🚀 Huge congrats to @angelaradulescu.bsky.social on being part of the Mount Sinai team awarded a @bipolardiscoveries.org grant to study the neural mechanisms behind mood state transitions and drive new discoveries in bipolar disorder biology! 🧠 👉Read more: www.bipolardiscoveries.org/our-work/dis...

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

🧪 Research Spotlight: @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will study brain activity in people with #BipolarDisorder during manic & depressive shifts 👉 Goal: Identify patterns that could guide new treatments with targeted brain stimulation. 🔗 bit.ly/4gTbBwU

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One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.

I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com

I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.

My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets. rdcu.be/eQjLN

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

That’s a wrap on #NYCPW2025! Huge thank you to our instructors and incredible participants for an inspiring, engaging, and energizing three days. Your curiosity and collaboration made this workshop a success. 🙌🧠✨

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Excited to share a new preprint, accepted as a spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! Humans are imperfect decision-makers, and autonomous systems should understand how we deviate from idealized rationality Our paper aims to address this! 👀🧠✨ arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951 a 🧵⤵️

👉 Saren Seeley continues our Day 3 with a discussion on Study Design & Replicability #NYCPW2025

@lauraaberner.bsky.social started Day 3 of #NYCPW2025 by helping the group map out their own clinically relevant questions in computational psychiatry. 🧭 🧠

💭Closing out Day 2 of #NYCPW2025 with Ülgen Kılıç's talk on Network Theory in Psychiatry and some hands-on project work! 🙌

Next up, @bshev.bsky.social inspired some group discussion on Drift Diffusion modeling during #NYCPW2025 Day 2!🗣️📊

☀️ Good morning #NYCPW2025 Day 2! @shawnrhoadsphd.com starting strong with a tutorial on fitting computational models to behavioral data!

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

Wrapping up Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with @neurokim.bsky.social using LLMs for cognitive model discovery. Excited to end the day with some project brainstorming! 💡🧠

📣Up next at the 2025 New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop: @vincgfiore.bsky.social on Bayesian Inference! #NYCPW2025 📊

🙌 @angelaradulescu.bsky.social kicking off Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with a tutorial on Reinforcement Learning!

Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!! Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today! The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/

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....