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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢 The CORE COGNITION lab (core-cognition.github.io) is looking to hire another PhD student, working on automated scientific discovery and knowledge representation in cognitive science. Starting date: March to September 2027. 🙏 Please share widely!

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CORE COGNITION

CORE COGNITION works towards a unified theory of human cognition, instantiated in models that simulate, predict, and explain human behavior.

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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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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

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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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Toby Wise @tobywise.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Interested in a PhD looking at trajectories of repetitive negative thought using machine learning and computational modelling? Take a look at our project in the @drivehealth.bsky.social portfolio and get in touch with any questions! showcase.drive-health.org.uk/project/quan...

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Quantifying and Predicting Real-World Repetitive Negative Thought - Divi 5

1. Background Repetitive negative thought (RNT) patterns, such as worry and rumination, are common and distressing symptoms that are characteristic of mood and anxiety disorders, but present across di...

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases. If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Join us in beautiful Munich! If you have any questions about the city, the group or your application, feel free to reach out! ✨

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Mirko Thalmann @mirkothm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Publication alert! Our latest paper with @kristinwitte.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social is out in Scientific Reports: rdcu.be/eydDQ! We explore whether model-based exploration strategies can be used to capture individual differences. Curious how cognitive models meet personality science?

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Model-based exploration is measurable across tasks but not linked to personality and psychiatric assessments

Scientific Reports - Model-based exploration is measurable across tasks but not linked to personality and psychiatric assessments

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

#CPConf2025 is a wrap - thanks to everyone who made this event so special! @unituebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Join us in Munich as a PhD Student! I've been in this lab for about 4.5 years and still love seeing these people everyday. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳 🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝

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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

How does ChatGPT respond to emotional conversations? 🤖 Our latest research dives into AI, mental health, and human-AI interaction—sparking important discussions! 🙏 Now featured in Fortune Magazine @fortunemagazine.bsky.social 📰🔗👇 fortune.com/2025/03/09/o...

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ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent and disturbing user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it

A study on how to “calm down” chatbots could advance how AI is applied in mental health interventions, according to the authors.

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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thank a lot! That is very interesting indeed. We also found that across all tasks the model-free switch probability (probability of choosing a different option than on the previous trial) is more reliable and has greater convergent validity. Very happy to discuss more about this.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This work was pregistered with the OSF and all code and data is publicly available. Preregistration: osf.io/cavj3 data and code: osf.io/ra7su/

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In sum, we show that simplified modelling and creating latent factors improves robustness. Still, extracted strategies are more linked to working memory than real-world exploration, raising questions about the validity of few-armed bandit tasks for studying exploration.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Our changes improved the convergence of exploration strategies across tasks. The latent factors were however still not related to any self-reported measures of exploration or to any psychiatric constructs. They did however show a strong correlation with working memory capacity.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We subsequently made two main changes to the analyses: 1) We simplified and unified the computational modelling for the Horizon task and the 2-armed bandit. 2) We constructed theoretically informed latent constructs for the exploration strategies across all tasks.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

When using the standard modelling approaches, the test-retest reliability of all model parameters and most task measures was rather poor. We also found low correlations between model parameters from different tasks, despite these parameters measuring the same strategies.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We tested these requirements by collecting data on three bandit tasks, five questionnaires and three working memory tasks. We retested participants on all tasks after 6 weeks, to test for temporal stability.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This type of approach is very valuable. However, for treating individual differences in model parameters as cognitive traits, we need the model parameters to be: 🕐stable over time 🔗converging across tasks 📋related to real-world exploration

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A growing number of studies uses few-armed bandit tasks to test how people explore. Recently, an increasing body of research (including our own) turned to individual differences in this behaviour and related model parameters to questionnaire measures of psychiatric traits.

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Kristin Witte @kristinwitte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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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