The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...

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/...

Thrilled to be part of this fantastic new project led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and supported by @bipolardiscoveries.org. Grateful to collaborate with an outstanding team — Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. James Murrough and others — and looking forward to the work ahead!

Just revisited this nice paper by Bramlage and @neuroaure.bsky.social bridging attention learning in humans and ANNs - we need more work like this..

Curious how cognitive computational models might shed light on question in mental health? Come dive into hands-on tutorials, modeling, and clinical applications during our 3-day workshop 👾 🧠

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

amazing work led by @hongkai1.bsky.social suggesting that wanting to be unique can make social media posts more negative over time!

Inspiring work by @danmirea.bsky.social!

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry? Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

New work led by the brilliant @yizhang96.bsky.social: In lab experiments and naturalistic groups, people generalize perceptions of acceptance and rejection across social network ties.

📣 Interested in applying computational methods to advance understanding of mental health? Join us for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10-12)! Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112... More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025 Please share & RT!

🚨Our NeurIPS 2025 competition Mouse vs. AI is LIVE! We combine a visual navigation task + large-scale mouse neural data to test what makes visual RL agents robust and brain-like. Top teams: featured at NeurIPS + co-author our summary paper. Join the challenge! Whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14446

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

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.

Kudos, @lauraaberner.bsky.social! So well deserved!

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Indeed! What a gift to spend a week in such a delightfully collaborative and thoughtful community ☺️ 🙏

Beyond the 2-body solution: how theorists can be hubs in cross-disciplinary collaborations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Run don’t walk to the #Neuro4Pros summer school if it happens again and you’re an early career prof Thanks again for the absolute best time ⭐️ @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Super cool work!

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...

Peaceful moment on the last day of an awesome #CCN2025

Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac

Happy to have some good science news - our new study with @aqperkins.bsky.social is out in @plosbiology.org! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

For any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

Excited to share our new review on how neuroimaging and computational models can help uncover how people see what they want to see, now out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! It was a blast writing this with Haena Kim and @iancballard.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have? Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/ I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!

Presenting our patient-friendly, reliable RL task battery today at #BAP2025 — come find our poster in the first session! We developed this battery for RELMED, a new clinical trial exploring how reinforcement learning contributes to antidepressant efficacy. @relmed.bsky.social @bapsych.bsky.social

Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!

So excited for our #RLDM2025 workshop on Thursday, Chess as a bridge between human cognition and artificial intelligence, co-organized with Ionatan Kuperwajs. sites.google.com/nyu.edu/ches...

Happy to be at #RLDM2025 in beautiful Ireland 🍀! My group will be presenting in the following sessions:

new paper from a collaborative endeavor! (@co0p3r.bsky.social) we find & replicate food-reward biases in a reinforcement learning task (where food stim are incidental) people with eating disorder symptoms show a low-calorie food bias while those without show a high-calorie food bias... (1/3)

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the great @jetrach.bsky.social! "Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are bringing together neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 #NeuroAI #DecisionMaking

Are you planning to attend @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 and interested in human and artificial intelligence across the adult lifespan? Come check out our Representational Alignment and Aging Workshop!👇 sites.google.com/brown.edu/raa/

🧠 #CCN2025 (August 12-15, Amsterdam) Update: Early registration deadline approaching! ⏰ Register by May 23 for early pricing ($375 student/$495 regular) ➡️ 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Full schedule now available: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...

👉 Check out our new #CogLearn Toolkit for #Unity: we built and validated (across 5 samples) an immersive #VR paradigm for human avoidance learning. Basic version can be controlled by simple text files; more control via publicly available Unity toolkit. doi.org/10.3758/s134... #humanavoidancelearning

This year, we're organizing travel and caregiver awards to help make CCN 2025 more accessible for those who might otherwise find it difficult to attend. If this kind of support would make a difference for you—or someone you know—we’d love for you to apply or pass the word along 🙌

Joining us for CCN2025 in Amsterdam? Early registration discount is still available until the 23rd May! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Need financial support? We got travel awards & caregiver grants available: 2025.ccneuro.org/travel-awards/ 2025.ccneuro.org/caregiver-aw...

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

At #SOBP2025? Check out Jackie Beltran's poster: "VTA dopamine neurons encode RPE signals that guide learning and behavior. Here we investigate neural differences in reward and loss learning in depression within the VTA circuitry using 7T fMRI - Poster T130" @sinaibrain.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...

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An absolute tour-de-force from @jadynpark.bsky.social! Using a whole-brain dynamics approach, we show that increased integration across functional networks mediates the effects of emotional arousal on memory. Three years in the making—thrilled to be sharing the preprint!