🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

In NYC early? Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a pre-SOBP happy hour ✨ Connect with fellow attendees and faculty, meet new people, and get ready for an exciting week! RSVP for location and details: www.eventbrite.com/e/1984134906...

How do exclusion and adversity drive social learning in adolescence? Here, @drjk.bsky.social, Lyn Ellett and I show that social exclusion reduces adolescent belief flexibility about others at a later point in time, and reduces the ability to generalise from social cues - 🧵 1/5

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

📢 Registration for #CCN2026 is now open! Join us August 3–6, 2026 at NYU, New York City for the 9th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. 🗓 Early registration: May 28 🗓 Standard registration: July 15 🗓 Onsite Register: 2026.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...

Join @sinaiccp.bsky.social for happy hour at #SOBP2026 next week (Wed, 4/29) at 5:30pm! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-to...

📢 New preprint out now! In three samples (N=594), including a U.S.-representative cohort and a test-retest cohort, we formalize social motivation, learning, and homeostatic control within a single computational framework and identify a phenotype linked to chronic loneliness doi.org/10.31234/osf...

There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down?

Excited to be back in San Diego for #SANS2026! 🌅 Join the poster session today (4/17) to learn about our new computational framework for craving social connection & its links to chronic loneliness: osf.io/preprints/ps... Also reach out about collaborating & opportunities to get involved w/ the lab

Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

New preprint (by Vandendriessche et al.) In everyday life, choices often lead to multiple simultaneous outcomes — some positive, some negative. Yet most reinforcement learning research has focused on situations where each choice produces only a single outcome 1/5 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Curious what a representation of "everything" you know might look like? Wonder how you might fill it in? Check out our demo and paper (led by @paxt0n4.bsky.social and now out in @natcomms.nature.com ), or read on to learn more! Demo: context-lab.com/mapper/ Paper: www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🧠 👀 Watch our director, @lauraaberner.bsky.social, discuss her research on an intervention that trains individuals with eating disorders to change their brain activation, take control of their behaviors, and strengthen recovery with @onemindorg.bsky.social here! 👉 youtu.be/yDStULYrXH0

A lack of reviewers threatens the robustness of neuroscience literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. To explore how the review probability and percentage of biased reviewers influence the likelihood of biased review, check out this interactive simulation. www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

Excited to share our new paper proposing a new computational model accounting for the dynamic interaction btw drug #craving and #decision-making, led by Kaustubh Kulkarni, MD/PhD rdcu.be/fab6B #AddictionScience #Neuroscience #ComputationalPsychiatry #BehavioralScience

Big news 🎉 Dr. @shawnrhoadsphd.com has been recognized as a Rising Star by @psychscience.bsky.social, which honors impactful early-career contributions to shaping the future of psychological science. Congratulations! 👏

Honored to be included among this year's APS Rising Stars, which is particularly meaningful to me given how much I admire the work of others on this list (past & present) I'm so grateful to all of my mentors for their support & excited for what's next! Follow our lab for updates: sinclaboratory.com

🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share! 📄 📌Link to job flyer here: tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5 🧠 🐁 🔬🏙️🌆🧪🧬💊🧫💡🏥 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social

⭐️ Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐️ www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

Out today in PNAS: Young children are surprised when a stranger has “insider knowledge” about them—and even make on-the-fly inferences about how that person could have learned it. So much fun working on this with Aaron Chuey and @julianje.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525150123

Excited to share our latest paper on computational mechanisms of self-enhancement with links to mental health. We used hierarchical Bayesian drift diffusion modeling to decompose choices on a social comparison task and relate them internalizing symptoms. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GPFSV...

Happy 5 year-anniversary to the CCP! 🎉 Such a great night celebrating together. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made it so special 🥂 Here’s to everything ahead!

Massive congratulations to Dr. @christinamaher.bsky.social on a brilliant defense! 👏 Christina is a force of nature, and her work is incredibly exciting. It’s been a true joy to co-mentor her alongside @angelaradulescu.bsky.social. Stay tuned for Christina’s papers dropping soon! 🎓🚀

How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs? Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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)

Excited to share our latest work in @nature.com showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY

The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1

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. 🧵

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...

We review studies showing that when brain areas face similar computational demands in social and non-social context, they perform the same computations. We argue that exaptation (repurposing of traits for new functions) played a key role in brain evolution.

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

Very excited that this paper is out! www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.

Hybrid neural–cognitive models reveal how memory shapes human reward learning

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

🌟 Job alert! We are looking for a postdoc to join a multidisciplinary research team working on the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation at Yale (IMPACT-Y) study. postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

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

Delighted to be featured in @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Liftoff series: bit.ly/3ZkMQl8 Learn more about our lab's work at the intersection of social interaction, neural computation, & mental health. Reach out if you are interested in collaborating or becoming involved! sinclaboratory.com

This month’s newsletter features a Q&A with @ubadahsabbagh.com on his transition from neuroscience to a biotech firm. Plus, read about @shawnrhoadsphd.com and @zurisullivan.bsky.social’s new labs, job opportunities and more. Sign up for the 'Launch' newsletter. www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-...

In this month’s “Liftoff,” @shawnrhoadsphd.com talks about how he’ll implement hackathons to foster community in his lab, and @zurisullivan.bsky.social shares how weekly discussions about unfamiliar topics can encourage curiosity in a lab. bit.ly/3ZkMQl8 By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence

We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases. 🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed). First up: item quality. A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...

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...

Thrilled to be at #ACNP2026 this week! 🏝️😎 If you are interested in computational modeling of social cognition for mental health, I'd love to connect and nerd out! Also excited to share the latest from my new Social Interaction & Neural Computation Lab: sinclaboratory.com

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

What if we could tell you how well you’ll remember your next visit to your local coffee shop? ☕️ In our new Nature Human Behaviour paper, we show that the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 can be measured with neuroimaging – and 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸.

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

🧵 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: 👇

So honored to join the other exceptional social psych scholars in this forthcoming issue of PIBBS! 🧠📊 Our paper examines how insights from social neuroscience can inform better public policy @fabbs.org @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...