📢 Out now in PLOS Comp Biol: **cpm** — a Python library for theory-driven modelling in computational psychiatry. No scikit-learn for mechanistic cognitive models — so we built one: RL, prospect-theory & metacognition, hierarchical Bayes, and as many more as you can code 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

cpm: A python library for theory-driven modelling in computational psychiatry

Author summary Computational psychiatry is a field that makes extensive use of computational methods to understand mental health. In this field and related disciplines, there is a strong need to desig...

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Conference season continued this week with #PuG2026 in Heidelberg 🏰 Having entered the German academic system over one year ago, it was great to meet so many researchers from the field from all across Germany (and beyond!), and I love how welcoming everyone was.

We @saschafrolich.bsky.social @stefankiebel.bsky.social investigated how habitual- and goal-directed control interact when actions must be made under time pressure. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Context-dependent interaction between goal-directed and habitual control under time pressure - Communications Psychology

This study investigates the dynamic interplay between habitual and goal-directed control. Using RL and drift-diffusion modelling, we show that these systems interact in a context-dependent manner: hab...

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If you happen to be at #SBDM2026 and are interested in learning, decision-making, gamified/digitized computational phenotyping, and depression: Come visit my poster (#22) today at 16:00! :)

Let’s go #sbdm2026! Looking forward to three days packed with decision-making

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

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

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

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Hitting the nail on its head with respect to always having to think about "the next step" as a postdoc, even after just having started a new job. We know it is part of the deal, and it is very hard to change this system, but it is important to keep discussing this. advalvas.vu.nl/en/science-e...

The disposable worker bees of science

Postdocs carry out a substantial share of academic work, but the conditions under which they do so are stressful. As a result, more than forty percent suffer from mental health problems, research show...

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Happy #WomenInScience day - I've had the privilege of working with many brilliant women during my career, and am always acutely aware that they often have to work harder, be smarter, and do better to be taken equally seriously. Hopefully, we can keep doing better moving forward.

Ein ganz herzliches Hallo in die Runde 👋 Ich freu mich sehr darauf euch eine Woche in meinen Alltag entführen zu können! Aber mit wem habt ihr es überhaupt zu tun? Ich bin Vanessa, Psychologin und Neurowissenschaftlerin, arbeite am Trinity College in Dublin und am Universitätsklinikum in Tübingen.

Breaking news: New Dutch cabinet reversing €1.5 billion in cuts to education and science www.scienceguide.nl/2026/01/kabi...

Kabinet-Jetten gaat met 1,5 miljard bezuinigingen op onderwijs en wetenschap terugdraaien  - ScienceGuide

Voor investeringen in het onderwijs is door de nieuwe coalitie een envelop van structureel 1,5 miljard euro beschikbaar gesteld. Dit geld wordt onder andere besteed aan terugdraaien van de bezuiniging...

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🎉 psp just hit 14K+ downloads! Our #rstats package for parameter space partitioning powered our work on g-distance, model comparison, irrationality, and heterogeneity: doi.org/10.1037/rev0... CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=psp

psp: Parameter Space Partitioning MCMC for Global Model Evaluation

Implements an n-dimensional parameter space partitioning algorithm for evaluating the global behaviour of formal computational models as described by Pitt, Kim, Navarro and Myung (2006) &lt;<a href="h...

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New paper out! In this work, published in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, we investigated the role of impatient intertemporal choice across mental health in a community sample (N = 899) using a novel transdiagnostic research approach. doi.org/10.1002/bdm.... (1/6)

Come and say hi to @seowxft.bsky.social @floorburghoorn.bsky.social @lenarddome.bsky.social & @kenzakdr.bsky.social who will be demonstrating our brain explorer app and research at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand at New Scientist Live event in London @uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social

Medical Research Foundation@medresfdn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Scientist Live 2025 is taking place next weekend! ✨ 📍 18-19 October | Excel London We're thrilled to be returning to the exhibition once again! Visit us at stand C20, where you can meet our wonderful staff volunteers and world-class researchers. ➡️ See what we've got planned: shorturl.at/dEVmn

Still processing this….it was a wonderful day, with so much support from my amazing supervisory team, colleagues, friends, and family 🥳

Karin Roelofs@epanlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

✨Super proud of dr. Floor Burghoorn @floorburghoorn.bsky.social , who obtained her PhD with the highest distinction! Congratulations on behalf of the whole @epanlab.bsky.social lab!🎉🎉@decisioncenter.bsky.social

Very happy that our paper on intertemporal Pavlovian biases and mental health is out now in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience! https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-025-01326-9. (1/6)

We are excited to announce our hands-on workshop aimed at lowering barriers to entry into the world of computational modeling using our user-friendly python toolbox, cpm (cpm-toolbox.net)! 📢 Limited seats – don't miss out! 📅 17.07.2025 9.00 – 13.00 📍 Tübingen Apply 👉 forms.office.com/e/xtqb6sv604

Stoked that the second chapter of my PhD has been published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience! https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-024-01236-2. We investigated the role of a Pavlovian bias as mechanism contributing to impatient intertemporal choice behaviour. (1/5)