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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs @epares.bsky.social · 12d

Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife!
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:

Perceptual glimpses are locally accumulated and globally maintained at distinct processing levels

elifesciences.org

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 14d

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19d

Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 27d

On Wednesday at 16:30, I will be presenting at a symposium organised by @redmondoconnell.bsky.social SY24: Integrating Distinct Viewpoints On The Neural Origins Of Metacognition.

I will show a series of experiments on higher-order monitoring for distinguishing imagination and perception.

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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks Charlotte 🤣

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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trinity College unveils 'gamechanger' brain scanner. Watch the full interview with Professor Redmond O'Connell with RTE here:

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Simon Kelly @spk3lly.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out our new multisensory decision study!
We tackle a decades-old Q: does faster detection of bimodal targets come from a race or co-activation between modalities? And also a vital, orthogonal Q: is it one decision process or two?
A1: co-activation
A2: two!
Read here: rdcu.be/eASYd

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kiemohr.bsky.social @kiemohr.bsky.social · Jul 29

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link:
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Pattern-pulses and pattern-reversals evoke different cascades of cortical sources in the multifocal visual evoked potential | JOV | ARVO Journals

jov.arvojournals.org

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

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O'Connell Lab @connelllab.bsky.social · Jul 1

1/3 Check out our new commentary bsky.app/profile/imag....

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jun 28

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Redmond G. O’Connell, Simon P. Kelly, et al:

Regressing away common neural choice signals does not make them artifacts: Comment on Frömer et al. 2024

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Maciek Szul @maciekszul.bsky.social · Jun 23

Laminar MEG is possible across all cortical depths. Our comprehensive simulations outline SNR, head movement, and micro/macro anatomical limitations to source reconstruction precision. Not perfect by any chance, lots of confirmatory work ahead, but it's promising.

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

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John P Grogan @johnpgrogan1.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our newest preprint is out (doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.05.658071), with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social,Dasha Monakhovych, Cameron McCabe, Sarah-Louise Mannion, @kobedesender.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, comparing post-decision confidence models against behaviour and neural decision signals...

Neurally-informed modelling unravels a single evidence accumulation process for choices and subsequent confidence reports

Subjective confidence in perceptual choices depends on computations occurring prior to and after choice commitment. However, the nature of these computations remains unclear. Current models disagree o...

doi.org

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RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · Jun 10

#RLDM2025 officially starts tomorrow! 🚀 Have you checked out our program? See details below, full program is available at rldm.org 👀

New to RLDM? Join our first-timers gathering tonight, 6-7pm, at Kennedy's Pub (30-32 Westland Row) 😊

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RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · May 26

📢 #RLDM2025 is nearly here – 11–14 June at Trinity College Dublin ☘️

Join researchers from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond to explore the latest in reinforcement learning & decision making.

🎟️ Register now to secure your spot: rldm.org #ReinforcementLearning #AI #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience

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Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs @epares.bsky.social · Apr 28

Very happy to share this paper, now published in
@natcomms.nature.com! nature.com/articles/s41...
With @spk3lly.bsky.social and @neuromurphy.bsky.social, we investigated the neural computations that allow us to make near-optimal decisions in changing environments. Here's a short summary:

Dissociable encoding of evolving beliefs and momentary belief updates in distinct neural decision signals - Nature Communications

People are capable of making near-optimal decisions in volatile, changing environments. Here, the authors show how two neural decision signals encode distinct aspects of the belief updating process un...

nature.com

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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · Mar 24

getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.

Deep reinforcement learning can promote sustainable human behaviour in a common-pool resource problem - Nature Communications

Koster et al introduce a deep reinforcement learning (RL) mechanism designed to manage common-pool resources successfully encourages sustainable cooperation among human participants by dynamically adj...

www.nature.com

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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · Mar 24

Check out this great thread by @jduffy9.bsky.social highlighting our new review paper in which we examine emerging methods for disentangling sources of behavioural variability on perceptual and cognitive tasks bsky.app/profile/jduf...

Jade Duffy @jduffy9.bsky.social · Mar 24

In life, 3 things are certain: death, taxes, and decision-making variability🧠. Our review tinyurl.com/4dcwafc4 explores how computational models 💻 explain variability, their limits, and recent advances. A thread🧵👇

@redmondoconnell.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove (not on Bluesky)

Disentangling sources of variability in decision-making - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Identifying the psychological and neurobiological processes underpinning intra-individual variations in choice behaviour presents a formidable challenge. In this Review, Duffy et al. discuss how algor...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · Mar 6

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · Feb 11

Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025!

🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...

Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thanks to all who came to support and watched online!

A recording is available here: www.youtube.com/live/6LSfkQk...

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Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · Jan 16

My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised.

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

A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition - Nature Communications

Measuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe...

www.nature.com

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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · Jan 6

Come join us in Dublin June 11-14th for the Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Great speaker list rldm.org/invited-spea..., workshops and tutorials soon to be announced. Abstract submission deadline 15th January. Don't miss out!

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 6

Devastating news that Eleanor Maguire has passed away. She was my mentor for many years. She was a wonderfully thoughtful and kind person and a brilliant scientist. Her research inspired so many of us and her legacy of incredible discoveries will continue to inspire far into the future.
RIP Eleanor

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jan 6

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com

Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

www.online-tribute.com

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Dec 18

There's a movement in neuroscience suggesting we should be pursuing bigger bets with larger teams. I think there's a case for doing a bit of this, but I think it's a bad idea to prioritise it for two reasons, and a good case for saying we should be moving in the exact opposite direction. 🧠🧪

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