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Prof Rick Adams@drrickadams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Late-Breaking abstracts now open for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference in Yale! see below... (deadline in just over a week)

Robb Rutledge@robbrutledge.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16. Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8) Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!) See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

An updated on Wellcome LEAP's $50 million FORM programme. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/03/upda... #autism #microbiome

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving

Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...

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Idea for a different way of doing project grants. Make decisions about which projects to fund based only on the questions asked, and then require successful grantees to go through a multi round post decision review process to sharpen up the methods and make sure they can answer the question.

New paper from @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @philcorlett.bsky.social in CPsy - Self-Reflection Protects Behavior from Volatile Beliefs Linked to Paranoia. Link here: doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...

Self-Reflection Protects Behavior from Volatile Beliefs Linked to Paranoia | Computational Psychiatry

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neuroAI comparisons of ANNs to brains do have a range of problems. Even more than I had realized. And I was worried before: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder @Nature.com

Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder

Nature, Published online: 04 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10059-1The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.

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Deadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!

Konstantinos Tsetsos@ktsetsos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!! Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI. 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026 #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro

🙋 Is there a cost to apply? ➡️ No! No payments are needed to apply. Application decisions come out Mid-April. You have until Early-May to enroll and pay your tuition and a small processing fee to secure your spot. 🤓 Applications for Neuromatch Academy open 16 February! neuromatch.io/courses/

More than 200 published studies and at least seven ongoing clinical trials rely on potentially faulty brain network maps, according to a study published yesterday. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Methodological flaw may upend network mapping tool

The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.

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⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳ We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r... www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

Konstantinos Tsetsos@ktsetsos.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🧠 We’re hiring! Join the Irrationality Lab @ Trinity College Dublin for ERC-funded postdoc positions in Decision Neuroscience. Work with OPM-MEG + computational modeling to uncover how the brain shapes, maintains and revises preferences. Apply & info: www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0... #NeuroJobs

incredible resource for aspiring (and indeed existing!) computational cognitive neuroscientists

Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · 7mo ago

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Excited to share our preprint! We show that primary visual cortex is modulated by global predictability. This effect depended on higher level brain region (area ACa), and better explained classic oddball paradigms better than “local” context effects (i.e., recent stimulus history). 1/3

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Global context rapidly shapes sensory responses in V1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698143v1

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a truly incredible thread

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!

New paper! A biomimetic model, NOT trained on neural data, eerily matched the recordings and uncovered a new neural property. You don’t see that very often. Biomimetic model of corticostriatal micro-assemblies discovers a neural code www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

This was accepted for publication! Thank you @schizbulletin.bsky.social

Phil Corlett@philcorlett.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New from our CNTRACS collab: Santiago Castiello finds that people with schizophrenia false alarm speech in sine wave stimuli, and benefit more greatly from the templates - particularly if they are voice hearers osf.io/preprints/ps...

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

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This will be a great meeting… please sign up and submit your work!

Xiaosi Gu@xiaosigu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!

Come join us at #SfN25 for the minisymposium "Cognitive Maps in the Prefrontal Cortex"! Saturday, Nov 15, 2:00-4:30pm, Room SDCC 6CF www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... We will explore how the PFC represents structured relationships across species and how this supports flexible behavior.

We're looking for a graduate research assistant for 2 years! Come work in my lab - cognitive neuroscience / computational neurology (🧠https://ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/computational-neurology), in Oxford, on motivation in Parkinson's disease. Patient-facing role. Apply now:

A new inpatient trial of repeated ketamine infusions found no significant advantage over an active psychoactive control in reducing depressive symptoms. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qvn7To  #Psychiatry #Depression

Serial Ketamine Infusions Fail to Outperform Placebo in New Trial

A new clinical trial found that repeated ketamine infusions offered no meaningful advantage over an active placebo for depression patients.

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🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details: tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt #CognitiveNeuroscience

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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