@alexandrapike
Lecturer in Mental Health @YorkPsychology || eating disorders, anxiety disorders, cognition/computation || she/her Group page: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/ Research recruiting participants: https://cognition-mental-health.github.io/projects
TBH the thing that is most sad about the loss of ~2015-2021 era science twitter is the loss of a public square where grad students can see, and participate in, the diversity of expert opinions in the field. It really shaped how I see science.
New year, new Open Research in Practice case study! 🎉
Gemma Sarigu describes how they embedded open practices during a student internship with @alexandrapike.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, assessing the relationship between catastrophising and integration of stressful life experiences 🧠
The Institute of Mental Health Research at York is looking for an Administration Coordinator to support our strategic operations and research. Come join us! tinyurl.com/ykn286da
Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
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!
Hi from North Yorkshire! (Snow days make me feel like a big kid).
This was super fun! Thanks @alexandrapike.bsky.social for proposing and to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and all speakers and attendees for making this day happen! 🥹
Finally, @arimoccia.bsky.social presented her thorough investigation of how episodic structure does (or does not) help with object memory. Thanks to all the speakers and the PhD student chairs, and to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and Arianna again! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
Some cool preliminary research on ingroup bias and how multiple dimensions of identity influence these biases. Thanks @miweissflog.bsky.social!
Best title of the day goes to @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social - lovely presentation and figures and an honest account of accidental replication.
Tabea-Maria Haase then presented some really thought-provoking work on some maths heuristics in children - particularly the operational momentum effect, look it up if you’ve not heard about it!
@chloebrunskill.bsky.social presents in our shorter talk session on our memory for narratives - interesting to think about this other level of memory, rather than just items and episodes!
Wrapping up session 1 is @lewis-ball.bsky.social presenting cool work on the intersection between sleep, memory and social interaction - featuring cool Bayesian modelling of item and source memory.
Next up are funky brain pics: @dmwatson.bsky.social discussing how natural objects are represented in the brain.
First talk is by @emmacsullivan.bsky.social on the oft-discussed topic of sleep, smartphones and mental health. Nice to hear balanced evidence rather than just polarised opinions! (Example of polarised views in photo).
Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.
The fab @holmyers.bsky.social wrote this wonderful Mental Elf blog on IU through development, and how this relates to anxiety and depression at age 10. Thanks to @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social - writing for different audiences is such a skill!
Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kelly presenting a slide with reasons for taking science beyond the lab.
Enjoying hearing more about @kellydonegan.bsky.social’s argument that psychological studies need to move beyond the lab (and into apps) - courtesy of the Centre for Decision Science Summer School @royalholloway.bsky.social and @nurasidarus.bsky.social
Hello hivemind! I haven't seen one of these in a while but I know that back-in-the-day they were all the rage: does anyone have a funky spreadsheet of MH/psych/neuro-relevant grants/fellowships for ECRs that they wouldn't mind me sharing with my lab?
Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."
incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩
📢 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 anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…
I only found out about this by accident when I couldn't access my preprint. I would like to strongly suggest 1) Notifying users about the switch (preferably in advance) 2) Explaining the switch on a preprint's webpage
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
I am happy to announce that I am nearly caught up on all the work I had from Spring semester and boy am I ready for summer vacation
what's that you say
Fashionably so.
@jonroiser.bsky.social only joined later?
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