New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Who is planning to go to the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Australia chapter meeting? I'm leaving Australia soon so want to meet as many lovely Aussies as possible on my conference tour 😀

I fear the wide-spread adoption of generative AI tools will work against us all finally slowing down and degrowing. Instead people will be expected to be inhumanely "productive" since it is now possible with these tools.

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

It was a great pleasure presenting preliminary results from my ongoing study on social-affective inference and constricted affect at the @newybrains.bsky.social lunch symposium series. We found some interesting first effects of positive affective surprise and bodily responses. 🙂

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I have been so exhausted lately that I feel like I stopped parenting and just have a kid tag along... The guilt doesn't help.

Great work by @richaphogat.bsky.social. Follow her for more 🙂

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I hope we can all try not to be hateful and not to speak the way we condemn others for speaking.

Somehow the Nazi salute by Elon Musk and the killing of Charlie Kirk feel like the types of things that feel dark and signal a turning point.

Charlie Kirk was shot and I don't know what to think except feeling a sense of inevitable doom... .

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

part of the reason I got into academia was to not get emails like "Alignment and Growth Begin with Effective Goals"

🧠 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

I’ll be reviewing applications for the clinical psychology PhD program at Suffolk University for the 2026/2027 academic year. Those with research interests in #eatingdisorders, especially in #LGBTQ+ and other minoritized communities, are encouraged to apply!

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

One of many...

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

Do you agree PsyArXiv is a valuable service? Then please consider joining the PsyArXiv moderation team to keep it that way (more info in the link below)! There's a 1-hour training session this coming Monday, Aug 18 at 1pm ET, and the minimum commitment is just 1h/month! (reposting also helps :))

Bye bye Amsterdam! Met so many great people @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! Such an amazing conference and an amazing group of people organisers and attendees alike. 🌿🌟🩵 #CCN2025 See you next year or the year after!

How do institutional incentives and norms affect open science practices? Here's one: At present we have zero US university-employed academics volunteering to moderate at @socarxiv.bsky.social It's all early career Europeans (except me and @pamelaoliver.bsky.social, who is emeritus.)

Another thing that came up during our #ccn2025 lunch that I did not mention was my personal issue as a single parent on academia. I have to bring my son to conferences. He is a good boy and not too roudy but I still spend my energy being wary of other peoples perception. "Are they annoyed?"

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin! I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026. Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats! 📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m 🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

Thank you for an excellent community lunch @cogcompneuro.bsky.social! I met the best people and we discussed diversity, inclusion, and social issues in science. The main challenges we identified were: 1) issues due to citizenship/country of origin 2) toxic lab cultures and abuse of power by mentors

Poster session coming up at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! The calm before the storm 🌟 If you are part of the wave coming in and are interested in generative mechanistic modeling of constricted affect and task based fMRI find me at my poster #11 🙂

New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF), Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666

I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since? I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :) go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

New paper out!! 10 years after “Wir schaffen das”: Refugees in Germany often feel more connected to their host country than to their origin country – even soon after arrival. Language, local contacts & welcome matter. #MigrationStudies #SocSci #Refugees #Citizenship 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1556...

📢 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/...

I'm seeing a lot more racist and fascist replies to my posts recently

wow this is still going. We synthesized critiques from actual neuroscientists about the bombastic claims of this very messy preprint, you know, for fans of thinking. Bonus, show notes include a primer on EEG data with an open interactive textbook! www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

random reminder for my people in these times to stay H.U.M.B.L.E youtu.be/tvTRZJ-4EyI?...

My colleagues and I teach Critical AI literacy. Our open letter may be of interest, too openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Any imaging labs out there looking for an RA with the expertise stated below?

Hey, Neuroimaging friends: I am getting laid off soon due to the cuts to NIH. I have filled out applications far and wide to no avail. Does anyone have any leads on a lab that might be able to use someone with a strong background in neuroimaging data analytics?

Reasons why I prefer the train to plane: * free sightseeing * more leg space * train bistro * free WiFi and entertainment * I work better when I can look outside every once in a while and get lost in the changing landscape * trains depart/arrive in the middle of the city * slow life over rushed life

Traveling with the train to @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! I love taking the train 🩵.

this is heartwrenchingly dark

This thread is incredible.

Counting myself lucky to have a second home in my former PhD lab. Putting in some work during my Europe holiday. 🩵

So I have been exploring copilot generative AI to better familiarize myself with its output to recognize it more easily when I see it in the wild. This tool falsifies results sections of papers in a way that is NOT easy to detect. wtf are we going to do in science, peer review can't catch this.

I finally have something to cite when saying "spreadsheets are prone to errors!” 🌟

👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

Last work day in Newy with my amazing team and my boy before my long trip to Europe and another conference day with @newybrains.bsky.social.

The University of Vienna is hiring a full Professor in Philosophy of Mind! Spread the word! philjobs.org/job/show/29293

Back in Newy 🩵💙🩵

Impressive and much-needed review on reinforcement learning models of interoception by @lilweb.bsky.social this month out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Will definitely have a look at this one 😊 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...