João Guassi Moreira
@C_Shamballa
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@UWPsych ast professor researching affective, social, and cognitive neurodevelopment | Director of @cdnlab_uwisc | Love me a good dive bar, movies, and baseball
Madison, WI
Joined May 2014
For SaberSem I studied how batters track pitches, with what level of uncertainty, to better understand their swing shapes and decisions. I found swing shapes to be influenced by early, uncertain estimates of what pitch type is coming and where/when it would cross the plate.
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Bizarre choice to walk Happ just now to get to Nico. Maybe the thinking was Nico would hit it right to a defender?
Nico Hoerner, Still At It
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These look hideous, Swiss are over thinking it. Take a page out of Brazilian currency and put celebrated native animals on there
Die Schweizerische #Nationalbank hat zwölf Entwürfe für die neue Serie von #Banknoten veröffentlicht, die in einem Gestaltungswettbewerb aus über 300 Bewerbungen ausgewählt worden sind. Nun kann die Schweizer Bevölkerung die Entwürfe bewerten. (1/3)
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It’s game like this that make me feel young again, like it’s 2019
Enhanced Box Score: Cardinals 5, Cubs 0 – August 9, 2025 https://t.co/cJiBBqKQg6
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I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @UWPsych in Fall 2026. Ideal for those interested in decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. Peep link below. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!
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I think one reason some tech people are unwilling to grapple with DOGE’s failure is that it would require acknowledging that their entire belief system about government — and in some ways broader worldview — was wrong.
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Preller, man, just doesn’t quit
The Padres have had extensive talks with the Red Sox about Jarren Duran -- the Red Sox keep saying no -- and with the Guardians about Steven Kwan. Some rival execs fully expect the Padres to land one of these two by day's end.
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Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple systems in the brain and body. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (@NIH_NCCIH)’s mission is to fund vital research in this
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A new statistical test identifies groups of variables that are mutually coupled and can be represented in a causal graph as single, aggregated nodes, which allows the extraction of hierarchical structures from observational data https://t.co/BHxHVNTY5X
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Brand new in PNAS: Subnets of the AMN (action-mode network) for decision-making, action, feedback & the bodily self https://t.co/wqFdZ7lmFk. Great explainer thread 🧵
pnas.org
The action-mode network (AMN) is a canonical functional brain network first identified using resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC). Based on...
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Daniel Palencia, 100mph Fastball and 89mph Splitter, Overlay
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With all this talk of expansion, maybe MLB should consider giving St. Louis a team?
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Banger thread by Darby highlighting how our current policies don’t align with what mothers and families want, drawing example of more effective polities from other countries (that also happen to have market-based economies)
This piece ignores that part-time work - the arrangement that 32% of mothers say they want - is actually much more common in countries you'd consider "socialist." The secret is healthcare that's not tied to employment, and affordable, flexible childcare.
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Trade on July 30, 2021: Javier Báez and Trevor Williams to the Mets. Pete Crow-Armstrong and cash to the Cubs. Today, Báez and PCA were named All-Star starters. @MLBNetwork
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The @BABLab_UCLA is excited to be hiring a Staff Research Associate for our NIMH-funded Teen Bugs study investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Please send your best people to join our wonderful team! https://t.co/RFnfDyhAeU
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