👇🧠Avoidance is context-specific, shaped by inferred control and feedback reliability.
We introduce a persistence-escape paradigm and a model where agency acts as a gating signal, emerging from meta-control over cognitive-affective signals.
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#AdaptiveIntelligence

Resilience under threat may depend on what is built before it. We find that #agency accumulated in „failure-safe“ contexts linked to:
• reduced #escape under threat
• adaptive responses when control is lost
New paradigm + MACA-Q model make agency measurable (preprint soon).
#AdaptiveIntelligence

Why can similar avoidance behavior emerge from distinct processes? In a new paradigm & RL-meta-control model, agency emerges as dynamic quantity 👉same avoidance arises from distinct latent trajectories, with distinct adaptive behavior across contexts. Avoidance depends on context. More to come soon!

Excited to join Thinking About Thinking as Ambassador 2026.

I study how humans adapt and maintain agency and build systems that do the same.🔥

Bridging computational neuroscience × agentic AI × adaptive intelligence.

Looking to connect with others working on systems that learn how to learn. 🧠🤖

Honored to be selected by @ACNP and @SfNtweets as an Advocacy Ambassador for the 2026 SfN Hill Day, engaging policymakers on neuroscience and computational psychiatry, and the importance of sustained NIH/NSF research funding. 🧠👩‍🏫🔬
#ScienceAdvocacy #Neuroscience #ComputationalPsychiatry

Still riding the energy from an amazing ACNP meeting 🌊 #ACNP2026
So grateful for the Travel Award, a fantastic symposium, and the chance to meet so many thoughtful, inspiring people while discussing the frontiers of neuropsychopharmacology.
Thank you, ACNP 💙

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
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We’re bringing computational psychiatry to #ACNP2026

Our panel shows how RL, DDMs, active inference, and neural models can unpack symptom heterogeneity across anxiety, psychosis, ADHD, depression, and suicide risk-moving beyond diagnoses to mechanisms.
@acnporg.bsky.social
#ComputationalPsychiatry

Now out in JEP: General, "How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently"

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Preprint with final version: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Hello friends! In 2025 I wrote 5 grants and aiming to keep it up in the new year! Anyone willing to share a Dutch Research Council VENI FULL proposal example with me? (especially a successful one from recent years?) #neuroskyence #cogsci #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #Psychiatry #Netherlands #VENI 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you ACNP @npp-journal.bsky.social
for this recognition! 😇🙏
This #transdiagnostic work with Gearshift Fellowship aims to move beyond static tasks toward dynamic, mechanistic understanding of how people regain agency when control is uncertain and rules change. Super excited for #ACNP2026.

Thrilled to speak at JCSG25 this week! I’ll share work on adaptive intelligence and agency at the intersection of computational modeling, neuroscience, and psychiatry. 🧠 Would love to meet colleagues exploring similar questions! 🙂 #AdaptiveIntelligence #CompModel #Neuroscience #AgencyAndControl

Gearshift Fellowship: A Next-Generation Neurocomputational Game Platform to Model and Train Human-AI Adaptability How do we learn when to persist, when to let go, and when to shift gears? Gearshift Fellowship (GF) is the prototype of a new Supertask paradigm designed to model how humans and artificial agents adap...

Flaghsip GearshiftFellowship paper out! 👉 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Introducing reconfigurable „supertasks“ that reveal cognitive-affective mechanisms of #adaptability and #agency across contexts.
Towards #ComputationalPsychiatry using #GenerativeAI for studying #neurocomputationalMechanisms

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Frontend Engineer (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, jsPsych) #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky

The Gearshift Fellowship R&D Core is expanding its technical capacity. 🔥We’re hiring a frontend engineer (HTML/JS/jsPsych) to help advance our research platform on adaptive intelligence 🧠👇

Are you a UK mental health professional working with children with mental health issues - we are asking for help designing a study for social robots to complete mental health questionnaires with children aged 8 to 10 - more infor here cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our paper accepted in BP:GOS! 🔥
Even when learning impairments look behaviorally similar across depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, their computational mechanisms differ. 🧠
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge team effort! 💪😇👥@lnccbrown.bsky.social
#ComputationalPsychiatry #AdaptiveIntelligence

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Thesis Topic: Meta-Learning of Reward Representations for Predicting Mood Fluctuations in Mental Health A Master's thesis topic is available at the Centre for Digital Health Interventions.CDHI Thesis Title: Meta-Learning of Reward Representations for Predicting Mood Fluctuations in Mental Health: From I...

Excited to mentor students through my Core on Adaptive Intelligence @ethz.ch & @unisg.ch: advancing research at the interface of computational modeling, adaptive AI, and digital mental health. 🚀 Curious minds welcome: More info👇
Topics:
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From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry

#ThisWeekInNPP

This 🔃 Review🔃 discusses how computational psychiatry can reveal latent mechanisms in ADHD & mood disorders, emphasizing ways to ⬆️ reliability & develop more precise, ecologically valid models for diagnosis & treatment / @nadjagingjehli.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Keynote by Dr. Ging-Jehli on Adaptability in the Digital Age: From Neuroscience to Next-Generation Agentic AI and Health Ecosystems, 7 October 2025 Tuesday, 07 October 2025,  4.15 pm CET, Hybrid: HSG–ITEM A 24-0-216 or ZOOM  About Nadja Ging-Jehli Dr. Nadja Ging-Jehli is a neuroscientist and economist studying how people and machines adapt in u...

Excited to keynote the HSG Digital Health Forum next week! 🚀
Topic: how our brains adapt to change and how neuroscience × economics × agentic AI can drive adaptive digital health for ADHD, anxiety & depression.
📅 Oct 7, 16:15 CET
👇 Join us: www.c4dhi.org/news/251007-...

From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - From symptom-based heterogeneity to mechanism-based profiling in youth ADHD: the promise of computational psychiatry

Our #ComputationalPsychiatry review paper is published in #Neuropsychopharmacology! 🎉
We outline how to move beyond single constructs, and what’s needed for real clinical impact, with ADHD as a key case example. Toward adaptive, precision psychiatry👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heading to #AIplusX2025 in Zurich! 🚀
My focus: agentic AI × neuroscience x mental health.
I’m building Gearshift Fellowship: an adaptive game platform to study adaptability + digital mental health. Who else is exploring this space? Let’s connect!
#AgenticAI #AIforHealth #Neuro #AIXSUMMIT

A Novel Approach-Avoidance Task to Study Decision Making Under Outcome Uncertainty To behave adaptively, people need to integrate information about probabilistic outcomes and balance drives to approach positive outcomes and avoid negative outcomes. However, questions remain about ho...

Our newest preprint “A novel approach-avoidance task to study decision making under outcome uncertainty” investigates the dynamics of approach-avoid decisions!

Check out www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/..., led by Ziwei Cheng and @nadjagingjehli.bsky.social

Honored to receive a Travel Award from #CPConf2025 😇 Presented on ADHD-specific adaptive mechanisms in social strategic interactions - underexplored aspects of clinical significance!
🔥 Inspired our #GearshiftFellowship platform 🧠🎮 Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

… or a task battery. it’s a structured, scalable environment to study how minds and machines adapt across changing goals, uncertainty, and social cues. First validation studies + human-AI experiments coming soon. Stay tuned! 🥳🤩

🚀 Our GearshiftFellowship method paper introducing “Supertask” has been accepted in Springer LNCS!
We propose a reconfigurable game environment to study adaptability in humans & AI. 🌍🧠
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#NeuroAI #MetaLearning

Supertask isn’t just a game…

🥳 Honored to join the ACNP community as an Awardee! ✨ Excited to step into this exceptional space where neuroscience, AI, and psychiatry meet to advance how we understand and care for mental health. Toward an integrative ecosystem. #ACNP2026 #GearshiftFellowship #AdaptiveMinds

At #RLDM2025 presenting Gearshift Fellowship: a reconfigurable platform to study how humans & AI agents co-adapt under shifting uncertainty, effort & control. More than a framework - it’s a testable ecosystem. Let’s connect. 🔁🤖🧠
#AI #MetaLearning #CompPsych #SeriousGames

I am hiring for RA, PhD, and postdoc positions. Come work with me on how we use simplified models of the world to plan in complex environments!

University of Arizona is located in Tucson with incredible access to the outdoors.

If you are interested, reach out to me! (2/2)