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Xiaosi Gu

@xiaosigu.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist studying human beliefs & the social brain. she/her/hers. Professor of Psychiatry & Data Science@Yale Lab: www.neurocpu.org Conference: www.cpconf.org Journal: cpsyjournal.org

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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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Salman Qasim @qasimetal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another preprint! This one from my postdoc with @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and @xiaosigu.bsky.social. Here we asked how the reward outcomes driving trial-by-error learning leave a lasting imprint on memory strength in the human brain. We used iEEG/computational models of cognition to find:
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It took me a while to cover from this, but what a memorable week filled of exciting science, fun conversations, and soccer at #CPC2026 !! Thank you everyone for making it all the way to New Haven from all over the world. Until next time!! www.cpconf.org #ComputationalPsychiatry
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Anne Collins, Eyiyemisi Damisah, Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner@adredish.bsky.social Don Robinaugh @aidangcw.bsky.social Organizers: @xiaosigu.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social Al Powers @yiplab.bsky.social Katie Myerscough @francesghart.bsky.social
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Excited for the first day of the annual Computational Psychiatry Conference, this year held at Yale www.cpconf.org! We have a rockstar list of keynote speakers including @danisbassett.bsky.social @adredish.bsky.social and many more! #CPC2026
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Computational Psychiatry Conference
New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/04/2026
📢 New preprint out now! In three samples (N=594), including a U.S.-representative cohort and a test-retest cohort, we formalize social motivation, learning, and homeostatic control within a single computational framework and identify a phenotype linked to chronic loneliness doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Robb Rutledge @robbrutledge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New this year: free trainee pre-conference on July 13 organized by @cehaeffner.bsky.social @adanyajohnson.bsky.social Pre-conference tickets are free for main conference attendees but space is limited to 75 people so register early! www.cpconf.org/faq-cpconf20...
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FAQ — #cpconf2026
The Computational Psychiatry Pre-Conference is a one-day workshop and symposium (approximately 10:00 AM–6:30 PM) designed to prepare early-career researchers for the main conference while fostering collaboration and skill-building.
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Robb Rutledge @robbrutledge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16. Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8) Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!) See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
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Computational Psychiatry Conference
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Excited to share our new paper proposing a new computational model accounting for the dynamic interaction btw drug #craving and #decision-making, led by Kaustubh Kulkarni, MD/PhD rdcu.be/fab6B #AddictionScience #Neuroscience #ComputationalPsychiatry #BehavioralScience
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A computational mechanism linking momentary craving and decision-making in alcohol drinkers and cannabis users - Nature Mental Health
This study investigated the computational mechanisms linking momentary craving and decision-making in people with moderate to high addiction risk levels for alcohol or cannabis use, uncovering differe...
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Honored to receive this award from @srndna.bsky.social and excited to collaborate with @maruofan.bsky.social!
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Delighted to be collaborating with @xiaosigu.bsky.social with support from @srndna.bsky.social 🎉
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Excited to share our latest paper in which we discuss merging theory-and data- driven computational psychiatry in a large transdiagnostic cohort study (N=2400) www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245... Christopher Pittenger, Godfrey Pearlson @annierhcheng.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social
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Threading the needle: Practical considerations for merging theory-driven computational psychiatry with data-driven analytics to enhance precision health at scale
The rapidly evolving field of computational psychiatry enables quantification of specific cognitive processes, and their underlying mechanisms, in a translational and potentially scalable manner, usin...
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🌟 Job alert! We are looking for a postdoc to join a multidisciplinary research team working on the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation at Yale (IMPACT-Y) study. postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
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IMPACT-MH: Clinical and behavioral fingerprints of psychopathology – IMPACT-MH
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Thank you all for helping repost this ad.🙏 We've received many excellent applications! 🙌 Just wanted to clarify that *prior experience working with human participants* is required (data analysis per se is not counted as experience with human participants). Please consider your fit accordingly~
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
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Postgraduate Associate Position in Computational Psychiatry — Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!
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Robb Rutledge @robbrutledge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
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Computational Psychiatry Conference
New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!
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Nicola Sambuco @nicolasambuco.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🧠💸 Launching the RewardSignals feed RewardSignals is a custom feed collecting posts about reward processing and decision making. To appear in the feed, tag your post with #RewardSignals. You can find and pin the feed from the Feeds tab as “RewardSignals”. #RewardSignals
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📣💥 Open rank position in AI & Brain/Mind Health at Yale! Come join the highly collaborative Center for Brain & Mind Health (CBM) at Yale, which seeks to apply clinical and translational neuroscience to directly improve the quality of life of individuals with conditions affecting the mind and brain.
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Center for Computational Psychiatry @sinaiccp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🎉Belated congrats to Dr. @xiaosigu.bsky.social on launching the Yale Computational Psychiatry Unit! Your vision continues to inspire, & we’re so grateful for the community you built at SinaiCCP. Proud to cheer you on & excited for continued collaborations! 👉 www.neurocpu.org
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 13/10/2025
1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵
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Anna Beyeler 🐝 @anna-beyeler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 15/05/2025
@cpsyjournal.bsky.social is switching to a paid peer reviewer system!! Game changer for academic publishing 👏👏 cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
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One Small Step Towards Fixing a Broken System | Computational Psychiatry
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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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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 05/05/2025
Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) habitat has shrunk by at least 65% over the past 1,400 years as evidenced by data extracted from 724 ancient Chinese poems! This finding highlights the vital link between conservation and cultural heritage! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Spatial distribution and trend of the minimum potential distribution range of the Yantze finless porpoise during the Tang Dynasty.Spatial distribution and trend of the minimum potential distribution range of the Yantze finless porpoise today.
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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Late Abstract Submissions Now Open – Limited Space Available! We are now accepting late abstract submissions for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen! cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CPConf2025/S... (1/3) #CPConf2025
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Alex Hess (he/him) @alexjhess.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Are you new to the field of Computational Psychiatry or just looking for resources on applying Bayesian models of cognition to behavioural data? Then check out our new paper "Bayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry": doi.org/10.5334/cpsy... 1/6
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Bayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry | Computational Psychiatry
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
*We are hiring* Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London
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annecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NIH study section that was *still* scheduled for Mon-Tue next week, including all reviews done etc... just got 'postponed' with no new date :(
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Big day for U.S science today. Holding my breath www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
💥 Some POST DOC JOB news 👀... I'm very happy to say that @melgaby.bsky.social, @mattnour.bsky.social, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and I have been awarded funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social to look at how planning 📝and mental models of the world 🌍 are affected by psychosis...
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
So much for the grant I submitted last September, which was supposed to be reviewed next week. Hardly the biggest tragedy on the current scale of things, but it will force me to severely downsize my already small lab.
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Gabriela K Popescu @popstarlab.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s... Cancer is real. Cancer kills people. #Science can kill Cancer. Stand for #science @aaas.org @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026
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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
NEW PUBLICATION in @naturementalhealth.bsky.social by @sarahbanker.bsky.social, @xiaosigu.bsky.social, Jennifer Foss-Feig & Daniela Schiller! Findings show that self-reported symptoms may not be effective diagnostic shortcuts for #autism diagnosis. Learn more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Chris Chatham @chchatham.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Congrats; love this. it’s so important to understand these differences, partly so as to optimally leverage & understand assortative effects. Such dynamics will grow more powerful as scientific inference is increasingly democratized & as existing health discovery institutions/initiatives are degraded
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Super excited to share this paper that just came out today in@naturementalhealth.bsky.social led by @sarahbanker.bsky.social, where we show important phenotypic divergence between online subjects who self reported high autism traits and those formally diagnosed by clinicians.
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nddpsych @nddpsych.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Phenotypic divergence between individuals with self-reported autistic traits and clinically ascertained autism | Nature Mental Health | Banker et al | 2025 #autres #MedEd www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Phenotypic divergence between individuals with self-reported autistic traits and clinically ascertained autism - Nature Mental Health
Comparing clinically diagnosed adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with online participants with self-reported high autistic traits, this study detected higher rates of social anxiety and avoid...
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Can't overstate how honored i am to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). In fact, my sleep deprived brain is in shock 😲 Thank you everyone who's helped me along the way!! And many thanks to @rudebecklab.bsky.social for telling me this!! 😅
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Rudebeck Lab @rudebecklab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Many many congratulations to @xiaosigu.bsky.social, Erin Calipari and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social for being named as PECASE awardees! www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
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President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House
Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...
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Ofer Perl @oferperl.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Time has come to share some exciting news! I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Haifa University in Spring 2025! #AcademicTwitter #Neuroscience #NewYear #newPI
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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚨Keynote speakers for the Computational Psychiatry Conference (14-16th July, Tubingen) announced 📢 Very excited to have excellent keynotes across theory-driven CP, machine learning, and clinical psychiatry: Andreas Heinz Georgia Koppe Chandra Sripada Sophie Valk Tor Wager #cpconf25 www.cpconf.org
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 11/12/2024
A few more relevant starter packs: Cog Neuro 1: bsky.app/starter-pack... Cog Neuro 2: bsky.app/starter-pack... Social Neuro: bsky.app/starter-pack... & feeds (posts from past week): Cog Neuro: bsky.app/profile/mica... Comp Psychiatry: bsky.app/profile/shaw... Imaging: bsky.app/profile/enek...
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I haven't quite figured out how @bsky.app recommends accounts to follow. Could experienced users plz recommend some in the #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #psychology #computation #openscience categories?
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Having huge FOMO for missing out on #ACNP2024 as I'm wrestling a 1-monther 👶 at home. Friends and colleagues @acnporg.bsky.social plz post as much as possible!🙏
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 Submit your extended abstracts on "learning and decision-making over time to achieve a goal" to #RLDM2025. Successful applications will be selected for poster or oral presentation to an interdisciplinary audience. 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15th 🔗 Learn more: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
Call to action requesting poster abstracts be submitted to the RLDM 2025 conference by the January 15th deadline. Poster is stylised in the pink and blue RLDM colours, and features the RLDM brain/robot mascot standing on a "submit now" sticker.
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