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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 8d

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · 2d

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

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Psychologie & Gehirn 2025 @pug2025.bsky.social · Jun 18

#bluesky and summer vibes🌞🍒👒 in Würzburg for the start of #PuG2025. We are so excited to welcome you all here. Have a good trip and we hope to see you at the welcome reception tonight!

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Mar 13

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

www.nature.com

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm glad that NWO has launched a new round of the impactful Mozaïek grant, offering PhD funding funding to traditionally underrepresented minorities. Scheme call here: lnkd.in/eKVdUyqU We might be able to support an application if interests & skills overlap lifespancognitivedynamics.com (dm)

Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab

lifespancognitivedynamics.com

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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our call for more efficient and informative RCTs in mental health through novel designs -- Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials rdcu.be/ecSMq
Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others
#Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky

Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials

Nature Mental Health - This Perspective outlines evidence on existing platform trials in mental health and discusses key challenges and strategies to overcome barriers in order to maximize the...

rdcu.be

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Mar 3

Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez

bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · Feb 25

Poster abstract submission for #PuG2025 in Würzburg are open until end of March! Time to start thinking about what to present 🤔 www.pug2025.org/submission

Submission | PuG2025

www.pug2025.org

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in
(A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
(B) Work & Organizational Psychology
Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden
- Please share -
@dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · Jan 27

The potential of LLMs in social & behavioral science is enormous—but how can we leverage them?

Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co.

github.com/Zak-Hussain/...

GitHub - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025: The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social scienc...

The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025

github.com

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Jan 26

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical

The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨

tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jan 24

I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...

2025: Agency gained and lost

If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases a…

gracewlindsay.com

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · Jan 10

This is a really interesting point, and there are parallels with parenting adolescents too. It's easy to say adolescents need to be able to take risks (they do), but of course there are occasional very bad outcomes from doing so, and probably a more complex list than with children

Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social · Jan 9

all in favour of encouraging risky play, etc, but I do wish that pieces encouraging it would admit, nice and high up, that it would mean more children being injured and killed, and that this is a price they consider worthwhile. (I would probably agree!) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play

Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.

www.nature.com

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚀 post-doc position with the fantastic @ldeserno.bsky.social : Ecological Momentary assessment and digital interventions in #psychiatry #psychotherapy (40 months) - apply, apply apply☺️ and join us in lovely #Würzburg for fun science
#PsychSciSky #MentalHealthSky
#statssky

Lorenz Deserno @ldeserno.bsky.social · Nov 25

🚨🚨🚨Post-doc position (40 months) on Ecological Momentary Assessments and Digital Interventions in #psychiatry und #psychotherapy in my lab! Bring in your own ideas; existing data available. funded by #BMBF #EMA karriere.ukw.de/de/jobs/1077... Please reach out with questions and appy!

Job als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) E13 TV-L, Vollzeit

Werden Sie Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) am Universitätsklinikum Würzburg. E13 TV-L, Vollzeit, befristet. Bewerben Sie sich jetzt!

karriere.ukw.de

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 21

I'd love to be added, thank you!!

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Nov 18

I am SO pleased @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social has written this @theguardian.com article, and so beautifully - it means the world.

So much of it I could have written myself. Happily married for two decades, yes. But I'm still shaped by a teenage relationship too.

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

The big idea: why we should take teenage love more seriously

Adolescent passions shape our future selves, and can be every bit as powerful – and perilous – as adult relationships

www.theguardian.com

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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · Nov 19

🚨New paper alert!🚨 -- Registered report style!

A "blue-print"!

Some people seem born to explore: breaking new ground, traveling to new places.

Others seem perfectly content to enjoy familiar comforts.

This explore/exploit tradeoff is well-known, and varies across people and situations

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Sam Ereira @samereira.bsky.social · Nov 21

A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder

So pleased to have contributed to this work led by the brilliant Giles Story (we'll get him over here eventually)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder

www.nature.com

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 18

congratulations Sabrina :)

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'd love to be added, thanks :)

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'd love to be added, thank you :)

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · Sep 10

Although it is frequently discussed, AfD support appears only weakly correlated with objective economic conditions. The unemployment rate or the disposable income per capita of a municipality correlate only weakly with the AfD's vote share and its gains compared to 2019.

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 13

would love to be added, too! thank you :)

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 13

wow Quentin, that's amazing!

Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · Nov 13

Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · Nov 13

Excited to share our new @plos.bsky.social paper! We wanted to understand how childhood socioeconomic status affects decision-making later in life. We studied ~13,000 adults across 61 countries 🌍 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... (1/3)

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Nov 13

📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢
We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025.
We are now accepting symposium submissions!

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