🌟🌟 🌟 New fully funded 3.5 year PhD in Decision Neuroscience 🌟🌟🌟 join us at sdn-lab.org to study the neurocomputational mechanisms of social behaviour findaphd.com/phds/project/p…. Open to international students. Deadline 10th May. Please RT!

Patricia Lockwood ZivLab Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal Society for Social Neuroscience Wouter van den Bos Matthew Apps 7/ Hikaru Sugimoto from RIKEN brings some timely nuance to the study of emotion perception, manipulating the meaning of others’ emotional expressions (they’re angry that I won and they lost vs they’re just angry) leads to different experience & brain activity

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Larry Young, a founder of the Society for Social Neuroscience, a legend in the field, and a brilliant scientist who is loved by many, many members of this society and beyond.

Our #S4SN2025 meeting will be dedicated to the life and memory of Dr. Larry Young! ❤️

I'll be looking for a post-doc to join the lab in 2025! If you might be interested, reach out (DM/ email)n so that we can chat at #CDS2024 !

I'm extremely happy to share our study on hypothalamus functional connectivity & stress now out in Nature Communications - with Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠🇪🇺🇺🇦 Sana Suri Klaus Ebmeier and Matthew Rushworth
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology University of Oxford MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften
nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢Postdoc position available in my lab📢

Explore the age-old nature vs. nurture debate in human emotions through infant emotion processing using a cutting-edge neuroimaging tool, OPM-MEG The Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Uni of Birmingham!🧠👶

Learn more here:
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So immensely proud to see my PhD work out today in nature!

Combining neuroscience and ethology to an unprecedented degree in primates, we uncover neural signatures of social support and grooming reciprocity—building blocks of relationships.

shorturl.at/jvHSY 🧵👇

At the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) and the Exchange on Centenary Square, in Brum this Saturday after 11am - come and meet the folk of the The Centre for Human Brain Health hosting insightful but accessible free talks and activities for Brain Awareness Week! #UoBBAW #CHBHEvents

For who need to hear this: the purpose of science is not to make predictions about experimental outcomes.

Most Birmingham drivers want to 'leave their cars at home' - but lethal roads 'too unsafe'

New Sustrans report finds considerable shift in public support towards active travel measures

Birmingham Live

birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Beautifully written and pertinent comment from Masud Husain. The ever increasing pile of bureaucratic 'stuff' makes our jobs difficult, and cuts into the time we have to do the things that made us succesful at/enjoy our jobs in the first place.

Ultrasound technician position The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences (0.5FTE, 12 months initially) to support the establishment of our new MRI-compatible focused ultrasound stimulation system (funded by MRC). Deadline 25th Feb with start date in March: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨Job Alert🚨
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work with us on how value is represented at the psychological and neural level. Details:
universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…
Deadline: 20 February
📢Please spread the word!

Really happy to share our new paper, just out in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

w/ Patricia Lockwood Jo Cutler Matthew Apps & others not on Twitter, we found that adolescent boys with conduct problems and high callous-unemotional (CU) traits demonstrate notably reduced effort to help others

What governs the temporal variability of cognition? Grateful to see our work now published in Nature Human Behaviour with Daniel Reznik Rahul Bhui, Hanna Hillman and Sam Gershman. Read all about it: nature.com/articles/s4156…

“Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence” new pre-print led by brilliant PhD student Zhilin Su | 蘇致霖 and fun collaboration with many others! Inc. Mona Garvert Lei Zhang | 张磊 Matthew Apps Todd Vogel Sanjay Manohar Masud Husain osf.io/preprints/psya…

Effort Drives Saccade Selection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

📢 New & First preprint 📢

Delighted to share my first ever preprint during my PhD - Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence (osf.io/preprints/psya…).

How does ageing affect people's susceptibility to social influence?

University of Birmingham Springboard Fellowships now live! Apply for two years funding to support you to apply for your first independent research fellowship! Microbiology candidates v. welcome!! Pls RT edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨 Our paper is now out in Science Advances 🥳 amazing team work, led by Kim Doell Prof. Madalina Vlasceanu and Jay Van Bavel, PhD
Read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Thankful for opportunity to work on this and learn so much 😊