🚨 New preprint w/ Valerio Rubino and Peter Dayan: how do people discover and use compositional structure under constraints? osf.io/preprints/ps... A key factor is a simple heuristic that favors reuse of repeated and symmetric fragments across scales, is robust to time pressure, and sped up RTs 🧵👇

Very happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is finally out as Version of Record 🎉 Read to find out how and when humans strategically switch between approaching and avoiding uncertainty with Michael Shadlen and Daphna Shohamy elifesciences.org/articles/94231 🧵:

🚨 ERC Starting Grants: 22% increase in applications (up to 4800, from 3900). Expected success rate: 9% (approx. 450 funded), down from 12-14%. #ERCStG I didn't get it this year, but I am very happy with the feedback - very concrete aspects to improve. Excited for the next round! 🕺

🧠 Neuro Talk Evening Alert! 🗓 March 26, 2026 · 6 PM (CET) “The Role of Uncertainty Aversion in Mental Health” with Dr. Ondřej Zika Sign-up below or on our Notion website (check the linktree in our bio) 🔔 tinyurl.com/NTE-prof-zika #NTE #Neuroscience #StudentNetwork #Uncertainty #Computational

🚨 1/ Check out a new paper on perceptual and value-based mechanism of generalization by the amazing @luiantaverra.bsky.social ! A very very proud for moment for me - Lui is my first PhD student and this is her first paper ^^ Pls repost to spread the word :)

First St. Patrick's day in Ireland - walked 26 km to raise awareness for aware.ie a charity focusing on supporting people with depression!

🚨 If you are at Mind & Brain Symposium 2026 in Berlin, come check out our ongoing work on modeling structure learning under uncertainty using a combination of active inference and particle filtering! Done and presented by Julia Senfft. 📃 Poster C30! #minandbrain2026 #MBB2026

Come join us in Dublin: Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Neuroscience position available at UCD! Let me know if you have any questions :) full advert here: lnkd.in/dW_uFuab

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

Please spare 5 min to help a fantastic undergraduate student Lauren Kavanagh with her bachelor thesis survey 👇 Help is much appreciated! run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

US colleagues - would anyone have an example of NIH Biosketch that they would be willing to share? 🙏

Compositional data (proportions that sum to 1) behave in ways standard models aren’t built for I walk through why Dirichlet regression is often the right tool & what extra insight it gives using a real ex of eyetracking #Dirichlet #r #brms #guide #eyetracking open.substack.com/pub/mzlotean...

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

Deadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!

The social network for AI agents Moltbook is both fascinating and terrifying... Here, an AI agents points outs implicit trust issues in AI memory, and how to fix them. www.moltbook.com/post/c534389...

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!! Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI. 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026 #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro

How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very pleased to share this meta-analysis on the relationship between interpretation biases and anxiety. This was a huge team effort, and it’s great to see it finally out. Happy reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The CNG plot thickens - which method recovers correctly a true number of factors? 🍿👇

Does anyone know about any pockets of funding for relatively urgent matters within the context of health care / psychiatry? 🙏

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

In factor analysis, why does the commonly used CNG method nearly always land at 3 factors when applied to anx/depr/ocd scales? TLDR: There tends to be one factor/component with a large eigenvalue. In these cases, almost inevitably and somewhat arbitrarily, the procedure selects 3 factors 👇

On a more positive note, this NN is worth a read. It takes a similar approach to Ashwood, Calhoun etc to explore diff behavioral states using HMM, but here using a hierarchical Dirichlet process to infer number of states www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As the inner endless loop of "jingle bells" and "last Christmas" is gradually departing, 🚨 reminder about this funding opportunity for postdocs to transition to a PI role by Research Ireland👇

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

🚨 Research Ireland 🇮🇪 has an exciting 4-year funding opportunity to help postdocs develop their own research profile and transition to a PI role: www.researchireland.ie/funding/path... Let me know if you have any questions or if you are interested in applying via UCD.

I am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...

A beautiful summary of our paper! Thank you @neurosock.bsky.social

Together with a colleague we have agreed to review a paper. Then, we received a fully LLM-generated manuscript with mislabeled brain regions, bullet points, dashes, no stats. Elsevier editorial office 👏👏👏👏👏

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

Check out this book chapter on neuroimaging methods for brain plasticity by the amazing @luiantaverra.bsky.social et al 👇

📘🧠💥@fabianrenz.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social & I thought about methods to measure brain plasticity and wrote an overview of exciting new methods and developments! Read our chapter, out now in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Very excited to present some preliminary results on prediction of longitudinal changes in anxiety symptoms using modelling and symptom dynamics, an exciting collaboration with Miquel Angel Fullana and Carles Soriano-Mas ^^

🏡 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ ☔ How to set up a transparent and supportive lab environment? I would love to hear from you, PIs postdocs, students! What are the things that work and that don't, what do you wish to have in place? Any examples of lab manuals? Comments, DMs or emails welcome ([email protected])

Congrats to everyone who submitted their first ERC today! Can we all now collectively collapse?

What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇 If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :) Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

W3 Professorship in Computational Psychiatry at Uni Bochum www.researchgate.net/job/1032595_...

😍 Our latest is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com. 🤩 We show with Bayesian modelling and experimental manipulation of uncertainty that developmental differences in social influence depend on differences in the internal uncertainty people have about their choice doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Postdoc affordability index for ERC starting grants (based on Eurozone inflation) While in 2014, the fixed 1.5 mil EUR budget amounted to 9.84 theoretical 3-postdoc positions, in 2024 we are at 6.67, that's 32.3% loss in purchasing power. I will just leave it here.

Fantastic paper by @danmirea.bsky.social ! 👇

Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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.

German 🇩🇪 colleagues - we are looking for a German translation of the STICSA scale. Would anyone happen to have it? 🙏

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social