Aamir Sohail

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

NeuroBridges brings together students from the countries of the middle east to learn about the brain, and each other.
Applications are now open.
neurobridges.net/upcoming

Neurobridges is a summer school that brings together students from the middle east, teaching them about synapses and circuits, but hoping to build understanding.

Here is a little essay about some of the conversations that took place in 2025.
rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/01/neur...

Interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (deadline September 2026) with me in decision neuroscience and economics (social and strategic decision making, cooperation, value-based choice, fMRI, computational modeling)? (1/2)

Recalibrating academic expertise in the age of generative AI GenAI tools promise accelerated discovery but risk eroding scientific expertise. When researchers delegate to AI, they bypass the effortful processes through which competence develops. This perspectiv...

📣 New Perspective 📣

In our article "Recalibrating academic expertise
in the age of generative AI", Zhicheng Lin and I discuss how an over-reliance on generative AI in academia may erode key skills of scientific enquiry.

Out now in @cp-patterns.bsky.social, read it below! 👇

tinyurl.com/py38vnvb

Thanks for that fun event today @lei-zhang.bsky.social and team! 🥳🧠😇

Enjoyed discussing our research with the Developmental Computational Psychiatry Lab in our shared meeting today.

Thanks to PIs @lei-zhang.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and to @annesaulin.bsky.social and Meng Gao for organising!

a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign

Passionate about women's mental health?

Interested in brain stimulation?

Excited by cutting edge neurotech?

Come do a PhD with me!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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A reminder to register for the 2026 GRS meeting taking place from Feb 28-Mar 1 in Ventura, CA!

📢 New preprint! 📢

Very excited to be a part of the project led by
@saurabhbedi.bsky.social on how the brain learns from multimodal inputs (e.g. audiovisual):

Separable neurocomputational mechanisms underlying multisensory learning
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below

Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?

Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠

w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint: What does the research landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning look like 🌍?

We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape.

osf.io/6c2va_v1

🚨 Last Minute Spots Now Available🚨

Last minute spots became available for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat🧠!

If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email:
📧sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de

Strongly Recommend!🙌
#Biopsychology #YoungScientists

Really excited to share a review I contributed to, out now in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. We explore how foraging can offer a framework for studying brain and behaviour in natural contexts. It’s been a pleasure working with colleagues across species and disciplines on this. Check it out! 👇

Schematic summary of key findings and proposed mechanisms from Rossetti et al. (2025) regarding the interaction between circulating platelets and cerebral neurovascular function in healthy ageing.

A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New preprint 📢
(with Daniil Luzyanin)

We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning.
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour. However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young adults who are productive, r...

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

🙌Thank you for a great Symposium at #PuG2025 on using computational models and MRI to better understand dynamics of social learning! @hein-lab.bsky.social @jgutzeit.bsky.social Bianca Schubert and Lei Zhang! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Excited to join Association for Psychological Science as an Editorial Fellow, to handle submissions and learn the publication processes at APS!

Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/

🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers

Please submit & share!

Day 2 of the first @chbh.bsky.social hackathon 🧠🤓 Thanks for a fun talk on your MATLAB journey @dagmarfraser.bsky.social

Played a small part in this exciting interdisciplinary work led by Gabriella Rossetti, @christakou.bsky.social and others at the University of Reading.

It's finally published, so give it a read!👇🏼

Enjoyed providing a gentle introduction to R as part of a workshop organised by @lei-zhang.bsky.social and CENTRE-UB

Materials available here which I aim to expand in future!

#R #openscience

At this point in my #Pint25 talk I was regaling the audience, who understandably thought they had come to a science talk, with a brief diversion into the cultural influence of world religions on our perception of prosociality and wealth. Scientists do not operate in a vacuum! (Well arguably some do)

🎓 Get PAID to co-create open-access teaching materials!

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Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in economic and social decision-making in humans but the specific functions of its subregions are not clear. This study shows that the dorsal mPFC is ca...

🧠 My second PhD paper out 🧠

What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting?

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...