Excited to be chairing/presenting at our post-doc symposium discussing the advancements (and challenges 🤫) of computational psychiatry with a ⭐️ line-up of @saramehrhof.bsky.social @yanivabir.bsky.social & Alicia Rybicki. If at #BAP2026, come join us today at 2pm ‼️

British Association for Psychopharmacology@bapsych.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Three high quality Post-Doc symposia will be running in parallel on Monday afternoon, 20th July, with subjects including computational psychiatry, long-term effects of stopping antipsychotics and antidepressants, and challenges of psychosis prediction modelling #BAP2026

Started #cpc2026 off with a bang with an amazing poster session 💥 thanks to everyone who came by for all the thought-provoking discussions and even some new research ideas 💭

🚨 Now out in @jamapsychiatry.com 🚨 Are people with depression less responsive to rewards on social media, just like in the lab? Actually…quite the opposite! 🧵 📄 Read the paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression

This study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology.

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Mapping Extreme Deviations in Cognition to Transdiagnostic Compulsivity: A Normative Modelling Approach: https://osf.io/9bt4u

Spent my Saturday with a “32km” (more like 36km/7 hour) 1:1 meeting with my supervisor @alexandrapike.bsky.social 🚶‍♀️~ all for a good cause for the Mentally Fit York Fund 🧠 though our physical health was definitely questionned 👣🩹

New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨 We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them? New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

So exciting to see @lucysta02475610.bsky.social present the results of her mammoth, multi-year project to develop a questionnaire measuring the Negative Appraisal of Gastric Sensations (NAGS): it differentiates between people with eating disorders and gastric disorders! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 5mo ago

Anxiety is associated with increased generalisation of threat to similar stimuli. This paper dissociates perceptual mistakes from value generalisation and links stronger value-transfer to trait anxiety. @nicoschuck.bsky.social @ondrejzika.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Excited to receive the @britishacademy.bsky.social's Early Career Researcher Seed Grant for our project “Understanding the dynamics of control in eating disorders” 🌀🌱 with @alexandrapike.bsky.social #BAECRNSeedFund

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New recipients of our Early Career Researcher Network Seed Fund Programme have been announced. The scheme helps outstanding early-career researchers build their research portfolios and take a key step toward future funding opportunities. Learn more about the awarded projects: https://bit.ly/46StqZm

Thoroughly enjoyed writing a commentary on a great paper by @hugofleming.bsky.social et al for @biologicalpsych.bsky.social:GOS, focusing on how to further explore metabolic contributions to learning and feeling using real-time data and interventional designs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Metabolic Contributions to Learning and Feeling: Why They Matter and How to Make the Most of Them

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In factor analysis, why does the commonly used CNG method nearly always land at 3 factors when applied to anx/depr/ocd scales? TLDR: There tends to be one factor/component with a large eigenvalue. In these cases, almost inevitably and somewhat arbitrarily, the procedure selects 3 factors 👇

Thrilled to have our new scoping review examining the longitudinal effects of social media on sleep in youth in Computers in Human Behavior Reports www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The longitudinal effects of social media on sleep among youth: A scoping review

Social media has become an integral part of our everyday lives, with nearly 5 billion users worldwide. Its ubiquity has sparked concerns about the pot…

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Why do some people feel a “not-quite-right” sensation before they pick their skin? The first ever systematic review on interoception and skin-picking disorder explores how bodily cues and affective touch might help explain the urge. #SkinPickingDisorder #Interoception 🧵 THREAD

Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.

Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making - Communications Psychology

This study shows that decision biases previously attributed to value normalization (e.g. relative value learning or range normalization) are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action ...

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Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression

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Kelly Donegan@kellydonegan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Null findings are important ‼️ Excited to share my latest work finding model-based planning does NOT improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩‍💻 treatments 🧵👇🏻

Sookud and colleagues found that individuals with higher compulsivity and intrusive thoughts develop a less certain internal understanding of the external world, and this mediates the link between symptoms and goal-directed behaviors.

Impaired goal-directed planning in transdiagnostic compulsivity is explained by uncertainty about learned task structure

Diminished use of goal-directed (“model-based”) decision-making is a hallmark of transdiagnostic compulsivity, promoting an over-reliance on inflexible and habitual behaviours. However, the origin of ...

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Really excited to have had the opportunity to write this article ! IU is one of my main research areas so I really enjoyed writing about this paper 😊

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Preschoolers who find uncertainty hard to handle may be more prone to anxiety later in life, but it’s not that simple. New research explores how intolerance of uncertainty at age 4 links to anxiety, depression & behaviour problems up to age 10. #ChildMentalHealth #Anxiety #Uncertainty 🧵 THREAD

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

This article is now published in @plosone.org. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... New analysis added: seemingly habitual responses are explained because contingency deg didn't work for some participants (in line with recent outcome dev results in our lab and in @clairegillan.bsky.social lab)

The degraded contingency test fails to detect habit induction in humans

In experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience, habits are considered stimulus-response (S-R) associations formed through extended reward training. Accordingly, habits are assessed using one o...

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Taken together, our results advance our understanding of the dynamics of fun in realistic environments. They also emphasize the importance of using realistic, game-like environments together with highly-controlled experiments to advance our theories of human motivation & learning. 4/4

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

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B2B Cognition & Mental Health Lab talks, with unintention twinning titles 🎭 Me: The promise and pitfalls of 📱/ real-life data Alex: The promise and pitfalls of computational modelling 🧮 📍Centre for Decision Science Summer School @alexandrapike.bsky.social

Alex Pike@alexandrapike.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Enjoying hearing more about @kellydonegan.bsky.social’s argument that psychological studies need to move beyond the lab (and into apps) - courtesy of the Centre for Decision Science Summer School @royalholloway.bsky.social and @nurasidarus.bsky.social

🚨New pre-print out! 🍂 Using daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we found that reductions in both self- and decision-making confidence precede when people are likely to report experiencing symptoms of OCD. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏

Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research

⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️

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🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci

New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more practice, right? Well, this crucial result has been difficult to reproduce in human labs. In an instant classic, de Wit (2018) showed 5 failures in obtaining more evidence of habits in conditions with more training -as compared to little trained

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Habits Need Time: Evidence of Habit-like Behavior After Short Training Likely Reflects Failures in Habit Testing: https://osf.io/zh39t

I promise I missed the #CPConf2025 Travel Award photo because I was boarding my ✈️ and NOT due to punting 🛶 .. Grateful for the opportunity to present my work 📱, met up with friends & eat delicious german apple cake

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

Congratulations to all the Travel Award Winners at #CPConf2025 - we were very fortunate to have so many fantastic young scientists at our conference!

Come to my fan-tastic poster at #CPConf2025 🪭 Poster 35 to find out all things habits, gamification or to get a quick cool down 🥵