is difficult to modify via experience. These results hint that emotional differences in dyslexia may not be mere sequelae of academic struggles.

New paper: of 5000 PhDs awarded at large Dutch uni, men were about twice as likely to receive a cum laude degree even if they had same supervisor. Difference most severe with all male PhD committees & reduces with more female members. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gender inequality in cum laude distinctions for PhD students - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Gender inequality in cum laude distinctions for PhD students

New preprint from us showing links between elevated unanticipated startle reactivity (facial behavior & electrodermal activity) and anxiety in dyslexia. Suggests the involvement of very early emotion systems in this population. #neuroskyence#devpsy

Would personally add ‘contend to connect’, too

NKnbkroemer.bsky.socialNov 29, 2023 9:26am

Is the vagus nerve primarily regulating 'rest & digest'? In our new TiCS review, we outline that it is time to expand our perspective on vagal signaling to include 'strive to survive' as a second survival mode. Work w/ @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroscience authors.elsevier.com/a/1iALr4sIRv...