Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is The neuroscience of planning has long been analogized to search algorithms in artificial intelligence (AI), which simulate future actions to guide immediate choices. We argue that advances in both neu...

New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.

Altered interoceptive–exteroceptive profile in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Evidence from bayesian psychophysics and metacognitive modeling Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is believed to involve impaired processing of external information and excessive focus on internal bodily signals. …

Interesting new study using our heart rate discrimination task and hierarchical modelling to investigate generalized anxiety disorder! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

A new set of papers, sharing the long-awaited result of several reproducibility and replicability projects, including commentaries, is published today. I look forward to reading the studies, and re-using the data generated! www.nature.com/collections/...

Interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans : la proposition de loi voulue par Emmanuel Macron arrive dans un Sénat divisé à son sujet La majorité de droite à la Chambre haute ne remet pas en question l’objectif général du texte, mais a opté en commission de la culture pour un système à deux vitesses, distinguant deux types de plateformes.

Interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans : la proposition de loi voulue par Emmanuel Macron arrive dans un Sénat divisé à son sujet

The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major implications for diagnoses and treatment

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major implications for diagnoses and treatment

ERC clarifies limits on AI use in grant evaluation The ERC Scientific Council has adopted new guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in the evaluation of grant proposals. The guidelines aim to safeguard the integrity of peer review while all...

New guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in the evaluation of ERC grant proposals.

The aim is to safeguard the integrity of peer review while allowing limited use of AI where it does not compromise privacy or trust.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/47HqTld

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers The papers’ watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.

AI conference organizers hid LLM prompts in conference text, instructing LLMs to use specific words as watermarks when generating conference abstracts. This led to the disqualification of 497 submitted papers.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
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Run - don't walk - to apply for our Fellowship Planning Retreat 2026 before the deadline! 🏃‍♀️

In partnership with the @nihr-rss.bsky.social, this retreat is an opportunity for mental health & addiction researchers to progress on a project-based fellowship application 📝

Apply now!
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"20% of the studies presented causal claims that were not supported by their designs, opening the risk of their results being misinterpreted and their effect sizes being exaggerated [..] exacerbated by a lack of method transparency and construct validity" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1/8 New preprint alert!

How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain?
What could be the functional implications of cardioception?

We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

NIHR Research Support Service – Mental Health Research Do you have a great idea for a mental health research project but aren’t sure how to take the next step? Look no further than the NIHR’s Research Support Service – free, tailored, expert advice for…

Got a great idea for a mental health research project but need help? 📢

Try contacting the NIHR's Research Support Service (@nihr-rss.bsky.social)! They provide free, tailored, expert advice for researchers on all aspects of developing & writing a funding application.

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DSM-6 Will Be Structured Around Biomarkers—Despite Acknowledgment There Aren’t Any
by Peter Simons

The subcommittee was created to use biomarkers to reorganize the whole project. The problem? They acknowledge that such biomarkers have not yet actually been found.
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Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

Some nice coverage here of our study published in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI on structure learning and uncertainty in compulsivity

📃 Paper available here - www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Current jobs

📣 Another Job Alert!
We’re hiring a Band 7 Research Associate for the SPROCKET Hub at @greatormondst.bsky.social & @uclchildhealth.bsky.social, co‑producing research with children, young people and families.

🕒 Full‑time, 48 months
⏳ Closes 15/03/2026

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Shorten UK undergraduate degrees to just two years, says v-c Adopting a ‘two plus two’ system including longer integrated master’s would boost access, employment and the economy, argues Anthony Finkelstein

Most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened, according to one university vice-chancellor, who claims that the UK’s current three-year bachelor’s model is “largely a historical artefact”

#EduSky #highered

Instructed increase in fear activation during exposure exercises does not enhance treatment effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder and agoraphobia The efficacy of exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (eCBT) for panic disorder and agoraphobia (PD/AG) is well established, but the mechanisms …

Another EXCELLENT paper about exposure. But this supports my claim that we have to study recommendations that come from basic science and often we don't find they improve outcomes... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Application Form Senior Editor Clinical/Associate Editor Social Section Collabra: Psychology Starting from 1 July 2026, Collabra: Psychology is on the look-out for a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interest...

Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please!
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International Women’s Day On Sunday 8 March, the world celebrates the achievements and well-being of its 4 billion female inhabitants.

To recognize International Women’s Day, we've curated this collection of articles on the joys and challenges that women in research careers face – plus, some fresh approaches to women’s health research.

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Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.

#PsychSciSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

‘Quantity, not quality’ of PhD supervisions key to promotion UK-wide survey of university promotion policies reveals emphasis on PhD recruitment and completions, rather than the need for high-quality support

Becoming a professor at a UK university is dependent on training high volumes of PhD students rather than delivering outstanding supervision, a report suggests. @jgro-the.bsky.social writes #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family

Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family

Join us in Brighton this September!
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Symposium submissions due 31 March.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

📢 We’re hiring!

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

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🔹 Associate Professor

📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

‘I don’t care if Chat GPT isn’t a therapist, it’s helping!’ | BPS Psychologists Hedda van’t Land and Vittorio Busato explain why teens may be swayed towards using AI as therapy, and examine the potential consequences.

‘I don’t care if Chat GPT isn’t a therapist, it’s helping!’
Psychologists Hedda van’t Land and Vittorio Busato explain why teens may be swayed towards using AI as therapy, and examine the potential consequences.
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More and more countries are banning kids from social media But the case for bans is weak and the benefits are uncertain

The apps consume huge amounts of children’s time, which many parents would like to see put to different uses. But bans are hard to implement—and harder to enforce