The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.
We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.
Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com
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We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
Hitting the nail on its head with respect to always having to think about "the next step" as a postdoc, even after just having started a new job. We know it is part of the deal, and it is very hard to change this system, but it is important to keep discussing this.
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Happy #WomenInScience day - I've had the privilege of working with many brilliant women during my career, and am always acutely aware that they often have to work harder, be smarter, and do better to be taken equally seriously. Hopefully, we can keep doing better moving forward.
Ein Foto des Eingangsbereichs im Trinity College Dublin, aufgenommen als ich im September 2021 frisch in Dublin angekommen war.
Ein ganz herzliches Hallo in die Runde 👋 Ich freu mich sehr darauf euch eine Woche in meinen Alltag entführen zu können! Aber mit wem habt ihr es überhaupt zu tun? Ich bin Vanessa, Psychologin und Neurowissenschaftlerin, arbeite am Trinity College in Dublin und am Universitätsklinikum in Tübingen.
Breaking news: New Dutch cabinet reversing €1.5 billion in cuts to education and science
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🎉 psp just hit 14K+ downloads!
Our #rstats package for parameter space partitioning powered our work on g-distance, model comparison, irrationality, and heterogeneity: doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=psp
Huge thanks to the Healthy Brain Study initiative for the great database, and to my co-authors Karin Roelofs (@epanlab.bsky.social), Bill Burk, Terrence Jorgensen, Anouk Scheres, and Bernd Figner for the great collaboration! (6/6)
Overall, our results support the role of intertemporal impatience across several externalizing but not internalizing mental health difficulties, and offer a detailed and nuanced interpretation of the transdiagnostic role of intertemporal impatience across mental health. (5/6)
Symptom-level analyses suggested that this latter association was mainly driven by information impulsivity (also known as a lack of premeditation) and financial impulsivity (4/6).
Moreover, intertemporal impatience was positively associated with a latent impulsivity dimension spanning multiple mental health categories, reflecting ADHD, motor impulsivity, non-planning impulsivity, and low self-control. (3/6)
We show that when adjusting for participant sex, age, education, and income, intertemporal impatience was associated with increased levels of nicotine use, reactive aggression, dispositional greed, motor impulsivity, and non-planning impulsivity. (2/6)
New paper out! In this work, published in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, we investigated the role of impatient intertemporal choice across mental health in a community sample (N = 899) using a novel transdiagnostic research approach. doi.org/10.1002/bdm.... (1/6)
Come and say hi to @seowxft.bsky.social @floorburghoorn.bsky.social @lenarddome.bsky.social & @kenzakdr.bsky.social who will be demonstrating our brain explorer app and research at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand at New Scientist Live event in London
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Still processing this….it was a wonderful day, with so much support from my amazing supervisory team, colleagues, friends, and family 🥳
to eating disorder symptoms and total and motor impulsivity. We encourage future work to replicate these effects and study their relevance for impatience and mental health. A big thanks to my co-authors Anouk Scheres, Karin Roelofs (@epanlab.bsky.social), and Bernd Figner! (6/6)
We also observed the prospect of immediate rewards to increase the vigour (speed) of correct approach responses. Interestingly, while a stronger RT bias was positively linked to ADHD hyperactivity/impulsivity and non-planning impulsivity symptoms, a reversed RT bias was positively linked (5/6)
Therefore, we examined, in a general population sample, its association with various mental health symptoms characterized by increased or decreased impatience. However, no associations between the response bias and these mental health symptoms were found. (4/6)
We theorize this to be a possible mechanism of intertemporal impatience, explaining a difficulty to inhibit ourselves when faced with immediate gratification (e.g., the high of a drug), possibly at the cost of long-term (e.g., health) goals. (3/6)
In this paper (N = 389), we start by replicating an intertemporal Pavlovian response bias, with the prospect of immediate (vs delayed) rewards increasing instrumental approach behaviour and interfering with inhibition - the timing of rewards thus exerts a Pavlovian bias effect. (2/6)
Very happy that our paper on intertemporal Pavlovian biases and mental health is out now in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience! link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-0... (1/6)
We are excited to announce our hands-on workshop aimed at lowering barriers to entry into the world of computational modeling using our user-friendly python toolbox, cpm (cpm-toolbox.net)!
📢 Limited seats – don't miss out!
📅 17.07.2025 9.00 – 13.00 📍 Tübingen
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A huge thanks goes out to my co-authors Anouk Scheres, John Monterosso, Mingqian Guo, Shan Luo, Karin Roelofs and Bernd Figner for the wonderful collaboration! (4/4)
elicit a stronger Pavlovian approach response than cues signalling preference-matched delayed rewards. This "Pavlovian impatience" may contribute to the difficulty to inhibit ourselves in the face of immediate gratification, possibly at the cost of long-term goals (3/4).
Using a reinforcement learning go/no-go task, we showed that the anticipation of immediate small rewards (versus delayed larger rewards) facilitated goal-directed approach but impaired goal-directed inhibition. RL models suggested that cues signalling immediate rewards (2/4)
Stoked that the second chapter of my PhD has been published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience! link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-0... We investigated the role of a Pavlovian bias as mechanism contributing to impatient intertemporal choice behaviour. (1/5)