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Sam Nastase
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Sam Nastase
@samnastase
assistant professor of psychology @USC丨he/him丨semiprofessional dungeon master丨🍉
Princeton, NJ
snastase.github.io
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    Sam Nastase
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    Oct 1, 2025
    I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @USC will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
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    Sam Nastase
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    Dec 29, 2020
    Replying to @Reza_Zadeh
    can't wait for one of these robots to dance right through my front door and arrest me
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    Sam Nastase
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    Dec 8, 2020
    Replying to @ldrinkh20
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Jun 30, 2020
    fMRI people be like "I know a spot" and then run 50,000 statistical tests just to show you where it is (I'm sorry)
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    Sam Nastase
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    Jun 13, 2022
    How does the brain construct meaning from natural language? New preprint led by @sreejan_kumar @tedsumers with @TakaYamakoshi and @hawkrobe! We ask how the internal computations of a transformer-based language model map onto cortical language processing: doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Dec 24, 2020
    Excited to (finally!) share our preprint describing the "Narratives" collection—compiling 7 years worth of naturalistic story-listening fMRI datasets from @HassonLab and @ptoncompmemlab at @PrincetonNeuro: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Sep 13, 2020
    Replying to @paulkrugman
    paul krugman has not personally experienced very much anti-muslim sentiment and is willing to misunderstand some data to prove it
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Jun 30, 2023
    I have never been more excited to tell everyone about a paper! New preprint led by @zaidzada_ with @HassonLab: "A shared linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations" doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…
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    Sam Nastase
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    Oct 25, 2019
    In case you missed my talk at #SfN19: We're rolling out the "Narratives" collection with fMRI data for 300+ subjects listening to 20+ naturalistic spoken stories (750+ functional scans from @HassonLab @ptoncompmemlab). Data now available on @OpenNeuroOrg: openneuro.org/datasets/ds002…
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Aug 31, 2020
    We have a short perspective piece out in the @NeuroImage_EiC special issue on Naturalistic Imaging where we try to articulate what a more "ecological" human neuroscience might look like—with a brief history of the term "ecological validity" doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Sep 29, 2021
    Happy to share that the "Narratives" data descriptor is now out @ScientificData! Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41597… Data: datasets.datalad.org/?dir=/labs/has… Website: snastase.github.io/datasets/ds002… Wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some projects already taking advantage of Narratives data:
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Oct 14, 2023
    Devastating to watch colleagues I respect be completely overcome with collective psychosis and tribalism right now. The US government is bankrolling war crimes against the people of Gaza on a world-historic scale, and all you can do is chastise people for speaking up?
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    Sam Nastase
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    Sep 21, 2020
    If Elon Musk saying dumb shit about neuroscience pisses you off, wait til you hear about how he accumulates obscene wealth by exploiting the labor of working people.
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    Sep 19, 2020
    Replying to @elonmusk
    A prior track record of exceptional achievement in engineering *is* required, but *no* prior experience working on the brain or human physiology is required. We will teach you what’s known about the brain, which is not much tbh.
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    Sam Nastase
    @samnastase
    Apr 10, 2019
    Our tutorial review on intersubject correlation (ISC) analyses with @HassonLab, Valeria Gazzola, and Christian Keysers is now up on @biorxivpreprint: doi.org/10.1101/600114. Check out the accompanying Jupyter Notebook tutorial showcasing @UseBrainIAK: github.com/snastase/isc-t…