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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇

If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)

Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · 6d

New paper out in NYAS!
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝
w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
(thread below)

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · Aug 23

✨ Exciting news for our upcoming S4SN Lisbon meeting! ✨

Join us from September 23-26 for a dynamic program filled with inspiring talks, poster presentations, and networking opportunities. Get ready to connect, learn, and share ideas in the beautiful city of Lisbon!

The program is out 😍

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · Aug 11

Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS

By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al

Thread 👇
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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am still 100% in

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · May 26

New in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and @mael-lebreton.bsky.social

We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits.

The result? Not really.

A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry
doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics - Nature Mental Health

Reinforcement learning task-based behavioral and computational measures displayed low test–retest reliability at the individual level. Also in contrast to self-assessed personality measures, behaviora...

doi.org

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Leah Mayo @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social · May 17

Its a long weekend here in Canada, which seems appropriate to mourn our recent @npp-journal.bsky.social paper, in which we find that FAAH inhibition does NOT improve symptoms in PTSD🙁

A heroic effort w/ @cannabrain.bsky.social @connorhaggarty.bsky.social @ryanntansey.bsky.social & many more 🧵⬇️

The efficacy of elevating anandamide via inhibition of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) combined with internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorde...

Neuropsychopharmacology - The efficacy of elevating anandamide via inhibition of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) combined with internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of...

www.nature.com

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · May 12

Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠

‼️ Deadline: May 18th

SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 Come work with us!

3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.

More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2

Please share widely 🔁

3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf

shorturl.at

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · May 9

still a couple of days left to apply!

Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Apr 24

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha...

In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...

uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Apr 24

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha...

In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...

uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Apr 16

Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic @scanunit.bsky.social and do cool research on prosocial behavior 🤝🧠
Apply or share widely!

SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 Come work with us!

3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.

More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2

Please share widely 🔁

3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf

shorturl.at

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Tobias Kalenscher @kalenscher.bsky.social · Apr 3

3-year postdoc position (100% fte, TVL-E13) in human fMRI and psychopharmacology at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoc position in the Comparative Psychology research group

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CSN Unit @silanilab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Out in Biological Psychiatry
"Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown"
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown

COVID-19 lockdowns were linked to a surge in unhealthy food–related behaviors, potentially as an attempt to cope with disrupted social homeostasis. Here, we tested bidirectional associations between m...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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CSN Unit @silanilab.bsky.social · Mar 28

🎉New paper out in Royal Society Open Science!🎉

Our lab member Raimund Buehler has just published his second ever, first-author paper!

📄 Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#AutismResearch #Neuroscience

Autistic traits relate to reduced reward sensitivity in learning from point-light displays (PLDs) | Royal Society Open Science

A number of studies have linked autistic traits to difficulties in learning from social (versus non-social) stimuli. However, these stimuli are often difficult to match on low-level visual properties,...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · Mar 27

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology

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Samuel Hewitt, PhD @samuelhewitt.bsky.social · Mar 18

A little bby from my PhD is published!

we did a complex study to answer a simple Q:
do day-to-day feelings impact choices?

A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater.

open access link:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making | PNAS

Internal states like motivation fluctuate substantially over time. However, studies of the neurocomputational mechanims of motivated behavior have ...

doi.org

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · Feb 18

As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection!

We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)

It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#neuroscience

Redirecting

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Overall, our results challenge the notion that individuals exhibit prosocial apathy when effort is required to help others and suggest that the type of incentive (avoiding harm vs. increasing wealth) is a key factor in shaping effortful prosocial behavior.

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Last, using computational modelling, we show little credible evidence that discounting of pain reduction by effort differs between self and other

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Participants also exerted a similar amount effort to reduce their and the other's pain, indicating that this prosocial motivation to protect others’ form harm extends beyond decision-making to action invigoration

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

We showed that when pain reduction is the outcome of the prosocial act individuals are similarly willing to mobilize effort to help themselves and a stranger

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Prior research suggested that when effort is required to help, individuals become prosocially apathetic. Here we adapted a well-validated prosocial effort task (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28819649/) and we examined if this is the case also for non-monetary rewards, i.e. reducing other’s pain

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

New preprint from my postdoc work @scanunit.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Avoiding pain to others motivates effortful prosocial behavior reducing prosocial apathy”
w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social

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Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Participants also exerted a similar amount effort to reduce their and the other's pain, indicating that this prosocial motivation to protect others’ form harm extends beyond decision-making to action invigoration.