iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matilde Vaghi @matildevaghi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚀 PhD opportunity in the Vaghi Lab, starting 2027 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social We are looking to support applicants interested in: 🔬 precision neuroimaging 🧠 compulsivity/OCD 💻 computational approaches Available via the ESRC UBEL DTP PhD or MSc + PhD routes 🔗 surl.li/qunzzt Please share! 📢

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ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP

ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lost being (near the top, no less) on there is an *utter* travesty

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still millions each year apparently, I guess a lot are tourists who don't know the difference

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

less of a great argument when you remember that there are direct trains from Gatwick to North London, and they are reasonably priced unlike e.g. the Heathrow or Stansted Express

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

yes, but I think Prolific gives the option to not approve payment if results are suspicious

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

maybe put the drawing test at the end of the task? But cookies sounds like a potential option too

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we've been asking participants to draw a house in 5 seconds with their mouse - sign of AI is that it's too neat. Worth a go?

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

just insane that they funded this

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A nice summary of our Nature Human Behaviour study showing that randomized cash transfers to low-income moms slow children's epigenetic aging: dailyneuron.com/cash-transfe...

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Four Years of Cash Slowed Biological Aging in Children Born Into Poverty - Daily Neuron

A $333 monthly check didn't change poor children's test scores, yet it slowed how fast their cells were aging.

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research

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Lily Baker @lilybaker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

nono, i got your note. just. why didn't you text me? i would have picked up more plums. i wasn't saving THOSE SPECIFIC plums. now i gotta go to the store again and. no, it's fine. it's fine. i'm fine. it's just been a long day.

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

great news Tricia! Hugely deserved

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Taiki Oka @toka-neuro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/7 Excited to share our new @elife.bsky.social Reviewed Preprint! 🧠 How do higher-order cognitive processes like abstraction & metacognition map onto transdiagnostic mental health dimensions? We combined computational modeling of a RL task with symptom profiling 🔗 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Mapping abstraction and metacognition onto distinct transdiagnostic symptom profiles

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

maybe he just watched GATTACA sometime? can't see any landlord tolerating him in the pub tbh

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

does DSM classify Alzheimer's as a psychiatric disorder? at least in depression, the only promising biomarker (for treatment response) on the horizon is inflammation - not sure it's quite ready for DSM prime time quite yet, though! we can't have biomarkers for conditions that aren't natural kinds

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

agree re the JC, but it's definitely true - PACBI (absurdly) designated Standing Together as a "normalisation outfit" (LOL), and the Greens' policy is to follow BDS, so its inevitable really bdsmovement.net/standing-tog...

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Standing Together: Serving Apartheid Israel’s Propaganda

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the BDS movement, calls on conscientious...

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

not really: "Whoever destroys a single life is considered...to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life is considered...to have saved the whole world" Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.

Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

worth reading the blogpost as a counterpoint too

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

for me the thread is good, the blog piece less so. IMO, straight copying someone else's sentences is definitely a form of plagiarism (not simply poor practice). However the points about honorary prof positions not counting for anything, and citations counting for a lot when hiring, are spot on

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Hugo Fleming @hugofleming.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New paper alert! 📣📣 In this work, we investigated the origins of somatic symptoms – a common and debilitating feature of anxiety and depression. 'Anxiety is associated with the persistence of conditioned somatic sensations over time'

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the crashes cause albums to be released?

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

what would side-effects be like at 5T? I'd love to do more high-res BOLD imaging in patients but 3T isn't amazing at 1.5mm, maybe 5T would be a good compromise if tolerability is better than 7T

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

right - lots of potential psychological contributors, but RTM is a straightforward statistical artifact with no need for any psychology

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

not sure if it's mentioned in the paper (it isn't in the abstract) but a big component of a lot of so-called "placebo effects" in clinical trials is really a statistical phenomenon - regression to the mean

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I found this post (which basically boils down to explore-exploit, I think) so interesting, and certainly for me as a Londoner it rings true (albeit thank goodness there is still plenty of diversity in London!)

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Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk @pavamn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🚨Our new reviewed preprint is out at eLife! 🎉 Using bi-daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we ask: • Does depressive mood precede under-confidence, or vice versa? • How does depression affect the integration of local confidence into global confidence over time? elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Dense repeated sampling reveals impaired hierarchical integration of metacognitive confidence that scales with depression

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"I came to believe, in a deep and personal sense, that the Jewish people are God’s chosen people" I've long thought that philosemites are simply antisemites who like Jews

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A key challenge for computational psychiatry is to distinguish state from trait markers and go beyond cross-sectional studies. Here we show that as paranoia waxes and wanes in patients with schizophrenia, so too do volatility priors

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anil is wrong about a bunch of things, but on this he's 100% correct!

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Progress in Computational Psychiatry is is slowed down substantially because researchers (clinicians, cognitive neuroscientists, etc) lack the training in computational modelling and many studies dont follow the best practices in modelling. How can we change this? We've built the CPM toolbox:

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Dancing Robot Celebration

ALT: Dancing Robot Celebration

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've long suspected this based on our own data - most variation in unselected samples is driven by low symptom scores, and it seems that most covariation is too. Seem important, especially re implications for the "p-factor". We need to confirm correlations from unselected samples in clinical ones

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If Binface beats Farage it'll be the most British thing since Boaty McBoatface and we'll need a petition for a new national holiday

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Andy Burnham is probably going to raise tax by at least £4.7bn, and maybe much more. Here's my list of 37 ways he might do it: every potential tax rise, how much it would raise, and what the downside would be. There's always a downside. Thread:

A chart showing every UK tax. By far the biggest ones are:
- Income tax
- National insurance
- VAT
- Corporation tax

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Since reading Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson it's been pretty clear to me that this is the #1 point - larger companies/corporations stopped paying their fair share many years (really decades) ago, resulting in higher taxation for everyone else

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this!

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

but for resting-state PET studies assessing metabolism/perfusion this is unquestionably a huge confound

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Shocker - who'd have thought brain function changes during different types of information processing! However, there is a lot of data suggesting that for connectivity it doesn't change nearly as much as for activation. Partly because a decent chunk of individual differences in fc are due to anatomy

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Jon Roiser @jonroiser.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

for some freeloaders it absolutely is, resulting in greater load for the rest of us

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