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Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New Addiction Audio buff.ly/Qea9nF1?

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

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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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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Absolutely THRILLED to have won the 2026 best PhD research paper prize @tcdpsychology.bsky.social ! 🤩submitting my PhD thesis in 2 weeks and couldn't have asked for a better end-of-journey booster 🙌🏽🏅 @tcddublin.bsky.social

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Gonzalo Urcelay @gurcelay.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Check out @parnianrafei.bsky.social's work comparing the classic outcome devaluation and response remapping strategies to assess habits in humans. This study clarifies what each test assesses and is highly needed in this continuously-growing habit literature

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We found that in Remapping, habit errors declined with preparation time ⌛ In Outcome Devaluation, habitual responses were confounded by a withholding bias and inaccurate outcome knowledge 🤔 Thanks to @clairegillan.bsky.social @stephsuddell.bsky.social @gurcelay.bsky.social @eikekofi.bsky.social 🙌

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🚨 My new paper is out in CABN! 🚨@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛ link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Does time pressure reveal habits? Divergent results from outcome devaluation and response remapping paradigms - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Habits are central to daily life but remain difficult to study in the lab. Outcome Devaluation is often considered a “gold standard” paradigm for habit measurement; yet human studies have produced mix...

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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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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Long-overdue #BAP2026 appreciation post! I had a BLAST at the BAP @bapsych.bsky.social summer meeting in Birmingham a few weeks ago 🤩🧠💊 enjoyed all the high-quality research presented there, super-stimulating conversations during my poster presentation, and an amazing community (and disco! 🪩)

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Brilliant paper! Congrats, Dan 🙌🤩

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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨 Now out in @jamapsychiatry.com 🚨 Are people with depression less responsive to rewards on social media, just like in the lab? Actually…quite the opposite! 🧵 📄 Read the paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression

This study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology.

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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New preprint! @martinezlopezp.bsky.social in this systematic review takes a look at the validity & reliability of current tools used for studying habits in the human lab. There are a lot of them! But studies about construct validity were sparse, while reliability analyses were almost nonexistent...

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I had the great opportunity to present at Neuroscience Research Day last week and to see fascinating research on a diverse range of topics being conducted at Trinity @tcddublin.bsky.social 🤩🧠🧬 Thanks @trinityneuro.bsky.social!

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Can't wait for @kellydonegan.bsky.social's talk titled "Evaluating computational psychiatry’s path to clinical utility" in one of these post-doc symposia at @bapsych.bsky.social meeting next month #BAP2026 ! 🤩 🙌

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Delighted to receive the APS RISE Research Award! 🎉 🏆 Had a fantastic first APS in 🇪🇸, loved the conversations, met brilliant people, and really enjoyed presenting my poster to a broad audience! 🤩 Grateful to APS @psychscience.bsky.social and everyone who inspired me with questions and ideas 🧠

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📣 Reporting checklist for LLMs in behavioral and social science New article presenting a consensus-based reporting checklist (GUIDE-LLM) for the use of LLMs in the behavioral and social sciences to foster transparency, reproducibility, and ethical use. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We have a poster from @parnianrafei.bsky.social on her project "Linguistic Markers of Temporal Focus In Behaviour Change: Insights from a Smoking-Cessation Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy". Friday 11am!

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Congrats, Alice et al.! Amazing achievement 🤩🙌

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Can't wait for my first-ever APS meeting! #APS26BCN 🙌 I'll be presenting the latest results of my study as a poster titled "Linguistic Markers of Temporal Focus in Behaviour Change: Insights from a Smoking-Cessation Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" on May 29th🧠🚬🗣️ @psychscience.bsky.social

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Amirreza Bahramani @amir137.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For many Iranian students, Neuromatch was one of the few bridges to the international neuroscience community. Iranian students and TAs have contributed so much to it. Many of us, including me, found neuroscience through Neuromatch. This decision by Trump’s gov is cruel, unjust and a loss for science

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides: gershmanlab.com/lectures.html I'll continue to update these as I improve them.

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Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 09/02/2026

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Your Iranian colleagues are cut off from family back home & are in a state of collective grief, which has many faces. We may appear more aloof or be more impatient, may self-isolate, have more typos, may freeze or overwork to numb the pain, or find fear, memory, or hope in unexpected moments.

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

U.S. Visa Bureaucracy and Its Burdens Among Early Career Scholars www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Makes perfect sense! so responses here can be a consequence of failure of contingency detection rather than the dissociation of the response from its outcome representation (similar to our findings about reduced S–O knowledge leading to habit-like responses rather than action slips) 💡

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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science? Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs. Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Looks interesting! We have been facing this exact issue - finding big inconsistencies across different LLMs rating the same text.

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Very cool paper! 🙌 Interesting that most participants accurately detected changes in contingency relationships, so the results are unrelated to understanding the task requirements

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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This article is now published in @plosone.org. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... New analysis added: seemingly habitual responses are explained because contingency deg didn't work for some participants (in line with recent outcome dev results in our lab and in @clairegillan.bsky.social lab)

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The degraded contingency test fails to detect habit induction in humans

In experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience, habits are considered stimulus-response (S-R) associations formed through extended reward training. Accordingly, habits are assessed using one o...

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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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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Great news! Congrats, Ondrej ☘️

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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Photovoice Exhibition 29th - 31st October at Trinity Business school led by Dr. Claire Howlin. ‘How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity’ will showcase photos and stories from neurodivergent adults about how creativity helps them thrive. Join us for the LAUNCH Oct 30th @dancingresearch.bsky.social

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Now out in JEP: General, "How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Preprint with final version: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Sounds very exciting, go@dancingresearch.bsky.social! 🎶🎹 (love the hashtags btw #babyrave 🪩🍼👯)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

New preprint from the lab on habit learning in compulsivity from the fantastic @kellydonegan.bsky.social! ✅ N=1000, ✅ pre-registered, ✅ within-person crossover design...we study individual differences in habit learning using the Neureka App

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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci

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