Alex Pike
@alexandrapike.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mental Health @YorkPsychology || eating disorders, anxiety disorders, cognition/computation || she/her
Group page: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/
Research recruiting participants: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/projects
Group page: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/
Research recruiting participants: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/projects
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Alex Pike
@alexandrapike.bsky.social
· Jul 10
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It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
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There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/364es88k
tinyurl.com/364es88k
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
Hi from North Yorkshire! (Snow days make me feel like a big kid).
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hi from North Yorkshire! (Snow days make me feel like a big kid).
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This was super fun! Thanks @alexandrapike.bsky.social for proposing and to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and all speakers and attendees for making this day happen! 🥹
Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This was super fun! Thanks @alexandrapike.bsky.social for proposing and to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and all speakers and attendees for making this day happen! 🥹
Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.
The fab @holmyers.bsky.social wrote this wonderful Mental Elf blog on IU through development, and how this relates to anxiety and depression at age 10. Thanks to @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social - writing for different audiences is such a skill!
Preschoolers who find uncertainty hard to handle may be more prone to anxiety later in life, but it’s not that simple.
New research explores how intolerance of uncertainty at age 4 links to anxiety, depression & behaviour problems up to age 10.
#ChildMentalHealth #Anxiety #Uncertainty
🧵 THREAD
New research explores how intolerance of uncertainty at age 4 links to anxiety, depression & behaviour problems up to age 10.
#ChildMentalHealth #Anxiety #Uncertainty
🧵 THREAD
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The fab @holmyers.bsky.social wrote this wonderful Mental Elf blog on IU through development, and how this relates to anxiety and depression at age 10. Thanks to @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social - writing for different audiences is such a skill!
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Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Enjoying hearing more about @kellydonegan.bsky.social’s argument that psychological studies need to move beyond the lab (and into apps) - courtesy of the Centre for Decision Science Summer School @royalholloway.bsky.social and @nurasidarus.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Enjoying hearing more about @kellydonegan.bsky.social’s argument that psychological studies need to move beyond the lab (and into apps) - courtesy of the Centre for Decision Science Summer School @royalholloway.bsky.social and @nurasidarus.bsky.social
Hello hivemind! I haven't seen one of these in a while but I know that back-in-the-day they were all the rage: does anyone have a funky spreadsheet of MH/psych/neuro-relevant grants/fellowships for ECRs that they wouldn't mind me sharing with my lab?
a donkey is standing on a dirt field and asking for something .
ALT: a donkey is standing on a dirt field and asking for something .
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September 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hello hivemind! I haven't seen one of these in a while but I know that back-in-the-day they were all the rage: does anyone have a funky spreadsheet of MH/psych/neuro-relevant grants/fellowships for ECRs that they wouldn't mind me sharing with my lab?
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incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩
August 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩
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📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
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August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…
Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky
August 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…
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I only found out about this by accident when I couldn't access my preprint. I would like to strongly suggest 1) Notifying users about the switch (preferably in advance) 2) Explaining the switch on a preprint's webpage
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I only found out about this by accident when I couldn't access my preprint. I would like to strongly suggest 1) Notifying users about the switch (preferably in advance) 2) Explaining the switch on a preprint's webpage
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An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
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I am happy to announce that I am nearly caught up on all the work I had from Spring semester and boy am I ready for summer vacation
what's that you say
what's that you say
August 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am happy to announce that I am nearly caught up on all the work I had from Spring semester and boy am I ready for summer vacation
what's that you say
what's that you say
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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
August 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
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I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research
⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️
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July 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
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Come work with us! The department is full of very talented and clever people, who are also great fun to chat science with. PLUS imaging facilities, great students, and a growing mental health institute led by the fab @sacairney.bsky.social. Aidan is alright too, I guess.
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Come work with us! The department is full of very talented and clever people, who are also great fun to chat science with. PLUS imaging facilities, great students, and a growing mental health institute led by the fab @sacairney.bsky.social. Aidan is alright too, I guess.
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2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Fun quick poster spotlight talk at #CPC2025 - come see me later at poster 2.19 if you want more info on what we did or to discuss our results! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (picture cred to @kellydonegan.bsky.social who took this despite her own talk being about 5 mins later!)
July 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Fun quick poster spotlight talk at #CPC2025 - come see me later at poster 2.19 if you want more info on what we did or to discuss our results! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (picture cred to @kellydonegan.bsky.social who took this despite her own talk being about 5 mins later!)
Preparation for a flight to a conference pre-baby: passport, pants, poster. Preparation post-baby - paying £4 a pop to download videos of dancing fruit to my phone (IYKYK); trying to find toys that are quiet, small, and non-liquid; trying to ram a shirt or two into the suitcase full of bibs.
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July 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Preparation for a flight to a conference pre-baby: passport, pants, poster. Preparation post-baby - paying £4 a pop to download videos of dancing fruit to my phone (IYKYK); trying to find toys that are quiet, small, and non-liquid; trying to ram a shirt or two into the suitcase full of bibs.
This student is still looking for a few more responses! If anyone has had a challenging relationship with food at any point we could really use your insights. The study shouldn't take very long - there are some open text boxes and then a quick questionnaire. #EatingDisorderResearch
One of my MSc students is looking for participants who are over 18 and have had challenging experiences with food/a diagnosis of an eating disorder at any point. The study is investigating trauma, agency and eating
disorders: please click here to take part!
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
disorders: please click here to take part!
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July 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This student is still looking for a few more responses! If anyone has had a challenging relationship with food at any point we could really use your insights. The study shouldn't take very long - there are some open text boxes and then a quick questionnaire. #EatingDisorderResearch
It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
Really enjoying Prof Emma Robinson’s accessibly-delivered talk on behavioural markers of mood/antidepressant effects! Really clear justification for focus on behavioural readouts of mood - and v thought provoking notes on welfare. #BAP2025
June 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Really enjoying Prof Emma Robinson’s accessibly-delivered talk on behavioural markers of mood/antidepressant effects! Really clear justification for focus on behavioural readouts of mood - and v thought provoking notes on welfare. #BAP2025