Science Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I’m excited to share our new, open-access paper published today in Nature Mental Health, “Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology”. nature.com/articles/s4422…

My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain 🧠 THREAD ⬇️ 1/n

Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond cell.com/trends/neurosc… #Neuroscience

Delighted to share that I’ll be joining Oxford ExpPsychology as a group leader/Faculty next spring. My group will investigate how our cells build models of the world and of our internal goals, and how this goes wrong in disorders like schizophrenia.

I’ll work closely with Matthew Nour, Rick Adams 🇺🇦@drrickadams.bsky.social and Maria Eckstein to investigate Goal-world model impairments in psychosis in mice humans and neural nets supported by a Wellcome Mental Health Award

I believe that if you understood intelligence, you could build it in software form on a $1M budget, including training. It would not need to be trained on the entire Internet, nor on the thought process of thousands of experts.

Our symposium on structure knowledge biases in psychopathology was accepted at the Computational psychiatry Conference! Matthew Nour Mona Garvert Dr. Caroline Charpentier Talks span social learning, task inference in planning, language representation & map-based generalization. Cant wait!

New paper with Matthew Nour , Toby Pillinger , and Phil Cowen discussing different ways of thinking about and developing psychopharmacological treatments biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial Brain If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…

The hidden cost of university administrative bloat isn't just financial—it's the talent drain. When systems impede rather than enable research, our brightest minds seek institutions where they can innovate. Paul Graham paulgraham.com/artistsship.ht…

Robert Howard It isn’t just general NHS issues. Its expanding bureaucracy,a lack of urgency in unis/NHS, & risk aversion causing delays of yrs. Problems haven’t grown from funding issues, but misplaced incentives where its ok if we never get started as long as the proformas completed correctly

Not sure about the implications that chatbot use "induces psychosis", but certainly a new risk factor we need to think about and study for those already at risk. arxiv.org/abs/2507.19218