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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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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 3d

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · 2d

John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI

www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI

American philosopher whose theories of language, consciousness and AI made him one of the best-known thinkers of the late 20th century, dies aged 93

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Eleni Domzaridou @edomzaridou.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 Exciting #DPhil project starting in 2026 using @ukbiobank.bsky.social data to explore misdiagnosis in #neurodevelopmental and #psychiatric disorders. Get I touch if you're interested!

@oxpop.bsky.social #MentalHealth #Epidemiology #stats #EHRs

www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in UK Biobank: misdiagnosis and delayed recognition, predictors of disease and outcomes

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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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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · 12d

Studienteilnehmer*innen gesucht für eine Studie zu interozeptiver Sensibilität und emotionaler Verarbeitung im Kontext außergewöhnlich bedrohlicher Erfahrungen!

hochschulen-fresenius-unipark.de/uc/INTRA/

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · 12d

Studienteilnehmer*innen gesucht für eine Studie zu interozeptiver Sensibilität und emotionaler Verarbeitung im Kontext außergewöhnlich bedrohlicher Erfahrungen!

hochschulen-fresenius-unipark.de/uc/INTRA/

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health" A multi-centre study on chronotype @satyamchauhan.bsky.social @ccn-brunel.bsky.social #sleep #chronotype #chronobiology

Please take part! Link to survey: brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health (CHIME)

A neuropsychological study investigating how chronotype (i.e., preference for being awake or asleep at certain times) may influence sleep behaviour, psychological wellbeing, and physical health in men...

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Aug 27

"A Multimodal Observational Case-Control Study Exploring Gut Microbiota–Hippocampus Alterations in Individuals With High Positive Schizotypy From the General Population" - new paper alert!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Multimodal Observational Case-Control Study Exploring Gut Microbiota–Hippocampus Alterations in Individuals With High Positive Schizotypy From the General Population

The hippocampus plays a critical role in psychosis, with reduced volume observed across the psychosis continuum. These structural changes are associat…

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications". Our new edited book due to appear in @springernature.com later this year! @carstenmurawski.bsky.social #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy

link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Decision Making

This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health" A multi-centre study on chronotype @satyamchauhan.bsky.social @ccn-brunel.bsky.social #sleep #chronotype #chronobiology

Please take part! Link to survey: brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health (CHIME)

A neuropsychological study investigating how chronotype (i.e., preference for being awake or asleep at certain times) may influence sleep behaviour, psychological wellbeing, and physical health in men...

brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control"

Our new paper out now in The Journals of Gerontology Series B!

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Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control

AbstractObjectives. Eye movements (EMs) are considered biomarkers for age-related neurological or psychological deficits, and oculomotor control has been s

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Aug 4

Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind

@perothwell.bsky.social

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

Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience

Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Jul 30

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Jul 25

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapie zu vertreten.

www.psychjob.eu/de/job/vertr...

Vertretung einer W1 Professur

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- u...

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Jul 25

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapie zu vertreten.

www.psychjob.eu/de/job/vertr...

Vertretung einer W1 Professur

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- u...

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Jul 18

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Jul 14

New paper alert: "Habitual Worry, Cognitive Control, and Heart Rate Variability in Adult ADHD" out now in Psychophysiology! @unibonn.bsky.social @universidadjaen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

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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

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Anne Kühnel @akuehnel.bsky.social · Jun 17

This is the first paper of my first grant 🎉. Work led by our PhD-student @cecivez.bsky.social together with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social & @nbkroemer.bsky.social

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Junior Researcher Programme @jresearcherprog.bsky.social · Apr 4

⏳𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬? Dr. Kristof Keidel and his team are exploring how time framing affects choices between immediate rewards and long-term gains.

𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦? Learn more about #jschool2025: jrp.pscholars.org/jschool2025

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Pulsed taVNS elicits pupil dilation. However, if sham feels as intense, there is not much left. Based on our comparatively large sample (94 participants, single-blind crossover), we show that a highly variable sham response explains this.
#neuroskyence 🩺
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A plot showing that taVNS does not induce larger pupil dilation compared to sham.

A plot showing that sham-induced pupil dilation is much more variable

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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · Jun 12

New manuscript out now online: "Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control" #RheinlandStudie ‪@geronsociety.bsky.social‬ academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control

AbstractObjectives. Eye movements (EMs) are considered biomarkers for age-related neurological or psychological deficits, and oculomotor control has been s

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Jun 11

Join me at the University of Witten/Herdecke for research on meta scientific topics, replication work or other fun things :-) as well as teaching some IMO wonderful students
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