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Oliver Robinson

@olijrobinson.bsky.social
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Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Was attempting to watch some actual science on youtube and was served an ad for this. So many levels of inappropriate its hard to know where to start. But it does contain this doozy: "its a scientists worst mistake. Its a false positive thinking somethings happening between us when clearly its not"
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A real ad on the tube. Good lord. 🫠
An ad reading don’t ask AI ask for an MRI
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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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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Robb Rutledge @robbrutledge.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
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Postdoc and Research Technician Positions — Rutledge Lab
Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.
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Caroline Charpentier, PhD @carocharp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!
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RA_ad_2026-2027_Charpentier.pdf
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL
Discover Postdoctoral Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🚨 Our lab's first paper is published! The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. 🧵 This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Anxiety is Associated With Biases in Task Generalization
Anxiety is known to distort threat perception, but can it also distort the task representations we use to plan? This study shows that individuals high in trait worry systematically undergeneralize ac...
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Ella W Tuominen @ellatuominen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I passed my PhD viva! 🙌✨ Thank you to the examiners @martynquigley.bsky.social and @cycology.bsky.social for a thoughtful discussion! Huge thank you to my supervisor @olijrobinson.bsky.social and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Lab for the amazing years - luckily I'm not going anywhere just yet
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Computational Psychiatry @cpsyjournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Another recent paper in CPsy: Computational Modelling Reveals Slower Safety Learning and Threat Extinction are Associated With Higher Anxiety Severity in Remote Fear Conditioning from Tim Kerr, @olijrobinson.bsky.social and @thaliaeley.bsky.social and team...
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Out today in Molecular Psychiatry our paper on multiverse computational factor modeling (i.e. a lotta lotta factor analyses). Thread below for the full rundown. Last PhD paper from @celinef.bsky.social YOU'RE FREE!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Toby Wise @tobywise.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...
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Understanding Negative Cognition in Anxiety Using Artificial Neural Networks - MRC DTP
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common mental health problems, but the mechanisms underpinning its symptoms remain poorly understood, limiting the development of novel interventi...
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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.
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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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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Information for prospective graduate students
The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Thalia Eley @thaliaeley.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Delighted to be hiring a new Clinical Psychology Lecturer to come and join our vibrant environment at the SGDP Centre @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social please share! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Ella W Tuominen @ellatuominen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Diving into how #CBT tackles a wide range of mental health conditions in my new blog, reviewing @pimcuijpers.bsky.social and co new meta-analysis. If you care about evidence-based therapy and when to explore options beyond the basics, check it out on @thementalelf.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/DbNCq8k ☀️
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The strengths and limitations of CBT across mental health conditions
CBT is a cornerstone of mental health care, but how well does it work across disorders? New meta-analysis offers some answers and raises new questions.
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
How can we better protect young minds? Dr Christina Carlisi (@uclpals.bsky.social) shares insights on supporting children’s mental health online.
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Dr Christina Carlisi on how to protect the mental health of children and adolescents
How do we ensure that children and young people have the tools they need to protect their mental health in online and real world spaces? We speak to Dr Christina Carlisi to find out.
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🎉 Huge congratulations to Agatha Alves Anet who recently won UCL's Three Minute Thesis competition - requiring PhD students to talk about their research for 3mins to a non-specialist audience! We caught up with Agatha to hear more about her research.
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Q&A with UCL’s Three-Minute Thesis Competition winner Agatha Alves Anet
We spoke to the winner of UCL's 2025 Three-Minute Thesis competition about her research on anxiety disorders.
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 16/05/2025
Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🔥💥📣 Excited to announce a new policy at the Computational Psychiatry (CPSY) journal @cpsyjournal.bsky.social. Starting from April 2025, CPSY will compensate reviewers for their time and effort invested in reviewing manuscripts. w/ @drrickadams.bsky.social cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
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One Small Step Towards Fixing a Broken System | Computational Psychiatry
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Paper about UK-China cross cultural differences mentioned in this thread FINALLY published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🎉🍾
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Cross‐Cultural Differences on Affective, Cognitive, and Psychiatric Measures: Evidence From a British‐Chinese Comparison
Individuals worldwide share basic affective and cognitive abilities, and receive mental health diagnoses using similar scales. However, these measures have been predominantly developed and validated ...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏 www.nature.com/naturecareer... More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc... #neuroskyence #neurojobs
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Want to get started with Computational Modelling, but don't know how? Go no further, we got you covered! Very excited to announce the release of @lenarddome.bsky.social 's Computational Psychiatry Modelling toolbox - an easy to use library that does modelling for you: cpm-toolbox.net Sign up now 👇
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two little girls in tutus are dancing on a stage and one of them is saying i got you .
ALT: two little girls in tutus are dancing on a stage and one of them is saying i got you .
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I get quite a lot of academic spam emails, but this is a first.
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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🚨New post alert 🚨 We are recruiting at UCL for permanent faculty in Computational Cognition. Please circulate and/or apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l... The dept is wonderful - exciting & clever research; supportive; dynamic. Feel free to send qus my way. @uclpals.bsky.social #NeuroJobs
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Lecturer in Computational Cognition at UCL
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Computational Cognition is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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Karla Holmboe @karlaholmboe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Two permanent lectureships in my department @bristolunipsych.bsky.social - one with focus on social psych and another with focus on mental health and wellbeing. Bristol is a great place to live and work - come join us! :-) www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This thread is an interesting discussion of possible inattentive responding in online questionnaires. I just want to flag that another problem (not spotted in the paper at a skim) is that this scale (and question in particular) is highly problematic from a cross cultural standpoint 1/6
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Samuel Hewitt, PhD @samuelhewitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A little bby from my PhD is published! we did a complex study to answer a simple Q: do day-to-day feelings impact choices? A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater. open access link: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making | PNAS
Internal states like motivation fluctuate substantially over time. However, studies of the neurocomputational mechanims of motivated behavior have ...
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Please repost this PhD opportunity in my group working on cognitive computational and decision neuroscience.
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Nathan Huneke @nathanhuneke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our new review in JAMA Psychiatry: "Expectancy Effects, Failure of Blinding Integrity, and Placebo Response in Trials of Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Thanks to co-first author Guil Fusetto-Veronesi; and to Samuele Cortese, David Baldwin, Matt Garner 🧵👇
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Expectancy Effects, Blinding Integrity, and Placebo Response in Psychiatric Disorders
This narrative review discusses the impact of expectancy effects and functional unblinding on treatment responses in randomized clinical trials of treatments in psychiatry.
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Peter Kirk @peterakirk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our report on "The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and In-Scanner Motion" is out now in Human Brain Mapping. In short: even anxiety-evoking movies reduce pediatric in-scanner movement compared to 'rest', highlighting its benefit for developmental neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The UCL Computational Psychiatry Prize is for UCL early career researchers who want to apply theory to clinical problems. It starts with a speed dating event where clinicians and theoreticians meet to form interdisciplinary teams. acplab.org/2025/03/03/u...
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Closing *today* last call for a postdoc at the ICN. Ideal for those interested in naturalistic fmri and/or computational modelling. Can sponsor visas for those who want to move.
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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo... Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚨New postdoc job alert!🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... ...we are looking for someone with an interest in computational psychiatry and/or naturalistic neuroimaging to work on a new ERC Advanced grant "The Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Anxiety Treatment Response (MECHANX)". (1/3)
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚨New postdoc job alert!🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... ...we are looking for someone with an interest in computational psychiatry and/or naturalistic neuroimaging to work on a new ERC Advanced grant "The Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Anxiety Treatment Response (MECHANX)". (1/3)
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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