Thought-provoking analysis by @markhaselgrove.bsky.social on a recent preprint looking at benchmarks for associative learning models 👇

In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified. 16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality. 30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

Only two days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position to look at fear, avoidance, heart rate monitoring and the neural mechanisms orchestrating these. Get in touch with Carl Stevenson or myself if you are interested, the deadline is Friday! Please repost.

Only a few days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position in Nottingham (deadline Sept 5th!). If you're considering applying please get in touch. If you're already a PI, then repost this!

Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!

In this recent #ResearchHighlight, the authors discuss new findings pointing a potential non-pharmacological approach for mitigating maladaptive craving behaviors

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

My latest column for @thetransmitter.bsky.social - why neural populations are a convenient fiction doi.org/10.53053/FZK...

Nick Mackintosh and the not-so-recent history of associative learning, as seen through the eyes of his friend and definitive rival, Geoff Hall. It reminded me of how much fun it was working with Geoff. www-users.york.ac.uk/~gh1/pdf/201...

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

Looking for a free day out over Summer? We give you free car parking, and a fun half day of science. Rember the park and the ice-cream van are only a stones throw away. We still have a few spaces left for this years Summer Scientist Week, so make sure to get booked on at www.summerscientist.org

As staff, it’s our great honour to witness this moment of celebration. We’ve loved teaching & supporting you throughout your journey, watching you cross the stage, meeting your families & friends is a privilege. Wishing you all the best. Go make your mark, Class of 2025! 💫

New preprint from the lab on habit learning in compulsivity from the fantastic @kellydonegan.bsky.social! ✅ N=1000, ✅ pre-registered, ✅ within-person crossover design...we study individual differences in habit learning using the Neureka App

The first day of the joint EPS and CSBBCS meeting in Dundee ends, fittingly, with a joint poster session!

@kellydonegan.bsky.social showing our latest smartphone habit research this morning at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social 📲

Many variables determine whether instrumental behaviour is goal-directed or habitual. We have documented in rats that delays between response and outcome attenuate sensitivity to outcome devaluation (a canonical test of goal directedness). In this study we replicated that observation in humans.

Many variables determine whether instrumental behaviour is goal-directed or habitual. We have documented in rats that delays between response and outcome attenuate sensitivity to outcome devaluation (a canonical test of goal directedness). In this study we replicated that observation in humans.

Maybe the future of education is that only students who care about learning will go to college and everybody else can spend all day at networking events. I just don't see any point spending time in the liminal space where students pretend that they're learning while having LLMs do their work.

Fantastic Mackintosh lecture at the Gregynog Associative Learning meeting given by Eva Jablonka

Abstract portal is open for submissions for the joint meeting of EPS and CSBBCS in Dundee (July 2025).

Delighted to be at the Lancaster meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Great talks from members of @notts-psych.bsky.social, Lauren Marsh and Sandra Lagator.

Take a look, there are great talks of EPS prize winners!

When something is written with the clarity that we crave and deserve and openly articulates what we silently shout, there is no need to rephrase it, just to spread it. "I don’t think the problem so much that the universities as a whole are underfunded, ... 1/n

The meeting programme for EPS Lancaster in April is now live! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

One more contribution from the lab to finalise the year. This one on spatial learning!

Announcing the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at @tcddublin.bsky.social Half of speakers will be selected from abstracts submitted by trainees. Registration is open below, with discounted rates available until January 31st. event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

I happily closed my twitter account. Now I got to wait 30 days for that to take effect. It will be nice to start 2025 without it, and I'm looking forward to it.

Hey new followers! 👋 We are excitedly working away on lots of new habit research - days of training with electrophysiology 🧠 with neural decoding, causal work on making and breaking 🙅‍♀️, and 📱 assessments. As a preview - check out our latest in TiCS www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London Closes December 4th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

eps.ac.uk/kuppuraj-bis... Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member Deadline is 1st December.

We’re excited to welcome @markdhumphries.bsky.social, author of “The Spike,” as our new columnist. Check out his first piece, in which he explores how averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience. www.thetransmitter.org/neural-codin...

Paper updates! For a number of years, we have been interested in avoidance behaviour given its relevance to anxiety disorders. Here are 3 papers that came out recently on instrumental avoidance behaviour. Please share widely. @notts-psych.bsky.social

Please share: Full-time permanent Assistant Professor position at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Also, two admin roles: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

If you're a UK national and interested in pursuing a PhD on anxiety, learning and memory, this is for you 👇👇👇

Preprint of new review: "Rethinking Memory Impairments: Retrieval Failure" - with @gurcelay.bsky.social, Ralph Miller, & Joaquin Alfei. osf.io/preprints/ps...