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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 2d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 7d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · 6d

Next up in our Psychological Sciences Seminar Series:
🎤 Prof. Clare Press
🗓 Wed 8 Oct, 12:30–1:30 pm (note the earlier time)
📍 Room 612, Malet Street, + online via Teams
@clarepress.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 15d

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

The United States has once again demonstrated its unique talent for scientific deduction by confidently declaring there may be a link between pregnant women taking paracetamol and children developi…

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Simon van Gaal @svangaal.bsky.social · 15d

Out for a while but forgot to post it. Using pupil size as a proxy for arousal, we show that the inverted-U shaped arousal–performance curve (Yerkes-Dodson law) is not fixed, but can shift globally depending on neuromodulatory state (atomoxetine): arousal recalibration www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 22d

somehow I missed this!

Dopamine represents a domain-general teaching signal:

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Striatal dopamine signals errors in prediction across different informational domains

Dopamine reflects prediction errors not only about reward but also about valueless stimuli, challenging many current theories.

www.science.org

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 23d

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · 22d

Please come to see our lab presentations at #ICON2025, by the brilliant Kirsten Rittershofer and Quirin Gehmacher. Sorry I can't be there myself, it looks a brilliant meeting 🎉

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looking forward to #CCN2025! Please come to say hello and check out our lab's presentations 👇

@compcogneuro.bsky.social

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Aug 11

@cogcompneuro.bsky.social

Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looking forward to #CCN2025! Please come to say hello and check out our lab's presentations 👇

@compcogneuro.bsky.social

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Jolien Francken @jolienfrancken.bsky.social · Jul 9

My favourite talk @assc28.bsky.social was just delivered by @matanmazor.bsky.social showing that dualists are warmer 💕 @ronyhirsch.bsky.social #assc28

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 29

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 28

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Research is NOT the same as innovation. Spend the money at least equally on bottom-up research by @erc.europa.eu. ERC grantees @ercgrantees.Baku.social are the most successful in the EIC, but there is no innovation without fundamental Bluesky research by the ERC
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EU should double, if not triple, the EIC budget, Zaharieva says

The European Commission hopes to at least double the budget of the European Innovation Council (EIC), if not triple it, when the agency can only finance 4% of the projects it receives, research commis...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jul 1

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

Deadline Sun 6th July

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

Find a PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · Jun 24

Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?"

Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

Out now @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, w/ @akalt.bsky.social & @drmattdavis.bsky.social.

Are sensory sampling rhythms fixed by intrinsically-determined processes, or do they couple to external structure? Here we highlight the incompatibility between these accounts and propose a resolution [1/6]

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 20

And the tags!
@uclpals.bsky.social @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
#neuroscience
#consci

And many congratulations to the brilliant @akalt.bsky.social on his first paper from PhD 🎉

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

We propose this as a testable starting point for a mechanism that can account for seemingly flexible and fixed rhythms, and determine optimal sampling, across sensory domains. We also address controversies with existing accounts.

Hope it proves useful!
tinyurl.com/fixedflexibl... [6/6]

Fixed and flexible perceptual rhythms

Our sensory inputs are never identical across time and contain temporal structure. Cognitive scientists have recently been fascinated by how these sen…

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

Sampling rhythms reflect statistical learning of temporal properties of inputs, governed by both externally- and intrinsically-determined sensory dynamics. We process the sensory world according to the probability with which a weighted combination of sources predicts information at that time. [5/6]

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

We must crucially now ask how we optimally combine these rhythmic sources to determine perceptual and motor processing. To this end we propose a new account. [4/6]

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

In contrast, accounts predominating in audition propose neural rhythms that are flexible and couple to those of the input. We contend that these different accounts grew from contrasting paradigms in which the visual world is more easily, yet artificially, stabilised in lab settings. [3/6]

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

Some accounts of oscillatory processing, predominating in vision, propose perception is supported by fixed neural rhythms that do not reflect rhythmic structure of the input. They instead reflect motor (e.g. saccadic) and neural architectural constraints (e.g. receptive field interactions) [2/6]

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