📣🔥 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.
Two summer schools focused on skills for cognitive modeling and mathematical psychology will each receive $20,000 grants through this year’s William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Learn more about these projects by @peterkvam.bsky.social & Eric-Jan Wagenmakers.
The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j
We’re hiring a full-time Research Coordinator in the Preston Lab at UT Austin (start May/June 2026).
Work on behavioral + fMRI studies of how memory & decision-making develop from childhood to adulthood.
Learn more & apply: preston.clm.utexas.edu/news/join-th...
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We leveraged LaseNet (@tifenpan.bsky.social, @annecollins.bsky.social), an RNN framework trained on model-simulated data, to infer trial-by-trial attentional states from behavior during learning. The network learns to map observable behavior -> latent attention trajectories.
Proud to share the lab’s first preprint, led by the fantastic @christinamaher.bsky.social! 🎉
Real-world environments are high-dimensional and noisy.
Selective attention is thought to shape the state representations that make reinforcement learning tractable.
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:
www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...
Deadline: May 4th, 2026
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
Come join us at BAMB! to learn all about modelling behavior and what Barcelona’s beaches have to offer 🏐🏄♂️🏊♂️
Applications for 2026 are open here: www.bambschool.org
I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:
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Lab website: wessellab.org
What makes new goals difficult to reach? As I discussed with @alisonpstevens.bsky.social for @sciencenews.bsky.social,
the issue might be holding precise but costly memories of the target. As we internalize rules for what success looks like, goals become more attainable. @annecollins.bsky.social
If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
Excited to share our chapter "Breaking the Tug-of-War: What Neuroeconomics Can Gain by Moving Past Competition-Only Models" with Yi-Hsin Su, Romy Frömer, and @ashenhav.bsky.social, now out in the new volume, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions"!
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02925-6_10
If you know anyone that has made a similar experience and is willing to talk on the record to a reporter about this, please get in touch. Thanks :)
🌟 Job alert! We are looking for a postdoc to join a multidisciplinary research team working on the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation at Yale (IMPACT-Y) study.
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🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open!
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
Looking for a postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry? Apply here to join an interdisciplinary team and work with a large longitudinal transdiagnostic dataset
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A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15.
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Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social
We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!
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We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
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🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
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Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.
Enjoying a great visit at #ACNS2025! Thank you for inviting me!
In Melbourne for Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting! Very happy to visit again after 30 years! @acnsau.bsky.social
But of course there's a huge RL literature too, and I'm eager to figure out the boundary conditions for RL vs. habits.
in addition to Miller et al 2019, there's been Greenstreet et al 2025 (Nature), Wagner et al (2024 preprint), and in some interpretation Eckstein et al (2024 preprint), ending up on very similar theories.
Important question, and I'm not sure yet. We're currently trying to show evidence of both at the same time, and it's a challenge.
It's been interesting seeing the habit idea coming out in many recent papers from different angles.
Yes, I'm interested in figuring out the discrepancy. I do have unpublished test phase data where the WM+habit does capture the test phase better than WM+RL. Agree it's important to figure out what's different, and under what circumstances RL is needed. Working on it!