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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order www.nature.com/articles/d41... The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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NIH study section that was still scheduled for Mon-Tue next week, including all reviews done etc... just got 'postponed' with no new date :(

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Check out our new work from Jennifer Senta, with Sonia Bishop, looking at how physiological anxiety relates to impairments in both working memory and reinforcement learning processes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Not one, but TWO cool preprints by Jennifer Senta! First preprint (with Anne Collins, Peter Dayan and Sonia Bishop) has a really cool use of modeling aimed at dissociating mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety-related phenotypes: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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🚨 Inviting all Curious Agents 🔍👀 to attend our workshop @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social!! With amazing speakers from across disciplines, we attempt to arrive at the core principles underlying intrinsic motivations in biological and artificial agents 🎮🧠🤖💪 Website: sites.google.com/view/pimbaa2...

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🚨 Workshop alert 🚨 If you're interested in RL and real-world data, come to our workshop @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Including cool talks, a panel debate, and a group brainstorming activity. sites.google.com/view/rlinthe...

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Just finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)! All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...

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Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

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We've been informed of a Bluesky profile impersonating us. Beware of scammers - we won't ask you to send money to an email address. Registration and payment is only possible by clicking on the registration link found on rldm.org and following the instructions in our Google registration form.

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Register now!!!!!

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The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu

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Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025! 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF... Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Another crazed change from the Trump Administration: removing the NIH No-cost extension form

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Another funding opportunity is gone. NSF archived the the Career-Life Balance program which provided supplemental funding when researchers are on family leave. The small strides we had made toward improving representation in science are being undone so fast. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre

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WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.

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A new Python toolbox called HSSM simplifies working with Hierarchical Sequential Sampling Models (HSSMs) to understand how we accumulate evidence and make choices. Built on PyMC, Bambi, & ArviZ. Check it out! #cognitivescience #python #decisionmaking edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...

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Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

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Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

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When sharing data, 3 things you can do to help ensure your collaborator doesn't spend countless hours trying to understand the files: 1. Add a README to the folder, explaining its contents 2. Organize files in subfolders 3. Name files clearly so that contents can be inferred They will thank you 🙏

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The RLDM workshop list is now up! Have a look: rldm.org/call-for-wor... More workshop details coming soon :) There were so many wonderful submissions---this was really tough for the committee. Huge thanks to all involved, and looking forward to seeing folks in Dublin

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Sarah Oh and I have a new preprint! Developing a new experimental protocol to reveal habit formation separately from cognitive control, in a 1h lab experiment. @collinsccnlab.bsky.social Naturally disengaging control to reveal habits: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Researchers in France! 🇫🇷 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social France Fund is calling for proposals for seed money! All fields are welcome to apply. There are so many opportunities for collaboration that such grants can open!

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I’m presenting this work at the SoLaR workshop at #NeurIPS2024 on Saturday 11am-noon. Come to my poster to chat about interpretable AI safety!

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Come check out my poster #46 today at #ACNP2024 ‘Associations between Working Memory Contributions to Reinforcement Learning and Mental Health Phenotypes in a Representative Online Hypothesis-Generating Sample’ looking forward to getting your brilliant feedback!

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Get your abstract submissions ready for RLDM 2025, at Trinity College in Dublin (abstracts due 1/15). Tutorial submissions close on 12/20. RLDM is a terrific interdisciplinary conference at the intersection of computational theory (AI, ML, robotics), cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience.

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📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 Submit your extended abstracts on "learning and decision-making over time to achieve a goal" to #RLDM2025. Successful applications will be selected for poster or oral presentation to an interdisciplinary audience. 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15th 🔗 Learn more: rldm.org/call-for-abs...

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Check out my article on Reinforcement Learning for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science! oecs.mit.edu/pub/k2ek981x... @oecs-bot.bsky.social

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🚨 Calling all experts! 🚨 We're seeking tutorial proposals for topics on "learning and decision-making over time to achieve a goal". Help foster cross-disciplinary exchange at RLDM 2025! 📅 Deadline: December 20th 🧠 Learn more & apply: rldm.org/call-for-tut...

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There’s still time to register for the first-time reviewers workshop with @reviewerzero.bsky.social! Geared toward people in the 🧠 sciences but useful and open to all ✨ Register 👇🏽 blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989 #Neuroskyence #Blackademics #PhDSky #AcademicSky #BlackInSTEM 🧪

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We're looking for nominations for speakers to give a tutorial on RLDM topics to mixed audience of psychologist, neuroscientists and AI folks. Please contribute!

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Hey 👋 the deadline for submitting workshop proposals to #RLDM is fast approaching! We would especially love creative structures for workshops, like hackathons, debates or other traditional formats. Follow @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social for more updates!

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I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

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Have ideas for an interdisciplinary workshop? Get involved at RLDM to tackle key challenges, open problems, or controversial topics! 🎤 Formats: Talks, panels, hackathons, debates—your choice! 👥 All career stages welcome to lead. 🗓️ Deadline to apply: 10th December. Link 🔽 rldm.org/call-for-wor...

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RLDM will be held next year in Dublin! A reminder that the call for workshops is out: rldm.org/call-for-wor... The workshops are one of my favourite parts of the conference :) please get in touch if you have any questions!

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If you want to do work at the intersection of deep learning from raw sound and linguistic theory, apply to our PhD program and be part of our lab! Finding symbolic representations in deep learning models trained on speech is a lot of fun! Deadline: December 1!

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