Akram Bakkour
@akrambakkour.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. I study how we use memory to make better decisions.
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akrambakkour.bsky.social
Feeling major FOMO missing #CCN25. But I get to live vicariously through y’all who are there. So go check out our poster C57 that Euan is presenting Friday afternoon!
akrambakkour.bsky.social
Very happy to see this work with Euan Prentis posted! If you’re going to CCN next week, go check out Euan’s poster on this work!
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Overcoming distortion in multidimensional predictive representation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667463v1
akrambakkour.bsky.social
I’m just gonna leave this one here.. seems very apropo today
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katenuss.bsky.social
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!

The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.

More details here: cldlab.org/join/

🧠💻 #psychscisky
Detailed job description, which can also be found here: https://cldlab.org/join/
akrambakkour.bsky.social
At #SFN24? Come check out a super exciting nano I am co-chairing with @katieinsel.bsky.social, NANO07 today 10/5 at 1pm in room N228. Killer lineup: eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SFN24
Neuroscience 2024
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
My lab is recruiting a full-time research specialist to begin summer/fall 2024. More information here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!
Research Specialist 2024 — Crockett Lab
www.crockettlab.org
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marcelomattar.bsky.social
Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton.

Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253
akrambakkour.bsky.social
Really happy to see this paper posted! Thank you Ariel, Mike, and Daphna for keeping this super fun collaboration alive! The paper boast a super simple & elegant model for how subjective values fluctuate over time and captured by a very cool correlated-evidence DDM. Check it out!
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jonathannicholas.bsky.social
New preprint with
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Daphna Shohamy!

We often have to make choices we've never made before. One way to do so is by knitting together relevant memories to form new relationships. When do people access their memories to construct preferences?
Proactive and reactive construction of memory-based preferences
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elliottwimmer.bsky.social
! Job alert !

Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu

The ad currently closes on January 2nd.

Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply!  See thread below.  Please share!
akrambakkour.bsky.social
For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...
postdoc | Bakkour Memory and Decision Lab
bakkourlab.uchicago.edu