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Toby Wise

@tobywise.bsky.social

Welcome Trust research fellow at KCL IoPPN, working on computational psychiatry of mood and anxiety https://thewiselab.org

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Linking subjective experience of anxiety to brain function using natural language processing Abstract. Research on anxiety focuses on clinically relevant behaviours and neurophysiological responses, particularly emphasizing recruitment of amygdala,

Our latest work on the neurobiology of subjective emotional experience in anxiety is out now in SCAN 🧠 Brief summary below πŸ‘‡ doi.org/10.1093/scan...

03.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
IMPACT-MH: Clinical and behavioral fingerprints of psychopathology – IMPACT-MH

🌟 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...

29.01.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! πŸŽ£πŸŽ‰

We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

30.01.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Now online in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI - our paper showing that reliance on habitual responding in transdiagnostic compulsivity may be underpinned by uncertainty about learned environmental structure

πŸ“ƒ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

21.01.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com!

How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

21.01.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Very happy to see this out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com - kudos to @magdadelrio.bsky.social who has led this work and nicely brought together data from two very different studies!
article is here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
and PDF is here: rdcu.be/eZ27x

21.01.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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RA jobs in Oxford working on a Wellcome Trust funded grant. Neuroimaging, neurostimulation, computational modelling-- what's not to like!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

19.01.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

18.01.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence - Volume 56

Our new paper on different types of underconfidence in relation to anxiety symptoms and gender out now in Psychological Medicine 😊
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
with @smfleming.bsky.social

15.01.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Antidepressant treatment shouldn't be a guessing game. RELMED is working towards using advanced research to predict which medication is most likely to help each person along their individual path to recovery.

Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

21.12.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

🧡 If you're looking for a fully funded PhD or Postdoc in Computational Psychiatry, please reach out!
We are expanding the lab and tackling some big questions. Here is a thread on what we are currently up to: πŸ‘‡

18.12.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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‘ 77    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
NEPTUNE project logo with affiliations & funders

NEPTUNE project logo with affiliations & funders

New job alert πŸ’« We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning.

Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬

Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...)

Please RT :)

18.12.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Just one week left to apply! W2 Tenure-track or W3 Tenured professor for Ethical and Safe AI. πŸ€– πŸ™ Please share widely!

04.12.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

28.11.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.

24.11.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

24.11.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“£πŸ”₯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!

21.11.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!

If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!

20.11.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
osf.io/preprints/ps...

20.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧡 below

13.11.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival β€” it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

01.08.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
Postdoctoral Researcher (2288) - Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck

πŸš€ We're hiring !

πŸ•΅οΈ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.

🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling

Details πŸ‘‰ tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e

πŸ—“οΈ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT πŸ™Œ

06.11.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

This work is now out in Nature Communications! πŸŽ‰

Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6

Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

05.11.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Model-based EEG phenotyping uncovers distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying learning impairments across psychopathologies Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BP), and schizophrenia (SCZ) involve learning impairments with poorly understood mechanisms. Understanding both the similarities and diff...

Our paper accepted in BP:GOS! πŸ”₯
Even when learning impairments look behaviorally similar across depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, their computational mechanisms differ. 🧠
πŸ‘‰ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge team effort! πŸ’ͺπŸ˜‡πŸ‘₯@lnccbrown.bsky.social
#ComputationalPsychiatry #AdaptiveIntelligence

04.11.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ We are hiring! πŸš€

πŸ” Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

03.11.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

Integrating HiTOP and Computational Psychiatry for a New Era of Clinical Science: https://osf.io/sbuvd

30.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸš€ We’re hiring - Join our lab πŸš€

πŸ” Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling

We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.

πŸ“… Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!

More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt

#CognitiveNeuroscience

27.10.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
IMAGINE-decoding-challenge Predict which words participants were hearing, based upon brain activity recordings of visually seeing these items?

How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation?

#Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!

24.10.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

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