1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in @natneuro.nature.com Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility nature.com/articles/s4159…

THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.

Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

I am so super excited about this new preprint by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social @micahgallen.com 🙌🤩

1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our second workshop we will have the incredible @AshleyTyrer from Aarhaus University outlining Dynamic Causal Modelling! Date: 5th March, 9am EST, 2pm GMT. Register below! forms.gle/v72nSZyu4Fsh...

Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum . Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline for the application is March 20th 2025.

Recent photon catch from the driveway (galaxies M81/M82 in Ursa Major) #astrophotography 🔭🧪

A very interesting first-person account of living with schizophrenia by philosopher Michael Dickson: doi.org/10.1093/schb...

@ashleytyrer.bsky.social @kellyhoog.bsky.social @dominikfirisz.bsky.social 🤓🪿

2.5 months later, but the end of data collection is finally here! Thanks to the amazing team I had the honour of losing my mind with @ashleytyrer.bsky.social @samuelnehrer.bsky.social Victor & Dominik 🪿

Announcing the 7th European Summer School "Computational Modeling of Cognition in a Social Context" in Hinterstoder, Austria, 3-17 August 2024 1/n

@jonel.bsky.social 😉

The neural substrates of subjective time dilation www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Unexpectedly, I got 4h hours of clear skies last night. I went for SH2-284 in Ha only (lack of time, excess of Moon). Yet another mysterious Sharpless catalogue object no one seems to care about: very faint, 40x300s subs are clearly not going to cut it 😅. I'll be back! #Astrophotography 🔭📸

Can't wait to sleep in and tell the office I've actually been working overtime

Our model taxonomy paper is published :) www.doi.org/10.1214/23-SS145 What makes Bayesian models and how can we systematically describe them? What properties to they have and how do those relate? Find answers (or a discussion of the answer-less state of research) in the paper :) #rstats #stats

Another successful Rainclouds workshop at Uni Marburg with @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social. We gave some background on transparent plotting along with exercises on using the ggrain package! github.com/jorvlan/rain... Thanks to @florian-hintz.bsky.social for the invite! #PsychSciSky #dataviz #Rstats

Data collection takes its toll 🕸 @ashleytyrer.bsky.social @samuelnehrer.bsky.social

Now available! The audio version of last week's Halloween Mind Chat, in which I talked to Philip about his new book *Why: The Purpose of the Universe* (which is out this week). podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/min...

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