It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

If we’re talking about ‘generational investment’, Canada needs faculty positions for postdocs. There have been virtually no cog psych/neuro jobs in the past three years.

Are you an Autistic adult or parent/carer to an Autistic child? Would you or they like to contribute to a free booklet for Autistic children and young people that @gr0ve.bsky.social are creating? Here is my contribution: SUBMISSIONS forms.office.com/e/6Lg2Zx3g3N By 23/11/25

🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details: tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt #CognitiveNeuroscience

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

New paper in Journal of Affective Disorders led by Olivia Losiewicz: Daily spread of positive affect is associated with subsequent well-being: A study of idiographic network analysis and emotional inertia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Phan, J. M.,et al. (2025). Bridging neurodiversity and open scholarship: How shared values can guide best practices for research integrity, social justice, & principled education Journal of Social Issues, 81(4) doi.org/10.1111/josi... Thanks @stimpunks.org for fab pg! stimpunks.org/philosophy/t...

10 years ago she had (undiagnosed) lyme disease, which was debilitating for an entire year. She's well today (it's in remission). She did her own research and she helped figured out what was happening, working with a doctor. That set the stage for her advocacy today.

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Remote work is a game changer for people with disabilities It can allow us to remain in the workforce longer, help us manage doctors appointments, flare ups and medication and create a better work/life balance. I hope this landmark case is the first of many:

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

Kwok's dream: that his children's generation won't suffer from PD like he has. Kwok's nexus of expertise and lived experience shape the conversation. How does exercise slow PD down when it does? Can we find biomarkers? How do patients with advanced PD optimize quality of life?

Understanding brain-body interactions can help inform new therapeutic developments and foster a more holistic approach to #BrainHealth. Join us October 22 - 23 to learn about the current knowledge landscape and future directions for research: https://ow.ly/ZbUR50XbZH6

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

New preprint! Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations? We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

"This anti-ageing effect was strongest in expert tango dancers, whose brains were, on average, seven years younger than their chronological age." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social Thread ⬇️

Stacey Park Milbern becomes the first woman in a wheelchair on U.S. currency with the 2025 quarter, honoring her legacy as a disability justice activist. Congratulations on this historic recognition, celebrating representation, allyship, and advocacy for all. 19thnews.org/2025/08/stac...

I was a #NSFGRFP recipient in 2014 and had a hugely positive experience. This program is a valuable investment in training our future leaders in science. It benefits #AllAmericans we should all robustly support this program. #ScienceIsForEveryone #StandUpForScience

A big thank you to @pbs.org's Emmy-nominated "Healthy Minds" for highlighting neurocomputational research in eating disorders. Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Dr. Jeff Borenstein, who always asks the best questions. @bbrfoundation.bsky.social

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

✨My first science feature is out in Chemical & Engineering News!✨ I interviewed and wrote about Dr. Shana V. Stoddard, a brilliant disabled scientist changing STEM. Disabled scientists deserve visibility and celebration. cen.acs.org/synthesis/me... #DisabledInSTEM #SciComm #RepresentationMatters

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

Feeling tired, depleted, exhausted, or like you can't keep up? This tool may help you explore if that's a "me" problem or something bigger going on with how the world around you is supporting you. open.substack.com/pub/shifthap...

Join Project LETS on Sunday Sept 21st @ 1PM ET (10AM PST) for an online panel discussion on Abolitionist Care Work in Action!❤️‍🔥 Hear from our Peer Support Advocates on what non-pathologizing, holistic care work looks like — outside of carceral frameworks & systems. REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action 🌀

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB#ImpeachRFKand keep the momentum going! 🦆

"A storied trove of documents, photos, and lab tools from the race to decipher DNA’s structure and function is finally being made public." Among them, the original Photo 51, an x-ray diffraction image of DNA made in 1952 by Rosalind Franklin. 🧪 #Science #WomenInSTEM www.science.org/content/arti...

📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩 Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR: Check 🧵 below

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SUBMITTED the FOURTH grant since Feb. 😋😃😅🤩 (EU this time!) Deeply appreciate the praise from ya'll because grant writing is no joke, but I was excited to come post this as a little treat! 🍰 Today, I begin on the fifth proposal 😈 🤘

This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America. I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society. With this self-harming rule, none of that.

My biggest quandary as someone with lived experience getting involved in psychiatry research professionally are coercive & involuntary practices. 🆘A recent executive order seeks to expand these practices, summarized in this piece by Phillip Yanos & @viscidula.bsky.social medium.com/@suspsychext...

When job opportunities are posted/my network posts without alt-text, I take the time to privately contact them and gently ask they add an #alt-text version. Anyone else doing this?! What if instead we set a culture of #disability #accessibility and make it the Bluesky default? 🤩 #disabledinSTEM

One of the last projects of my PhD looking into insular functional segregation in depression is finally out as a preprint 🙏👇 Have a look and let us know what you think! #neuroskyence

Friends!!!! I just submitted the THIRD grant since the anti-DEI executive order news came down in February 😅, the first two were US foundations (unsuccessful) but this one is DUTCH, and I’m in the process of submitting a fourth! Feeling unstoppable 😝

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

@bsky.app instead of an opt-in for alt text warnings on images before you post, can they become the default (that can be toggled off?) this would save us #disability advocates a lot of time personally writing to people asking them include #alttext . What do others think? I don’t see a downside

We are in awe of our community's response -- over 300 people have volunteered to moderate PsyArXiv! We’ve already cleared 13% of the backlog and expect to make even faster progress next week. Thank you for your patience as we work through this, and special thanks to our volunteers! 🎉 #PsychSciSky

Writing a grant w section on #economic impacts of my #MentalHealth research, it bums me out to have to frame us #neurodivergent individuals w #psychiatric #disabilities as 'burdens'. I'm motivated to improve quality of life. Anyone grappled w this? Ideas about how to handle this compassionately? 🧠 🧪

Datasets like NSD & THINGS offer rich stimuli but often test a single task. After great conversations at #CCN2025 on multi-task studies & generalization in brains & models, I thought I would repost our perspective for those interested in this topic. We need multiple tasks!👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hoi #CCN2025 👋 come to poster C90 (with a great view of #Amsterdam) to hear about how working memory supported reinforcement learning is related to mental health in a representative community sample! This is my first conference as a ‘free agent’ & I’m grateful for support from the Travel Award ☺️🙏

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s... Featuring a quote from yours truly! Thank you for the opportunity to chat about accessibility in STEM during these trying times! #DisabledInSTEM

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine