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Debbie Yee

@debyee.bsky.social

computational affective motivational (neuro)psychiatry. interested in serotonin, stress, & decision-making. K99 Fellow at Brown. https://debyeeneuro.com she/her.

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🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

29.01.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big
lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

26.01.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open and due in *two* weeks! Info about how to submit in the thread belowπŸ‘‡

Come share your science and hang out in NYC in August. :)

28.01.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Deconstructing Neural Predictors of Choice - Brian Knutson
YouTube video by motcogmeet Deconstructing Neural Predictors of Choice - Brian Knutson

ICYMI: Here's a link to the recording of today's talk by Brian Knutson on Deconstructing Neural Predictors of Choice - youtu.be/bX-mzrnbE_E

@sebastianshorn.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @kendraseaman.bsky.social

28.01.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jobs | City University of New York

I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost!

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...

22.01.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy to be involved in a research topic accompanying a conference that is dear to my heart β€” the International Conference on Motivational and Cognitive Control (MCC)! Check out the conference and Frontiers research topic here:
πŸ”— www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
πŸ”— www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

23.01.2026 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt πŸ™Œ

Applications due: Feb. 26
Start date: flexible, as early as June
More πŸ‘‡
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

22.01.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Junior Specialist - Lapate Laboratory, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

πŸ“£ Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro πŸ§ πŸ¬πŸ–οΈ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

13.01.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Check out our Spring 2026 lineup!

13.01.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never πŸ˜… I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

13.01.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“£ We’re currently reviewing applications for this postdoctoral position. Next review date: Jan 26. Feel free to reach out with any questions! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03027

13.01.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...

New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . β€œRethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧡

rdcu.be/eVZ1A

23.12.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 10

πŸš€ 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‼️

18.12.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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I am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, β€œA 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...

15.12.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...

lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

12.12.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

08.12.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A graphical abstract showing the research question and the operationalization of the study.

A graphical abstract showing the research question and the operationalization of the study.

Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨.
Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺
www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...

08.12.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! πŸ₯³ Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems πŸ€–πŸ’­πŸ§ . Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)

06.12.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Interested in a PhD looking at trajectories of repetitive negative thought using machine learning and computational modelling?

Take a look at our project in the @drivehealth.bsky.social portfolio and get in touch with any questions!

showcase.drive-health.org.uk/project/quan...

02.12.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org

03.12.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a quick reminder that applications for our new cross-lab PhD training model in cognitive science at Dartmouth are due Dec. 1. We're quite excited about this new approach, so please reach out if you have any questions!!

25.11.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation – and, consequently, pref...

New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS:
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)

never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

19.11.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.

My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN

17.11.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Job Alert! 🚨

We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>

31.10.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

We are looking for excellent MD Psychiatrist applicants to work & train at the CPCR at Johns Hopkins
@jhpsychedelics.bsky.social, the largest and most comprehensive psychedelic research program in the world.

Email Dr. Sandeep Nayak smn@jhmi.edu

30.10.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Computational Mechanisms of Psychopathology Lab (COMPLab; PI: Vanessa Brown, PhD) is recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow to join the lab. Research in the lab uses behavioral tasks (administered in-lab and remotely), functional and structural imaging, computational modeling, and mechanistic interventions (brief psychotherapy, neuromodulation) to investigate learning alterations in
anxiety and related disorders. In particular, this position will support research funded by a new NIH R01 using predictive and generative modeling of threat imminence to understand and manipulate avoidance in anxiety.

 

This position is ideal for someone with a background in some combination of behavior/learning theory approaches to anxiety, computational modeling of behavior, and fMRI analysis; and who wishes to gain or deepen expertise in these areas. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to design experiments, analyze data, present and publish findings, apply for external funding, and assist with
training other lab members and with lab management. Dr. Brown and the COMP Lab are strongly committed to mentorship, and support will be provided to assist the postdoctoral fellow to prepare for an independent research career.

Screenshot with text: The Computational Mechanisms of Psychopathology Lab (COMPLab; PI: Vanessa Brown, PhD) is recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow to join the lab. Research in the lab uses behavioral tasks (administered in-lab and remotely), functional and structural imaging, computational modeling, and mechanistic interventions (brief psychotherapy, neuromodulation) to investigate learning alterations in anxiety and related disorders. In particular, this position will support research funded by a new NIH R01 using predictive and generative modeling of threat imminence to understand and manipulate avoidance in anxiety. This position is ideal for someone with a background in some combination of behavior/learning theory approaches to anxiety, computational modeling of behavior, and fMRI analysis; and who wishes to gain or deepen expertise in these areas. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to design experiments, analyze data, present and publish findings, apply for external funding, and assist with training other lab members and with lab management. Dr. Brown and the COMP Lab are strongly committed to mentorship, and support will be provided to assist the postdoctoral fellow to prepare for an independent research career.

I am recruiting a postdoc for a new NIMH-funded R01 using neural and behavioral models to understand anxious avoidance. Please share with anyone who may be interested!

Link: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/155929/...

30.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

23.10.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control Human motivation is fundamentally shaped by one's expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the punishment they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which ...

Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠

Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

20.10.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Today in Nature Machine Intelligence, Kazuki Irie & I discuss 4 classic challenges for neural nets β€” systematic generalization, catastrophic forgetting, few-shot learning, & reasoning. We argue there is a unifying fix: the right incentives & practice. rdcu.be/eLRmg

20.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

A new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

09.10.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

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