Brain joins over 200 journals today in publishing the same editorial calling for emergency action on #ClimateCrisis to protect health and restore biodiveristy

Check out our new study on the role of effort motivation in subclinical apathy and fatigue! A massive shoutout to Trevor Chong for guiding the project, and the team: Wei-Binh Chong, @kellyjatkins, @neurocoops, and James Coxon nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to become a member of Young Academy of Europe (YAE). Never have connections to European colleagues been more important.

Absolutely thrilled and incredibly fortunate to be awarded an ERC Starting grant to fund our lab (sdn-lab.org) for the next 5 years! European Research Council (ERC)

Finally published today in Nature Communications this huge collaboration led by Jay Van Bavel, PhD. Was pleased to play a small part in this alongside many colleagues including some from the The Centre for Human Brain Health and The Institute for Mental Health (IMH), Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited that my first preprint is now available online PsyArXiv, featuring another project from my PhD Oxford ExpPsychology, with Masud Husain and Prof. Matthew Apps!🎉 "Preferences for seeking effort or reward information bias the willingness to work" psyarxiv.com/8p4dc/. Mini thread below.

The call for applications for our new PhD program in Sport, Health and Well-being (and related scholarships) is open. Deadline: Jun 09, 2022 at 11:59 PM Please circulate buff.ly/3MUepd3

New paper from the lab in Current Biology on fatigue after a day's hard work.

Thanks to some new funding (pending paperwork) Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab will soon be advertising a 2-year postdoc. Anyone interested in using computational modelling/fMRI/pharmacology to look at motivation/learning/decision-making across the whole lifespan, drop me an email. January 2023 start.

A wonderful surprise and honour 🙂

Sleep restriction reduces cognitive but not physical motivation. With Johanna Boardman, James Coxon, Sean Drummond, & Trevor Chong. Check out our new publication. dovepress.com/articles.php?a…

Feeling drained? Let's talk about fatigue and motivation. Our paper is now published Cognition w/ @AndreaPisauro Mindaugas K. Jurgelis Tanja Müller Eliana Vassena Trevor Chong Prof. Matthew Apps. A worldwide collab studying an intimate sensation 🇯🇵🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇱🇪🇺🇦🇺 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…