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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Only a few days remaining to submit an Expression of Interest for this PhD/Postdoc.

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great tics review on aversive generalization by @samcooper.bsky.social et al! doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Love this bit: "The term overgeneralization... can be arbitrary and difficult to separate from any definition of normative generalization"

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨 💥 💫 New preprint! 👇 In this opinion paper, @julia-senfft.bsky.social and I discuss the role of structural uncertainty and probabilistic beliefs in anxious thought. We propose "hypotheses spaces" and their properties as a useful lens to study cognitive aspects of anxiety.

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 💫 💥 Interested in PhD / Postdoc opportunities in computational psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience? My lab at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 is currently accepting expressions of interest for internally funded PhD/Postdoc applications for positions starting in September 2027 (!). 1/

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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

New lab preprint! Computational psychiatry assumes anxiety arises from domain-general biases. We argue this is mistargeted: trait anxiety is generated by person-specific world models, which requires a fundamentally different approach to task design. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/98ktg_v3

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#PUG2026 social evening, 23:35: Nobody wants to take the last candy. Great to see everybody :)

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Looking forward to presenting some new data on longitudinal prediction of anxiety symptoms, as part of this great symposium at #PUG2026

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨 New preprint lead by the unstoppable @luiantaverra.bsky.social 👇 Does avoidance distort our beliefs you ask? Do anxious traits modulate this relations? Find out in the paper ^^. Also check out the new gamified task that Luianta developed: luiantav.github.io/dog-island/

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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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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨 New preprint w/ Valerio Rubino and Peter Dayan: how do people discover and use compositional structure under constraints? osf.io/preprints/ps... A key factor is a simple heuristic that favors reuse of repeated and symmetric fragments across scales, is robust to time pressure, and sped up RTs 🧵👇

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Yaniv Abir @yanivabir.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is finally out as Version of Record 🎉 Read to find out how and when humans strategically switch between approaching and avoiding uncertainty with Michael Shadlen and Daphna Shohamy elifesciences.org/articles/94231 🧵:

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Human exploration strategically balances approaching and avoiding uncertainty

Strategic avoidance of uncertainty emerges under high cognitive demands, enabling faster decisions without impairing learning.

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨 ERC Starting Grants: 22% increase in applications (up to 4800, from 3900). Expected success rate: 9% (approx. 450 funded), down from 12-14%. #ERCStG I didn't get it this year, but I am very happy with the feedback - very concrete aspects to improve. Excited for the next round! 🕺

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Student Network for Neuroscience (SNN) @student-net-neuro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🧠 Neuro Talk Evening Alert! 🗓 March 26, 2026 · 6 PM (CET) “The Role of Uncertainty Aversion in Mental Health” with Dr. Ondřej Zika Sign-up below or on our Notion website (check the linktree in our bio) 🔔 tinyurl.com/NTE-prof-zika #NTE #Neuroscience #StudentNetwork #Uncertainty #Computational

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🚨 1/ Check out a new paper on perceptual and value-based mechanism of generalization by the amazing @luiantaverra.bsky.social ! A very very proud for moment for me - Lui is my first PhD student and this is her first paper ^^ Pls repost to spread the word :)

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

First St. Patrick's day in Ireland - walked 26 km to raise awareness for aware.ie a charity focusing on supporting people with depression!

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🚨 If you are at Mind & Brain Symposium 2026 in Berlin, come check out our ongoing work on modeling structure learning under uncertainty using a combination of active inference and particle filtering! Done and presented by Julia Senfft. 📃 Poster C30! #minandbrain2026 #MBB2026

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Come join us in Dublin: Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Neuroscience position available at UCD! Let me know if you have any questions :) full advert here: lnkd.in/dW_uFuab

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 27/02/2026

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please spare 5 min to help a fantastic undergraduate student Lauren Kavanagh with her bachelor thesis survey 👇 Help is much appreciated! run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

US colleagues - would anyone have an example of NIH Biosketch that they would be willing to share? 🙏

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Compositional data (proportions that sum to 1) behave in ways standard models aren’t built for I walk through why Dirichlet regression is often the right tool & what extra insight it gives using a real ex of eyetracking #Dirichlet #r #brms #guide #eyetracking open.substack.com/pub/mzlotean...

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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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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Deadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The social network for AI agents Moltbook is both fascinating and terrifying... Here, an AI agents points outs implicit trust issues in AI memory, and how to fix them. www.moltbook.com/post/c534389...

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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet

A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!! Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI. 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026 #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Very pleased to share this meta-analysis on the relationship between interpretation biases and anxiety. This was a huge team effort, and it’s great to see it finally out. Happy reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The CNG plot thickens - which method recovers correctly a true number of factors? 🍿👇

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Does anyone know about any pockets of funding for relatively urgent matters within the context of health care / psychiatry? 🙏

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In factor analysis, why does the commonly used CNG method nearly always land at 3 factors when applied to anx/depr/ocd scales? TLDR: There tends to be one factor/component with a large eigenvalue. In these cases, almost inevitably and somewhat arbitrarily, the procedure selects 3 factors 👇

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

On a more positive note, this NN is worth a read. It takes a similar approach to Ashwood, Calhoun etc to explore diff behavioral states using HMM, but here using a hierarchical Dirichlet process to infer number of states www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Infinite hidden Markov models can dissect the complexities of learning - Nature Neuroscience

Bruijns et al. present a modeling tool that enables the tracking of learning dynamics across subjects to reveal how behaviors emerge and adapt. Applying the tool to a decision-making task in mice unco...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

As the inner endless loop of "jingle bells" and "last Christmas" is gradually departing, 🚨 reminder about this funding opportunity for postdocs to transition to a PI role by Research Ireland👇

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🚨 Research Ireland 🇮🇪 has an exciting 4-year funding opportunity to help postdocs develop their own research profile and transition to a PI role: www.researchireland.ie/funding/path... Let me know if you have any questions or if you are interested in applying via UCD.

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Lauren Atlas @laurenatlas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Rui Ponte Costa @somnirons.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A beautiful summary of our paper! Thank you @neurosock.bsky.social

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Together with a colleague we have agreed to review a paper. Then, we received a fully LLM-generated manuscript with mislabeled brain regions, bullet points, dashes, no stats. Elsevier editorial office 👏👏👏👏👏

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Oded Bein @odedbein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Check out this book chapter on neuroimaging methods for brain plasticity by the amazing @luiantaverra.bsky.social et al 👇

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📘🧠💥@fabianrenz.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social & I thought about methods to measure brain plasticity and wrote an overview of exciting new methods and developments! Read our chapter, out now in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Very excited to present some preliminary results on prediction of longitudinal changes in anxiety symptoms using modelling and symptom dynamics, an exciting collaboration with Miquel Angel Fullana and Carles Soriano-Mas ^^

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

🏡 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ ☔ How to set up a transparent and supportive lab environment? I would love to hear from you, PIs postdocs, students! What are the things that work and that don't, what do you wish to have in place? Any examples of lab manuals? Comments, DMs or emails welcome (ondrej.zika@pm.me)

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Congrats to everyone who submitted their first ERC today! Can we all now collectively collapse?

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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4

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Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇 If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at ondrej.zika@pm.me :) Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

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