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clairegillan.bsky.social
Professor in Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. Here for less gross twitter, less boring mastodon. www.gillanlab.com
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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.

Very happy that this preprint (I'm 2nd author & taking over for the bluesky-less Vanessa Scholz) is finally out! In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan).. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hey there Bluesky #PsychSciSky #ComputationalPskychiatry - we have a lab retreat coming up and are going to do a session on principles of making GLORIOUS figures for papers. Any resources you'd recommend / online tutorials I can steal from??

Congratulations Dr Anna Rosicka @annarosicka.bsky.social on passing your Viva today! Another amazing student flying the nest 😥🦉. Thanks to examiners Clare MacKay and Claire Howlin #AlltheClaires. Celebrating this afternoon with a very special hat from @glassybrain.bsky.social

Abstract submission is closing soon for the Interdisciplinary conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making #RLDM2025, taking place this June in Dublin - the first time the meeting will be in Europe! Have you submitted your abstract yet?? @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social

I'm hoping to hire a postdoc this year to join our growing lab at Yale! Looking for someone interested in EMA/digital phenotyping, formal theories, complex systems, & computational psychiatry. If this sounds like you, please reach out! Official ad coming soon.

the most embarrassing part of being a “100 tabs open at once” guy is when you inadvertently close them and don’t even notice and there are absolutely no negative consequences

Little pre-holiday reminder: I'm recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...) - deadline is January the 12th, so think about it over the break and then apply in the New Year! Do get in touch if you have any questions (though bear in mind I'll be OOO too 🎄)

🚨 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...

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!

I'm recruiting a 23-month postdoc! If you're interesting in #ComputationalPsychiatry or #EatingDisorders research please apply and/or get in touch - very happy to have informal chats with potential applicants, and put you in touch with existing members of my lab. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

I’m excited to share our new, open-access paper published today in NatMentHealth, “Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology”. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨 Clinicians have noted for decades how planning & anxiety are linked. Yet, computational psychiatry thus far failed to show how. Here, I explain that we need to broaden how we model planning to reveal its *biases* in chronic anxiety. A 🧵 on the framework 1/n authors.elsevier.com/a/1kAJC4sIRv...

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025) Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit

Hi academics! Today's a great day to email the authors of a piece you have read and liked to tell them. Assigning a work in class? Tell the authors! Citing something bc it is smart and good? Tell the authors! Just liked something you read? Tell the authors!!

It only detects 65% overlap with the preprint... so TurnItIn still clearly has a ways to go 😅

Submitting a paper and it now tells me the % overlap of my paper with other published works... highlighting sentences using same software used for undergrad essays. Does this not just *facilitate* plagiarism?

I'm excited to be co-leading a course on Interoception and Brain disorders with Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social on the beautiful academic island of San Servolo, Venice, in May 2025 www.neurosas.org/advanced-cou...

📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢 We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025. We are now accepting symposium submissions!

Just back from a great visit to the Laureate Institute for Brain Research #LIBR in Tulsa. Thanks so much for all the great chats and esp. to mega-host (!) and recent Bluesky recruit @mariaironside.bsky.social

Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Did you know #RLDM2025 is coming to Dublin next June? rldm.org Abstract submission open now ☘️ 🇮🇪

Hey new followers! 👋 We are excitedly working away on lots of new habit research - days of training with electrophysiology 🧠 with neural decoding, causal work on making and breaking 🙅‍♀️, and 📱 assessments. As a preview - check out our latest in TiCS www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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“And we will have different names for different kinds of missing data. When it is random, we shall call it missing completely at random.” “And when it is not random, sir?” “Missing at random.”

Hah I reposted this about a day before all the new activity on here, so for all the personalizing tx and longitudinal folks.. I’m recruiting up to two PhD students this year! Please pass on to promising trainees.

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Null findings are important ‼️ Excited to share my latest work finding model-based planning does NOT improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩‍💻 treatments 🧵👇🏻

If you want to do ambulatory assessment (e.g., EMA) in applied settings, say with patients, how many observations do you need to get a reliable estimate of a person's mean, variability, or correlation? We (@jzpsych.bsky.social & Florian Scharf) ran some simulations to get the answer...a🧵

Out now in Alzheimer's & Dementia, @annarosicka.bsky.social uses the @neurekaApp and data from thousands of citizen scientists to examine how well-established ricks factors relate to subjective versus objective cognitive ability across the lifespan. doi.org/10.1002/alz....

Congrats to my Trinity College Dublin colleague Prof. Aoife McLysaght on being appointed to the position of Irish Government Science Advisor. Well deserved #IrishResearch #Science www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I have been so blind

Oh god should I have been making widescreen powerpoints this whole time??

Yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis, bringing to a close my 3 years of 🧠 health research at Trinity College Dublin! Thank you to everyone who supported me along this journey. (Yes, I celebrated with my "Sleep and relax" herbal infusion, joined by Ms. Rubber Duck the Tea Strainer. 🦆)

“Regressing common choice signals away does not make them artifacts" Please check out our commentary on the Frömer et al paper (2024, Nature Human Behaviour) in which we highlight important problems with the analysis and interpretation of their perceptual choice data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We won the IgNobel Prize in Probability for 350,757 coin flips. František Bartoš and EJ Wagenmakers received the prize yesterday on behalf the 50-author team. Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started on (probability = 50.8%). 🧪 #StatsSky #PsychSciSky More info below. 👇

this is pretty amazing: @lucinauddin.bsky.social is taking on the giant, hugely profitable publishers of academic journals, on grounds of antitrust If you'd like to join the case as a plaintiff you can sign up at www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac... summary of the case: