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Laurence Hunt
@lhuntneuro.bsky.social
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Cognitive Neuroscientist at University of Oxford; Tutorial Fellow in Psychology at St John's College.
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wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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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...
Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.
ox.ac.uk University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 19
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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jthee.bsky.social
By integrating the 'pinging' technique with fMRI-based multivariate pattern analysis, we provide evidence for a dual-format representation of attention during the preparatory period.

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September 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
lhuntneuro.bsky.social
Great list for all kinds of claims, not just autism.
wiringthebrain.bsky.social Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Sep 7
When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:
1. Is this a one-off study or a replicated finding? 2. Is it cherry-picked or consistent? 3. Was the study big enough to be reliable? 4. Did it employ robust statistical methods? 5. How big is the effect size? (If there’s a statistical association, does it amount to a big risk or a small one?) 6. Is there any evidence for a causal link or is it just a correlation? 7. Could the correlation reflect some confounding factor? 8. How does this supposed factor sit in the context of other factors (especially genetic risk for autism, which is very highly heritable)?
September 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
lhuntneuro.bsky.social
Farewell old friend...
August 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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📣📣 **Epic project preprint alert** 📣📣
johalgermissen.bsky.social Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20
Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tobiasuhauser.bsky.social
📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
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August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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juliabottesini.com
Do you agree PsyArXiv is a valuable service? Then please consider joining the PsyArXiv moderation team to keep it that way (more info in the link below)! There's a 1-hour training session this coming Monday, Aug 18 at 1pm ET, and the minimum commitment is just 1h/month! (reposting also helps :))
August 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
lhuntneuro.bsky.social
Getting involved with CCN organisation was one of the best things I did to get to know a wide network of amazing, friendly, international and interdisciplinary colleagues. Strongly recommend!

And @neurograce.bsky.social will be an awesome co-chair :-)
neurograce.bsky.social Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
August 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social
Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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denislan.bsky.social
My first PhD paper - with @lhuntneuro.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social - is now out in @plosbiology.org! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link: plos.io/45uSwNm 🧵 (1/6)
Cartoon image of me looking at a map, with a stadium behind me and a hotel and ferris wheel across the river in the background. I am thinking about going to the ferris wheel
August 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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erinlrich.bsky.social
Happy to have some good science news - our new study with @aqperkins.bsky.social is out in @plosbiology.org!

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Orbitofrontal cortex computes gaze-dependent comparisons between attributes rather than integrated values
When choosing between options with multiple attributes, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is thought to integrate across those attributes, aiding in value comparisons. This study shows in monkeys that OF...
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August 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 1
How do humans navigate unfamiliar environments? @denislan.bsky.social @lhuntneuro.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social show that humans & deep meta-learning networks combine ‘vector-based’ & ‘transition-based’ strategies for flexible navigation in similar ways @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45uSwNm
Task design and experimental set-up. Top left: underlying structure of the 8 × 8 grid, unseen by participants. Every state is represented by an image of an object, and these objects and their positions change on every trial. Top right: schematic diagram of the ‘map reading’ phase of each trial. Participants see a top–down view of the grid with objects obscured and successively click on blue squares to reveal ‘landmark’ objects at the location. After 16 clicks have been completed, a yellow square appears. Clicking on the yellow square reveals the ‘goal’ object for the trial. Bottom: schematic diagram of the navigation phase of each trial. Participants start in a random, previously unobserved location and are tasked with navigating to the ‘goal’ object they had just learnt about (displayed at the top). They can navigate in two ways. First, they could choose a direction to travel in by clicking on the corresponding arrow (highlighted yellow). This is analogous to using a ‘vector-based’ strategy. Alternatively, they could choose an adjacent state to travel to by clicking on one of the associated images (displayed in a random order; highlighted blue). This corresponds to using a ‘transition-based’ navigation strategy.
August 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
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July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Really nice study, and extends some of the ideas developed in this paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32673043/
bttyeo.bsky.social Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

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July 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society
The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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theneuro.bsky.social
Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Decided to try out that new hip barbers in East Oxford this morning
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵

#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠

Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
July 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ndcnoxford.bsky.social
🔊NDCN researchers to co-lead new £50m MRC Centre.

The new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.

Read more: tinyurl.com/mr359x2d
NDCN researchers to co-lead new £50m MRC Centre to develop medical device-based therapies for brain conditions
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy.
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June 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Hip hip hooray!!
sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · Jun 24
Today, the University formally took over the new Life & Mind Building to house @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social from autumn 2025. Quite a journey over the years since the dark days of the Tinbergen closure: less hair (though greyer) & a few more lines, but excited for the future
Front entrance of the Life and Mind Building Oxford, June 2025 Selfie in front of the LaMB, June 2025 Portrait in early 2017
June 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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I was recommended this by a colleague of mine, comparing thought patterns of amateurs vs club players vs IMs/GMs/super-GMs. Looks interesting for those studying thought and choice in chess @evanrussek.bsky.social @weijima.bsky.social @brianchristian.bsky.social qualitychess.co.uk/products/imp...
Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams and Philip Hurtado | Quality Chess
Available in Paperback from 9th November 2022
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June 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
lhuntneuro.bsky.social
Massive congratulations to @fmrib-steve.bsky.social. Hugely deserved. Hope that he can stomach his lifetime achievement award being named after a feature of SPM.
oxcin.bsky.social Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · Jun 24
Congratulations to Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social for winning the OHBM 2025 Glass Brain Award! This lifetime achievement award recognises extraordinary contributions that drive the field forward - and we can't think of anyone more deserving. 👏👏👏
June 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM