saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that read "THERE IS NO CLOUD, JUST SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER" and it took my last shred of self-control not to thank him for his service

On my way to #APS conference #aps26bcn for the FIRST TIME EVER! Here's a few things the lab are presenting. I have a talk on Friday: "Mapping Extreme Deviations In Cognition to Transdiagnostic Compulsivity: A Normative Modelling Approach" with work from @alicemcox.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

Psychology PhD student, Ellen Moore, probes new biology-based mental health model. Read her interview with Silicon Republic here: www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/t... #Psychology #Neuroscience @siliconrepublic.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social

"The common conception that the brain is primarily for thinking, or other cognitive processes, is potentially misleading... [the brain's actual function is] allostasis: the predictive regulation of competing demands from internal bodily systems" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... hmm.

New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨 We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Für den Postdoc bin ich entsprechend nach Dublin zu @clairegillan.bsky.social gegangen, die mit 'neureka' als eine der ersten eine umfangreiche Forschungsapp für die Psychologie/Neurowissenschaften entwickelt (www.neureka.ie), und dabei auch zentral EMA als Methode eingesetzt hat.

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

Trinity's FutureNeuro centre @futureneuro.bsky.social is now taking applications for 2 year postdocs coming to Ireland from abroad. My lab is an eligible host; if you are interested, please reach out! futureneurocentre.ie/neuroadapt/

The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are. Wow; this is pretty damning. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social

In factor analysis, why does the commonly used CNG method nearly always land at 3 factors when applied to anx/depr/ocd scales? TLDR: There tends to be one factor/component with a large eigenvalue. In these cases, almost inevitably and somewhat arbitrarily, the procedure selects 3 factors 👇

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I am recruiting a postdoc for a new NIMH-funded R01 using neural and behavioral models to understand anxious avoidance. Please share with anyone who may be interested! Link: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/155929/...

Out today in Molecular Psychiatry our paper on multiverse computational factor modeling (i.e. a lotta lotta factor analyses). Thread below for the full rundown. Last PhD paper from @celinef.bsky.social YOU'RE FREE!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper published "Transforming psychiatry with computational and brain-based methods" co-authored by Professor Claire Gillan, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience and School of Psychology. Please see the full paper below: Claire Gillan https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00884-9

Looks interesting! We have been facing this exact issue - finding big inconsistencies across different LLMs rating the same text.

Excited to share this new preprint on the Predictive Modelling of Depression Treatment Response using Individual Symptoms and Latent Factors with @clairegillan.bsky.social fresh up on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from the lab on habit learning in compulsivity from the fantastic @kellydonegan.bsky.social! ✅ N=1000, ✅ pre-registered, ✅ within-person crossover design...we study individual differences in habit learning using the Neureka App

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci

I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months. Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/

You happen to be at #CPConf2025 and interested in habitual processes and how they contribute to compulsivity? We've gathered data from 180 individuals across three different compulsion types including phone-checking (not reflected in the DSM!). Come visit me at poster 2.46!

Come to my fan-tastic poster at #CPConf2025 🪭 Poster 35 to find out all things habits, gamification or to get a quick cool down 🥵

Our new study published in eLife (collaboration with @clairegillan.bsky.social, @celinef.bsky.social and @samgilbert.bsky.social) explores the complex relationship between metacognition, compulsivity and the utilization of external reminders. (1/8)

Sad to be missing #CPConf2025 but there is spirit and via posters from @kellydonegan.bsky.social (TUES) @glassybrain.bsky.social (TUES) and Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk (WED)

Serious FOMO here #CPConf2025

🚨 New paper alert! Do time constraints reveal habitual behaviour? 🤔 We directly compared two major paradigms in the habit research field (Outcome Devaluation vs Response Remapping) under identical training and forced-response conditions 🧠 ⏲️ ⌨️ preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hello #Bluesky!👋 I’m late to the party, but excited to join! 🥳Sharing a recent moment at #RLDM2025: presented a poster on my recent PhD project on measuring time-dependent habits in the lab 🧠 – shared fresh findings, and discovered brilliant research while helping the organisers behind the scenes! 👩‍💻

Claire and team did a remarkable job here, and you should read their reply. An updated preprint from us will be out shortly, reflecting our revised understanding of these issues.

We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.

Our new study published in TheLancetPsych! We found that pramipexole augmentation substantially reduced depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression over 48 weeks of treatment. This is an important advance in how we treat depression! 1/6 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In January, @ctlee.bsky.social put out a preprint on our work developing an ML model predicting response to internet-CBT 📑 vs antidepressant medication 💊 in depression using a real 🌎 observational design. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Next up, a new preprint from joint first authors Sol Fittipaldi and Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social on how negative mood relates to (and granger causes) daily fluctuations in a real world measure of cognitive processing speed - digital questionnaire response times (DQRTs)

Very happy to see this published open-access in Behavior Research Methods now 🤗 #neuroskyence doi.org/10.3758/s134...

🚨 New preprint alert! Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In our preprint "Limited evidence for reduced learning rate adaptation in anxious-depression, before or after treatment", led by @stephsuddell.bsky.social and Lili Zhang, we fail to find a robust association between anxious-depression and learning rate adaptation osf.io/preprints/ps...

Have fallen a bit behind on posting preprints on here. So for next few weeks will share a few things...

Check out some highlights from the Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making at Trinity College Dublin. For more see rldm.org #RDLM2025 with @clairegillan.bsky.social & @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

@kellydonegan.bsky.social showing our latest smartphone habit research this morning at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social 📲

Another great #RLDM conference! Thank you @coolscontrol.bsky.social (general chair), Anne Collins and Stefano Albrecht (program chairs -- a TON of work!), @clairegillan.bsky.social and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social (local chairs -- a gazillion amount of work) and all others who made this happen!

Many variables determine whether instrumental behaviour is goal-directed or habitual. We have documented in rats that delays between response and outcome attenuate sensitivity to outcome devaluation (a canonical test of goal directedness). In this study we replicated that observation in humans.

Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025? Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫 w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

#RLDM2025 officially starts tomorrow! 🚀 Have you checked out our program? See details below, full program is available at rldm.org 👀 New to RLDM? Join our first-timers gathering tonight, 6-7pm, at Kennedy's Pub (30-32 Westland Row) 😊

🌟 New to RLDM? Join us for the First-Timers Social at Kennedy’s! 🗓 Tues, June 10 | 🕕 18:00–19:00 📍 30–32 Westland Row, Dublin 2 Right beside the conference venue at Trinity, it’s the perfect chance to meet fellow newcomers, chat with organisers, and get tips for how to make the most of #RLDM2025!

Only ONE WEEK until #RLDM2025 ☘️ We can’t wait to welcome brilliant minds from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond for cutting-edge talks on reinforcement learning & decision making. Spaces are disappearing quickly so grab your spot before it’s gone! Register now 👉 rldm.org

New article out from me and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social Simple entitled: 'Citizen Science' In the Open Encyclopedia for Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu/pub/5cdl3f1m...