Here here !! Well done CPSY

#OCD is a understudied disorder, meaning that we know way too little about the underlying (brain) processes. We have thus built the Brain Explorer app www.brainexplorer.net where everyone can easily contribute to understanding OCD. #MentalHealthAwareness @tueneurocampus.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Hey cognitive scientists I asked lovable.dev to make me a 2-arm bandit RL task 2 prompts and 3 minutes later 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Play it: preview--cosmic-bandit-quest.lovable.app Think of the hours and grad student tears saved 😅 Yes lovable I accept your sponsorship terms

“Motivation drives changes in the subjective value of reward both in the moment and in the future.” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In life, 3 things are certain: death, taxes, and decision-making variability🧠. Our review tinyurl.com/4dcwafc4 explores how computational models 💻 explain variability, their limits, and recent advances. A thread🧵👇 @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove (not on Bluesky)

When I began my PhD, there was a major disconnect between my own lived experience and the way researchers probed mental health-behaviour links. I hope this work inspires others to use new designs to appreciate the complexity of human beings and their experiences. link.growkudos.com/1f5ss3bn1ts

This is a great study, if I may say. We have had a lot of data showing correlations between subjective assessments and behaviour between individuals. With this study, we are starting to see how they interact over days within individuals. Congratulations @samuelhewitt.bsky.social!

A little bby from my PhD is published! we did a complex study to answer a simple Q: do day-to-day feelings impact choices? A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater. open access link: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my MSN lab, @thechbh.bsky.social, co-supervised with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social & @simonlittle.bsky.social. Deadline 23rd March. Only open to UK candidates. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls repost

I cannot deny photo evidence...! Nothing further, your honour😍 It's a wrap, finished, terminado.... thank you V V much, especially to my mentors for all the support @thepsychologist.bsky.social, Prof Essi Viding, @olijrobinson.bsky.social and especially @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social

In the beginning there were starter packs, then came the cull

I'm sick of GPT4 telling me I'm absolutely right. I'm not here for validation from a cyborg. Tell me about all the mistakes I made !

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Valerie Thomas (1943) is an African American badass scientist. She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980. She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program. Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979. #WomenInSTEM 🧪

Early intervention for depression for young people. This week we're presenting findings from the BESST trial - Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools. Watch the videos in this THREAD or sign up to join our webinar on Friday: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-inte... #BESSTtrial #Depression

JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Finally, an app to help dodge shit

Optogenetic vipassana! 🌬️

This place is getting seriously good; and this is better than good, just magnificent.

First post here: our latest paper on insight-like learning dynamics (and the factors causing them) in humans and ANNs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... published last month in PLoS Comp Bio. with @nicoschuck.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social Paul Muhle-Karbe and Léo Touzo

Amazing work identifying a key factor which drives indecisiveness. A rare combination of smartphone behaviour (general population), patients with clinical obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders and imaging...! In one study 😱💥

I wish people would stop mentioning that place and that guy. Let's be present in the beautiful new world

📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢 We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025. We are now accepting symposium submissions!

People making demands of BlueSky tech team, mods etc because it’s getting busy: BlueSky has a staff of 20. None of us are paying a penny to use it, and it has, at the moment, no way to monetise itself, as far as I can see, because it’s trying to resist any pivot to algorithmic ads or selling data.

If you can't cite yourself, how in the hell you gonna cite someone else?

New work led by Michael Moutoussis! When evaluating others' motives, people first make a rough good/bad judgement and then (if all goes well) refine their views. Serotonin may help us learn beyond the good/bad impression: academic.oup.com/scan/advance... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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I recently learned I have a hyperfocus problem I will work for hours without basic stuff like water or fresh air Stare at my PC in the dark before noticing I should have turned a light hours ago I tried the pomodoro technique but I always forget to start the timer 🤣 tips welcome

A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others. Check it out👇0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

"What ties these concerns together is one single, overarching problem: we do not have clear evidence about the impact of mental health awareness efforts." a very (very!) short piece from me out today in BJ Psych The problem with mental health awareness shorturl.at/ySHnU

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⚡🧠 👬 👭 Exciting opportunity! Join our newly founded Social Computational Neuroscience lab at UCL as research assistant! Combine ultrasound brain stimulation, neuroimaging, computational modelling to study social decision-making. 🗒️ tinyurl.com/y7ua23rp ⏱️16 July 🔁Please RT.

Real-world fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based choices: http://osf.io/w3x7d/

why is that effortful task SO unappealing today? v happy to share a BIG effort from my PhD! Real-world fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based choices https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w3x7d with incredible co-authors Dr Agnes Norbury, Prof Quentin Huys & @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social

1/4: New paper alert! Our paper investigating the psychometric properties of the predictive-inference task, a key paradigm for studying how we adapt to sudden environmental changes, is now out! w/ @seowxft.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...

www.bmj.com/content/385/... cool summary of the positive evidence for psilocybin. Unfortunately, won't ever be a widespread, effective treatment for depression because the cost is so so high. Perhaps a solution for the wealthy on private healthcare, but you can't scale this to 280m people worldwide

📢 Join our team at the Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab 🧠🔬👩‍🔬 🧑‍🎓If you're a PhD (or near completion) in 1. developmental psychology/cognitive neuroscience or 2. cognitive neuroscience/neuroimaging with neuroimaging, apply now: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u... #Postdoc

Lots of Oliver's blood sweat and tears in this new preprint. We found BOLD signals reflecting predicted-but-omitted shapes in the CA23 and pre/para-subiculum subfields of the hippocampus, as well as the parahippocampal cortex. #neuroskyence #compneurosky 1/2

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can the time it takes someone to fill in a digital survey tell us something about their cognitive function? 📢 Buckle up, I’ve got a preprint and a thread for you!  osf.io/preprints/ps...

The amazing Vanessa Teckentrup has just posted a preprint labour of ❤️ on the use of digital questionnaire response times (DQRTs) to measure cognition passively in thousands of Neureka users. Read👓📖, discuss 💬and if you like 👍 & 🔁!

Super excited to share the very first preprint from my PhD: Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions. [1/8] #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneurosky biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

wtf, honestly fuck the UK

If you missed out last time, this postdoc ad has been extended! Work with us on creating an online platform to democratise computational models! #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence

Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition (CSC 2024) will take place on the beautiful @unibirmingham campus 14th-17th July compsoccog.com. Fantastic lineup of speakers & instructors inc. Wolfram Schultz @celiaheyes.bsky.social Christian Ruff. Please RT and Register ASAP!

A really exciting new Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, with plenty of social events and opportunities to explore Brum - apply now! compsoccog.com Hosted at the University of Birmingham - @thechbh.bsky.social

Clark Hull usually gets credit for coming up with "law of less work" (or the "law of least effort") in 1943. I recently learned that the Chinese psychologist Loh-Seng Tsai published the same idea 11 years before Hull. 🧵Short history thread (1/5):