My department is moving to a new building. Last day in my soon-to-be -old office, taking a good look at the long windowless corridor, defunct letter boxes, 60s spiral stairwell and the Japanese garden.
Professor Adam Sanborn presenting
Next up, from the behavioural science group, @asanborn.bsky.social presenting his ESRC-funded project investigating the use of Bayesian sequential sampling for modelling human decision making.
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The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:
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📢 We’re hiring!
The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor
📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
📢 We’re hiring!
The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor
📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
Photo of Dr Lucas Castillo
Welcome back to Dr Lucas Castillo, who is starting an ESRC-funded postdoc with Prof. Adam Sanborn using statistical sampling algorithms as standard models of human perceptual and cognitive behaviour. Lucas recently gained his PhD in the department exploring why people are not able to act randomly.
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🎓 Warwick China Scholarship Council scholarships – up to 30 for Autumn 2026 Entry
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Prof. Adam Sanborn giving a talk on Bayesian Brain without Probabilities at Aalto
On Friday, @ainiputkonen.bsky.social defended her dissertation on modeling decision-making in naturalistic settings with Prof. Adam Sanborn as the opponent. It has been a joy to watch her grow and emerge as a rigorous and original researcher. Congrats Aini!
aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/cf8487...
With Nick Chater, @mmrobinson93.bsky.social, Wenjia Joyce Zhao, Jake Spicer, and C. Stella Qian.
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We've received funding from the ESRC to investigate if sampling models can explain perceptual and cognitive tasks in the same way.
One of the postdoc positions is advertised: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/D...
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OECS thematic collections.
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social!
Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg
osf.io/ax8hm
Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm.
If we've missed any, please let us know!
sampling.warwick.ac....
Image of Dr. Jake Spicer
Welcome back to Dr. Jake Spicer, who returns to Warwick Psychology to begin his ESRC New Investigator project, "Investigating Sampling Approaches to Decision Making"
We are recruiting for two 1-year teaching-focussed positions. We welcome applicants in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on social psychology for one of the posts.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/a...
New paper with Tong Liu and Arndt Broeder, just accepted in Cognition. We test novel qualitative predictions from sampling-based models of probability estimation in an event ranking task. Results provide evidence for the idea that mental sampling underlies probability judgements.
Here's a network lesson on #creativity @yoedkenett.bsky.social and I came up: How to be more creative? Get noisy! Try lots of things. It's the old exploration-exploitation trade-off, and good practice when you don't know what to do. DM for a copy of the paper. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Very pleased that the special section I've edited with some colleagues (none of them on Bluesky, unfortunately) on Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise is now published in PPS! Links to all of the articles in the section below.
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
Thanks to the tremendous team of Jian-Qiao Zhu, Jake Spicer, @pleonv.bsky.social, @lcastillo.bsky.social, Johanna Falbén, @yunxiao-li.bsky.social, @aidan-sj-tee.bsky.social, and Nick Chater (4/4)
This noise could be due to the brain approximating probabilistic inference with local sampling.
If so, it could be a feature rather than a bug, as it allows exploration of alternative interpretations of the world. (3/4)
Diagram of different causes of noise in behaviour
It reviews the surprising structure of variability in human behaviour, discussing how much of it could be noise in cognitive computations. (2/4)
