Planning to start talking with potential postdoc candidates by the end of this week. The position is very open in terms of topic area. Let me know ASAP if you might be interested!

aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 3w ago

Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).

1/ I am thrilled to begin sharing the latest release of pyEM, a Python package I built for fitting cognitive computational models to behavioral data using hierarchical expectation maximization (EM) with maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP). github.com/shawnrhoads/...

Interested in doing a postdoc with me in Auckland, New Zealand? 🇳🇿 See info below on a competitive award opportunity, and please spread the word!

If you are at @facct.bsky.social, come check out the latest work of the freshly minted Dr. @ltreiman.bsky.social! She will talk about the effects of asking for AI training consent on human decision making. The talk will be Saturday 6/27 at 10.45 in the Human-AI Interaction session (Lamartine).

If you are at @facct.bsky.social, come check out the latest work of the freshly minted Dr. @ltreiman.bsky.social! She will talk about the effects of asking for AI training consent on human decision making. The talk will be Saturday 6/27 at 10.45 in the Human-AI Interaction session (Lamartine).

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu

Reading a children's book about the brain with my son. The endsheets (<- I had to look this up) go unreasonably hard! Fun to try to figure them all out: I don't recognize the "Lungs" one. It's not obvious why these are in the book, by the way. It looks like it's just a tribute by the illustrator.

This is great advice on using AI for slide preparation. To throw in my two cents, I find that I construct most of my story while making my slides. The process of selecting graphs and crafting transitions lets me find out what works and what doesn't work.

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

Focus. Relax. Focus again. Turns out people would rather not do that! With my amazing mentors Wouter Kool and Julie Bugg, we show that people actively avoid switching between control states even in a single task, and trade off this demand against conflict. More in Wouter's thread and paper below!

Wouter Kool@wouterkool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.

I forgot to link the paper! 🤦‍♂️ I'm blaming my new four-month old. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Wouter Kool@wouterkool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.

Now out in Developmental Science! @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono & @catehartley.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social use multi-patch foraging to identify a specific computational role for structure learning underlying developmental differences in exploration. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Structure Inference in Complex Environments Improves From Childhood to Adulthood

Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, const...

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The Hartley Lab@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New pre-print out from our lab!!🚨 "Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference" by @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono, @catehartley.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

There are still a few spots available for the Twelfth Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School, which will take place from 10–14 August 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. Be quick — the remaining spots will be filled on a rolling basis, so make sure to register soon!

Dora Matzke@doramatzke.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.

Check out this new study by the fantastic @rongbi.bsky.social in the lab 🥳 👇 Rong carefully analysed human effort traces to gain insight into how we form and update priors about required effort when effort is not signalled and has to be learnt in environments differing in volatility and noise.

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...

Proud of this team for this multidimensional tour de force! By decoding EEG signal, we show that the brain handles competing distractors through rapid dimension-specific modulation based on a multivariate conflict signal. More in @davideghez.bsky.social's 🧵. Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.16.688701

Davide Gheza@davideghez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint! Last year we showed humans adapt attention in a dimension-specific way when multiple things compete for attention. Now we read out the neural dynamics of this adaptation. doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.16.688701 w/ @mikefreund.bsky.social @theazalabak.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social

@cathyzhang.bsky.social's paper on inferring mind wandering from behavior alone is now out in Communications Psychology!

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 4mo ago

Mind wandering is typically measured using rare, disruptive thought probes. This study shows that trial-by-trial fluctuations in attentional states can be inferred from behavior alone using a biased perceptual task and computational modeling. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New preprint!🚨 How do people learn how to search the visual world? Across 3 experiments, @chrisahn.bsky.social and I show that abstract environmental statistics shape visual strategy selection, but asymmetrically. People readily lean into bottom-up salience, but only override it when they have to.

Want to learn R? 📊 Join our NSF-funded "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience Workshop"! This virtual workshop is completely free and teaches junior scientists the basics of coding for data analysis. Apply by May 15th! rworkshop.missouri.edu #RStats #Psychology #Neuroscience

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Thank you @ltreiman.bsky.social for sharing your work with us on how people act differently when they know that their behavior is used to train AI. In the ultimatum game, people are more likely to reject disadvantageous offers when an AI is watching and learning. 📃 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

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Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 7mo ago

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Great opportunity for PhD applicants this year!

Interested in mind wandering, aging, and individual differences? Check out our new preprint! A fun collab with @cathyzhang.bsky.social Maddie Valdez, @wouterkool.bsky.social and Julie Bugg

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?: https://osf.io/jvyr6

Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?: https://osf.io/jvyr6

Thrilled that my poster on our new preprint won 2nd place at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social) conference! Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

So proud of my grad student @ltreiman.bsky.social on winning 2nd place in the Best Poster Award at SJDM @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social 🎉! In a preprint of this work, she demonstrates how sequential comparisons and choice-induced preferences reveal two distinct pathways to the decoy effect.

Check out @theazalabak.bsky.social's cool new paper on model-based planning during foraging. She's applying for grad school this season, so keep your eyes out!

Cognition@cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How do people decide whether to stay with a good thing or leave in search of something better? In her new paper, @theazalabak.bsky.social explores how model-based planning guides foraging decisions in structured environments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.