Toby Wise
tobywise.bsky.social
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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Our latest work on the neurobiology of subjective emotional experience in anxiety is out now in SCAN 🧠 Brief summary below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
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,
doi.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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🌟 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...
IMPACT-MH: Clinical and behavioral fingerprints of psychopathology – IMPACT-MH
impact-mh.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉

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)
www.science.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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

📃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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🎉 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...
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January 21, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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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
January 21, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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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...
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my.corehr.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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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...
www.biorxiv.org
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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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
Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence - Volume 56
doi.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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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
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🧵 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: 👇
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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🚀 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‼️
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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New job alert 💫 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 🧑‍🔬

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

Please RT :)
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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🚨 Just one week left to apply! W2 Tenure-track or W3 Tenured professor for Ethical and Safe AI. 🤖 🙏 Please share widely!
🚀 Join @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social as Professor for Ethical & Safe AI to advance the algorithmic foundations of ethical and safe AI and to shape “Reasonable AI."

Apply now and make an impact where AI meets society.
👉 buff.ly/bIvq7Mb
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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...
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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.
The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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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)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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📣🔥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!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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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!
Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/364es88k
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
🧪Preprint!
How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions.

A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches.

A 🧵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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@emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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🧠 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!
The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making
Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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🚀 We're hiring !

🕵️ 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 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e

🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
Postdoctoral Researcher (2288) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉

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
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM