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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · Jul 2

What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...

Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Matan Mazor @matanmazor.bsky.social · Jul 1

Claire and team did a remarkable job here, and you should read their reply. An updated preprint from us will be out shortly, reflecting our revised understanding of these issues.

Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · Jul 1

We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · Jul 1

We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · Jun 5

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Jun 4

Also in Denmark's leading daily newspaper, Berlingske:
www.berlingske.dk/vores-liv/ud...

Udbredt følelse kan stå i vejen for succes, siger forsker bag nyt studie. Men et bestemt værktøj kan være en løsning

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Jun 4

Study with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Jun 4

Some coverage in Danish newspapers (with a very broad interpretation) of our recent study ☺️
uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w...

You did well — so why do you feel like a fraud? The psychology of impostor syndrome

Academics can feel like they’ve tricked their colleagues into overestimating them. This researcher knows how to fight it.

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Jun 4

Also, recently in Denmark's leading daily www.berlingske.dk/kommentarer/...

Utallige danskere kender til følelsen af at bedrage sine omgivelser – og lidelsen er især udbredt blandt ledere

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · Apr 8

"In most scientific fields, AI is unlikely to be the solution to concerns about slowing progress." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.

www.nature.com

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Apr 4

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot.
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Aarhus University Student Survey

This questionnaire will take approximately 15- 25 minutes to complete. Please answer in a safe environment and as truthfully as possible. As a neurodiverse research team, we prioritize the comfort an...

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Apr 5

Actually thanks to Simon from UCPH's press release team for thinking of this first:
news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

Why do we doubt our own abilities when we are good at something?

A new study from the University of Copenhagen and University College London has unraveled why some people feel insecure in their abilities – even when they are actually good at what they do.

news.ku.dk

Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Apr 5

Which is exactly what our study was designed to investigate: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you popular science 💪🫡

Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence - Nature Communications

Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...

www.nature.com

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Apr 5

In the 4 years of working on this study, this idea never crossed my mind. But it makes complete sense because Imposter Syndrome is defined as "self-doubt in one's abilities and accomplishments compared with others, despite evidence to suggest the contrary"

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Apr 5

Our recent paper in Nat Comms on how people form global underconfidence despite good performance is being covered in popsci press as providing insight into the Imposter Syndrome
phys.org/news/2025-04...
@sciencex.bsky.social

Persistent underconfidence: Why we doubt our own abilities even when we're good at something

A new study from the University of Copenhagen and University College London has unraveled why some people feel insecure in their abilities—even when they are actually good at what they do.

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Mar 30

Lovely spin on our recent study on underconfidence in the Danish weekly Weekendavisen
www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/idee...

Link to original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@weekendavisen.dk
@smfleming.bsky.social

En kur mod tvivl

Bedragersyndrom. Mange veluddannede undervurderer kronisk egne evner. Nyt studie viser, at den rette feedback kan give dem et mere retvisende syn på sig selv.

www.weekendavisen.dk

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Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Mar 19

Paper out in PLOS Mental Health 2 weeks ago 🙈 but better late than never! Collab with @smfleming.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social. We investigated how confidence is altered in transdiagnostic compulsivity across memory and perception, as memory confidence is typically lowered in OCD. (1/4)

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

New research from @uclqsion.bsky.social reveals that underconfidence is linked to anxiety and depression, while overconfidence is linked to compulsivity. Understanding these connections can help improve mental health treatments.

Underconfidence linked to anxiety-depression and overconfidence linked to compulsivity in new study

A new study from UCL researchers has found that metacognitive biases in anxiety-depression and compulsivity extend across perception and memory.

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Mar 19

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:

'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)

@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Feb 26

Great work by @sucharit.bsky.social suggesting that one failure mode in maintaining low self-esteem is the failure to integrate experiences of high confidence into self-esteem. Would be great to develop the intervention/therapeutic potential further.

Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Feb 23

Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan

Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Feb 21

Excited to see this now out in the world!

We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition

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

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is a great study, if I may say. We have had a lot of data showing correlations between subjective assessments and behaviour between individuals. With this study, we are starting to see how they interact over days within individuals. Congratulations @samuelhewitt.bsky.social!

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 ...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Mar 19

Pleased to share our latest collaborative publication, "Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain", out now in Science Advances! The first major output of our Visceral Mind Project, lead by the amazing @francescafardo.bsky.social! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain

Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.

www.science.org

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luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social · Mar 18

Very excited to organise the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting in Amsterdam just before the @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference, on Monday 11th Aug 2025. More information to come soon but please save the date!

Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Mar 18

We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...

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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

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Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · Mar 15

Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Mar 10

Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

A graphical abstract titled "Can Beta-Blockers Manipulate Interoception? A Placebo-Controlled Study." The image illustrates how bisoprolol and propranolol affect interoception. On the left, a green figure represents bisoprolol, showing a zoomed-in synapse where it selectively blocks β1 receptors. On the right, a purple figure represents propranolol, blocking both β1 and β2 receptors, affecting both brain and body. A psychophysics graph models interoceptive responses, showing response intensity over trials. Below, line plots compare placebo, propranolol, and bisoprolol effects on interoception—cardioception (threshold) and respiroception (slope)—indicating drug effects on bodily awareness.

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Sucharit Katyal @sucharit.bsky.social · Mar 14

Many congratulations on this excellent work @mkwittmann.bsky.social @yongling.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social

Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Mar 13

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 re...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Mar 5

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"

To apply and for more details, please see:

RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

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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