Feeling like it

Hi, I’m starting a Substack.

I love writing. Whether as part of a scientific process, to transmit how the world works or as a testimony on human experience, I love writing. I found out about Substack recently, and I appreciate the community. Now I feel like I can be a valuable part of it. Let’s see if it will hit or miss the moon.

For the record, I’m a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience and computational psychiatry. I come from cognitive psychology, defended a PhD in cognitive neuroscience of decision-making (Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying transmission of uncertain information in humans, with J.C. Dreher and M.C. Villeval), and received training in behavioral economics. My approach is intrinsically multi-disciplinary, which gives me the chance to bridge fields and see large pictures. I’ve built on that to disseminate scientific concepts (mostly about subdomains of my PhD thesis: beliefs and misinformation here, here, here, here and here; drivers of beliefs polarization here; echo chambers here – though in my native language, French). But there are constraints to classical vulgarization, and I’ve got more to say.

In the future, I plan to write about (liste non exhaustive) metacognition, theory of mind, estimating uncertain events, trust and risk taking, preferences and institutions, computational psychiatry of partisanship, individual differences in cognition with a focus on recent models of autism, individual cognition in large-scale social networks, emotions as signaling at the brain and behavior levels, optimality of heuristics. Expect neuroscience, game theory, evolutionary psychology, cognitive and social sciences, modelling, pop culture. I’ve also gotten pretty interested in Poker recently.

I read great ideas here and I’m excited to share mine until the rest is noise.