📢 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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It was a pleasure presenting our ongoing research on explaining choice variability in effort-based decision making using real-time fMRI at #PuG2026 today! 🧠✨ Huge thanks for the inspiring questions and feedback - so greatful for this vibrant community! 🙌 #Neuroscience #fMRI #DecisionMaking

Job alert! 🚨 We are currently recruiting for two exciting positions as part of a large international Wellcome Trust-funded research project investigating the neural mechanisms of decision-making impairments in #schizophrenia and #OCD.

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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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🧠 Psychische Erkrankungen beginnen oft schon im Jugendalter — hier setzt „Brain Explorer“ an. Ab 7. Mai können Jugendliche auf der MS Wissenschaft per Mini-Games an echter Hirnforschung teilnehmen. Daten helfen der Forschung (anonym & weltweit). 🚢 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/901140/news_...

Brain-Games ergründen psychische Gesundheit von Jugendlichen

Auf dem Ausstellungsschiff MS Wissenschaft können Teenager ab dem 7. Mai die neurobiologische Grundlagenforschung mit dem Spielen der App "Brain Explorer" unterstützen.

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🚨 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...

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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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We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at pug2026.org #pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience

I am super thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to build novel interventions for #OCD. The plan is to exploit recent insights from computational neuroscience and closely work together with people with lived experience of OCD to create novel treatments.

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🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in @royalsociety.org: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members? Read the thread below! 🧵 1/6

Learning from financial rewards and punishments reduces the in-group bias in social approach without changing the in-group bias in impressions | Royal Society Open Science

Humans’ approach behaviour and impressions are biased towards individuals from their own group (in-group) compared with different groups (out-group). There is evidence that learning from specific interactions with in-group and out-group members can reduce ...

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We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Tobias Hauser@tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very excited to share that @wellcometrust.bsky.social has awarded us a big grant on studying information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia in patients, rodents, using modelling & clinical interventions. More details here: devcompsy.org/2025/07/15/n...

Good morning #CPConf2025, having mixed feelings about the early morning? Maybe even facing an #approach-avoidance #conflict? Don't worry! Just drop by pi poster 3.14, to discuss the resolution of such conflicts.

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · last yr.

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

Today at #PuG2025!

Ecem Tavacioglu@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · last yr.

Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡ 🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf #PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning

Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!

Fast alle #Moore in 🇩🇪 wurden ent­wässert. Heute wissen wir, 1 ha Moor speichert acht Mal mehr Kohlenstoff als 1 ha Wald. Davon, was nass war, was trocken wurde und was wieder nass werden muss, handelt ein Digitales Dossier der Leopoldina: interaktiv.leopoldina.org/mooreundauen/

Moore und Auen

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Only few days left to apply for a PhD position in my group @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Gamer Lab Wuerzburg@gamerlab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 PhD position (65%, 3 years) 🚨 We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...

🔎 We are looking for collaborators for our new manylabs looking at the effects of extreme heat on human cognition and well-being across the globe 🌍 See below for more information and sign up if you’re interested 👇🏼

Kim Doell@kimdoell.bsky.social · last yr.

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Barto and Sutton receive the Turing award! Amazing recognition for two kind, pioneering, and genuinely inspiring scientists. Congratulations!! awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...

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Why it is time to say goodbye to Germany as an oasis of stability, and why ironically it was JD Vance in Munich who might have helped the centrist parties to get a grip now after all. My take on the most important elections in a generation on Sunday in Berlin. 👇👇

The far right rising

Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.

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