How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs?

Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com

Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro

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

Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion Making decisions on behalf of other people reduces decision confidence, which leads to responsibility aversion.

Happy to share my first first-author paper, new in Science Advances: Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceAdvancesResearch @zne-uzh.bsky.social @econ.uzh.ch

What if we could locate, sequence, and identify every protein in a cell? This would unlock a transformative way to study biology and disease.

That question shaped my PhD, and I’m excited to share our new preprint on the Principles of In Situ Protein Sequencing, now live on bioRxiv.

Marlene Porsche Graduate School of Neuroeconomics

Reminder: the deadline to apply for 🎆funded 🎆PhD positions in the Marlene Porsche Graduate School of Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich is coming up on 1 December 2025. www.econ.uzh.ch/en/study/phd...
@econ.uzh.ch @socforneuroecon.bsky.social

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

Probability weighting arises from boundary repulsions of cognitive noise In both risky choice and perception, people overweight small and underweight large probabilities. While prospect theory models this with a probability weighting function, and Bayesian noisy coding mod...

📢 Preprint out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... What gives rise to probability weighting, a cornerstone of Prospect Theory?
We show it comes from the natural boundedness of probabilities + cognitive noise. Adding boundaries adds multiple distortions, across risky choice & perception.

But wouldn't the increase in performance go together with a decreased interpretability?

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀
I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales
👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html
👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023 This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible.

This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

🚨 We’re hiring! I'm looking for a Postdoc and a Lab Manager/RA to join my team at Brown University starting this summer.

Come work on computational modeling and neuroimaging in embodied intelligence & psychiatry.

🔗 fpetzschner.com/lab/team/joi...

Please share!
#AcademicJobs #Neurojobs #Hiring

CSC 2025

We are excited to announce the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.

Fantastic keynotes: Matthew Rushworth,
@dianatamir.bsky.social , @davidamodio.bsky.social

Apply by April 18 (compsoccog.com)

Please share with anyone who might be interested!