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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · 14d

Such fantastic news, congrats, Ondrej! 🎊🙌🎉

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · 27d

Yay, congratulations! 🙌

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm incredibly grateful to the #ERC for this amazing opportunity, to my colleagues and friends for their support in making this happen and to @uni-wuerzburg.de for the institutional support.

I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs soon—if you want in on the ride, get in touch! 💫

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨ I’m so excited and grateful to have been awarded an #ERC Starting Grant! 🧠✨

The project aims to investigate how the brain builds and uses cognitive maps to guide behaviour, how emotions shape these computations, and what this all means for mental health 🧠

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · Sep 4

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

ERC Starting Grants were awarded to (clockwise): Jerome Beetz, Mona Garvert, Beatrice Baragli, Jake Greenfield, Jens Hör, and Jacqueline Degen. (Photos: Robert Emmerich / Kerstin Flake / Daniel Hanoch / Chris Weiss / Nik Schölzel / Thomas Hovestadt)

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Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social · Jun 4

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

DFG Research Unit 5389

www.uni-hamburg.de

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Jun 3

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈

Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!

Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften

recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com

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Stefan Kiebel @stefankiebel.bsky.social · May 27

📢 Bühler Talks – Summer 2025
🧠 Jill O’Reilly (Univ. Oxford, UK)
🗣 “The representation, use and updating of priors in the human brain” 🕔 May 28, 5pm
Zoom: tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/6464455404...
@tudresden.bsky.social
#BühlerTalks #TUdresden

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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · May 22

Das detaillierte Programm der Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social ist jetzt online und hier zu sehen: www.pug2025.org/de/programm

Programm | PuG2025

www.pug2025.org

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · May 13

*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! ***
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?

The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models

Barron Group | mrcbndu

Our group investigates how cells and circuits in the brain work together to perform computations that support memory. Using a wide range of technical approaches, we investigate how these computations ...

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Phillip Witkowski @phillip-witkowski.bsky.social · Apr 16

I'm excited to share that the VOR for my latest manuscript with Lindsay Rondot, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, @mgarvert.bsky.social , Ray Dolan, @behrenstimb.bsky.social and Erie Boorman, is out in @elife.bsky.social !

Check it out here: elifesciences.org/articles/101...

A short thread below 🧵 (1/5):

Neural mechanisms of credit assignment for delayed outcomes during contingent learning

Orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus reinstate representations of causal choices to associate with delayed outcomes, and the frontal pole supports this credit assignment process by maintaining pending...

elifesciences.org

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨 PhD position (65%, 3 years) 🚨
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...

Job announcement for a 65% PhD position for 3 years

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’m so sorry for your loss, Laurence 💔 Such a beautiful text, sounds like you were both lucky to have each other ❤️

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Nature @nature.com · Mar 13

Nature research paper: Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex

https://go.nature.com/3FsvUTi

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 represent patterns of social interaction.

go.nature.com

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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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Psychologie & Gehirn 2025 @pug2025.bsky.social · Feb 4

Abstract submissions and registration are now possible
👉 www.pug2025.org

Submission deadline for symposia is February 28, 2025 (notification of acceptance by March 14, 2025) and for posters March 31, 2025

We look forward to many exciting contributions!

PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!

www.pug2025.org

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Jan 27

Yay, I’m so excited about this conference! 🙌

Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · Jan 27

Our symposium on structure knowledge biases in psychopathology was accepted at #CPConf2025!

with
@mattnour.bsky.social
@mgarvert.bsky.social
@carocharp.bsky.social

Talks will span social learning, inductive inference in planning, language representation & map-based generalization.

Can't wait!

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Jan 17

Yay, congratulations, Charley, this is fantastic news!! 🎉🙌✨

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Dec 21

Check out these amazing Postdoc positions as part of a really exciting collaborative project ✨

Congratulations, Rick and team, so well deserved! 🎉

Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · Dec 20

💥 Some POST DOC JOB news 👀... I'm very happy to say that @melgaby.bsky.social, @mattnour.bsky.social, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and I have been awarded funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social to look at how planning 📝and mental models of the world 🌍 are affected by psychosis...

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · Dec 20

💥 Some POST DOC JOB news 👀... I'm very happy to say that @melgaby.bsky.social, @mattnour.bsky.social, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and I have been awarded funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social to look at how planning 📝and mental models of the world 🌍 are affected by psychosis...

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Can Demircan @candemircan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Alignment is more than comparing similarity judgments! How well do pretrained neural networks align with humans in few-shot learning settings? Come check our poster #3904 at #NeurIPS on Wednesday to find out

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Dec 3

This project will be jointly supervised by me and the fabulous Maximilian Wessel, neurologist and deep brain stimulation expert in Würzburg. ✨💡

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Dec 3

🚨Join our team! We’re hiring a PhD student in Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience 🧠 🎓 at @uni_wue & @UKW_Wuerzburg! Explore mechanisms of decision-making in healthy people & Parkinson’s using new deep brain stimulation methods. German & English required. Apply by 20 Dec! 🌟🎄
Details: shorturl.at/IcNa0

PhD_Wessel_Garvert.pdf

shorturl.at

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Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Nov 18

Super, thank you so much! 🙌

Mona Garvert @mgarvert.bsky.social · Nov 18

🤩🙋‍♀️🙏🏻

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