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My amazing husband Majed worked *so hard* on this project for >5 years - finally published today @natcomms.nature.com 😍 Absolutely insane array of methods, looking at microglia proliferation patterns & cell-cell interactions after stroke. Proud moment! 💫 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big congrats to Marishka on this. I know how much time and effort went into it. Really happy to see it out! For those interested, she replicated prior longitudinal results using an approach-avoidance conflict task and showed how model parameters afforded out-of-sample clinical prediction.

Science demos at the town fair in Marburg this Saturday 🧑‍🔬💫 Talking to Marburgers of all ages about the quirks of perception, & introducing the new DFG-funded cluster of excellence "The Adaptive Mind". We showed Ames room, a color constancy demo, and hollow mask, size-weight & rubber hand illusions

Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨ If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work! academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Yes! Lovely 2 weeks in the Swiss mountains with an incredibly bright and inspiring group of students 🫰🌄🧑‍💻 Will remember lots of late night sessions preparing the next day all while having great fun w/ the inimitable @esterner.bsky.social! Joy in teaching - restored 💫

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

10 years after I came as a participant in 2015, tonight I had the pleasure of giving an evening lecture at the Studienstiftung summer academy in the Swiss mountains ⛰️ My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!

Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.

Are you at #CPconf2025 and interested in inference and generalization? @luiantaverra.bsky.social will present on aversive learning and avoidance, and how these are impacted by anxiety P1.67 I will present a poster on the role of internalizing psychopathology in contextual inference P1.72

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

nothing makes sense in computational modelling, except in the light of these two all-time classic maxims: 1. all models are wrong, some are useful - George Box 2. everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - Albert Einstein

We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Here's a bit of spice. Brain research clearly needs to tackle more complexity (than, say, Step 1: simple linear causal chains). But that leaves an ~infinite set of alternatives. Here, @pessoabrain.bsky.social advocates not for just a step 2, but a 3. /1 arxiv.org/abs/2411.03621

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44... Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

Inspiring keynote lecture @pug2025.bsky.social I loved: 1) non-parametric Bayesin structure HMM: no need to commit to a fixed # of states to describe data a-priori, instead, # of states is learned from data 2) combining blackbox RNNs with interpretable scalers (eg. confusion) to get to mechanisms

Well that was fun! A big thank you @cognemo.bsky.social @rssmith.bsky.social @esterner.bsky.social & R. Maramotti for coming all the way to Würzburg and delivering amazing talks. Bringing Active Inference down to empirical data is not an easy feat but today's symposium was really inspiring! 🤓

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Thrilled to co-chair my 1st symposium @ #PuG2025. Make sure to drop by, this will be incredible! 🌟 Thu, 19.06.2025, 10:30-12:30 (session 1.013 Z6) "Active Inference in Psychiatry" w/ R. Smith, R. Maramotti, @cognemo.bsky.social & co-chair @esterner.bsky.social 👇 www.pug2025.org/de/sessions/...

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

Happy to share a funded PhD opportunity in our collaborative project with Árni Kristjánsson @icevislab.bsky.social & and David Whitney (UC Berkeley). Applications are now open, feel free to reach out. @fbm-unil.bsky.social #PhD #perception

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

Are you a scientist who codes? 🐍 Fearing that your public repo might implode the moment someone looks at it? Then ASPP 2025 this is *the* summer school for you! Hands-on tutorials on collaborative code dev, code orga & sharing, testing, debugging, computer architecture.. aspp.school

🚀 PhD Position in Psychological Methods at @unimarburg.bsky.social 📅 Start: 01.10.2025 | 💼 50% TV-H E13 | ⏳ 3 years Focus on statistical modeling—Bayesian statistics, cognitive modeling, psychometrics. 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/r5dKTr 🔄 Thanks for sharing!

🎉Doppelerfolg für die #UniMarburg in der Exzellenzstrategie! 🎉 Zwei Cluster zu Klimawandel und menschlicher Wahrnehmung sichern sich Förderung. Marburg beweist Forschungsstärke und Innovationskraft.🚀 @proloewe.bsky.social @synmikro.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @jlugiessen.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social

I'm a German. I usually shut my mouth on this. But right now, I can't. This is not a war, this is a massacre. And it's heartbreaking. We will have to take responsibility for this. If we learnt anything from history then it's to not stay silent now. (Stats from Wikipedia: "Gaza War")

My lab is looking for a PhD candidate, in collaboration with ​Bernhard Englitz​'s lab. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

deutsche akademiker:innen im völlig stellenbefreiten wissenschaftsbetrieb beim lesen der vielen hoffnungsvollen op eds, dass der brain drain aus den usa nach deutschland beginnen könnte

How does the brain integrate prior expectation with sensory evidence? 👀🧠💭 We show that sensory and action neural tuning play distinct roles in guiding visual decisions. Dampening expected action information drives confirmation bias, while dynamic sensory tuning explains speed-accuracy trade-offs.

Reinforcement Learning and Active Inference are two frameworks used in computational psychiatry, but these are rarely directly compared empirically. In this new article, we aimed to compare these in a more systematic manner by fitting each to multiple datasets: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

You’re in science and use Python? But you feel a little uneasy about what you’re actually coding all day? Then join us in Plovdiv, Bulgaria for this year’s (late-)summer school ‘Advanced Scientific Programming in Python’. 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 21st–28th September 2025. Apply now: aspp.school #aspp2025

Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @ScienceAdvances: “Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Read the full thread for details!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful

Trends in Cognitive Sciences Predictive coding: a more cognitive process than we thought? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Das Ende meiner Zeit in der Wissenschaft ist absehbar: Ich bin nach wie vor befristet, ohne Entfristungs-Perspektive. Was das mit mir macht? Trauer & Frust sind inzwischen was anderem gewichen: Erleichterung. Denn ich hab es satt, dieses Leben unter Vorbehalt. Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna

New preprint alert! How do we process uncertainty, and how do neurometabolites shape this?🧠Here we combine computational modeling + 7T MRS to answer these questions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With Peter Thestrup Waade, Chris Mathys, Frederike Petzchner, @beckyneuro.bsky.social & others! 🧵(1/4)