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Alex Pike

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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

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 10

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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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · 25d

Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!

Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 25d

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…

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 25d

"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…

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 27d

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

Kelly presenting a slide with reasons for taking science beyond the lab.

Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Aug 29

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 🤩

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 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...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Aug 19

For anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 19

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

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Mark Groeneveld @mgroeneveld.bsky.social · Aug 19

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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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

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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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fashionably so.

Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Aug 8

@jonroiser.bsky.social only joined later?

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · Aug 7

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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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · Jul 31

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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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations!!

Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 21

At the very least visit and partake in the duck trail…

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 21

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.

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Jobs - The University of York

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 21

Give it all up and come obsess over ducks in York! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Boi

Long Boi - Wikipedia

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 16

I didn’t get a chance to see this (my poster was at the same time) but would love to hear more about it!

Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 16

Really enjoyed the poster - thanks!! (She says after opening Bluesky)

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congrats! Pretty good timing for this too - you can use your own conference hiring board 😜

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 15

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!)

Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Jul 12

Exceptional advice. Will go wild in WH Smiths at airport. (Pre-baby: go wild in Wetherspoons).