Ulrich Ettinger

The empirical structure of psychopathology is represented in large language models - Nature Mental Health This study applies large language models (LLMs) to analyze language used for the description of psychopathology across clinical questionnaires and uses empirical data from four large-scale datasets. T...

"The empirical structure of psychopathology is represented in large language models" - new paper out now in Nature Mental Health! Thank you for a great effort @josephkambeitz.bsky.social and colleagues!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Decision Making This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

I am pleased to announce that our new book on "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications" is now published by @springernature.com ! A collection of 17 chapters over 325 pages on #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Philosophy #Psychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🔈 Our edited volume "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social and Bert Heinrichs, is out.

url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9P5mCROAEn...

#DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy

Great news! 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce ECEM 2026 at Ulm University, taking place August 30 – September 3, 2026.

Follow our official BlueSky page to stay connected and join the ECEM 2026 community! 💙

#ECEM2026 #EyeMovements #HCI #CognitivePsychology #Neuroscience #UlmUniversity

Ketamine — the £8 killer taking over university campuses It has become the party drug of choice among 16 to 24-year-olds — but the side effects can be devastating, from permanent bladder failure to sudden death. Phoebe Luckhurst reports

"Ketamine — the £8 killer taking over university campuses"‬⁩ @thetimes.com #ketamine

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...

John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI American philosopher whose theories of language, consciousness and AI made him one of the best-known thinkers of the late 20th century, dies aged 93

John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI

www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

🚀 Exciting #DPhil project starting in 2026 using @ukbiobank.bsky.social data to explore misdiagnosis in #neurodevelopmental and #psychiatric disorders. Get I touch if you're interested!

@oxpop.bsky.social #MentalHealth #Epidemiology #stats #EHRs

www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Studienteilnehmer*innen gesucht für eine Studie zu interozeptiver Sensibilität und emotionaler Verarbeitung im Kontext außergewöhnlich bedrohlicher Erfahrungen!

hochschulen-fresenius-unipark.de/uc/INTRA/

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Studienteilnehmer*innen gesucht für eine Studie zu interozeptiver Sensibilität und emotionaler Verarbeitung im Kontext außergewöhnlich bedrohlicher Erfahrungen!

hochschulen-fresenius-unipark.de/uc/INTRA/

"Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health" A multi-centre study on chronotype @satyamchauhan.bsky.social @ccn-brunel.bsky.social #sleep #chronotype #chronobiology

Please take part! Link to survey: brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A Multimodal Observational Case-Control Study Exploring Gut Microbiota–Hippocampus Alterations in Individuals With High Positive Schizotypy From the General Population The hippocampus plays a critical role in psychosis, with reduced volume observed across the psychosis continuum. These structural changes are associat…

"A Multimodal Observational Case-Control Study Exploring Gut Microbiota–Hippocampus Alterations in Individuals With High Positive Schizotypy From the General Population" - new paper alert!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decision Making This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

"Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications". Our new edited book due to appear in @springernature.com later this year! @carstenmurawski.bsky.social #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy

link.springer.com/book/9783032...

"Chronotype, Sleep Quality and Personality: A Journey Towards Better Mental and Physical Health" A multi-centre study on chronotype @satyamchauhan.bsky.social @ccn-brunel.bsky.social #sleep #chronotype #chronobiology

Please take part! Link to survey: brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control AbstractObjectives. Eye movements (EMs) are considered biomarkers for age-related neurological or psychological deficits, and oculomotor control has been s

"Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control"

Our new paper out now in The Journals of Gerontology Series B!

academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...

Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind

@perothwell.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

Vertretung einer W1 Professur An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- u...

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapie zu vertreten.

www.psychjob.eu/de/job/vertr...

Vertretung einer W1 Professur An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- u...

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist vom 1.10.2025 (oder ab nächst möglichem Zeitpunkt) bis zunächst 30.09.2026 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapie zu vertreten.

www.psychjob.eu/de/job/vertr...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

New paper alert: "Habitual Worry, Cognitive Control, and Heart Rate Variability in Adult ADHD" out now in Psychophysiology! @unibonn.bsky.social @universidadjaen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

DFG Research Unit 5389

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

This is the first paper of my first grant 🎉. Work led by our PhD-student @cecivez.bsky.social together with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social & @nbkroemer.bsky.social

⏳𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬? Dr. Kristof Keidel and his team are exploring how time framing affects choices between immediate rewards and long-term gains.

𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦? Learn more about #jschool2025: jrp.pscholars.org/jschool2025

A plot showing that taVNS does not induce larger pupil dilation compared to sham.

A plot showing that sham-induced pupil dilation is much more variable

Pulsed taVNS elicits pupil dilation. However, if sham feels as intense, there is not much left. Based on our comparatively large sample (94 participants, single-blind crossover), we show that a highly variable sham response explains this.
#neuroskyence 🩺
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control AbstractObjectives. Eye movements (EMs) are considered biomarkers for age-related neurological or psychological deficits, and oculomotor control has been s

New manuscript out now online: "Regional Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness Mediate Age-Related Differences in Eye Movement Control" #RheinlandStudie ‪@geronsociety.bsky.social‬ academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...