A variety of studies have found that mental-health conditions such as depression and anxiety have increased in young people alongside their growing use of social media go.nature.com/4rtOPjI

Publicly wondering if your product might be conscious is good hype @anthropic.com, but poor science. Consciousness attribution should integrate prior expectations with public/shareable facts, not by computational equivalence alone or anecdotes. If that makes us "vulgar behaviorists", we are proud.

Clincial psychologist Julia Schechter explains in a Nature Outlook Q&A why girls with ADHD are harder to diagnose, and how undiagnosed girls face higher risks of bad outcomes than boys do, ranging from relationship issues to eating disorders and self-harm. #ClinPsych 🧪

A very important review.

📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field. Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Seeking feedback from clinicians on AI as diagnostic decision support statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/19/s...

RA jobs in Oxford working on a Wellcome Trust funded grant. Neuroimaging, neurostimulation, computational modelling-- what's not to like! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Come work with us! really great team and super exciting project.

✨New blog post✨ I break down the beautiful data visualizations from a New America report (cowritten by @oscarp.bsky.social) and try to recreate them in R using ggplot2. danielroelfs.com/posts/new-am...

This paper completely nails an age old theory, leading to a clear law describing the strength of conditioned associations. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Simulating from and checking a model in Stan: It’s so easy in Stan Playground–it just runs on your browser! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/15/s...

🎉 Our paper has been selected for a Neurips Spotlight: “Scaling and Context Steer LLMs along the Same Computational Path as the Human Brain” 👥led by J Raugel, w/ S. Ascoli, Rapin & @valentinwyart.bsky.social 📄https://openreview.net/pdf?id=4YKlo58RcQ 📍 Hall C-E Poster #2006 🧵thread 👇

Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...

New preprint in advance of a Phil Trans paper. Outlining a theoretical argument bridging Bayesian causal learning and empowerment in reinforcement learning. And empirical data that kids do too! arxiv.org/abs/2512.08230

People are being diagnosed with ADHD in record numbers go.nature.com/4io9zFI

There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon! If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!

1/4 I’m super excited to share our latest PNAS paper: a 7T-fMRI study shows that functional connectivity between habenula and VTA in humans is associated with individual differences in negative learning bias, which further associates with higher anxiety and depression scores. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I think I understand how it can be that LLMs are both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming. It's because there are two entirely different skillsets that we both call "good at programming." LLMs have only one of them. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/llms-excel...

vimeo.com/1125505169?f... Are you: ✅ Aged 18 or over ✅ Experiencing depression or low mood ✅ Registered with a GP in England You may be eligible to take part in the RELMED Study, exploring ways to improve treatment for depression. 🎥 Watch our short introductory video to learn more!

The associated online tool, however definitely nerdy, is addictive. Many kudos to @dirkwulff.bsky.social and co for setting this up and opening it to the community!

Very thought-provoking post by @prakhargodara.bsky.social. Is confirmation bias/positivity bias a statistical "ghost" of model specification? Specifically not including temporally decaying learning rates? The evidence suggests this is not the case and here is why (1/n)

🧠🌍 On World Mental Health Day, we’re reminded that mental health is a global priority. RELMED is committed to developing evidence-based practices to improve how we treat depression. Thank you to all our participants and everyone who has contributed to research. Each voice truly makes a difference.

And today in the @nytimes.com... I suggest that papers stop "suggesting a link" so that reporters stop suggesting that papers are suggesting to readers that there might be a causal relationship. They could alternatively suggest that correlations are sometimes caused by latent variables.

Curious about how scientists measure brain activity through EEG? Swipe to read more! ⚡️

Autistic people deserve much better, my latest www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development go.nature.com/42622Ez

🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty @shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Depression can affect the mind, body and daily life in ways you might not expect. 🧠Swipe to learn the key signs and symptoms – and why recognising them matters. #Depression #Mentalhealth #Research

A nice walkthrough on the limitations of generic slide titles and how assertive titles really help keep you on track and your audience following your desired narrative. My group can attest that I agree 💯% that slides should have a concrete summary statement as the title, with very few exceptions.

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

#neurojob #psychiatry @rcpsych.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The RELMED team @docqhuys.bsky.social @hylu.bsky.social @muzhiwang.bsky.social is presenting our study at #CPC2025 in Tübingen, Germany this week! Come find us at Poster Session 3 on Wednesday 16th July at poster number 3.24 and 3.26!

This looks FANTASTIC. What an amazing thread! and paper! I am putting this on my class reading list forthwith.

V important meta-analysis doi.org/10.1001/jama...: Discontinuation symptoms 1 week post stopping antidepressants was below the threshold for clinically significant discontinuation syndrome. Later worse mood is likely depression relapse @jfhayes.bsky.social @sameerjauhar.bsky.social.

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

Come visit us at stall 48 to learn more about RELMED and get a personally drawn postcard from our friendly lab robotic arm 🤖🦾

Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy #MLSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Our new study published in TheLancetPsych! We found that pramipexole augmentation substantially reduced depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression over 48 weeks of treatment. This is an important advance in how we treat depression! 1/6 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Why do we go downstairs when we hear a scary noise at night? New #preprint by postdoc Kati Rothenhoefer shows how novelty seeking & explore-exploit decision making in #macaques resolves curiosity about whether choices will lead to appetitive or aversive outcomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint: How does Behavioral Activation help with anhedonia in depression? Our new study finds that early reductions in aversive Pavlovian Bias mediate symptom improvement - suggesting a specific cognitive mechanism in realistic treatment settings. Read more here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In our preprint "Limited evidence for reduced learning rate adaptation in anxious-depression, before or after treatment", led by @stephsuddell.bsky.social and Lili Zhang, we fail to find a robust association between anxious-depression and learning rate adaptation osf.io/preprints/ps...

RELMED.ac.uk is now open to recruitment. This @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded study wellcome.org/research-fun... will ask whether reinforcement learning tasks are differentially sensitive to dopaminergic and serotonergic antidepressants.

🎉🥳 Finally!

Paper about UK-China cross cultural differences mentioned in this thread FINALLY published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🎉🍾

Christian Volkmann and Subat Abulikemu's new analysis examining the relationship between depression and discontinuation symptoms after antidepressant discontinuation dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004... with excellent thread here: x.com/CVolkmannMD/.... Short summary: the details do matter.