Thank you A/P Collins for a fantastic and thought provoking keynote #ACNS2025

Great start to #ACNS2025 with pre-conference workshops held at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social Lovely campus!

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details: tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt #CognitiveNeuroscience

Regular lunch spot at @monashuniversity.bsky.social complete with ducks 🦆 ✅

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

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/...

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

🧠 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

Fascinating article (long read) from the New Yorker about psychosis and psychiatry, and more broadly about identity

What's the difference between emotions & moods? While old (1994), this book dives into it. Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one). psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🔥💥📣 Excited to announce a new policy at the Computational Psychiatry (CPSY) journal @cpsyjournal.bsky.social. Starting from April 2025, CPSY will compensate reviewers for their time and effort invested in reviewing manuscripts. w/ @drrickadams.bsky.social cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

Some reflections from my foray into German 🇩🇪 #psychology #neuroscience academia 🧵 1/5

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪 workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Bloopers reel of #CPConf2025: -Spilling coffee onto an editor of a prominent journal 😑 -Finding that the QR code on my poster was redirecting to a site selling dodgy QR codes 💀

If you’re at #CPConf2025 and interested in the role of dopamine in 💪 effort and ⭐️ reward learning, come and check out my poster (2.21) this afternoon!

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months". If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

✈️ Thrilled to be heading to Germany 🇩🇪 to present new findings on #dopamine 🧠 in #effort 💪 and #reward learning ⭐️. Latest data from work with @trevorchong.bsky.social @coxon.bsky.social et al. @monashuniversity.bsky.social

As a neurologist, I see the term "dopamine" everywhere: dopamine fasting, dopamine hits, dopamine culture. It's become a cultural shorthand for pleasure. But the real story is far more complex and fascinating. Here’s a thread on what we actually know 🧠

🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/ @hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e

Do you enjoy a good, sweaty training session now and then? Then you’ll score high on our Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scale—just out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social Curious or want to use it? doi.org/10.1525/coll... w/ J Staehler, @wanjawolff.bsky.social & J Schueler

“The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage” 🎯 This rings so true. Pursuing academia is a huge financial investment, which means you have to be in the fortunate position to be able to make that investment.

New preprint: How does Behavioral Activation help with anhedonia in depression? Our new study finds that early reductions in aversive Pavlovian Bias mediate symptom improvement - suggesting a specific cognitive mechanism in realistic treatment settings. Read more here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

I've been writing a textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience, which has prompted me to assess the evidence supporting various theoretical ideas. It's striking to me how some ideas have an extraordinary shelf life despite weak evidence.

Great project to be a part of led by @neurocoops.bsky.social and colleagues. We show that humans 🧑‍💻 update their trust 🤔 in an AI assistant 🤖 according to a simple reinforcement learning algorithm 📈. Paper out now!👇

This is stunning! What a brilliant idea to apply the logic of leave-one-out model fitting to a subject from a different species 👏

Multiple learning rules in different parts of dendrites. Definitive goodbye to hoping the brain is simple...?? 😯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 Early registration prices end tomorrow 15 April! 🚨 Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. www.cpconf.org Speakers inc. Phil Corlett, Charlotte Fraza, Andreas Heinz, Georgia Koppe, Jill O'Reilly, Chandra Sripada, Sophie Valk, Tor Wager

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Neuropeeps! Is there a list somewhere of the intramural neuroscience researchers @ NIH who have lost their jobs? If not, could you reply to this thread or hit me up on Signal (tverstynen.64) if you happen to know of specific people? Please boost if you don’t mind.

Our next International Webinar Series speaker is Prof. Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam). 🧠 Topic: Joint Modeling of the Deep Brain’s Form and Function 📷 10th April 2025 | 4-5pm AEDT 📷 Online (ACNS members only) 📷 Register now: forms.gle/NYNMwSc3Y5bV...

🧩New study: "Network Constraints on 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 Synaptic Alterations in Schizophrenia" medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We map a prominent brain-wide pattern of synaptic defects in people with Schizophrenia using PET, then model the molecular, cellular & connectomic features shaping this pattern 🧵1/3👇

🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n

No time to read it? Here’s a 3 min video I made to accompany the paper here: share.descript.com/view/7N59sry...

We’ve just had our work on assessing how trust in AI support develops accepted as late-breaking work at CHI25. DOI is still to go live but you can check it out here in the meantime: camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/... (I’ll update the thread when the DOI is live).

🎉 New for 2025! 🎉 The ACNS International Webinar Series kicks off with Dr. Chris Baker, expert in learning & plasticity 📅 Feb 20 | 🖥️ Zoom | 🎟️ ACNS members only Don’t miss out—register now! 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Neuroscience #BrainPlasticity #ACNS

The geometry of the neural state space of decisions - looks like very cool new work, highlights utility of integrating response time distributions into neural modeling

King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social / @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. 🌍 Read more and learn how to access: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

Someone favorited this post, which was one year ago this week. Let’s we if ChatGPT has improved since then! 1/2

Very interesting paper relevant to the logic of science in neuroscience. I think we should all think more about "ceteris paribus". I feel like my way of thinking is not described by either of these theories.

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroscience

Curious how place cells adapt to uncertainty in reward location? We found that predictable changes boost “reward place cells” & warp hippocampal maps. Check out our new preprint: with Feng Xuan, Jack Mellor, Peter Dayan and Dan Dombeck: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final reminder that I’m advertising for a postdoctoral research associate to help me with a project on eating disorders and control-seeking, using #ComputationalPsychiatry! Applications close on the 12th. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...