Sean James Fallon
@seanjf.bsky.social
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Psychopharmacology.
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Daniel Yon
14 days ago
I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at
@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to
@leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci
#neuroskyence
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PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/phd-studentship-social-learning-of-metacognition-and-awareness
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Edwin Dalmaijer
12 days ago
Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here:
arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
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To be fair to the Bold signal, I was also past my best after 35 years
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about 2 months ago
π¨π§ π¨ POSTDOC POSITION π¨π§ π¨ in my lab:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/postdoc-position-neural-circuitry-underlying-working-memory
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Excited to see how this develops
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
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Brain Communications
5 months ago
@Veronicabreira @jonstoneneuro @AlanCarson15 report on a novel digital self-help functional cognitive disorder intervention. The CBTβbased programme led to symptom improvement in 62% of participants and boosted quality of life and more. Read at
buff.ly/jD4JbCF
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Brain Communications
5 months ago
Brain Communications welcomes applications for the next editor in chief π€. Please find further details here
buff.ly/TI1o606
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#editorinchief
#applications
#recruiting
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Payam Piray
5 months ago
New paper with
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social
in Nature Communications: an RL model that builds a successor map compositionally. The new model plans as well as the best models, and it links components of the map used for planning to neural codes in the medial entorhinal cortex.
rdcu.be/eAofi
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Reconciling flexibility and efficiency: medial entorhinal cortex represents a compositional cognitive map
Nature Communications - How the brain creates compositional cognitive maps that support both flexible and efficient planning remains poorly understood. Here, authors propose a...
https://rdcu.be/eAofi
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Marco K Wittmann
5 months ago
π’ Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL π’ π§ π«π We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL β University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=36893&jobTitle=Research+Fellow
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Kate Storrs
5 months ago
If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the
@universityofotago.bsky.social
are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology π
www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
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Psychology Jobs in All Otago, Job Vacancies - Aug 2025 | SEEK
Find your ideal job at SEEK with 104 Psychology jobs found in All Otago. View all our Psychology vacancies now with new jobs added daily!
https://www.seek.co.nz/psychology-jobs/in-All-Otago?jobId=85709111&type=standard
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Neuropsychopharmacology
6 months ago
This study shows that deep π§ stimulation of the nucleus accumbens selectively enhances long-term memory encoding in π without affecting recall, working memory, motor function, or stress behaviors
www.nature.com/artic...
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NAc-DBS selectively enhances memory updating without effect on retrieval
Neuropsychopharmacology - NAc-DBS selectively enhances memory updating without effect on retrieval
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02132-0
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Nima Dehghani
6 months ago
interesting work from Paul
@paulmasset.bsky.social
and
@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
see the commentary:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Antonia Hamilton
6 months ago
new preprint - do you use
#fnirs
to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using
#fnirs
for real-world
#cognitive
#neuroscience
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xdgny_v1?view_only=
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Heather Burrell Ward, MD
7 months ago
This was such a fun Research Highlights piece to write for
@npp-journal.bsky.social
! I basically got to π the impressive π§² π§ work of
@npetersen.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One step at a time: use of single-session rTMS to test novel targets for substance use disorders - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - One step at a time: use of single-session rTMS to test novel targets for substance use disorders
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02149-5
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Brain
7 months ago
Vascular health has an impact on brain health New Editorial in this month's Brain:
tinyurl.com/3xdu562p
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https://tinyurl.com/3xdu562p
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Brain
7 months ago
Kazazian et al. review the use of neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, detailing key methods (fMRI, EEG, PET) and imaging paradigms that can be used to improve diagnosis and prognosis.
tinyurl.com/57tme2fc
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Edwin Dalmaijer
9 months ago
Are you looking for a new job? The University of Bristol is looking for you! There are two open Lecturer (Assistant Professor) positions: Social Psychology:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ511/l...
More general, but with preference for mental health, wellbeing, and/or PPI:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ582/l...
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Sean James Fallon
Masud Husain
10 months ago
Clinical research in the UK is under threat, partly because it takes so long to get a study or trial approved. Here are some of my suggested solutions in this BMJ Opinion piece
@nihr.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@ukri.org
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Masud Husain
10 months ago
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial
@brain1878.bsky.social
If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Matt Wall
10 months ago
π¨π¨New paper day!π¨π¨ Fantastic new study led by Dr Martin Osugo of Prof. Oliver Howes group at Kings college: "Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour - Nature Communications
Osugo et al show in healthy humans that sustained dopamine D2/D3 receptor antagonism impairs motivated behaviour, hedonic experience, and emotional expression, and that this is related to blunted stri...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56663-7#article-info
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Michael Okun
11 months ago
Will we choose to β divide et impera β divide and conquer, or will we continue to clump all cases of Parkinson's? Substantia nigra and locus coeruleus are early brain regions affected by PD? These regions are important to learning and cognitive (thinking) functions, but in very different ways.
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Sean James Fallon
Matt Roser
11 months ago
Great fun this week at BRIC Plymouth
@bricplymouth.bsky.social
as we begin collecting data on a combined fMRI/EEG/Theta-burst study of pre-SMA contributions to inhibitory processing with our MSc Human Neuroscience students.
#neuroskyance
#neuroscience
#neuropsychology
#brain
#neuroimaging
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Sean James Fallon
11 months ago
Congratulations to Elsa and her team
@bricplymouth.bsky.social
for securing funding to do groundbreaking focused transcranial ultrasound.
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Ravi Menon
12 months ago
If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.
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Mark Rubin
12 months ago
Three psychology lecturer jobs at the University of Bath, UK. Closing date: 19th January Especially seeking researchers in the areas of: - Addiction - Autism - Artificial Intelligence - Environmental Psych - Pain Psych - Youth Mental Health
#PsychJobs
#Psychology
#UKHE
#AcademicSky
#PhDSky
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CH12294 Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
Lecturer
https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CH12294
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Andrea Pisauro
12 months ago
www.science.org/content/arti...
Boring is interesting (and so is boredom for that matter)
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As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengthsβand shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
https://www.science.org/content/article/academic-bluesky-grows-researchers-find-strengths-and-shortcomings
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Sean James Fallon
Baptiste Lacoste
12 months ago
Nice review highlighting the associations between neuropsychiatric conditions and
#cerebrovascular
deficits
doi.org/10.1111/eci....
#BloodBrainBarrier
#Psychiatry
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Neurovascular dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: Underlying mechanisms and therapeutic approaches
The neurovascular unit (NVU) is present in both brain and retinal barriers and consists of endothelial cells, basement membrane, pericytes, glial cells (astrocytes and microglia) and neurons. Barrier...
https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.14319
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Sean James Fallon
de Gee lab
about 1 year ago
I would like to share new work that focusses on non-invasive manipulations of (noradrenergic) arousal during human cognitive behavior.
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Sean James Fallon
Edwin Dalmaijer
about 1 year ago
Do we ever get used to disgust? Work in a care home for long enough, and you just might! Healthcare assistants show no disgust avoidance for care-related stimuli, and this habituation even generalises to unrelated yuck. Paper in
@plos.bsky.social
here:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#psychology
#disgust
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Long-term disgust habituation with limited generalisation in care home workers
Countless workers handle bodily effluvia and body envelope violations every working day, and consequentially face deeply unpleasant levels of disgust. Understanding if and how they adapt can help info...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299429
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Prof Kate Watkins
about 1 year ago
Useful reading list on neurodiversity from
@iammirela.bsky.social
and colleagues
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity
A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...
https://elifesciences.org/articles/102467
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Sean James Fallon
Edwin Dalmaijer
about 1 year ago
Pigeons navigate along idiosyncratic routes that improve between generations. Cumulative cultural evolution? This study shows that the same cumulative route improvements spontaneously emerge in simple artificial agents. Paper in
@plosbiology.bsky.social
:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Matthew Apps
about 1 year ago
Please repost this open PhD studentship.
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