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Martina Di Simplicio

@martidisi.bsky.social
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Imperial College London, psychiatry, cognitive science, mental imagery, youth mental health, digital tools.

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Join us on 5 June for Professor Gemma Modinos' inaugural lecture as professor: "Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in #psychosis". #Psychiatry #AcademicSky Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe...
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Institute of Psychiatry, 
Psychology & Neuroscience
Inaugural Lecture Series

Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in psychosis

Professor Gemma Modinos
Professor of Neuroscience & Mental Health
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open! Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/
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dennyborsboom.bsky.social @dennyborsboom.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
If you're a psychological scientist working at a Dutch university & want to join us in opposing the language barriers imposed by the government, here's your chance
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International Association for Suicide Prevention @iaspinfo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
An incredible PhD opportunity from Men Matter Scotland for someone passionate about understanding and preventing suicide. 🔹 Deadline: 11 June 2025 🔹 UK applicants only
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Maria Ironside @mariaironside.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Looking for a post-doc! If you are interested in using neuroimaging to study mechanisms of depression, anxiety, neuromodulation or pharmacology please consider joining me. LIBR has amazing early career resources, wonderful colleagues and Tulsa is low cost of living! DM for details.
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection! We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis) It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #neuroscience
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Dr Chris DJ Taylor @chrisdjtaylor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Please retweet: @babcpjournals.bsky.social Spring Conference In Person 8th-9th April, London. Keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on Compassion:Info👇 babcp.com/Spring-Confe...
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BABCP | British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies > Conferences > National Conferences and Workshops > Spring Conference & Workshops 2025
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CHIL@Yale @yalechil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
✨Today and every day, we celebrate the brilliance, resilience, and contributions of women and girls in science! #WomeninSTEM 🩷
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Youth Resilience Unit @qmulresilience.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
And our own @dennisougrin.bsky.social et al have a new paper out - Mortality in #adolescents after therapeutic intervention for #self-harm: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern so please do share! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern. Evidence highlights that therapeutic intervention (TI), such as cognitive behaviour therapy informed treatments, after self-harm lead...
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up tinyurl.com/4ffday8y Thread below /1
Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions
Universal approaches in English secondary schools
February 2025
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CHIL@Yale @yalechil.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
✨Suggestions on how to protect your mental health during times of uncertainty 🫂
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Are you aspiring for a career in clinical or academic #psychiatry, and are a medical student/foundation year doctor? Applications are now open for the IoPPN Summer School, an 3-day event with seminars, workshops, networking opportunities and more #MedSky #AcademicSky www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...
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IoPPN Summer School 2025
Are you considering a career in psychiatry? Apply for a free, 3-day face-to-face summer school in the heart of South London and gain insight into the innovative, exciting and rewarding field of clinic...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/01/2025
The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
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The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
New research shows western medicine’s traditional split between brain and body is, in fact, far from clear cut – and could provide a breakthrough for many complex conditions Some years ago Camilla Nord suffered such persistent pain at the site of an old…
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Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Excellent campaign by @hopevirgo.bsky.social with the help of committed people
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Longitudinal studies | Grant funding | Wellcome
Wellcome are funding research teams to analyse longitudinal data to help identify mental health conditions early. See eligibility information and find out how to apply.
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Cambridge Neuroscience @camneuro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge. neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions). Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us! Deadline: 31.01.2025 The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex *during aphantasia* - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats? www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
Chang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery content could be decoded usin...
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Simon Blackwell @blackwellse.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Quite remarkable results from Richard Bryant and colleagues here: adding memory specificity training to a form of trauma-focussed CBT for first responders led to greater reductions in PTSD severity at 6-month follow-up, with large between-group effect sizes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial
Although trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), up to one-half of patients do not respond to this intervention. The....
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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Just accepted at Clinical Psychological Science. In this study led by @juliejns2.bsky.social, we used data from the SIGMA study to look at the relationship between attachment, & loneliness & #SelfHarm thoughts & behaviours in #adolescents' daily lives. #SuicidePrevention #OpenScience #MentalHealth
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Laura D’Adamo @lauradadamo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
👩🏻‍🔬 I'm recruiting for my dissertation study! 📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones. 👩‍💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys… 📢 Please spread the word!
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@kurtfraser.bsky.social and I just had our paper on dopamine, salience, and psychosis accepted @ Am J Psychiatry. We review the history of aberrant salience and the data gathered since: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine) academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... Fascinating from Tom Pollak (not on BlueSky?) - via @annaciaunica.bsky.social
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Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine)
A new world-view is emerging, one which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. While motivated by some
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Dr Imo Bell @imo-b.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Some good reading for the new year! www.jmir.org/2024/1/e53187
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Methodological Challenges in Randomized Controlled Trials of mHealth Interventions: Cross-Sectional Survey Study and Consensus-Based Recommendations
Background: Mobile health (mHealth) refers to using mobile communication devices such as smartphones to support health, health care, and public health. mHealth interventions have their own nature and ...
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying, published in the Times Free version here
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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!
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Join the Lab
We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations  Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 30/07/2023
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
1. You should attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, "Thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way.
2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3. You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
Last year we instituted Low/Middle Income Country LMIC) Pricing for Pitt Methods. 🌍 Despite our efforts, very few LMIC scholars signed up. Now as smart-workshops.com, we aim to do more and offer a steeper discount (90% off). Please RT or share with LMIC colleagues! 🙏
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Jolie Wormwood @jbwormwood.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
🗣️Check out our new paper on the relationship between mood disorders and affective forecasting for mildly evocative everyday types of scenarios! #PsychSciSky #AffectSci rdcu.be/dxt16 Lead by the amazing Kristen Petagna and co-authored by undergrad (now graduated) super star Maddy Bouchard-Liporto!
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Mood Disorder Symptom Severity Is Associated with Greater Affective Forecasting Error
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵
Figure 1: Foraging trial diagram. On each trial participants chose to harvest the tree they were at (down arrow key) or travel to a new tree (right arrow key), during the travel they completed an effortful task, after which they arrived at a new patch with a replenished supply of apples. The tree is a green circle and rectangular brown trunk. The apples are red and lined up in a row on the bottom of the screen. There is a warrior avatar with a shield, helmet, and sword who jumps to harvest the apples.
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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
It is happening tomorrow 10am EST / 3pm GMT / 4pm CET: the launch of OCD & the brain with a big livestream event! Join us here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1s... So excited that this co-produced project is finally seeing the light of day!
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Lianne Wolsink @liannewolsink.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
This Tuesday at 2 pm: ReproducibiliTea meeting at @ruhrunibochum.bsky.social☕🍪 We'll discuss multiverse analysis: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... For more info and our reading lists: osf.io/vak6y/ #OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
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Increasing Transparency Through a Multiverse Analysis
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Martina Di Simplicio @martidisi.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Inspiring interview…
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Great to see @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social’s discovery of thresholds for reality monitoring make it into @quantamagazine.bsky.social’a top 3 biology and neuroscience breakthroughs of 2023 🥳 youtu.be/qt6BO-DV0pY?...
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Biology and Neuroscience - 2023's Biggest Breakthroughs
Quanta Magazine's coverage of biology in 2023, including important research progress into the nature of consciousness, the origins of our microbiomes and the...
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I’d add that the RS are head and shoulders above all other funders I’ve experienced in terms of support for the people they fund - approachable, flexible, supportive and give you access to so many top quality career development opportunities. I owe them a great debt of gratitude ❤️
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Amit Goldenberg @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Now out in @PsychScience, led by Yael Millgram and Matt Nock: Using EMA, we examined how knowledge about what made people emotional in their daily lives impacted their desire, ability, and success in emotion regulation. A really exciting research space in ER. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Knowledge About the Source of Emotion Predicts Emotion-Regulation Attempts, Strategies, and Perceive...
People’s ability to regulate emotions is crucial to healthy emotional functioning. One overlooked aspect in emotion-regulation research is that knowledge about ...
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
This talk was FANTASTIC! The whole audience was energised by it ☀️🤩 Check out recordings of this and past FAB seminar talks on affectivebrains.com
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Leknes Affective Brain lab
L.A.B. lab is dedicated to the study of one of the world's great mysteries: how the brain and body give rise to subjective feelings. Electrical and chemical signals in the physical brain give rise to...
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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
I wrote about why patients, professionals and charities were so disappointed that the Mental Health Bill was omitted from the King's Speech last week. Why does it matter, and what can we do now? Please consider sharing! medium.com/p/f89122502988
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Kit Byatt @kitb.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
This is an outstanding resource for identifying high audit evidence and communicating it well to the lay person... 👇 ...if you can support it, it would be great (not least given the parlous state of UK NHS mental health services!) (PS André & Douglas are lovely people, too!)
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'Hello, I'm André Tomlin - Founder of The Mental Elf. If you like what we do and you want it to continue, please do what you can to help save The Mental Elf. I started The Mental Elf in 2011 as a free website for anyone who wants to keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research. The platform has grown beyond my wildest dreams and we now have over 3,000 blogs written by over 700 people who share our commitment for disseminating high quality mental health research to the people who need it.'Second extract from cited website:

'My business partner (Douglas Badenoch) and I have previously worked for the NHS and at Oxford University. In 2002 we set up a company and we started working with charities, universities and the health service. This business is still going today, but like many small businesses we have found the last few years really hard. We’ve funded The Mental Elf for the last 12 years out of our own pockets. It's important to us that The Mental Elf remains an independent, trusted brand, but it costs about £50k a year to keep the site running, and right now, at the end of 2023, we're really struggling to make ends meet. We need your help.'
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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
🚨Hiring 2 postdocs for 5-year interdisciplinary project!🚨 Please share🙏   Postdoc w/ experimental background in soc cognition bit.ly/CREDO_experi... Postdoc w/ computational modelling background in decision-making bit.ly/CREDO_modell...   Deadline 13.12.! #psychscisky 🧠 #CogSci #cogpsyc #socpsy
Interested in social cognition and decision-making? 
Background in experimental psych/neuro or computational modelling?

Come work with us!
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Cannot quite explain how it feels to have this out - my first computational psychiatry project (though not the first published)! I've had so much support from my coauthors over the years I've been working on this, and we're finally there. #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adaptive learning from outcome contingencies in eating-disorder risk groups - Translational Psychiat...
Translational Psychiatry - Adaptive learning from outcome contingencies in eating-disorder risk groups
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Different mechanisms for supporting mental imagery and perceptual representations: modulation versus excitation journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Looks like "mental imagery uses inhibition as a mechanism to construct perception-like visual representations"; #neuroscience
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Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus...
Recent research suggests imagery is functionally equivalent to a weak form of visual perception. Here we report evidence across five independent experiments on ...
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
My EMA primer on measuring emotion and behavior for @DepressionCntr DIGIT-MI is now live. DIGIT-MI brings together faculty and staff across @UMich to learn and share resources about digital and mobile tech. #ClinPsych #AffectSci #Psychiatry #Clinpsy www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_2...
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Ecological Momentary Assessment to Measure Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior in Daily Life | DIGIT-MI
In this session, Dr. Sarah Sperry reviews the current state of the field in terms of methodological, implementation, and statistical approaches for ecologica...
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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 26/10/2023
#AffectSci
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Assistant and associate professor positions at the @UoB_SoP and @TheCHBH. We have a top-notch and well-oiled brain imaging centre (MEG, OPM, MEG, NIRS, sleep, TUS, TMS, HPC) but more importantly a vibrant, supportive and diverse research community.
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