Great to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona and present work with @donnerlab.bsky.social on the role of GABAergic inhibition in shaping accumulation dynamics and choice biases during value psychophysics.

The #FIFAWorldCup2026 is in full swing, and so is our forecast2026.com study, where we pit human forecasters against mainstream LLMs! ⚽🧠🤖 After 2 rounds and 48 matches, who is leading the race?

Want to represent Ireland in a global study on financial decision-making 🇮🇪✈️? We need adults living in & holding citizenship of Ireland to share their perspectives. ⏱ 4–6 minutes 🔒 Completely anonymous 💡 Unpaid/Voluntary 👉 Take the survey here: www.soscisurvey.de/tricc-projec...

Can you predict the winners of the world cup and beat AI and the experts? Play against friends & colleagues and win the leaderboard! This fun research project is run by Trinity College Dublin & University College London (UCL) Learn more: forecast2026.com @ktsetsos.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social

Forecast2026 leaderboards and stats are looking slick! The experts take the opening round: Mexico 2–0 South Africa. I didn’t give Mexico enough credit. I’ll be back. 🫡 #Forecast2026 #WorldCup2026

⚽ Can humans beat AI at forecasting the World Cup? @rezlescu.bsky.social and I are launching Forecast 2026, a live research study comparing real-life, real-time human predictions about World Cup matches with those of AI models. Join our study at: forecast2026.com

Rare and excellent PhD opportunity!!!

@neuromurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come join the lab @maynoothuniversity.ie and work with me and stellar collaborators @seanfw.bsky.social and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social! Exciting project at the intersection of multi-task RNNs, compositional cognition and human decision neuroscience. Details and how to apply at shorturl.at/FsTQ0

Online Now: Rhythmic sampling of decision alternatives through attention

Rhythmic sampling of decision alternatives through attention

Recent work by Siems et al. shows that the brain rhythmically samples competing alternatives through covert spatial attention. This challenges continuous models of decision-making and suggests that evaluation is temporally structured by oscillatory dynamics, with attention determining when alternatives are accessed rather than reflecting changes in their representations.

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🔎 The search is broadening -- and sharpening 🔎 🚀We continue to look for people interested in helping build something unique at the intersection of computational, behavioural, and neural sciences at @tcddublin.bsky.social #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro www.ktsetsoslab.net/join-us

New paper on information sampling in multialternative choice, part of the ERC @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "INFOSAMPLE". One of projects emerging from the first semi-gigantic MEG dataset we collected as the "Irrationality" Lab in Hamburg, around COVID lockdowns.

Marcus Siems@marcussiems.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper alert 📣 #Neuroskyence "Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain" @natcomms.nature.com together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @maryamtohidi.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/

Exciting PhD and postdoc opportunities on the cognitive neuroscience of language at Uni Geneva!!!

Pierre Mégevand@vanmedge.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.

Last Thursday was a day that will be hard to forget. Despite the characteristically cold Hanseatic morning, the lecture theatre at the UKE was buzzing with people who came to watch Maryam Tohidi, my very first PhD student, defending her work.

🎓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

⏳ 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

New Preprint alert 🚨 “Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients” together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social & Andreas Engel #MEG #neuroscience #bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients

How do large-scale brain networks interact to enable cognition? Correlated oscillations, a mechanism for inter-areal interactions, can be expressed as phase coherence or amplitude co-fluctuations. Whi...

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🧠 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

🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with @ktsetsos.bsky.social and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Decision Making

This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

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🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: “Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence” by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence

Mounting evidence indicates that decisions emerge from a competition between populations of neurons encoding the different choice options. Theoretical models propose that the outcome of this competiti...

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Excited to announce that this November I will be joining Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social as Professor in Cognitive & Decision Sciences, based in the Institute of Neuroscience and the School of Psychology 🇮🇪

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268

Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar

Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist

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Excited to share a new paper by @maryamtohidi.bsky.social on how a third inferior alternative influences human value learning 👇

Maryam Tohidi@maryamtohidi.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to share my first post here with something I’m truly proud of; My PhD paper is finally out in @commspsychol.bsky.social. Thanks to amazing @ktsetsos.bsky.social for his wise insights and our reviewers for their constructive comments. You can read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eguDX 1/10

Deeply honoured to receive an #ERCCoG ERC Consolidator Grant to explore the Dynamics of Attribute Weighting in Multiattribute Choice. Grateful to my amazing ERC StG team: @ycaoneuro.bsky.social, @marcussiems.bsky.social , Maryam Tohidi, Molly Stapleton for their support and trust. 🙏@ERC_Research

@ktsetsos.bsky.social and I wrote a new Perspective paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... We've long known that decisions can be biased by normatively irrelevant factors. But how do these biases arise in the brain?

Hi everyone, good to be here! Keen to talk and learn about decision-making, attention, cognitive science, neural dynamics & more. To break the ice, here is a snapshot of our work on rhythmic attentional sampling in 3-alt choice (led by Marcus Siems). #neuroskyence #neuroscience #PsychSciSky