Excited to share our latest paper in which we discuss merging theory-and data- driven computational psychiatry in a large transdiagnostic cohort study (N=2400) www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245... Christopher Pittenger, Godfrey Pearlson @annierhcheng.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social

I'm heading to CNS in Vancouver! Come check out my poster Sunday morning for some fun work (🐁?) DM me if youll be there and want to link up!

Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking: Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods? (alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)

If you're headed to #sas2026 next week, check out work from 3 lab members: Friday: * Sissi Li on expectation setting + mood in worriers (P2.C.139) Saturday: * Tess Gilmartin on an RL perspective on self-monitoring (P3.C.248) * Sandarsh Pandey on capturing latent self-schemas (P3.C.251)

I'll be giving a talk in the #CNS2026 Rising Star session on Saturday. Come say hi if you're around!

Our crowdsourced megastudy comparing a diverse set of 12 single-session interventions for depression is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/e6pzz (no paywall) We also published a brief non-academic piece about the study today: theconversation.com/free-10-minu...

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does? In short, yes!

Personalized Prediction of Momentary Affect with Passive Smartphone Sensing Data in a Clinically Heterogeneous Sample: An evaluation of machine learning and mixed effects approaches: https://osf.io/2g8dp

Changes in our feelings, or "affective surprise," may act as a learning signal that influences what we remember. Large magnitude deviations in experienced valence during encoding relate to better long-term associative memory.

🚨New pre-print🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?

This Wednesday February 25! Dr. Michael Treadway (Emory University) is presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Effort-Based Decision-Making and Its Discontents: Precision medicine approaches for understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of motivational deficits in mental illness" 1/

The project started pre-Covid, so it’s especially exciting to finally see it in print. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators who made this possible: Bas van Opheusden, @fredcallaway.bsky.social, @cocoscilab.bsky.social and James Hillis. Paper here: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Where you look next isn’t arbitrary. In our new paper, we model human eye movements in immersive visual search as reinforcement learning under cognitive constraints. 🧵

🚨🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Animal learning is painfully slow (at least initially). Yet, well trained animals can learn very fast, sometimes displaying few-shot inference. How does this transition occur?

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Excited to share my first PhD paper with @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth. Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word! More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

New preprint alert🚨 We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question: What do these numbers mean? In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them. More info ⬇️

The Suicide Prevention Research Lab at UMass Amherst is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to help grow our new lab with a start date of summer 2026. Share and apply! careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

So proud of @meganspurney.bsky.social and team for this exciting new paper from my lab! Younger adolescents' working memory performance benefits more from reward than older teens and young adults. This occurs even though all ages report similar preferences about reward value and cognitive demand.

Excited to share our new review on #adolescent #anhedonia and #reward processing, published in @NatRevPsych with my lab @XueqingMa @AngadSahni9 rdcu.be/e2ENh bsky.app/profile/unir...

Have you been interested in any of the set theory stuff I've been doing recently? Wondered at all how you can get in on the fun? Here's an R package @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social and I built called 'setweaver.' This vignette should get you up and running. Yay :) cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

New review paper led by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social: Mental health awareness campaigns reduce stigma but can also lead to problematic self-diagnosis and symptom misinterpretation. These trade-offs matter, especially for adolescents. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What does the path from basic psychological science to clinical treatment actually look like? We mapped 50 years of research in our new paper in Clinical Psychology Review with @abitter.bsky.social , Viktoria Ritter, @rief01.bsky.social , & Anke Haberkamp. 📖 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mXJm%7E0r... 📖

Looking for a postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry? Apply here to join an interdisciplinary team and work with a large longitudinal transdiagnostic dataset postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0... @RobbRutledge @xiaosigu @DrChrisPitt @PearlsonGodfrey @ACNPorg @YaleMed

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

Very happy to see this out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com - kudos to @magdadelrio.bsky.social who has led this work and nicely brought together data from two very different studies! article is here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... and PDF is here: rdcu.be/eZ27x

Now online in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI - our paper showing that reliance on habitual responding in transdiagnostic compulsivity may be underpinned by uncertainty about learned environmental structure 📃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’re bringing computational psychiatry to #ACNP2026 Our panel shows how RL, DDMs, active inference, and neural models can unpack symptom heterogeneity across anxiety, psychosis, ADHD, depression, and suicide risk-moving beyond diagnoses to mechanisms. @acnporg.bsky.social #ComputationalPsychiatry

📣 Please help me in spreading the word that my lab is hiring a Clinical Research Coordinator to work on projects investigating the mechanisms of eating pathology in adolescents and young adults (AYAs)! Priority review will begin Friday, 1/30. vcujobs.com/jobs/clinica...

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

New Stage 2 RR published in Clinical Psych Science: doi.org/10.1177/2167... contrary to what some claim, urgency DOES NOT moderate associations between affect and alcohol/cannabis use in EMA data. Take a look for a comprehensive test of this idea and let us know what you think!

Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings

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

🧵 If you're looking for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc in Computational Psychiatry, please reach out! We are expanding the lab and tackling some big questions. Here is a thread on what we are currently up to: 👇

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Dr. Ging-Jehli studies how we regain agency when control is uncertain & the world’s rules change, linking adaptive intelligence to computational models with affective flexibility, ADHD, & anxiety Dr. Ging-Jehli is also founder of the Gearshift Fellowship / #ACNP2026 @nadjagingjehli.bsky.social

The Two Faces of #PTSD: Fear vs. Emotional Pain. Our new research in Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social identifies distinct clinical & neural profiles. AI says no one reads long papers, so we made an infographic!👇 Full Paper (for the insistents😉): doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth: “Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Interested in a PhD looking at trajectories of repetitive negative thought using machine learning and computational modelling? Take a look at our project in the @drivehealth.bsky.social portfolio and get in touch with any questions! showcase.drive-health.org.uk/project/quan...

New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟 I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others. Summary⬇ osf.io/preprints/ps...

🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥 Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org @xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social See you in New Haven!

Just a quick reminder that applications for our new cross-lab PhD training model in cognitive science at Dartmouth are due Dec. 1. We're quite excited about this new approach, so please reach out if you have any questions!!

At #psynom25? Come to our posters today 6pm! V-074 Reward restructures existing cognitive maps (Seoyoung Lee) V-075 Neural representation of multi-attribute food choices in individuals with anorexia nervosa (Hannah Kim) V-124 Reward-induced memory precision bias in semantic categories (Xinyue Li)

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Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share! Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!

Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social