My lab (u.osu.edu/spal/) and Ken Fujita’s lab (u.osu.edu/fujita/) at OSU are hiring a joint lab manager (a full-time postgraduate researcher) to start this summer!
Come work in two incredibly fun labs in a thriving social psychology department.
Application and more information soon to come!
Learn about all things modeling in psychiatry!
Get a feeling for what computational modeling can be useful for in psychiatry
Learn about good practice in comp. modeling in psychiatry
Use models in hands-on tutorials
-Connect with like-minded people
www.translationalneuromodeling.org/cpcourse/
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"Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
The updated version of this preprint is now online!
THREAD🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397
Higher levels of dopamine make people more attuned to rewards and less sensitive to losses, while lower levels make people more attuned to losses and less sensitive to rewards, helping explain why addiction can drive compulsive behavior despite harmful consequences.
What makes adaptive decision-making possible?
New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, Müller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati
osf.io/preprints/ps...
In NYC early? Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a pre-SOBP happy hour ✨
Connect with fellow attendees and faculty, meet new people, and get ready for an exciting week!
RSVP for location and details: www.eventbrite.com/e/1984134906...
🏰 New preprint! 🏰
(w/ the excellent @neuronomist.bsky.social & Prof. Jason Mattingley)
For my PhD I've been using EEG, psychophysics and modelling to explore how the brain uses uncertainty to balance sensory information against expectations about what's out there.
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***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!***
Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience.
PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply).
Deadline: 21st May.
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
Real-world evidence suggests GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy don't increase suicidality risk and may actually help treat substance use disorders, binge eating, and bulimia, though clinical trials are still needed to confirm these benefits.
Know ball and data? Come work with me building the next generation of basketball statistical insight:
jobs.ashbyhq.com/teamworks/ae...
🚀 Level up your fNIRS skills!
2-day hands-on workshop, Aug 3–4, USC LA
💰 Early bird $150 – register by May 31!
🔗 bit.ly/3ZwGWOh
Another professor wrote a campus paper piece arguing that the economics gender gap is mostly biology. This... did not survive close reading. So because I am this way, I made an interactive annotated edition cataloging the factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Wheee... Enjoy! #EconSky #AcademicSky
We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word!
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Our work on how neural circuits in the cerebellum encode prior probabilities led by Julius Koppen is out now in Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big thanks to Julius Koppen & the whole team! And dedicated to all of us who found inspiration in Bayesian theories of the brain!
New preprint (by Vandendriessche et al.)
In everyday life, choices often lead to multiple simultaneous outcomes — some positive, some negative. Yet most reinforcement learning research has focused on situations where each choice produces only a single outcome 1/5
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1
OPEN POSTDOC position (part of @erc.europa.eu Consolidator DYNALANG)
We build math&comp models of neural dynamics using insights from formal linguistics + ML
Seeking theory-driven researchers w/ interests in language, neural dynamics, & math/comp neuroscience.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/55exdpse
👀 looks like the core Stan folks are pretty bullish on Jax as the software of choice for fitting Bayesian models
bob-carpenter.github.io/dj-paper/
🚨 Rats and mice drink alcohol, sometimes heavily, but are the rewards they derive from it comparable to those of people with alcohol use disorder? How can we know?
Here is a multi-reward framework for alcohol drinking to begin to address this question:
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
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📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16.
Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8)
Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!)
See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com
Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.
A short episode of social interaction reduces reinstatement of cocaine seeking after abstinence
This effect depends on a competition between functionally specialized dopaminergic ensembles within the VTA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
You underestimate the colossal pain of academic silence. They say trauma is when you go through tragedy without even compassionate observers.
Dehumanization happens when there’s silence, no expression of collective pain.
Are we not seen as humans? Colleagues?
Would you all be so silent about MIT?
Our new paper asks whether autism is linked to the way people learn from rewards. We’ve previously shown that people not only learn to value the features that predict reward, but also assign credit to features of their actions that they know are irrelevant (in this case, the card's location).
Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Rats and mice drink alcohol, sometimes heavily, but are the rewards they derive from it comparable to those of people with alcohol use disorder? How can we know?
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www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Part 2 of my shrinkage estimator series is out! Part 1 covered the univariate case, but now we dive into multivariate shrinkage 🤓
We cover Spearman's classic correlation disattenuation formula, multivariate James-Stein estimators, and hierarchical methods too
haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...
Updating my mixed-effects modelling slides... I have opinions...
#statsmeme
Have you ever wondered whether hunger state affects your choices in non-food domains? 👀
Make sure to check out our latest preprint, which sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the effects of hunger state on choice: osf.io/preprints/ps...