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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Cannot recommend this lab group more!

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alicia-rybicki.bsky.social @alicia-rybicki.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook - @thechbh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social MIBTP-funded PhD, using behavioural, computational and pharmacological approaches. Get in touch and please share!

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁

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Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).

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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New paper alert! Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... THREAD! 🧵⬇️

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Very happy to report that this study is now published in Molecular Autism: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Will portals for talk/poster abstract submission close the morning or end of the 14th?

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In our new review paper @clauslamm.bsky.social and I discuss the latest evidence on how #dopamine shapes trust learning 🧠 🤝 - see below for a 🧵!

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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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Jobs - The University of York

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This work is of course the result of the joint efforts of a large group of fantastic researchers (many of whom are not on bluesky): Yuko Okamoto, Toru Takahashi, Yuto Kurihara, ‪@connortkeating.bsky.social‬, Jen Cook, Hirotaka Kosaka, Masakazu Ide, Hiroaki Naruse, Carmen Kraaijkamp, and Rieko Osu 🎉🙏

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We discuss why our results suggest a lack of cultural sensitivity in commonly used mentalising tasks rather than superior mentalising abilities in Japanese autistic individuals.

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Intriguingly, we did not observe the same pattern in Japanese participants, where there were no mentalising differences between autistic and non-autistic observers.

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We identify movement similarity as one of the dimensions along which mismatches between neurotypes may occur, and show how increased within-group variability in movement indices may be responsible for the lack of own-group mentalising advantage in the autistic group.

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In showing that – at least for non-autistic participants – cross-neurotype mentalising results in lower accuracy, our findings in the UK sample replicate a prior study (Edey et al., 2016) and add partial support for mismatch accounts such as the ‘double empathy theory’.

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In the UK sample, both autistic and non-autistic participants struggled more when interpreting the animations generated by the respective other group. While non-autistic participants were better at interpreting animations created by their own group, this was not the case for autistic participants.

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We asked British and Japanese autistic and non-autistic adults to depict mentalistic interactions by moving two triangles around a touch-screen device, before they had to view interpret animations created by the other participants.

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Bianca Schuster @biancaaschuster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Social interactions cannot be assessed without (1) acknowledging the two-way process involved and (2) the cultural context the interactions are embedded in. We present new evidence for this, using stimuli like the one below, in our latest preprint: osf.io/xg7y4 🤝

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