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Menghuan Chen
@menghuanchen.bsky.social
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PhD student in @gamerlab.bsky.social, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, within RTG2660. fMRI, eye tracking, EEG, decision making, approach-avoidance conflict. Seeking postdoc positions
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elife.bsky.social
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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bertsch-lab.bsky.social
Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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leabartsch.bsky.social
🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position (80%) at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years. The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course per semester). Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html We offer: - An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team - Excellent lab infrastructure - Salary according to Cantonal regulations We expect: - a PhD in psychology or a related discipline - experience with experimental research - excellent method knowledge and skills - very good command of English - interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology In addition, it would be desirable if you had: - experience with publishing in international journals - programming skills - experience with mathematical / computational modeling Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter no later than September 10, 2025 electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
August 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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skhalsa.bsky.social
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
August 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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mkwittmann.bsky.social
📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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torwager.bsky.social
Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
fMRI Course
Instructors
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July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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tobiasuhauser.bsky.social
We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
menghuanchen.bsky.social
Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7!
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃
July 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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hcp4715.bsky.social
A super interesting meta-research on flexibility of exp design of reversal learning paradigm.

"methodological standards diverge dramatically across taxa... "The number of reversal phases differed more than threefold among groups."

osf.io/preprints/ps...

reminds me a similar work in my group ->
July 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
menghuanchen.bsky.social
Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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danielamier.bsky.social
We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)
Bewerberfrist: 06.07.2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
July 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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sgluth.bsky.social
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...
DFG Research Unit 5389
www.uni-hamburg.de
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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gamerlab.bsky.social
Next poster from the group #pug2025 - B 191 by @menghuanchen.bsky.social on approach-avoidance control
June 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
menghuanchen.bsky.social
Hi #PuG, B 191: Come and visit👉
How competing outcomes (reward vs. threat) bidirectionally but asymmetrically reshape approach-avoidance behavior, physiology and attention
June 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
menghuanchen.bsky.social
🛌 Time for memory consolidation of the first day at the #PuG2025
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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mattnour.bsky.social
🚨 Job adverts LIVE! 🚨

We want to understand how the brain supports abstract cognition in psychosis, using cutting-edge neuroscience.

Non-Clinical RA:
lnkd.in/eva-Zzfj

Clinical RA:
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Postdoc:
lnkd.in/eid8gtbR

Oxford University
Due June 23
May 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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claeneuro.bsky.social
Nature Neuroscience

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes - Nature Neuroscience
How does the brain learn to predict rewards? In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Qian, Burrell et al. show that understanding how dopamine guides learning requires knowledge of how animals interpret...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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mhrincubator.bsky.social
🚨JOB ALERT🚨

@oxengsci.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oxexppsy.bsky.social & St Catherine's college, is hiring an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Technologies for Mental Health and Cognition).

To view the job particulars and apply, click the link below. Feel free to share! 👇
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June 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ndlab.bsky.social
We also have a open Postdoc position in human brain electrophysiology in collaboration with Prof. Maxime Baud at the University of Bern, check it out: ndlab.ch
#JobAlert #PostDoc #EEG #MachineLearning
Neural Dynamics lab |
ndlab.ch
May 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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andrejbicanski.bsky.social
My colleague Dan Bush (not on BSky) at UCL is looking for a post-doc. Focus on intracranial EEG and single cell recordings from epilepsy patients + MEG recordings from healthy volunteers during spatial and episodic memory tasks. Apply here
tinyurl.com/n6nkty8e
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).
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April 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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goneill.bsky.social
My PI is hiring a new postdoc! if you are interested in memory, navigation, or just curious about the hippocampus, come join a lab processing data from human single cell recordings up to whole brain MEG!

(Deadline 28th May)

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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lenapl.bsky.social
We show cannabis use disorder is associated with higher midbrain neuromelanin, where such an increase is associated with #psychosis severity. The higher the use, the greater the putative dopamine turnover.
Led by Jessica Ahrens @healthsciences.mcgill.ca IPN

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Convergence of Cannabis and Psychosis on the Dopamine System
This cohort study investigates the association between cannabis and the midbrain dopamine pathway involved in psychosis.
jamanetwork.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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melgaby.bsky.social
A bit late to the Bluesky party but here’s our work showing a coordinate system for behavioural space, and an algorithm for computing behavioural sequences in the mFC: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cellular basis for mapping behavioural structure - Nature
Mice generalize complex task&nbsp;structures by using neurons in the medial frontal cortex that encode progress to task goals&nbsp;and embed behavioural sequences.
www.nature.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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drrickadams.bsky.social
📢 Fantastic post doc job opportunity in my group and co-supervised by DeepMind's @mariaeckstein.bsky.social - now live! Ad here: tinyurl.com/26rafzdc - deadline May 29th.
This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
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).
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May 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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dfg.de
#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...
Walter Benjamin Programme Monday, 26 May 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. CET
May 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM