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Join us in Providence for an amazing program on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration. 👀🔎 Registration is free! 45 min train ride from the location of @socforneuroecon.bsky.social this year.

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What a fun experience being on the @mindsmatter.bsky.social podcast! Thanks to Ava & @bethfisher.bsky.social for the invite 🧠✨

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JD Vance has expressed a “deep hostility to the entire academic enterprise, not just the so-called woke parts,” writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. "He wasn’t talking about making more room for right-wing ideas in universities or even dreaming of taking them over. He wanted to destroy it all."

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Call your representatives! We need to save science! They are listening!

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🧠🧠🧠 Abstracts due this Friday for this incredible, FREE conference! Registration and abstract submission is open to EVERYONE 🧠🧠🧠 #womeninSTEM #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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My lab is hiring a full-time research coordinator! (Ideal for anyone who would like to pursue a PhD in computational social neuroscience and/or computational psychiatry) We will begin reviewing apps on Feb 21, 2025 Learn more here: sinclab.github.io/connect/hiring #compneuro #socialneuro #cpsy 🧠📈

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come and work in the UCL Neuroscience & Mental Health group, with @olijrobinson.bsky.social!

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🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant @thephelpslab.bsky.social, Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1...

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Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!! Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.

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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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We’ll be closing interviews for this postdoc position soon. Please share and email me if you’re interested. FWIW our funding comes from a foreign foundation and hence it’s not subject to current freezes and generalized uncertainty wrt to US funding agencies.

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We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/r...

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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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In our 🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 "Beyond the income-achievement gap: The role of individual, family, and environmental factors in cognitive resilience among low-income youth", we used machine learning to characterise predictors of cognitive resilience. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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I am probably preaching to the choir but please spread the word-massive NIH reforms could effectively kill US biomedical research and most medical and nursing schools. Alzheimer's Cancer Flu etc. don't care about who you voted for. We need to get the word out. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org! We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.

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States shouldn't have to earn the right to federal aid. But in any case, California, which subsidizes the rest of the country, definitely has open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Poster submissions for the Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025 in Tübingen are now open. Deadline is 7th February. Symposium submissions are open until 15th January. www.cpconf.org. Please RB.

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if you know people in & around Los Angeles right now, please send good thoughts & check to see if they need something, even from afar. 100k+ evacuated. firefighters have literally run out of water in some places. more high winds predicted tomorrow & friday. here's the nyt evac map as of now:

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Final reminder that I’m advertising for a postdoctoral research associate to help me with a project on eating disorders and control-seeking, using #ComputationalPsychiatry! Applications close on the 12th. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

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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.

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💥 Some POST DOC JOB news 👀... I'm very happy to say that @melgaby.bsky.social, @mattnour.bsky.social, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and I have been awarded funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social to look at how planning 📝and mental models of the world 🌍 are affected by psychosis...

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People use uncertainty to negotiate the explore-exploit trade-off in reinforcement learning. Do they do something similar during mental planning? This is what @haoxuefan.bsky.social, with me and @fredcallaway.bsky.social, has shown: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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🚨Exciting postdoc opportunity!🚨 Applications are now open for the Susan Nolen-Hoeksema postdoctoral fellowship at Yale. More information & application: apply.interfolio.com/160599 Please share widely!

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Preprint alert! We explore 3 exploration tasks, testing if they measure a stable construct & its link to real-world exploration. We find improved robustness of latent factors compared to single-task estimates. With Mirko Thalmann & @ericschulz.bsky.social 🔗https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tzuey

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I’ll be considering applications for a PhD student to start in Fall 2025! I’ve been having a blast starting up the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at the University of New Hampshire this fall, and I’m excited to grow our lab community. App review begins 1/15. Learn more: liquinlab.github.io

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🚨New preprint alert!🚨 Achieving Scale-Invariant Reinforcement Learning Performance with Reward Range Normalization. Where we show that things we discover in psychology can be useful for machine learning. By the amazing @maevalhotellier.bsky.social and Jeremy Perez. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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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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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...

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Anne Churchland and Felicia Davatolhagh discuss why we must address the gender gap in neuroscience citations. www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...

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I used to run a summer internship for expanding psychology... if you don't remember here it is: som.yale.edu/news/2018/09... The news is that we're back up and running in partnership with the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at Northwestern: www.summerpsych.com Applications are open!

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How about a Neuroecon Starter Pack? I didn't want to presume - I only added people who I know have attended a neuroecon conference or who've used this label on themselves (at least once). So additions are very very welcome! go.bsky.app/1K9Suh

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The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

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Our lab is recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Apps for Emory are due in exactly 2 weeks & many of my awesome colleagues are also recruiting including @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social @vanessabrown.bsky.social @jaredmedina.bsky.social & more! More info: psychology.emory.edu/home/graduat...

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Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.

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Now that it's photo-official, I can announce that I've been awarded an ORISE Intelligence Community Fellowship! It's been an incredible opportunity to collaborate with mentors in US/UK intelligence agencies & discover novel applications for my research. 🧠🟦

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My friends and I have always joked that we can't wait to be old, tenured professors so that we can indulge in "high-end wizard fashion." Very glad to see that AI agrees with the professor-to-wizard pipeline.

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For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...

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🧵 1/8 🚨 New #preprint alert! 🚨 This new study by @gershbrain.bsky.social and I is the first to directly test the predictions of our policy compression model, which describes how capacity-limited agents trade reward for simpler policies to reduce cognitive cost psyarxiv.com/rnz72

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Join the Princeton Psych dept this summer as part of our inaugural Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you have no summer funding, the approval of your advisor, and matching research interests, consider applying. Deets: psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

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