How can we encourage people to put in effort to benefit the climate? Our new task can help tell us how...

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Nearly ready to go! Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025!

Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

Very happy to see this published! Registered report led by the fantastic Sophie Sowden-Carvalho (and with @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @brainapps.bsky.social) looking at effort-based prosocial decision-making in autistic and non-autistic adults. tinyurl.com/3upvukt2 See thread below for more info⭐️

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

🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)

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...

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟

🏆 Early Career Award nominations now open! 🏆 Until June 15, we are inviting applications recognizing new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition and behavior.

Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!

***Postdoc application deadline tomorrow!*** Interested in how AI models propagate human prejudice and ideology? Join us in Amsterdam! (Deadline is Apr 15, but we will review apps until the position is filled.)

If you are involved in social neuroscience research, please consider submitting symposium proposals and/or individual abstracts to present your findings at the S4SN meeting in Lisbon!! @s4sn.bsky.social

Why I value peer review - new World View in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4w5795ua I discuss why peer review is still important and useful despite some of the challenges, and reflect on some personal peer review experiences. Interested to hear what others think about peer review 🙂.

'Understanding disrupted motivation in Parkinson’s disease through a value-based decision-making lens' Review article by Campbell Le Heron, Lee-Anne Morris & Sanjay Manohar www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Review begins April 18, 2025 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

Become a Midlands Youth Advisor! This opportunity can make a positive impact on the lives of young people and, we hope, the future of #MentalHealthResearch @unibirmingham.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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...

What is the average level of psychopathy in the community? How many of the people around us have very high levels of psychopathy? What are they like? Katie Berluti, Heather Doherty, Montana Ploe, Danielle Jones, Chris Patrick, and I assessed psychopathy in a quasi-representative sample to find out.

Google has released a new AI tool that it says will give scientists 'superpowers' by assisting with literature searches and generating new hypotheses, but does it live up to the hype?

So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free! Abstract submissions open until 7th July w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!

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.

First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice. Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟 www.compsoccog.com

People with higher incomes and people who describe themselves as “living comfortably” are more likely to report donating, volunteering, and helping strangers than people with lower incomes and people who are merely “getting by.” In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Happy to share the latest finding on anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and information choices from @vgonzalez.bsky.social ! #neuroscience 1/n www.eneuro.org/content/earl...

My lab is hiring a full-time research coordinator! (Ideal for anyone who would like to pursue a PhD in computational social neuroscience and/or computational psychiatry) We will begin reviewing apps on Feb 21, 2025 Learn more here: sinclab.github.io/connect/hiring #compneuro #socialneuro #cpsy 🧠📈

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

Very excited to share this new ⭐️ first PhD paper ⭐️ from @paulvanags.bsky.social! with @drjocutler.bsky.social and @fabiankosse.bsky.social. We show across 76 countries around the world that those with higher incomes and greater financial well-being are most prosocial on multiple measures👇

Fantastic opportunity to join us at the wonderful @thechbh.bsky.social! Amazing colleagues, world leading facilities, and a great affordable city to live in 🙂 happy to chat to anyone considering applying and/or message our co-director @katjakornysheva.bsky.social

New preprint by the amazing @zhilinsu.bsky.social! The neuroeconomics of social influence and contagion featuring work by @mgarvert.bsky.social @klempert.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social @psyhongbo.bsky.social and many others! Forthcoming in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions.

A fantastic blog post on our recent PNAS paper! It elegantly describes our rather complex findings and discusses their implications for bias reduction. And I love the AI-generated podcast version, too. Thanks @thepeoplegeek.bsky.social! davehodges.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

New paper! We previously showed that people are more likely to follow advice than observed behavior. @anllohernan.bsky.social asks whether this behavior makes sense - are people more likely to give advice when they are knowledgeable? The answer is yes, but it depends on advice consequences👇

Great overview on brain atlases here by Revell et al! Which one is best though? Well, it's not that simple! None of them reflects "ground truth", and parcellation scale, shape, and coverage impact structure-function predictions. Good discussion in the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New commentary with @yongling.bsky.social out in TINS! We discuss the intriguing new results from Ma et al. suggesting that the brain maintains multiple predictions how other people might act in order to adaptively respond to others during social exchanges. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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!

We are now taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position in the lab on the topic of tracking cognitive fluctuations using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing March 1st. Pls share 🔁👍

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