This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people in it 3 people are producing most of the toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive Engagement-based ranking amplifies the 3 provocative, high-reaction users. The other 97 quiet voices disappear or self-censor. And the loud minority thinks it's the majority: the more someone posts, the more they believe the public agrees with them! thenoisyroom.com/

Interested in how and why people ascribe conscious to AI? Come work with @AnatPerry, @Deouell and me on this problem. Applications for postdoc positions are welcome!

Pre-print alert! @AmitKoIt from our lab created NaviGraph, an open source tool to easily consolidate data streams (location, head direction, calcium imaging and more) into a multi-layer graph. Great for any 2D spatial decision making layouts. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3njrj92n

Feeling hungry for a social paper? Feast your eyes on this - mechanism for social homeostasis unveiled by ⁦@DulacLab⁩’s fantastic team! ⁦⁩ nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

We are excited to share our latest work showing that mice display rescue-like prosocial behavior toward unresponsive partners. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

You are now constantly being manipulated so your attention can be captured and sold. This is done through a variety of ways, one of which is through the constant stream of outrage that is being pumped constantly through your eyes and ears into your brain. Sometimes it is useful to be aware of things in the world that you have the power to help change. Other times it creates a sense of hopelessness, distraction from things that matter, or, worse, an appeal to our own prejudices. Learning how to regulate your attention in the face of this tsunami is now a zen-level skill that everyone in society needs to understand and master. Otherwise you will be endlessly manipulated until the day you die.

🚨Thrilled to share our new study in Cerebral Cortex🚨: "The Future, Before, and After" The ability to imagine things we haven’t done before is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. How do we do it? academic.oup.com/cercor/arti…

Don't let what you see on social media skew your view of humanity. Most bad behavior is due to a few bad apples: • Just 3% of active users are toxic, but they generate 33% of online content • 1% of communities launch 74% of conflict • 0.1% of users spread 80% of fake news @jayvanbavel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

I am excited to share our new paper published today @CellCellPress (link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jw%7…). This is one of my favorite studies and took ~7 years to complete. In early 2018, we started the project, aiming at understanding the neural plasticity of the Winner effect. 1/6

Trends in Neurosciences Neural circuits for goal-directed navigation across species cell.com/trends/neuroscience…