🚨 Job adverts LIVE! 🚨 We want to understand how the brain supports abstract cognition in psychosis, using cutting-edge neuroscience. Non-Clinical RA: https://t.co/Qgy4reAYnj Clinical RA: https://t.co/1vWVqqbjHk Postdoc: https://t.co/E6h3xiChuw Oxford University Due June 23

Finally had a chance to listen through this pod with Sutton, which was interesting and amusing. As background, Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" has become a bit of biblical text in frontier LLM circles. Researchers routinely talk about and ask whether this or that approach or idea

Check out Effie's cool work to learn about the varied types of task representations that langauge models construct during in-context learning!

🌟To appear in the MechInterp Workshop @ #NeurIPS2025 🌟 Paper: https://t.co/fJS0eripxX How do language models (LMs) form representation of new tasks, during in-context learning? We study different types of task representations, and find that they evolve in distinct ways. 🧵1/7

AI chatbots make you feel seen, heard, and understood — a tiny yes-man in your ear For NYT, I wrote about the potential harms of AI sycophancy and how to get a more neutral perspective https://t.co/RUZjl94kTF Thanks to @Matt_Nour @RianKMD @emollick @AdamMGrant @RaviDataIyer!

A response to the NY Times' Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI ⬇️

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. https://t.co/yLDGVCCfDD

@ProfRobHoward 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

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. @paulg https://t.co/748hGcjsCG

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @Brain1878 If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness https://t.co/5S5rL8Yda1

Adverts coming soon. If you're passionate about understanding the computational architecture of the mind and its breakdown in psychiatry, reach out now! Happy to jump on a call. All jobs 4 years, at @OxPsychiatry #ComputationalPsychiatry #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs

Part of an incredible cross-disciplinary effort: Preclinical: @GabyMohamady (@Nature paper: https://t.co/ofk4yTAmkV) 🐭 ANNs: Rick Adams and Maria Eckstein ( https://t.co/bc0UVAQh7G) 💻 Each with their own jobs opportunities ...

❗Post-doc (computational/cognitive)❗ You'll develop analyses bridging brain imaging, behaviour, and language. Lots of scope to develop new methods (LLM-based) and experiments. Work closely with collaborators on the animal and neural network side (see below!).

❗Pre-doctoral fellow (clinical)❗ You'll be supported to lead a clinical fMRI study, and embedded within an group studying psychosis (@rob_mccutcheon ). Ideal for a junior doctor at the start of their academic journey, keen to learn! 4 years, potential PhD.

❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES📷 We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠 Multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks. 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀

New paper with @Matt_Nour , @tobypill , and Phil Cowen discussing different ways of thinking about and developing psychopharmacological treatments

Our symposium on structure knowledge biases in psychopathology was accepted at the Computational psychiatry Conference! @Matt_Nour @mona_garvert @caro_charp Talks span social learning, task inference in planning, language representation & map-based generalization. Cant wait!

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.

I’ll work closely with @Matt_Nour, @dr_rick_adams and @eckstein_maria to investigate Goal-world model impairments in psychosis in mice humans and neural nets supported by a @wellcometrust Mental Health Award

Delighted to share that I’ll be joining @OxExpPsy 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.