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Anna Beyeler 🐝 @anna-beyeler.bsky.social · Jul 10

👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · May 15

@cpsyjournal.bsky.social is switching to a paid peer reviewer system!!

Game changer for academic publishing 👏👏

cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

A sustainable, fair, and efficient peer review system benefits affects us all and also depends on us all. We hope that this small step will help improve our current peer review system. Stay tuned with us and importantly, we hope you will contribute to the CPSY peer review process!

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

As such, introducing payments will not bias the outcome of the review – a concern raised by some in the past. We believe this change will enhance the fairness, efficiency, and equity of our peer review system.

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

Under CPSY's new model, reviewers’ compensation does not depend on the specific recommendation (accept/reject/revise) for the paper; instead, reviewers will be compensated per article as long as the peer review process for that article is complete.

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

However, this can no longer be justified when publishing companies are amassing huge profits and expanding their businesses by creating new journals. Meanwhile, the same scientists who review for journals for free get charged for reading papers and for publishing their papers.

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

Why aren't reviewers compensated, as is the case for any other type of labor? Traditionally, volunteering one's time to review manuscripts for the field is seen as part of scholarly citizenship – something you just do to support the field, not for personal gain.

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

Peer review is a cornerstone of the scientific publishing ecosystem. However, with the exponential growth of research, our current peer review model is clearly unsustainable. Reviewers are often overloaded with requests and editors often struggle to secure high quality reviews in a timely manner.

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · May 15

🔥💥📣 Excited to announce a new policy at the Computational Psychiatry (CPSY) journal @cpsyjournal.bsky.social. Starting from April 2025, CPSY will compensate reviewers for their time and effort invested in reviewing manuscripts. w/ @drrickadams.bsky.social
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One Small Step Towards Fixing a Broken System | Computational Psychiatry

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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · May 5

Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) habitat has shrunk by at least 65% over the past 1,400 years as evidenced by data extracted from 724 ancient Chinese poems! This finding highlights the vital link between conservation and cultural heritage! 🧪

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Spatial distribution and trend of the minimum potential distribution range of the Yantze finless porpoise during the Tang Dynasty.

Spatial distribution and trend of the minimum potential distribution range of the Yantze finless porpoise today.

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Apr 22

Late Abstract Submissions Now Open – Limited Space Available!
We are now accepting late abstract submissions for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen!
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Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit is a hosted academic conference management system. Modern interface, high scalability, extensive features and outstanding support are the signatures of Micros...

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Alex Hess (he/him) @alexjhess.bsky.social · Mar 25

Are you new to the field of Computational Psychiatry or just looking for resources on applying Bayesian models of cognition to behavioural data? Then check out our new paper "Bayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry": doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...
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Bayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry | Computational Psychiatry

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · Feb 23

*We are hiring* Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · Jan 22

The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us!

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).

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annecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · Feb 21

NIH study section that was *still* scheduled for Mon-Tue next week, including all reviews done etc... just got 'postponed' with no new date :(

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Feb 21

NIH indirects case update:

Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.

Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:

(I'm paraphrasing here)

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · Feb 21

Big day for U.S science today. Holding my breath
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · Feb 19

#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...

Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · Dec 20

Come and work with us at @thechbh.bsky.social, we have a position for a full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience. Please circulate and get in touch for an informal chat.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLE056/p...

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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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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Feb 19

So much for the grant I submitted last September, which was supposed to be reviewed next week.
Hardly the biggest tragedy on the current scale of things, but it will force me to severely downsize my already small lab.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Feb 18

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze

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Gabriela K Popescu @popstarlab.bsky.social · Feb 16

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...

Cancer is real.
Cancer kills people.
#Science can kill Cancer.

Stand for #science
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Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54

By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.

www.nytimes.com

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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · Feb 13

Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · Feb 9

NEW PUBLICATION in @naturementalhealth.bsky.social by @sarahbanker.bsky.social, @xiaosigu.bsky.social, Jennifer Foss-Feig & Daniela Schiller! Findings show that self-reported symptoms may not be effective diagnostic shortcuts for #autism diagnosis. Learn more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Chris Chatham @chchatham.bsky.social · Feb 7

Congrats; love this. it’s so important to understand these differences, partly so as to optimally leverage & understand assortative effects. Such dynamics will grow more powerful as scientific inference is increasingly democratized & as existing health discovery institutions/initiatives are degraded

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · Feb 7

This tour de France effort was led by the amazing
@sarahbanker.bsky.social as part of the collaboration w/ Jen Foss-Feig & Daniela Schiller. Stay tuned for more findings on #autism from us soon!

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · Feb 7

What do these findings mean?

As we comtinue to rely on online platforms and self reports in #computationalpsychiatry research, we must recognize the limitations of these approaches and how clinically ascertained and trait-defined samples differ.

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