Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Antidepressant treatment shouldn't be a guessing game. RELMED is working towards using advanced research to predict which medication is most likely to help each person along their individual path to recovery.

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New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. 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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📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢 Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia. 🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io 🚨closes September 12th!

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

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ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS

Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...

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🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty @shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence 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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Postdoc opening - highly recommended!

Matilde Vaghi@matildevaghi.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social! We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Epic dopamine / VTA neuron diversity paper

Emily Prevost@emilyprevost.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social: 'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps... (a bit late here – a version was online back in December) @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

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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Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications @naturecomms.bsky.social with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to see this now out in the world! We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

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Neuron Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating

This study demonstrates that hippocampal activity during remote recall is crucial for the reconsolidation of remote memory, also called systems reconsolidation, with new hippocampal engram cells recruited to enable memory updating. The findings reveal that adult neurogenesis supports this recruitment process and the role of mPFC projections to the hippocampus and amygdala in systems reconsolidation.

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Exciting PhD opportunities in various labs in Hamburg, including ours. Feel free to contact me regarding details. www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025) Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit

To find folks from twitter you used to follow, the 'Sky Follower Bridge'. (Though a small percent of bluesky accounts were colonized by different people with the same name.)

Nikolas Karalis@nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 2y ago

1. Use the Sky Follower Bridge (browser extension) to find your Twitter follows here. github.com/kawamataryo/... 2. Check a few relevant starter packs. Start here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... 3. Use the Bsky Network Analyzer, to expand your network. bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

Did you know #RLDM2025 is coming to Dublin next June? rldm.org Abstract submission open now ☘️ 🇮🇪

New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC! TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔 Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below...

Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings

Biases in information gathering are common in the general population and can reach pathological extremes in paralysing indecisiveness, as in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here, we adopt a new p...

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📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢 We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025. We are now accepting symposium submissions!

Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information www.nature.com/articles/s41... in MEG! Congratulations to the apparently not-on-bluesky Evan Russek! and Rani Moran, RD, and Quentin Huys

Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information - Nature Communications

Individuals differ in how they weight probability and reward information when making risky choices. Here, the authors use magnetoencephalography to test whether such variation is related to how inform...

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Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. 2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September. Application deadline 1st March. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Postdoc in our lab! Last day to apply! Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything. (Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)

Elliott Wimmer@elliottwimmer.bsky.social · 3y ago

! Job alert ! Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu The ad currently closes on January 2nd. Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply!  See thread below.  Please share!

We are excited to announce the 2024 Computational Psychiatry Conference! Back one year later by popular demand - this time in Minneapolis, Minnesota July 16-18. www.cpconf.org

! Job alert ! Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu The ad currently closes on January 2nd. Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply!  See thread below.  Please share!

Elliott Wimmer@elliottwimmer.bsky.social · 3y ago

Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre

Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre

While it’s *deeply* unfashionable to be publishing in @elife.bsky.social right now - do humour us for advertising a study that was several years in the making (submitted way back when it was still possible for reviewers to reject us!). We’re rather proud of it.🧵👇 elifesciences.org/articles/82823

Quantifying decision-making in dynamic, continuously evolving environments

Human behaviour in a continuous decision making task adapts to the overall statistics of the sensory environment, and these adaptations are also reflected in changes in neural responses to incoming se...

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The CAMS Lab is recruiting a #postdoc! 👀 for researchers with experience & interest in fMRI and memory/affect. Learn more about our work and values at medicine.yale.edu/lab/goldfarb/ ; please email me [elizabeth dot goldfarb at yale] your CV and coverletter if interested! #neurojobs #psychjobs 🧠🟦

🌟First post over here, which I'm very happy to use to share a new paper in TICS with Angela Radulescu & Kara Emery. 🌟 We review work taking an approach we refer to as "naturalistic reinforcement learning", which uses more naturalistic approaches to study learning and decision-making.

Naturalistic reinforcement learning

Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitiv…

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