Job Alert! 🚨 We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity We are looking for excellent MD Psychiatrist applicants to work & train at the CPCR at Johns Hopkins @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social, the largest and most comprehensive psychedelic research program in the world. Email Dr. Sandeep Nayak [email protected]

I am recruiting a postdoc for a new NIMH-funded R01 using neural and behavioral models to understand anxious avoidance. Please share with anyone who may be interested! Link: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/155929/...

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

Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠 Link here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today in Nature Machine Intelligence, Kazuki Irie & I discuss 4 classic challenges for neural nets — systematic generalization, catastrophic forgetting, few-shot learning, & reasoning. We argue there is a unifying fix: the right incentives & practice. rdcu.be/eLRmg

A new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

In our new paper 📖🔥, we conducted a pooled analysis (n=443; 5 studies) to test if state affect (momentary mood) or trait dispositions (approach/avoidance) predict cortisol reactivity beyond biological & contextual factors. (1/4) #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #cogpsyc #AffectSci #psychscisky

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!  The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

🧠 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

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢 Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia. 🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io 🚨closes September 12th!

After scrolling Twitter, it will take you a while to get back into “work mode”. Why is this the case? Our new work (out now in Psych Review), led by Ivan Grahek and Xiamin Leng, explores the costs of adjusting cognitive control to meet different goals: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 🧵 A thread:

New preprint just dropped, (working) title: "Blunted Reward Prediction Error Encoding Drives Diminished Motivation to Explore in Apathy Associated With Traumatic Brain Injury" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Where do some of Reinforcement Learning's great thinkers stand today? Find out! Keynotes of the RL Conference are online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Wanting vs liking, Agent factories, Theoretical limit of LLMs, Pluralist value, RL teachers, Knowledge flywheels (guess who talked about which!)

Brandeis is hiring for this unique interdisciplinary 2-year postdoc/lecturer position in AI and Society. 1 course/semester + collaborative research and mentoring. Great prep for TT positions! Deadline 10/1. Details in the ad. #PsychJobs #HigherEdJobs www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯 I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼 So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

We are super excited to invite you to our FREE research & networking event @ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM) on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne : geron.org/News-Events/... (@geronsociety.bsky.social‬)

See below👇 for one of the most rewarding service positions to make a positive impact in shaping the future of #CCN. Also, working with @eringrant.me is pretty awesome!

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊

Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing. Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (University of Birmingham, 3–5 November) A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17, 2025

We’re hiring! Pls share widely: In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred. Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265

For any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...

Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely! vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...

I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months. Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/

We moved our symposium to a bigger room so we have a few more extra seats available now! Join us September 10th for our symosium on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Poster or talk submission deadline is in two weeks: July 31st!

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations. 👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

Is risk-taking shaped by decision-making or by learning? In new work, we show that in experience-based risk-taking, very little variance is explained by decision-making (top), but a lot is explained by learning (bottom). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Virginia Tech is looking for a postdoc to join our team studying the neural + computational mechanisms of structure learning and flexible cognition: ccnvt.github.io#positions

Our newest paper, led by Romy Froemer and @fredcallaway.bsky.social‬, is now out in Open Mind: “Considering What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Expectations and Confidence Guide Value Integration in Value-Based Decision-Making” direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Just 1 week left to apply! 🙏 Pls share with anyone you think might be interested. If there are any Q's, get in touch! 👉 3x PhD position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 2yr Postdoc position: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072

The Learning and Cognitive Control Laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), led by Clay Holroyd, is recruiting two highly motivated postdoctoral fellows to apply a control-theoretic approach to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive effort ( doi.org/10.1037/rev0... )

Excited to share our new findings: transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation leads to increases in locus coeruleus activity, which correlate with changes in salivary alpha amylase in older individuals. #locuscoeruleus www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Excited for our @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social workshop at the intersection of #NeuroAI and Aging. Tomorrow from 9 AM -1 PM in LTEE 3 in Hamilton Building, hope to see you there!

It has been an absolute joy to learn from and engage with the brilliant @lilweb.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social @danasmall.bsky.social. I am so proud of our collaboration on the future of #interoception and #RL. May you find as much inspiration in reading this paper as we did in writing it.

Next JDM newsletter out! We are excited to host an in-person meeting in Boston on Nov 14, 2025, and welcome Dr. Ryan Best as our newest convener! The newsletter also packs podcasts, funding, a workshop & new call for papers. Interested? Email me: [email protected]

The ad is no longer online, but we have another opening soon. If you are looking for a PhD position focusing on body-brain interactions, tVNS and anhedonia, please send me a message (more information on our website). #neurojobs