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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 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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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...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · Jul 10

Mice learn these tasks and are robust to perturbations like fog. Now, we invite you all to make AI agents to beat mice.

We present our #NeurIPS competition. You can learn about it here: robustforaging.github.io (7/n)

A summary figure for a NeurIPS competition where AI agents compete with mice in a visual foraging task.

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Georg Henning @georghenning.bsky.social · Jul 11

Man kann's ja mal versuchen

Foto von Georg Henning beim Arbeiten. Dazu Texte:
- Dieser sympathische junge Mann ist ab Januar '26 wieder auf dem Jobmarkt
- Promotion in Psychologie an der Uni Göteborg
- Erfolgreich DFG PRojekt angeworben und geleitet
- suche hauptsächlich in der Wissenschaft, aber auch offen für anderes
- suche mit Fokus in Berlin aber schickt mir gern auch andere spannende Ideen
- Schwerpunkte: Wohlbefinden und psychische Gesundheit über die Lebensspanne, Anpassung an den Ruhestand, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Arbeit im Alter

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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · Jul 8

The deadline has been extended until July 16th!

👉 PhDs: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Jun 30

Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have?

Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/

I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!

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Donner Lab @donnerlab.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/ New paper by Hame Park, (@AraziAyelet), Bharath Talluri, Marco Celotto, Stefano Panzeri, Alan Stocker & Tobias Donner published in Nature Communications – “Confirmation Bias through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex”: rdcu.be/etlR7. Here is a summary:

Confirmation bias through selective readout of information encoded in human parietal cortex

Nature Communications - People often discard incoming information when it contradicts their pre-existing beliefs about the world. Here, the authors show that this discarded information is precisely...

rdcu.be

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · Jun 23

Can't like 👎

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Jun 21

Our big behavioral precision mapping preprint is out. Based on 1,486,950 observed choices in a reward learning task, we show that BMI is associated with higher and more variable learning rates. Binge eating was associated with lower reward sensitivity. #neuroskyence 🩺
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

To determine distinct learning and decision-making profiles in obesity and binge eating (BE), we combined ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in a large online sample with a neuroimaging study. The figure shows the elements of the paper.

Binge eating (BE) is associated with reduced but more variable reward sensitivity. The panels show associations of BE with learning parameters and an fMRI-based reward sensitivity measure derived from the cue stage of an effort task (independent of learning).

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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · Jun 20

We are actively looking for an administrative position to help lead the newly founded @netstim.org at the University of Cologne – please spread the word and/or let us know if you know somebody that could be interested!

lnkd.in/eEbnXByJ

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ccnberlin.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social · Jun 13

June 16th at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Lilian Weber from
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity will present @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: Neural Mechanisms of Control in Emotional Decision-Making
For abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

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Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab @cmdn-lab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Amazing sunny team event with our lab today! ☀️ We tackled an escape room aboard the historic ship Rickmer Rickmers - nothing like solving puzzles surrounded by maritime history ⚓🧩 So lovely bonding outside the lab and putting our problem-solving skills to work in completely new settings! 🤓

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · Jun 4

Exciting opportunity in our research unit: come join us in Hamburg! 🧠📍

Work with a great team on dynamic belief updating, combining modeling, behavior, and neuroscience.

No teaching, full-time, fully funded, and starting Jan 2026.

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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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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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · May 30

Very excited about the line up for our workshop on the use of gamification in cognitive computational neuroscience.

Join us on Thursday June 12th in Dublin!

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IMPRS on the LIFE Course (LIFE) @imprs-life.bsky.social · May 27

Preprint involving LIFE alumni @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social out now.

Jan Haaker @janhaaker.bsky.social · May 19

So cool to see elegant paradigm coming out. Great work by @hashimsat.bsky.social @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social et al.

Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · May 19

After years of hard work, @hashimsat.bsky.social's big one is out!

Huge thanks to co-authors Katharina Wille, Matt Nassar, Radek Cichy, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Peter Dayan - and to @haukeren.bsky.social for his invaluable support!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · May 19

Very important work by @hashimsat.bsky.social showing a lack of effects of trait anxiety/internalizing on learning rates in change point tasks.

Muhammad Hashim Satti @hashimsat.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 New preprint alert!

Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty

Difficulties in adapting learning to meet the challenges of uncertain and changing environments are widely thought to play a central role in internalizing psychopathology, including anxiety and depres...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jan Haaker @janhaaker.bsky.social · May 19

So cool to see elegant paradigm coming out. Great work by @hashimsat.bsky.social @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social et al.

Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · May 19

After years of hard work, @hashimsat.bsky.social's big one is out!

Huge thanks to co-authors Katharina Wille, Matt Nassar, Radek Cichy, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Peter Dayan - and to @haukeren.bsky.social for his invaluable support!

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · May 19

Massive dataset, predators 🐅, and surprising null results on learning and internalizing symptoms.

@ccnberlin.bsky.social @fupsych.bsky.social @cmdn-lab.bsky.social

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · May 19

After years of hard work, @hashimsat.bsky.social's big one is out!

Huge thanks to co-authors Katharina Wille, Matt Nassar, Radek Cichy, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Peter Dayan - and to @haukeren.bsky.social for his invaluable support!

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · May 16

Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm.

If we've missed any, please let us know!

sampling.warwick.ac....

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · May 15

We are hiring ⚡🧠! Our postdoc @akuehnel.bsky.social was awarded a grant to investigate if pulsed tVNS alters approach and avoidance behavior (in collaboration with @bachlab.bsky.social). The official ad is in German (B2 level is required to run sessions) #neurojobs

karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...

Doktorand*in/PhD Student*in (m/w/d) Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie/Forschung und Lehre/Sektion für Medizinische Psychologie - Karriereamukb | Jobs & Karriere an der Uniklinik...

In der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie/Forschung und Lehre/Sektion für Medizinische Psychologie des Universitätsklinikums Bonn ist zum 01. August 2025 folgende Stelle in Teilz...

karriereamukb.de

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · May 14

If you design a study to test a prediction, you need to be able to falsify it. In frequentist statistics this is achieved through an equivalence test. You can't have an informative test if you can't prove yourself wrong. You need to learn about equivalence testing.

lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Improving Your Statistical Inferences - 9 Equivalence Testing and Interval Hypotheses

This open educational resource contains information to improve statistical inferences, design better experiments, and report scientific research more transparently.

lakens.github.io

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