Anna Wiener

Jan 27, 2025 | newyorker.com | Anna Wiener

No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion. Novels have been written about less, but no one is on LinkedIn for the prose.

Sep 24, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jacqueline Giovanniello |Natalie Paredes |Anna Wiener |Kathia Ramírez-Armenta

AbstractChronic stress can change how we learn and, thus, how we make decisions. Here we investigated the neuronal circuit mechanisms that enable this. Using a multifaceted systems neuroscience approach in male and female mice, we reveal a dual pathway, amygdala-striatal neuronal circuit architecture by which a recent history of chronic stress disrupts the action-outcome learning underlying adaptive agency and promotes the formation of inflexible habits.

Sep 24, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jacqueline Giovanniello |Natalie Paredes |Anna Wiener |Kathia Ramírez-Armenta

AbstractChronic stress can change how we learn and, thus, how we make decisions. Here we investigated the neuronal circuit mechanisms that enable this. Using a multifaceted systems neuroscience approach in male and female mice, we reveal a dual pathway, amygdala-striatal neuronal circuit architecture by which a recent history of chronic stress disrupts the action-outcome learning underlying adaptive agency and promotes the formation of inflexible habits.

Sep 15, 2024 | newyorker.com | Anna Wiener

I followed him to his office, a narrow room stuffed neatly with tools, books, fly-fishing supplies, and, on a high shelf, a plastic box full of rare derailleurs. There were two ergonomic kneeling stools; the landline telephone was wrapped in a block of ergonomic foam. By the door to the office was a small, framed color photo of two friendly-looking septuagenarians, standing next to a pair of Rivendell bicycles. “Are those your parents?” I asked. “No,” Petersen said.

Jun 16, 2024 | wired.jp | Anna Wiener

昨年の秋のある暖かな日、ビデオゲーム会社Quixel（クイクセル）でテクニカルアーティストとして働くスティーヴン・キャロンがオークランド・ヒルズにあるセコイア林の端に立っていた。「目を寄せて、視界を少しぼやけさせて、ここに何があるのかを感じてください」。キャロンが説明した。輪を描いて並ぶ木々、数本の丸太、木製の柵、それから傾けた棒でつくった先住民のテントのようなものがふたつあった。Quixelはデジタルアセットを創造および販売している。デジタルアセットとは、ビデオゲーム、映画、テレビ番組などの背景や印象を構成するオブジェクトやテクスチャ、あるいはランドスケープのことだ。同社の控えめな使命は「世界をスキャンする」。...