So thrilled to be joining the Psychology Department at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an assistant prof next summer! I'll be recruiting for PhD/postdoc to start in Autumn 2027, so if you're interested in using computational approaches to studying human cognition please get in touch!

Does the brain's response to non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation depend on the current state of the body? Our new paper suggests yes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation modulates Pavlovian bias in a state-dependent manner

The vagus nerve transmits vital signals between organ systems of the body and the brain. Despite growing interest in non-invasive transcutaneous vagus…

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Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.

Neural timescales from a computational perspective - Nature Neuroscience

This review integrates computational approaches to provide a unified view on how data analysis methods, biophysical mechanistic models and machine learning approaches can help to uncover the origins a...

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I was already feeling incredibly lucky with the students at the IKW Osnabrück, whose motivation and curiosity makes teaching very enjoyable. Now they told me they're happy too and it was the best imaginable end to my first year in Osnabrück 😍 www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

Osnabrück University Presents Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching

Which faculty members at the University of Osnabrück do their students consider deserving of an award? The jury has made its decision: On June 25, 2026, the Hans Mühlenhoff Prize for Excellence in Aca...

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1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

What an opportunity to work with the brilliant @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social - apply if you can!! Can't wait to see what's coming out of this new lab ✨

Roxana Zeraati@roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

In contrast to most lab settings, motivational demands (= required effort to achieve a goal) in the real world are often uncertain and learned from experience. Here, we took a first step to study the relevant learning and inference mechanisms when required effort changes unpredictably.

Rong Bi@rongbi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very excited to share our first effort-learning paper in @plosbiology.org! Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @Jan Grohn, @thepsychologist.bsky.social and to my co-senior authors @mkflugge.bsky.social and @lilweb.bsky.social, for all their effort on this fun project. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Check out how Vickie talks to brains today!

Victoria Bosch@initself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today I will present our work on CorText and how to fuse neural data with LLMs in the MedARC Journal Club! I’m thankful for the invitation and looking forward! 🧠🌸 Join online: 2:15 PM UTC meet.google.com/bof-ikcz-ygh

Come join us for a workshop on Neuro-AI in Osnabrück this autumn! Excited about the discussion-style format and it happening in my new home ✨

Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to announce the 3rd iteration of NEAT (Neuro-AI-Talks), which will take place in Osnabrück September 14th-15th 2026. NEAT is a (deliberately small scale) NeuroAI workshop that brings together researchers from neuroscience and AI. www.kietzmannlab.org/neat2026/ More information below 👇

Very happy this paper I'm part of, led by co-first author Nomiki Koutsoumpari and @efouragnan.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! It uses transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to show the causal role of aIns and dACC in two kinds of learning biases 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ultrasound neuromodulation reveals distinct roles of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula in learning

Pavlovian approach–avoidance tendencies can disrupt flexible action control, but the causal contributions of specific neural regions remain unclear. This study shows that anterior insula stimulation r...

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Looking forward to presenting our work on the origin and flexibility of reward signals at the @arc-mpib.bsky.social next week!

Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin)@arc-mpib.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨Next week's talk at ARC Join us for a talk by Professor Lilian Weber (@lilweb.bsky.social, Osnabrück University). 📅 23 April 11:00 (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online See the link for details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/45441...

Many thanks to @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to study the mechanisms underlying naturalistic decision processes in the context of foraging behavior! We’ll also soon have openings for PhD students, stay tuned!

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics@mpicybernetics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎉 @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social has been awarded the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de Boost Fund! Moving beyond short-term trials to naturalistic scenarios: Roxana will explore how we decide in changing environments. 🔗 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/zeraati-tsch... #DecisionMaking #ComputationalNeuroscience

We're so proud of this one - great to see it out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! See Johannes' threads for what we did & found. Excited to be using TUS and what it will teach us about the neural basis of affective cognition ✨

Johannes Algermissen@johalgermissen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com

CAMP Lab | about

The CAMP Lab at the University of Iowa uses computational, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and neuromodulation approaches to understand motivation, affect, and decision-making — and how these processes...

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Can't wait to see these results at #cosyne2026

Shervin Safavi@neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It was a blast to be at #MBBS2026 for the first time and presenting the first #brainbody research of the @cmc-lab.bsky.social! Learn a lot in Berlin (thanks to the organizers ❤️) and heading to #cosyne2026 for the second round of excitement 🤩

Also shout out to @lilweb.bsky.social, Frederike and Dana for their nice review that helps motivating this study! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning

Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide l…

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Looking at the program again 👀 I can't wait for this! Stoked to contribute a talk on ✨the interoceptive basis of reinforcement learning✨

Satpreet (Sat) Singh@satpreetsingh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Excited to announce the 2nd edition of our workshop “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Theory, Autonomy, Embodiment & Environment” at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2026!! 🧠🤖🌍🪰🐟🐭💪🧘🏃 🗓️ March 17, 2026 📍 Cascais, Portugal 🔗 Speaker lineup and schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Using EEG and decoding analyses we find dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning, both within and across trials 🧠 @auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik elifesciences.org/articles/103...

Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning

Neural responses during statistical learning reveal dissociable dynamic effects of expectation, supporting the opposing process theory within trials while demonstrating contrasting effects across tria...

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"Die Männer um mich herum wollen nichts anzünden. Aber damit der Giftpegel sinkt, muss nicht nur die Scham die Seiten wechseln (...) Auch die Wut muss es. Von uns Frauen zu euch Männern. Es sind nicht wir, die pausenlos über Epstein reden müssen. Ihr seid es."

Check out our new paper which isolates a human brain signal that specifically tracks the growing urgency to commit to a choice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41611534/. This one was a long time coming! Sterling work from @harveymccone.bsky.social and a bunch of past lab members!

A Movement-Independent Signature of Urgency During Human Perceptual Decision Making - PubMed

How does the brain adjust its decision processes to ensure timely decision completion? Computational modelling and electrophysiological investigations have pointed to dynamic 'urgency' processes that serve to progressively reduce the quantity of evidence required to reach choice commitment as time e …

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"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement." Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The gut-brain vagal axis governs mesolimbic dopamine dynamics and reward events

Gut-brain vagal signals gate dopamine ensembles, reshaping reward and motivation beyond a brain-centric view.

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🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

🚀 Deadline for this is this Sunday! 🏃‍♀️

Lilian Weber@lilweb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Lilian Weber@lilweb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

Last preprint 🎶(of the year). If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Important topic, state-of-the-art methods, cool city, caring supervisor - go for it people!

Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall@tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Passionate about women's mental health? Interested in brain stimulation? Excited by cutting edge neurotech? Come do a PhD with me! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (thread)

Thanks @cmdn-lab.bsky.social for discussions & dinner - I had a lovely time!

Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab@cmdn-lab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thought-provoking talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 @lilweb.bsky.social presented ambitious work on testing and improving methods in computational psychiatry. We thank Lilian for her visit and the valuable discussions throughout the day in our lab!

New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.

Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity - Nature Communications

This study shows that non-invasive ultrasound to the human nucleus accumbens can modulate deep brain activity and enhance reward-guided learning, offering a potential alternative to invasive neuromodu...

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Come work with us!

Michael Browning@mikebrowning.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon! If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!

Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/364es88k