Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September! This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Please share!

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November) uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17 A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging Pls share!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... We're recruiting for a new Head of School for Psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social - please do get in touch if of interest.

🚨 New paper in European Journal of Neuroscience: Meta-Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... (1/2)

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Excited to see that our International Neuro Climate Working Group is featured by the World Economic Forum as one of the top global initiatives addressing climate change & mental health 🌍🧠 Grateful to be part of this inspiring, growing movement! 📰 Read more: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Excited to deliver my Inaugural lecture as Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience - 4pm (UK time), 2nd July, in-person and online. Title: Can I be bothered? Uncovering computations in the brain that (de) motivate us. www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/c...

Important comment on an impressive new paper! People looking to measure incentivised, effortful actions might be interested in our preprint inc. new online task and effect of pro-environmental interventions 💪🌍 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social & many more

⏰ Deadline Monday (28th) for @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social Computational Social Cognition summer school. Don't miss keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social & @davidamodio.bsky.social www.compsoccog.com ⬇️ Only text response questions in the short application:

Announcing the second 'Computational Social Cognition Summer School' @unibirmingham.bsky.social and Uni. Leiden. Keynotes from @dianatamir.bsky.social , @davidamodio.bsky.social, & Matthew Rushworth, hands on tutorials & instruction from experts, & fun activities for a low price! www.compsoccog.com

Please repost this PhD opportunity in my group working on cognitive computational and decision neuroscience.

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my MSN lab, @thechbh.bsky.social, co-supervised with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social & @simonlittle.bsky.social. Deadline 23rd March. Only open to UK candidates. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls repost

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my MSN lab, @thechbh.bsky.social, co-supervised with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social & @simonlittle.bsky.social. Deadline 23rd March. Only open to UK candidates. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls repost

Announcing the second 'Computational Social Cognition Summer School' @unibirmingham.bsky.social and Uni. Leiden. Keynotes from @dianatamir.bsky.social , @davidamodio.bsky.social, & Matthew Rushworth, hands on tutorials & instruction from experts, & fun activities for a low price! www.compsoccog.com

Excited to be part of this project using functional MRS to examine metabolic changes during grip force, offering interesting insights into brain lactate and more....

Proud to have our first fMRS study from @thechbh.bsky.social published with Maria, @kdudzikowska.bsky.social, Dinesh, @ajquinn.bsky.social, @pgmm03.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social :) Looking forward to making further developments towards fMRS becoming a popular tool for measuring brain activity.

Please repost this open PhD studentship.

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc go.bsky.app/12KTqED

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌎 New preprint! 🌍 osf.io/preprints/ps... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change. But these actions are often more effortful. How can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Jointly led by Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

🤩In one of the largest experiments conducted in #ClimateChange psychology –63 countries, 258 collaborators, almost 60k participants– we reveal targeted strategies to increase climate change awareness and action around the globe. out in @ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to have been promoted to Full Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience @thechbh.bsky.social as of 1st April. Thank you to all the students, postdocs, collaborators and mentors who have made this possible.

Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. 2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September. Application deadline 1st March. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Are you a Msc or PhD student, postdoc or very recent faculty? Work on social cognition and want to learn computational modelling? Join our very reasonably priced summer school. Fantastic keynote speakers: Wolfram Schultz, Cecilia Heyes, and Christian Ruff. For more info go to compsoccog.com

Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition (CSC 2024) will take place on the beautiful @unibirmingham campus 14th-17th July compsoccog.com. Fantastic lineup of speakers & instructors inc. Wolfram Schultz @celiaheyes.bsky.social Christian Ruff. Please RT and Register ASAP!

Are you a Msc or PhD student, postdoc or very recent faculty? Work on social cognition and want to learn computational modelling? Join our very reasonably priced summer school. Fantastic keynote speakers: Wolfram Schultz, Cecilia Heyes, and Christian Ruff. For more info go to compsoccog.com

If you’ve been impacted by the high upfront costs associated with the academic job market I’d like to hear from you. I’m investigating the issue in an upcoming Times Higher Ed piece. Anon, if preferred: [email protected]

We are recruiting for a Marie Curie "CODE" PhD student 💻🧠🚨 (sites.google.com/view/confide...) The project will focus on neurocomputational approaches to information seeking, offloading and metacognitive control across the lifespan www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline 22 Feb, pls share!

New paper at Nature Communications from me & @dianatamir.bsky.social! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating preprint.

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition" w Ken Luo @robmok.bsky.social Whether place, border, head direction, Jennifer Aniston, or whatever cells, are we fooling ourselves? Are these intuitive findings scientific discoveries? 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spike rates of the cervical vagus nerve change depending on anxiety behavior. Dynamic changes reflecting behavioral states are abolished after vagotomy. Chronic VNS restored behavior-relevant neuronal oscillations. Okonogi et al Nat Commun #neuroscience #interoception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from the SCAN-Unit! How does acute stress impact effortful prosocial behaviour? @elife.bsky.social Forbes et al. elifesciences.org/articles/87271 1/8

So excited to share that our paper “Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behavior” is now out at @elife.bsky.social 🥳 led by the amazing Paul Forbes 👏🏼 check it out below 👇🏼

Find out about our team and research on our website: www.msn-lab.com

! Job alert ! Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu The ad currently closes on January 2nd. Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply!  See thread below.  Please share!

Beta and theta oscillations track effort and previous reward in human basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex during decision making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

Do adolescents learn better from reward or punishment? New blog post in Psychology Today with @drjocutler.bsky.social and Ruth Pauli on our recent study nature.com/articles/s41... featuring work by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Cate Hartley, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, and inspired by many others!

We're looking for someone to image the thalamus at 7T. We want to combine 7T structure with 3T EEG-fMRI to understand what's happening in the thalamocortical system during sleep and divided attention. Please circulate and get in touch if you're interested! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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We integrated refractory dynamics and pulses of inhibition into the hidden layers of an ANN & show that oscillations enable multiplexing of simultaneous stimuli. Proof-of-concept paper with Marco Idiart, Marcel van Gerven & @olejensen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Is the vagus nerve primarily regulating 'rest & digest'? In our new TiCS review, we outline that it is time to expand our perspective on vagal signaling to include 'strive to survive' as a second survival mode. Work w/ @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroscience authors.elsevier.com/a/1iALr4sIRv...

“Was this [analysis/ measure/ hypothesis] preregistered?” is yet again obscuring the *vastly more important* questions of “Is this [analysis/ measure/ hypothesis] theoretically sound?” When people say the heuristicization and fetishization of preregistration is bad, this is what they mean!

Exciting to be part of this huge collaboration examining how different psychological interventions might influence pro-climate attitudes and behaviours.

The notion that goals are central to human cognition is intuitive, yet learning and decision-making researchers have often overlooked the topic. In this Trends in Cognitive Sciences review, @annecollins.bsky.social and I propose it’s time to start studying goals in their own right 🧠 t.co/He6PIpQdt9

Out just in time for the tail end of SfN! A really interesting result from senior PhD student Joe Simon