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Hayley Dorfman

@hayleydorfman.bsky.social

ORISE Intelligence Community Postdoc @Harvard || agency, emotion, causal inference, reinforcement learning & computational psychiatry || www.hayleydorfman.com

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** 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‘ 57    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Important reminder that we can continue to do better to make academia a safe & decent place for all. πŸ’œ

23.11.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2 weeks left to apply!!

18.11.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can attest that Yoann is the best and this project is super interesting!

04.11.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    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” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom πŸ₯³

29.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Neon Ghosts with ggplot2 - Dr. Mowinckel’s Make your own glowing, wiggly ghosts in R with a dash of randomness and a lot of neon.

Happy Halloween to all who celebrate. Hope you and/or your kids get some nice candy and fun times tonight!

Here's a silly little post on making neon ghosts in #rstats with #ggplot2

drmowinckels.io/blog/2025/ne...

31.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Graduate Study Our graduate programs are highly selective, successfully recruiting and retaining excellent students, competing with the top programs in the world. Our doctoral students go on to be scientists and sch...

PhD applications for Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown (@browncopsy.bsky.social) are due on December 1st. We have a great community, so please apply, share with your students, etc. Read more on our fancy new website here: copsy.brown.edu/graduate-study

30.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
CATS Lab Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠

Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com

Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

29.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Dr. Elizabeth Phelps

Dr. Elizabeth Phelps

We're excited to announce that the #SANS2026 Keynote address will be given by Dr. Elizabeth Phelps of Harvard! (brain.harvard.edu?people=eliza...). She will deliver a talk titled "The Human Amygdala, Threat, and Anxiety: Translational Progress and Challenges"

28.10.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated πŸ™ rouhanilab.com

24.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! πŸ™

20.10.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Curious how cognitive computational models might shed light on question in mental health? Come dive into hands-on tutorials, modeling, and clinical applications during our 3-day workshop πŸ‘Ύ 🧠

10.10.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WANT TO WORK WITH ME? | Mysite

Interested in understanding how young humans think about social relationships? I am reading PhD applications this year! **Please note**, that Harvard now requires the GRE. More information here: www.ashleyjthomas.com/workwithme

06.10.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Haoxue Fan receiving the best dissertation award at SNE

Haoxue Fan receiving the best dissertation award at SNE

Congrats to the brilliant @haoxuefan.bsky.social on her best dissertation award at #SNE2025! πŸ’« @socforneuroecon.bsky.social

05.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy FrΓΆmer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…

03.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for coming and for your incredible talk!

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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/...

01.10.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prof Jennifer Bussell discovered that rodents *really* like an informational heads-up about how much water they'll get soon. Even give up a large of % water for this information.

PS informational choice is well predicted from OFC recording #CISE2025 jenniferbussell.org/cv/

01.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prof Caroline Charpentier (@caltech postdoc) shows Bayesian model evidence about advice-taking and confirmation bias
sldlab.umd.edu

#CISE2025

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Had a wonderful time ✨ exploring ✨ new ideas and meeting cool people at the Curiosity, Info Seeking, and Exploration symposium #CISE2025! Thanks to all the organizers and Brown for hosting! Hope to be back next time.

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Group photo of CISE attendees

Group photo of CISE attendees

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Epic doubleheader with Bob Wilson & Jackie Gottlieb & that’s a wrap on #CISE2025 πŸ”­ Thanks to our amazing speakers & attendees!

02.10.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Tour de force talk decomposing aspects of novelty, surprise, info gain in multi-state tasks by @modirshanechi.bsky.social

Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
#CISE2025

01.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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At #CISE2025 Jordan Wylie is discussing curiosity about moral and immoral folks (eg Netflix) moralitylab.bc.edu/people/alumn...

01.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ

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We’re kicking off day 2 of #CISE2025 πŸ”­ with a fun talk from George Loewenstein on his tour de force research program on information gap theory

01.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Successful first CISE poster session at beautiful Brown! #CISE2025 πŸ”­

30.09.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/

28.09.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Safe travels! See you soon!

28.09.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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