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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the University of Miami as an Assistant Professor of Psychology next year! I am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2027 — please reach out if you are interested in joining the lab! For more info check out my website: dan-mirea.com

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Krishn Bera @krishnbera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How fast we decide reveals how we learn. New in @plos.org #PLoSCompBio : modeling response times alongside choices disentangles working memory, reinforcement learning and cognitive control, and reveals differences in schizophrenia that choices alone missed. 🧵 t.co/BTOgmpd4YH

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Blair Shevlin @bshev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Women with bulimia nervosa typically avoid high-fat foods, yet binge on them during periods of negative mood. Why? In our new paper in @elife.bsky.social, we used computational modeling to find out 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/105...

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David S Stolz @david-s-stolz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New article out in RSOS. Led by Jan F Weis, we show that self-compassion predicts positive affect and modulates changes in self-esteem in response to performing our Learning-of-Effort-Efficacy (LOEE) task. Joint work with @soerenkrach.bsky.social and @fmpaulus.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Self-compassion is linked to positive affect and buffers declines in self-esteem

Abstract. Successes and failures shape affective experiences and self-esteem. Self-compassion has been proposed as a protective factor, allowing individual

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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📝 Excited to share an accepted first-authored paper at Clinical Psych Science! Why are so many mental disorders treated as unidimensional? We show support for 1-factor models is often just an artifact of conventional psychometric methods -- which weren't designed with psychopathology in mind.

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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Trial-by-trial fluctuations in decision criterion shape confidence"! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com led by Robin Vloeberghs, Lara Navarette, @anne-urai.bsky.social and me. PDF: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Fluctuating Thread ↓↓↓

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Matilde Vaghi @matildevaghi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚀 PhD opportunity in the Vaghi Lab, starting 2027 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social We are looking to support applicants interested in: 🔬 precision neuroimaging 🧠 compulsivity/OCD 💻 computational approaches Available via the ESRC UBEL DTP PhD or MSc + PhD routes 🔗 surl.li/qunzzt Please share! 📢

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ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!!

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Nadja Ging Jehli @nadjagingjehli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/3 🌵 Something exciting is taking shape at the University of Arizona: Ari Kahn and I are joining forces to build a new computational modeling hub across two complementary labs. We’re recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2027 + postdocs. Join us and grow with us! 🧠⚙️ @arikahn.bsky.social

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Julia Senfft @julia-senfft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very happy (and a little proud) to share my first first-author paper! 🎉 With @ondrejzika, I explore how hypothesis spaces and structural uncertainty might shape anxious thought. Really loved our deep dives into these ideas and seeing where the thinking took us✨ Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on psychopathology, personality, classification and assessment, and using AI with intensive longitudinal methods to better understand mental health. See the lab site for more info: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu

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Welcome! | Ringwald Lab

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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📣We are hiring!! I am accepting applications for a postgraduate research associate (PGA) position. If you are interested in pursue research experience in computational psychiatry, plz apply here - yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Computation #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #Yale #Jobs

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

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Ido Ben-Artzi @idoba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited to share our recent publication in @natcomms.nature.com We started by trying to make people stop associating the money rewards they obtain with irrelevant features of their behavior. In the first experiment, we used clear instructions framed as a story, and it didn't help...

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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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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply

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Control and Decision Making Lab

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our brand new Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab is heading to its first conference! Catch the EPiC Lab at SRP 2026 in Columbus, Oct 8-11. Posters Thursday and Saturday, symposium Sunday. Come say hi!

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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!

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Jae-Young Son @jaeyoungson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Joey is an incredible scientist and mentor — if you’re interested in studying emotion & social cognition as a lab manager, grad student, or postdoc, this is an amazing opportunity!!

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Robb Rutledge @handle.invalid · 14/09/2026

Apply to work with Joey! You won't find a better mentor. I'm looking forward to hearing about all of the cool science coming from his lab.

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey our psychology department is recruiting an assistant professor in developmental psychology - please check it out universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glad to be part of this elegant study that is reshaping the way I think about metacognition. Confidence is strikingly goal-sensitive, with supposedly sensory biases such as PEB being readily flipped through instruction. Led by Prady Sepulveda and Benedetto De Martino www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Goals shape human confidence

Confidence guides our decisions: it determines when we commit to a choice, gather more information, or change our minds. Prominent models treat confidence as a readout of the evidence in support of a ...

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Jared Medina @jaredmedina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New paper in iScience. In the mirror box illusion, you see the reflection of one hand where your other, hidden hand should be. Over time, people report feeling the hidden hand where they see it, not where it is. We found that the qualia of this illusion differ across individuals.

Figure showing five types of time course for the mirror box illusion. Each row shows a series of mirror box diagrams over time, with perceived hand position in red. Sometimes participants abruptly feel their hand is where the mirror reflection is (abrupt trials). Other times they feel a gradual shift from the actual toward the reflected position (gradual trials). Some trials fall in between (intermediate trials). On other trials, they feel their hand is at the reflected location as soon as they open their eyes (immediate trials). And sometimes they experience no illusion, perceiving the hand where it actually is.

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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I sadly won't make it to @fluxsociety.bsky.social this year, but the lab has two posters on Tuesday / Wednesday: Session I: @lralvare1.bsky.social - Disentangling the cognitive mechanisms underlying developmental changes in value generalization. ➕ ➖

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For real…Emory is awesome and Atlanta neuroscience community just keeps growing at all levels.

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Emory Psychology is hiring in Developmental Science (open rank)! Come join a highly collaborative and truly interdisciplinary department. Apps due Oct. 28. apply.interfolio.com/191436

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Alisa Loosen @alisaloosen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📣 Out now in Translational Psychiatry 📣 We show a metacognitive paradox in OCD: patients report persistently lower confidence than controls at comparable accuracy, yet their confidence is more sensitive to feedback and tracks a Bayesian observer more closely. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

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The metacognitive paradox of OCD: confidence is globally reduced but shows increased sensitivity to local evidence - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - The metacognitive paradox of OCD: confidence is globally reduced but shows increased sensitivity to local evidence

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Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🎈 Happy to announce that I was awarded the ERC StG for my project CHASM-Meta which will aim to close the chasm (👀) between our understanding of neurocognitive and clinical metacognition, and its role in mental health. Lots to look forward to in this space 🚀

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

⚠️ATTENTION STRESS GENERATION FANS!⚠️ Presenting THREE new papers in Nature Reviews Psychology and Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! One empirical study One methods guide One conceptual framework All have been baking for a LONG time, so it is a thrill to finally share. 🔗🧵⬇️ #PsychSky

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 WashU is hiring! 🚨 As part of WashU’s +AI Initiative, the search includes tenure-track opportunities in Psychological & Brain Sciences for people who place AI or machine learning at the center of their research. I'm on the committee, so feel free to reach out with questions. Please repost!

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Rules of Life

Recruiting interdisciplinary expertise to explore fundamental questions regarding living systems and the physical world

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annecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Check out our new Trends In Cognitive Science paper on mechanisms of cognitive flexibility - a broad collaborative piece with Florian Bähner, Ali Hummos, Sarah Oh, Kai Sandbrink, and Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying cognitive flexibility: a translational perspective

Cognitive flexibility allows us to adjust behavior when environmental rules change and to recombine prior knowledge in novel situations. However, the …

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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm super excited to share a new preprint in which @kevinmking.bsky.social and I propose an update to the affect regulation theory of alcohol use: "A mathematical and computational formalization of the affect regulation hypothesis of alcohol use" doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So what does the model actually claim? Most important are 3 commitments: affect reaches behavior through the urge to drink; stress biases choice by raising the value of alcohol; and context gates the path from urge to drink.

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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2027 at the University of Maryland — Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab, studying cognitive control via brain recording (M/EEG, MRI), stimulation (TUS), and computational modeling. Please email me: cfd-lab.com/join

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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m happy to announce that I will be reviewing applications this cycle for Yale's Psychology PhD program (Clinical and Neuroscience areas) to join my lab when we move in 2027! psychology.yale.edu/people/brend...

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Amy Carolus @amycarolus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New paper!🚨 We experimentally induced emotion differentiation to look at how construction of affective states impacts intensity of negative affect. In short, differentiating attenuated negative affect compared to passive looking. 🧵 [1/4] psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Gaia Molinaro @gaiamolinaro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why do some goals spread across people and generations, while others emerge only transiently? We argue that human goals are both drivers and products of cultural evolution: our individual pursuits are shaped by our cultural environments, and the goals we pursue in turn reshape those environments.

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Beth Fisher @bethfisher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New paper is out! 🌟 Here we consider challenges in computational psychiatry and address them drawing on ideas from philosophy of science. This paper came together during my PhD through many wonderful discussions with Noor, Laura and Jakob. No surprises that I have an optimistic take 😊

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

join our warm and supportive department

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Maddy Frumkin (she/her) @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We got an NIH grant (😱) and we're hiring a postdoc (🥳)! The successful candidate will work on a 5-year, NIH-funded project focused on leveraging multimodal digital health data to improve understanding, prediction, and treatment of postoperative pain. Please share widely!

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Sev Harootonian @harootonian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My main PhD paper is finally out in Nature Human Behaviour! The question: what cognitive strategies do people use when they teach, and can we nudge them toward a better one? Work with my PhD mentors @yaelniv.bsky.social, @markkho.bsky.social and @cocoscilab.bsky.social. 1/5

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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Really excited for the SSPP! Keep an eye out for the call, we'll be posting soon!!

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In this new study published open access in Translational Medicine @springernature.com we show that in a sample of clinically depressed people, higher symptom burden is related to reduced learning from positive prediction errors and aberrant neural response to neg PEs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive feedback underlie maladaptive self-beliefs in depression - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive feedback underlie maladaptive self-beliefs in depression

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