@nature.com has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.

🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions. Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3

We are happy to announce that “The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated AI Research” has been published in Nature! We shared a vision of an agent executing the entire machine learning research lifecycle. Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog: sakana.ai/ai-scientist... Thread 🧵

Why you should be very careful installing packages from Github: github.com/BerriAI/lite...

Out now! The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡 We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions. @saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...

📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

NeuroBridges brings together students from the countries of the middle east to learn about the brain, and each other. Applications are now open. neurobridges.net/upcoming

Neurobridges is a summer school that brings together students from the middle east, teaching them about synapses and circuits, but hoping to build understanding. Here is a little essay about some of the conversations that took place in 2025. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/01/neur...

Interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (deadline September 2026) with me in decision neuroscience and economics (social and strategic decision making, cooperation, value-based choice, fMRI, computational modeling)? (1/2)

📣 New Perspective 📣 In our article "Recalibrating academic expertise in the age of generative AI", Zhicheng Lin and I discuss how an over-reliance on generative AI in academia may erode key skills of scientific enquiry. Out now in @cp-patterns.bsky.social, read it below! 👇 tinyurl.com/py38vnvb

Thanks for that fun event today @lei-zhang.bsky.social and team! 🥳🧠😇

Enjoyed discussing our research with the Developmental Computational Psychiatry Lab in our shared meeting today. Thanks to PIs @lei-zhang.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and to @annesaulin.bsky.social and Meng Gao for organising!

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)

A reminder to register for the 2026 GRS meeting taking place from Feb 28-Mar 1 in Ventura, CA!

📢 New preprint! 📢 Very excited to be a part of the project led by @saurabhbedi.bsky.social on how the brain learns from multimodal inputs (e.g. audiovisual): Separable neurocomputational mechanisms underlying multisensory learning biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint: What does the research landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning look like 🌍? We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape. osf.io/6c2va_v1

🚨 Last Minute Spots Now Available🚨 Last minute spots became available for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat🧠! If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email: 📧[email protected] Strongly Recommend!🙌 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists

Really excited to share a review I contributed to, out now in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. We explore how foraging can offer a framework for studying brain and behaviour in natural contexts. It’s been a pleasure working with colleagues across species and disciplines on this. Check it out! 👇

A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New preprint 📢 (with Daniil Luzyanin) We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

🙌Thank you for a great Symposium at #PuG2025 on using computational models and MRI to better understand dynamics of social learning! @hein-lab.bsky.social @jgutzeit.bsky.social Bianca Schubert and Lei Zhang! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Excited to join Association for Psychological Science as an Editorial Fellow, to handle submissions and learn the publication processes at APS!

Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/ 🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct 📍 Brown University 👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb 👇 Speakers Please submit & share!

Day 2 of the first @chbh.bsky.social hackathon 🧠🤓 Thanks for a fun talk on your MATLAB journey @dagmarfraser.bsky.social

Played a small part in this exciting interdisciplinary work led by Gabriella Rossetti, @christakou.bsky.social and others at the University of Reading. It's finally published, so give it a read!👇🏼

Enjoyed providing a gentle introduction to R as part of a workshop organised by @lei-zhang.bsky.social and CENTRE-UB Materials available here which I aim to expand in future! #R #openscience

At this point in my #Pint25 talk I was regaling the audience, who understandably thought they had come to a science talk, with a brief diversion into the cultural influence of world religions on our perception of prosociality and wealth. Scientists do not operate in a vacuum! (Well arguably some do)

🎓 Get PAID to co-create open-access teaching materials! We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North. Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵

🧠 My second PhD paper out 🧠 What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!

🎉 New paper out in #ScientificReports! We studied how younger & older adults integrate self- and other-related values during decisions. Huge thanks to the amazing team! 🙌 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prosocial #aging #DDM @anrei.bsky.social

1/n 🆕📄: How do children learn to adapt to different environments when making repeated choices? And what do cognitive immaturity and probability matching have to do with it? Our new article explores how kids & adults differ in probability learning across statistical task structures: mpib.berlin/R3RFy

The second fMRS symposium (Sept 2025) is now open for early registration and abstract submission. Hosted at Bangor Uni, situated in beautiful north Wales, not to be missed if you're into measuring dynamic neurophysiology/neurotransmitters and cutting-edge MR spectroscopy methods. shorturl.at/Q1A5p

Crowdsourced factchecks really only work with balanced communities, but these are increasingly self-selected by platform. — @lewan.bsky.social at "Fake News and Democracy in the Digital Age" with Club Alpbach London. #London #misinformation #fakeNews #media #platforms

Why I value peer review - new World View in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4w5795ua I discuss why peer review is still important and useful despite some of the challenges, and reflect on some personal peer review experiences. Interested to hear what others think about peer review 🙂.

Examining Congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022, @aroyehuns.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social et al. suggest that evidence-based language has continued to decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity. @bristoluni.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fantastic discussion on misinformation, AI and democracy by our panellists @lewan.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, Jonathan Bright and @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social, and moderator Matteo Bergamini MBE @shoutoutuk.bsky.social. Thanks to Club Alpbach London for hosting this event!

📚 VALID: A Checklist-Based Approach for Improving Validity in Psychological Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sample size matters when estimating test–retest reliability of behaviour (in 2-alternative, instructed reversal learning). So say Brendan Williams, Lily FitzGibbon, Dan Brady, and I. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Looking forward to hosting this event with Club Alpbach London! Featuring a great panel: @lewan.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social, and Jonathan Bright, with Matteo Bergamini MBE from @shoutoutuk.bsky.social as moderator!

We are also recruiting new Lecturers, including in Cognitive Neuroscience. Join us! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in @commspsychol.bsky.social: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and @ccruff.bsky.social We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...