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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences

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Women In Neuroscience Repository @winrepo.bsky.social · Jun 2

For Nature, women make up around 16% of corresponding authors who submit manuscripts — a percentage unchanged from 2018. Women comprise some 18% of corresponding authors who submit papers to Nature Communications and the Nature-branded research journals.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone

A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Jun 3

PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Happy to answer any question you may have!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · Jun 4

Exciting opportunity in our research unit: come join us in Hamburg! 🧠📍

Work with a great team on dynamic belief updating, combining modeling, behavior, and neuroscience.

No teaching, full-time, fully funded, and starting Jan 2026.

Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social · Jun 4

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

DFG Research Unit 5389

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Feb 4

Job alert 🚨 fully funded PhD position in auditory cognitive neuroscience available in Maastricht vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

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Hannah McDermott @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social · Sep 6

My new preprint is out! Using EEG and decoding analyses, we find direct evidence for the Opposing Process Theory of perception, while showing dynamic effects across over time.
@auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning.

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · May 23

In this review/primer written by the talented @gutlin.bsky.social and @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social we introduce a range of computational methods useful for studying neural activity in schizophrenia 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · Nov 28

We're hiring! The O'Connell Lab is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join our team and work on our ERC-funded project developing neurally-informed models of perceptual decision making and metacognition. Full info here: oconnell-lab.com/home/opportu..., feel free to DM any questions

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Nov 7

Today with a few members of the extended lab we visited the 🧠 Brain exhibition at the Berlin Museum of Medical History @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social @denisekittelmann.bsky.social @gutlin.bsky.social

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