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Jo Cutler

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Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow @thechbh.bsky.social, University of Birmingham tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain Prosocial decisions, kindness, charity, neuroscience, modelling, ageing

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New paper! With @drdanielcm.bsky.social we asked: 📰 how brains respond to news that people’s lives are at risk 📈 if responses increase with the number of people at risk (like amounts of money) 🌍 whether responses differ for people in your own country compared to abroad Find out below 🧵👇
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One week left to apply!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research at The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 tinyurl.com/uob-chbh-ra Deadline: 19th July, 23:59 UK time ⏳ Start: 7th September 🗓️ Please share 🔁
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Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6
We welcome applications for a Research Associate / Lab Manager in the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH). The CHBH is a friendly, productive, and supportive environment where all colleagues can thri...
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🔭 Did you miss out on the inaugural Curiosity, Information-Seeking, & Exploration conference? Videos of our entire 2-day program are now available: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CISE2025 @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social
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Damian Cruse @damiancruse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 Fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me, Ali Mazaheri, Dhruv Parekh, and Katrien Segaert at the University of Birmingham on new brain-based tools to improve diagnoses of consciousness after severe brain injury. 🚨 Deadline: 9th January 2026 Full details and application form: lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 19/11/2025
🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Boosting climate motivation with psychological interventions'. Actions that protect the environment are crucial but often require effort, which people avoid. 🔗Read more here: go.nature.com/4ou8b6K. #AcademicPublishing #psychresearch @drjocutler.bsky.social
Flooded road with a red and white triangular "Flood" sign in the foreground. Water covers the road and surrounding fields, reaching up to a wooden fence line. Bare trees and buildings are visible in the distance under a clear sky.
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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 06/11/2025
Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climate motivation with pro-environmental traits. @drjocutler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change - Communications Psychology
Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climat...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving
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Kübra Fethiye Karataş @kubrafkaratas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
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How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We’re kicking off day 2 of #CISE2025 🔭 with a fun talk from George Loewenstein on his tour de force research program on information gap theory
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Successful first CISE poster session at beautiful Brown! #CISE2025 🔭
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Great start to the travels @univ-amu.fr in beautiful Marseille. Next up Providence for CISE 2025, Boston @socforneuroecon.bsky.social, and New York
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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September! This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Please share!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great to have @mjgruber.bsky.social visit @chbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social today and give a great talk on curiosity, exploration & memory 🧠
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham! What an amazing resource & opportunity for students. Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
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Bethan Barrett @bethanbarrett.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So great to share plans for my upcoming online study and broader PhD with brilliant minds at my first conference #BAP2025 and fantastic computational modelling workshop #CSC2025! osf.io/7fqbe
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felixhermans.bsky.social @felixhermans.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Had a great time attending the Birmingham-Leiden Computational Social Cognition Summer School this week! Thanks to everyone who was part of #CSC2025 and especially to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social for leading the organization! 10/10 would recommend! More info on www.compsoccog.com
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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#Day2 #CSC2025 keynote on on modelling prejudices in social interactions by @davidamodio.bsky.social followed by a comprehensive tutorial on drifting diffusion modelling. 📊 Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#CSC2025 participants enjoying a @positivelybrum.bsky.social walking tour around the city centre
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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
#Day1 #CSC2025 Amazing insights on neural dynamics of good conversation by Prof. Diana Tamir from Princeton Uni. Followed by lectures on effort based discounting modelling.
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 03/09/2025
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project
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Social Decision Neuroscience Lab @sdnl.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Amazing kick start to the Birmingham - Leiden #CSC2025 summer school from @drjocutler.bsky.social with her introductory lecture "Introduction to Computational Modelling: Theory"
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Evidence-based advice for #CSC2025 participants at the start of @dianatamir.bsky.social’s keynote: over the next few days just get into conversations with people - you’ll probably both enjoy it more than you expected!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Meghna, Lily and Jonny are ready to greet everyone in the Link for our poster reception 👋
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com
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Motivation and Social Neuroscience (MSN) Lab @msnlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (University of Birmingham, 3–5 November) A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17, 2025
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Ali Mahmoodi @alimahmoodi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We have a Research Assistant position available in Rushworth Lab to help us with projects involving fMRI, TMS, and TUS. Find out more here my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is looking for a new Head of School: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... Get in touch if you have any questions and please circulate. @uob-sop.bsky.social @thechbh.bsky.social ‬
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Award-winning research and Brum-themed food @unibirmingham.bsky.social Founders’ Awards & Chancellor’s Dinner this evening
Birmingham University Great Hall Birmingham Old Joe clocktower
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A masterclass in the science of motivation for @brainapps.bsky.social inaugural lecture and well-deserved recognition of all the support Matt gives those around him
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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇
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Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science
Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour. However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young adults who are productive, r...
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
One more week for abstract submissions! Join us for the Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference! 🔎🕵️‍♀️ Submit an abstract using the link below & check out the incredible speaker list 👇👇👇 @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @carneyinstitute.bsky.social #cise2025
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁
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Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6
The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...
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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Excited for our @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social workshop at the intersection of #NeuroAI and Aging. Tomorrow from 9 AM -1 PM in LTEE 3 in Hamilton Building, hope to see you there!
Representational Alignment and Aging at RLDM2025. Bridging the gap between socioemotional function in human and artificial intellgence
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🚀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....
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/ 🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct 📍 Brown University 👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb 👇 Speakers Please submit & share!
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Dr. Alexandra Witt @alexthewitty.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🚨CogSci preprint alert🚨 When you look at reviews, do you like to focus on positive or negative ones? @stepalminteri.bsky.social, @thecharleywu.bsky.social and I set out to investigate how learning rate biases differ between individual and social learning in our new study. osf.io/bcrw9_v2 🧵 below!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Really looking forward to this!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Fascinating study led by @zhilinsu.bsky.social and great summary thread👇
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Annabel Losecaat Vermeer @alosecaatv.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Deadline = TODAY for Computational Social Cognition summer school! Don’t miss out
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
⏰ Deadline Monday (28th) for @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social Computational Social Cognition summer school. Don't miss keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social & @davidamodio.bsky.social www.compsoccog.com ⬇️ Only text response questions in the short application:
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
⏰ Deadline Monday (28th) for @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social Computational Social Cognition summer school. Don't miss keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social & @davidamodio.bsky.social www.compsoccog.com ⬇️ Only text response questions in the short application:
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Deadline extended to 28th April so still time to apply!
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