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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
"stanford will not be reviewing my grant. They consider me a flight risk" I cant look away
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Heres the video in all its academic misconduct beauty www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwda...
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The Love Hypothesis - Official Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Congrats!!! Very well deserved!
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Very nice. We’re about to collect hours and are currently in the stimulus selection phase
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
@peterakirk.bsky.social is who you need. What’s the movie btw?
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Predates open resources etc, but should be fairly clear! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Assessing fear and anxiety in humans using the threat of predictable and unpredictable aversive events (the NPU-threat test)
The threat of predictable and unpredictable aversive events was developed to assess short-duration (fear) and long-duration (anxiety) aversive states in humans. A typical experiment consists of three conditions: a safe condition (neutral (N)), ...
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
congrats! Great news!
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Yep, definitely need four of those
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Whereas I’d quite like to know what a ‘Jingling Johnnie’ is
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This is complete madness. Music, for instance - the physics, the maths, the notation, the neuroscience of perceptual systems etc. are all essentially figured out. Literally none of that is relevant to why someone plays your song at their wedding.
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
That would be extremely altrusitic. Forego your entire salary and research costs for the next generations jobs 😂
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Unless a postdoc salary is insanely low in some parts of Europe I guess?
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Point taken, but something is off with the maths here. I guess it’s ignoring fellow salary, research costs and overheads? in uk you t be getting more than 1 (plus some RAs) for this top line in 2014 and that’s not really changed.
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Huge congrats! Excellent news!
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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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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
not sure they've even got the risk aversion right. Likely both sectors, but consulting for absolute certain, are going to undergo AI-driven contraction.
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Most definitely not just you 😉.
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Doesn’t matter for atheortical network analyses…after all ‘rest’ is very variable.
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
But for the sorts of things in most ‘BWAS’ - i.e. data driven network analyses - you can just append all those sequences together to create a long one. At a glance this paper shows that for theory driven task analyses you can get away with 20-30 mins even with old school tasks
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I'm very sympathetic to the plight of the sector, but some of things stretch credulity. They either indicate massive inefficiencies or creative ways of balancing losses elsewhere. Neither is a great look. The system is a mess.
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Or even 0% from e.g Wellcome. But how can it possibly cost close to three times the annual salary of a staff member to administer the same role?!
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
assuming you use all the data - mega analysis
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Post it notes or coloured tape. Stick on the seat back. Unstick. Repeat.
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Yeah, I think ultimately we probably will need to understand consciousness to understand the full pathway, but it’s a distraction to at this point imo
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
will be to do with if there is a background on the original and then gif vs tif vs jpeg vs blah blah blah
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
i think its an image formatting thing. Probably you pasted the raw image in rather than a screenshot? Word does this too sometimes
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Oliver Robinson @olijrobinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
boo, bluesky making the background on this black. Naught bluesky
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