Tobias Hauser
@tobiasuhauser.bsky.social
Head of Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab, University of Tuebingen & University College London
Metacognition is a term with lots of meanings, especially in mental health. Together with Lena Jelinek and Steffen Moritz, @seowxft.bsky.social has taken on the mammoth task of bringing these different fields together in our latest paper.
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology - Nature Reviews Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Metacognition is a term with lots of meanings, especially in mental health. Together with Lena Jelinek and Steffen Moritz, @seowxft.bsky.social has taken on the mammoth task of bringing these different fields together in our latest paper.
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
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New #neurojob #psychiatryjob #jobalert. www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/current-vaca.... Focus is on clinical trials for mood disorders, with close links to @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social and @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
Current vacancies
www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New #neurojob #psychiatryjob #jobalert. www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/current-vaca.... Focus is on clinical trials for mood disorders, with close links to @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social and @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
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🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling
We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.
📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!
More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
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@tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, laureate of the ERC's #ERCengage Award, created a tool with young people living with #OCD; showing how engagement makes research stronger.
Read about his experience in the ERC's magazine: buff.ly/dQbMfJz
Read about his experience in the ERC's magazine: buff.ly/dQbMfJz
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
@tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, laureate of the ERC's #ERCengage Award, created a tool with young people living with #OCD; showing how engagement makes research stronger.
Read about his experience in the ERC's magazine: buff.ly/dQbMfJz
Read about his experience in the ERC's magazine: buff.ly/dQbMfJz
I am probably biased (same dept), but that you're able to treat a specific symptom with TMS (hearing voices in schizophrenia) is pretty cool I think - and a step towards precision psychiatry! And this is a proper RCT and all...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Theta burst stimulation of temporo-parietal cortex regions for the treatment of persistent auditory hallucinations: a multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled, triple-blind phase 3 trial in Germany
Sequential bilateral temporo-parietal cTBS over 3 weeks was safe and effective for
reducing auditory verbal hallucinations in adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
This trial establishes cTBS a...
www.thelancet.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I am probably biased (same dept), but that you're able to treat a specific symptom with TMS (hearing voices in schizophrenia) is pretty cool I think - and a step towards precision psychiatry! And this is a proper RCT and all...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
Come and say hi to @seowxft.bsky.social @floorburghoorn.bsky.social @lenarddome.bsky.social & @kenzakdr.bsky.social who will be demonstrating our brain explorer app and research at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand at New Scientist Live event in London
@uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
@uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
New Scientist Live 2025 is taking place next weekend! ✨
📍 18-19 October | Excel London
We're thrilled to be returning to the exhibition once again! Visit us at stand C20, where you can meet our wonderful staff volunteers and world-class researchers.
➡️ See what we've got planned: shorturl.at/dEVmn
📍 18-19 October | Excel London
We're thrilled to be returning to the exhibition once again! Visit us at stand C20, where you can meet our wonderful staff volunteers and world-class researchers.
➡️ See what we've got planned: shorturl.at/dEVmn
October 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Come and say hi to @seowxft.bsky.social @floorburghoorn.bsky.social @lenarddome.bsky.social & @kenzakdr.bsky.social who will be demonstrating our brain explorer app and research at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand at New Scientist Live event in London
@uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
@uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
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** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu
tinyurl.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
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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/...
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
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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/...
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Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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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...
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
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...
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...
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Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...
Understanding Negative Cognition in Anxiety Using Artificial Neural Networks - MRC DTP
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common mental health problems, but the mechanisms underpinning its symptoms remain poorly understood, limiting the development of novel interventi...
kcl-mrcdtp.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...
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Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
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The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
@fens.org
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
@fens.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
@fens.org
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
@fens.org
And another preprint from the lab by
@alisaloosen.bsky.social 🥳
In a very exciting collaboration with the Yale OCD clinic, we investigated metacognitive processes during cognitive flexibility using our new www.brainexplorer.net app game. See all details in Alisa's thread 👇🏼
@alisaloosen.bsky.social 🥳
In a very exciting collaboration with the Yale OCD clinic, we investigated metacognitive processes during cognitive flexibility using our new www.brainexplorer.net app game. See all details in Alisa's thread 👇🏼
September 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
And another preprint from the lab by
@alisaloosen.bsky.social 🥳
In a very exciting collaboration with the Yale OCD clinic, we investigated metacognitive processes during cognitive flexibility using our new www.brainexplorer.net app game. See all details in Alisa's thread 👇🏼
@alisaloosen.bsky.social 🥳
In a very exciting collaboration with the Yale OCD clinic, we investigated metacognitive processes during cognitive flexibility using our new www.brainexplorer.net app game. See all details in Alisa's thread 👇🏼
And another preprint from the lab: @lenarddome.bsky.social is presenting the CPM - a python toolbox that helps you model your tasks!
A new preprint 📝 with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @kenzakdr.bsky.social @benjwagner.bsky.social
and Andrew Webb accompanying our cpm-toolbox.net python modelling library - including details about our motivations, toolbox features, framework and workflows!
👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
and Andrew Webb accompanying our cpm-toolbox.net python modelling library - including details about our motivations, toolbox features, framework and workflows!
👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
And another preprint from the lab: @lenarddome.bsky.social is presenting the CPM - a python toolbox that helps you model your tasks!
Very cool new preprint from @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social : using app tracking, we show that drops in metacognition predict OCD symptom fluctuations - across tasks and self-reports!
Check out this thread for all the details 👇🏼
Check out this thread for all the details 👇🏼
🚨New pre-print out! 🍂
Using daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we found that reductions in both self- and decision-making confidence precede when people are likely to report experiencing symptoms of OCD.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Using daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we found that reductions in both self- and decision-making confidence precede when people are likely to report experiencing symptoms of OCD.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Metacognitive antecedents to states of mental ill-health: Drops in confidence precede symptoms of OCD
Mental health symptoms, like those in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), show pronounced fluctuations over time. However, little is known about the underlying factors driving these fluctuations. Whi...
www.researchsquare.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very cool new preprint from @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social : using app tracking, we show that drops in metacognition predict OCD symptom fluctuations - across tasks and self-reports!
Check out this thread for all the details 👇🏼
Check out this thread for all the details 👇🏼
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📢 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/...
🧠💫🔊 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
📢 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/...
🧠💫🔊 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/...
Our CPM toolbox is gaining traction: new models, better model estimation, etc - check it out now!
New models (three variants of Prospect Theory), new features (more ways to manage parameters, more model components to use), and of course bug fixes. If you want to make your computational modelling reproducible and robust, check out and install the new version of *cpm*:
github.com/DevComPsy/cp...
github.com/DevComPsy/cp...
Release v0.23.18 - New Prospect Models, improved parameter management, and a few bug fixes · DevComPsy/cpm
Install
You can install the new release straight from the PyPi repository:
pip install cpm-toolbox
Added
Add input validation and error handling in all cpm.optimisation.minimise methods
Add test u...
github.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our CPM toolbox is gaining traction: new models, better model estimation, etc - check it out now!
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The #FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills Online #Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Applicat. deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 👉http://rb.gy/6dhmxh
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills: Online Training Series for the Starting PI – FKNE
fenskavlinetwork.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The #FKNE Leadership and Soft Skills Online #Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Applicat. deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 👉http://rb.gy/6dhmxh
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
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📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
August 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
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🔵 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/
#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
🔵 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/
#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/
📢 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...
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...
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August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📢 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...
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...