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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredibly excited to announce that I’m starting my own research group at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen as part of the excellence cluster “The Adaptive Mind”! 🥳 I'm looking to fill the first PhD position. If you’re interested, apply here: tinyurl.com/38p3h22p Please spread the word! 🙏

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Doctoral student (m/f/d) Computational Motivation – Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry I am no longer an active user but just post this job alert: With Peter Dayan and Michiko Sakaki, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who could work on cognitive computational modeling wth digital education data. Come to Tübingen!!: uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Modeling of Digital Education Data

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How do children’s exploration strategies change across development? New preprint with Azzurra Ruggeri, Silja Kessler, and @ericschulz.bsky.social: “Tiny Alchemists: The Developmental Emergence of Empowerment in Exploration” osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper summary below 1/6

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4

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Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread: bsky.app/profile/marc... Centaur is featured by the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s... We got featured in a Nature views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition - Nature

A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language...

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I had so much fun being a guest on the @behindthescreens.bsky.social podcast! 🤩 If you're curious about how we use games in research (and you understand German), check out their latest episode!

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