Robb Rutledge
@robbrutledge.bsky.social
Cognitive computational neuroscientist at Yale interested in decision making, happiness & mangosteens.
Play games for science! https://happinessquest.app
Play games for science! https://happinessquest.app
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Enlightening the brain
medium.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
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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
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.
relmed.ac.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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
📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org
Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
Computational Psychiatry Conference
New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)
www.cpconf.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org
Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
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I’m happy to report that the Grand Plan for brain/mind research is in good hands at Yale with
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social & co. They offered up many inspired thoughts about the impactful next steps for brain research and I left optimistic about the next steps for the field.
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social & co. They offered up many inspired thoughts about the impactful next steps for brain research and I left optimistic about the next steps for the field.
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I’m happy to report that the Grand Plan for brain/mind research is in good hands at Yale with
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social & co. They offered up many inspired thoughts about the impactful next steps for brain research and I left optimistic about the next steps for the field.
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social & co. They offered up many inspired thoughts about the impactful next steps for brain research and I left optimistic about the next steps for the field.
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🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Computational Psychiatry Conference
New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)
www.cpconf.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
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Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science
While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
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I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
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Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
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I love this idea. This is the type of public-facing scicomm that gives a scientist a renewed and refreshed perspective on their own work. I champion scientists engaging in ways that fill their own cups here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BUT!! fiction writing is a challenge (at least for me). /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BUT!! fiction writing is a challenge (at least for me). /1
This is 💙 Science & Fiction 💙 where scientific results & fictional stories intersect.
A space for people who like to a) learn about #science & b) read exciting fictional stories ✨
🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net
🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.net/de
Support: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...
#scicomm #wisskomm
A space for people who like to a) learn about #science & b) read exciting fictional stories ✨
🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net
🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.net/de
Support: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...
#scicomm #wisskomm
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I love this idea. This is the type of public-facing scicomm that gives a scientist a renewed and refreshed perspective on their own work. I champion scientists engaging in ways that fill their own cups here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BUT!! fiction writing is a challenge (at least for me). /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BUT!! fiction writing is a challenge (at least for me). /1
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Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control
Human motivation is fundamentally shaped by one's expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the punishment they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
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In a Comment, @docqhuys.bsky.social and Michael Browning argue that the field of computational psychiatry will improve patient outcomes through its increasing focus on interventions and trials. #mentalhealthresearch #Psychiatry
➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...
🔓 rdcu.be/eKp1v
🧵(3/8)
➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...
🔓 rdcu.be/eKp1v
🧵(3/8)
Trials for computational psychiatry - Nature Computational Science
Computational psychiatry is increasingly delivering causal evidence by focusing on interventions research and clinical trials. Causal evidence could improve patient outcomes through improved precision, repurposing, novel interventions, scaling of psychotherapy and better translation to the clinic.
nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In a Comment, @docqhuys.bsky.social and Michael Browning argue that the field of computational psychiatry will improve patient outcomes through its increasing focus on interventions and trials. #mentalhealthresearch #Psychiatry
➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...
🔓 rdcu.be/eKp1v
🧵(3/8)
➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...
🔓 rdcu.be/eKp1v
🧵(3/8)
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🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
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New preprint from the lab! 🧠
Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou
Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum.
Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs
Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou
Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum.
Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs
September 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New preprint from the lab! 🧠
Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou
Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum.
Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs
Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou
Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum.
Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs
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🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!
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Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
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September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!
Links below:
Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
Links below:
Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
📢 Early registration prices end tomorrow 15 April! 🚨
Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. www.cpconf.org
Speakers inc. Phil Corlett, Charlotte Fraza, Andreas Heinz, Georgia Koppe, Jill O'Reilly, Chandra Sripada, Sophie Valk, Tor Wager
Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. www.cpconf.org
Speakers inc. Phil Corlett, Charlotte Fraza, Andreas Heinz, Georgia Koppe, Jill O'Reilly, Chandra Sripada, Sophie Valk, Tor Wager
Computational Psychiatry Conference
Tübingen, Germany (July 14-16, 2025)
www.cpconf.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📢 Early registration prices end tomorrow 15 April! 🚨
Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. www.cpconf.org
Speakers inc. Phil Corlett, Charlotte Fraza, Andreas Heinz, Georgia Koppe, Jill O'Reilly, Chandra Sripada, Sophie Valk, Tor Wager
Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. www.cpconf.org
Speakers inc. Phil Corlett, Charlotte Fraza, Andreas Heinz, Georgia Koppe, Jill O'Reilly, Chandra Sripada, Sophie Valk, Tor Wager
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I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with
@robbrutledge.bsky.social, Chongyu Qin, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Martin Chadwick, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind:
"Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091
A short 🧵
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@robbrutledge.bsky.social, Chongyu Qin, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Martin Chadwick, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind:
"Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091
A short 🧵
1/7
Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence
Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly become a significant part of everyday life, with over a quarter of American adults using them multiple times per week. While these tools o...
arxiv.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with
@robbrutledge.bsky.social, Chongyu Qin, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Martin Chadwick, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind:
"Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091
A short 🧵
1/7
@robbrutledge.bsky.social, Chongyu Qin, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Martin Chadwick, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind:
"Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091
A short 🧵
1/7