Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨ If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work! academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

extremely proud of this work by @xiaoboweneddie.bsky.social showing how people value progress feedback in a goal-directed decision-making task, even though feedback can lead to increased effort perception and less efficient movements

Very proud of this work with the excellent @rhens.bsky.social and bsky-less Daniel Harlev and Eyal Bergmann as part of @camcan-2010.bsky.social project.

Many protestors hold up pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza as well as those of kidnapped Israeli hostages. If we have no empathy for the suffering of others, what is left of our humanity?

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!

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning. Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

New mental health funding open for applications! We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of social and psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. Wellcome’s Kim Donoghue explains more ⤵️ wellcome.org/research-fun...

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...

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out if you have any questions!

Always encouraging when your research resonates with researchers you admire. Please read this excellent commentary on our paper - ‘Beyond a syndrome: a mechanism for #depression in #Parkinson’s disease.’ academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Very important work by @hashimsat.bsky.social showing a lack of effects of trait anxiety/internalizing on learning rates in change point tasks.

Super interesting work with a computational model of how auditory hallucinations may arise: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #neuroscience #compneuro

PhD studentships ⬇️

Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Who is going to dare attending SfN next year? Nobody from NIH and very few from outside of the US? This is potentially going to be a very little crowd and probably the end of the SfN meeting as we knew it.

🚨job alert! Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR? Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health? We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/ 1/3

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Computational signatures of exertion and rest underlie moment-to-moment dynamics of subjective perceptions of effort and fatigue: http://osf.io/9etsc_v1/

A big thank you to all those who have been so positive about my new book. It's about how neurological patients can tell us so much about our selves, how personal and social identities are forged by different cognitive functions, and what it means to belong.

❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES❗ We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠 Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks. Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀

Hello BlueSky - sorry it has taken us so long to move here from less-blue skies. Anyway please follow us if you're interested in healthy ageing of brain and cognition, including scientific outputs and news from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (www.cam-can.org).

They have the potential to transform how and when mental health interventions are delivered. But there are barriers impacting research and clinical use. We commissioned a report to identify what these are and propose solutions to overcome them ⤵️ [2/2] datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-healt...

I am excited to share our latest paper @Nature where we construct a hi-res spatial map of the human hypothalamus, the brain region central in appetite control. It is a collaboration between @IMS_MRL @Cambridge_Uni & @MPI_Metabolism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to working more with w. Mitul Metha, Amir Englund, Michael Moutoussis, and Syeda Tahir on this award that we've been trying to get funded (with lots of rejections!) over the last four years. Thanks to the Wellcome for believing in the project. Watch out for postdoc ads soon! 👀

The first phase III trial of a #GLP-1 drug (Exenatide) for a neurodegenerative disease (#Parkinson's disease) found no effect: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Epidemiological studies had shown large effects. Potential implications for the repurposing of GLP-1 drugs in other conditions?

Abstract deadline in 2 days - submit your abstract now! ⏱️⏰⌛ #CPConf2025

Hey 🦋 fam! Check out this great summary of our study by @psypost.bsky.social, out now in Psychological Medicine doi.org/10.1017/S003... w Deanna Barch, Johanne Solis, Temitope Oshinowo, Ivan Grahek, Anna Konova, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social & Jon Cohen. Thanks to funders @njacts.bsky.social & NJHF!

Register for RLDM!

Long overdue #GoodbyeTwitter #GoodbyeX

Abstract submission is closing soon for the Interdisciplinary conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making #RLDM2025, taking place this June in Dublin - the first time the meeting will be in Europe! Have you submitted your abstract yet?? @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social

Poster submissions for the Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025 in Tübingen are now open. Deadline is 7th February. Symposium submissions are open until 15th January. www.cpconf.org. Please RB.

Just terribly sad. Eleanor was a force of nature in cognitive neuroscience and the heart and soul of the FIL at UCL. She was a huge influence on so many people as we developed our careers- a true role model in science

The preprint battle in neuroscience has gradually been won. I think the next step will be more dramatic -- a collapse in peer review resources to service each paper.

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...

Our new short new piece in @bmj.com summarizes problems in psychedelic science, incl. -regulatory challenges -changing authorization standards -scientific concerns -safety concerns. We also suggest ways forward. 🧪 #psychscisky #psychsky #psychiatry Open Access here: www.bmj.com/content/387/...

This will be a great meeting if it is anything like the two previous ones... Please register and submit symposia!

Following the news that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we’ve shared an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to now. Find out more. https://buff.ly/3ATRAFT

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