Inspired by the program today at www.neuromonster.org conference in Rome and already looking forward to tomorrow's CogSci-focused talks! On that note, also happy to announce that I have recently joined Thinking about Thinking as an Ambassador @thoughtchannel.bsky.social!

Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In beautiful Heidelberg today and tomorrow at #PUG2026! 🌞 If you are interested in Habits in Psychopathology, come to our symposium tomorrow at 4pm, lecture hall 15! I‘ll be talking about successor representation use in high-risk drinking and alcohol-related contexts.

What does it take to show the brain represents something? We offer a framework that brings conceptual clarity to representation, systematizing how decoding, encoding, RSA, etc. bear on that question. This makes explicit what findings establish and where interpretations go too far.

Excited to share our study on the Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Depression (EPISODE) - now published in @jamapsychiatry.com A negative effect on primary outcome, but evidence for a relevant antidepressant effect of 25 mg psilocybin with psychotherapy in TRD.

#JNeurosci: Results from Hall-McMaster, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @gershbrain.bsky.social et al suggest the entorhinal cortex might highlight aspects of past experiences that can be generalized, allowing us to make effective decisions in new environments https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025

Terrific work led by @emmaroscow.bsky.social showing that hippocampal replay reflects events with large prediction errors, all the better to bootstrap learning as we slumber Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh from the press 🍃 In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Ever wondered whether goal-directed behavior on lab-based tasks and its neural correlates can predict behavior in day-to-day life? We did too and our study is finally out in Translational Psychiatry! 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…

New paper with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social in Nature Communications: an RL model that builds a successor map compositionally. The new model plans as well as the best models, and it links components of the map used for planning to neural codes in the medial entorhinal cortex. rdcu.be/eAofi

Just uploaded the preprint 📄 for this project! „The successor representation in high-risk drinking and alcohol-related contexts“ Check it out at osf.io/preprints/ps...

Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668096v1

🌍 Ready to take your research career to the global stage? Whether you’re pursuing a #PhD, #Postdoc, or #Professorship — #Berlin is your next stop! Check out our new Global Scholars’ Gateway, your one-stop-shop for research opportunities in Berlin! 👉 www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitmen...

Super excited to contribute to this book with our chapter "Enhancing Ecological Validity in Habit Research via Naturalistic Methods" (with Elizabeth Tricomi). Thanks, @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and @dfareri.bsky.social for organizing! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 New paper alert! Do time constraints reveal habitual behaviour? 🤔 We directly compared two major paradigms in the habit research field (Outcome Devaluation vs Response Remapping) under identical training and forced-response conditions 🧠 ⏲️ ⌨️ preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to present our latest findings on what role the successor representation plays in high-risk drinking and alcohol-related contexts at #CPConf2025! Come by at poster 2.31 on Tuesday to discuss how the SR fits in with the habit account of addiction 💭 www.cpconf.org

This sounds incredibly interesting!

It is now possible for participants to sign up for the "Unconference" focused on taking action on responsible research! Scientists, science managers, journal editors, policy makers & more - take a look at the 10 interesting projects that will be developed on site during the event! 🧪 🌟Please share!🌟

One way to tackle a new task is to reuse solutions from the past. Check out Sam Hall-McMaster's latest finding that strategy reuse is accompanied by neural reactivation of prior solutions @plosbiology.org Collab w/ M Tomov & @gershbrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Please join me, @petergs.bsky.social, @jeffsebo.bsky.social, @aliboyle.bsky.social, Marta Halina, Nick Shea and Matt Sims online or in London, 28 May, for Grades of Mind: Agency, Memory, Sentience - a workshop so interesting it doesn't need a relevant image. www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

What could large-scale AI do for neuroscience? What barriers prevent us from pursuing an AlphaFold for the brain? What are the limits of scale, and where will we need more tailored solutions? Eva ​​Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social ask nine neuroscientists to weigh in. bit.ly/4iXjK3q

Abstract submission extended! You can now submit your abstract to the Computational Psychiatry Conference until next Friday, 14th February #CPConf2025