Lilian Weber

✨New PhD Position!✨ Come and work with us on understanding cognition with a mix of cognitive modelling and ultrasound neuromodulation! More info on the lab & position: mic-lab.de/positions/ph... Official job ad: tinyurl.com/miclab-phd 🙏Please RT - deadline is Oct 14 ‼️

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

Deadline for this coming up (tomorrow 14.10.)! 🏃‍♀️

Really looking forward to this workshop on homeostatic control and adaptive behaviour at SAB 26 in Berlin 🚀 wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026/

Our reward function compression work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉 In it, we present and empirically test a computational framework that formalizes the trade-offs between goal flexibility and learning efficiency. @annecollins.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Deadline for this is tomorrow!! 🏃‍♀️

New preprint: When should you use linear mixed models (LMMs), and when is repeated-measures (RM) ANOVA enough? LMMs offer greater flexibility. But does that make them a better default? My paper argues for statistical parsimony: use RM-ANOVA when both methods are appropriate. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣 Delighted to share that I have joined WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) as Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Science. Announcements for at least one postdoc-level position will follow soon. Please reach out if you are interested.

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

Come work with us! Open to different topics, open to different career stages - if in doubt, contact us :) ‼️ Deadline 6th of October 🏃‍♀️

Friendly reminder: we are looking to hire a Full Professor in the field of "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Intelligence" at the IKW. Topic wise, the position is fairly open: www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit... Deadline coming up on the 6th of October.

📣📣📣 Preprint Alert! 📣📣📣 Do predictive processes shape brain representations during learning? We investigated the effect of Predictive Coding by training identical recurrent networks with different optimization procedures and then comparing them to human EEG under the same visual learning task.

Important update: we just extended the application deadline to the 6th of October 2026. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...

New preprint out of the press: 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. A thread 🧵:

P.S. If you work at the intersection of biological and artificial intelligence (or know someone who does) but fear that you (or them) might be too junior for a W3, please do get in touch anyway and have a chat with us.

‼️Come join our team at the IKW as a full professor! ‼️ I moved here last year and couldn't be happier - supportive colleagues, incredibly curious students, and lots of exciting developments at the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence. ✨ Any questions: contact Tim or me

📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...

Thank you for the kind words Sush. Feels like a good opportunity to mention our MIND (Machine Intelligence, Neuroscience Discovery) Initiative (uos.de/mind) as well as the Neuro-AI-Talks (NEAT) in Osnabrück.

New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Nora Czekalla et al. from the Social Neuroscience Lab in Lübeck 💫 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We all know the experience: Something goes better than expected, someone gives us positive feedback - and yet somehow, we don’t really believe it. TL;DR👇

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

1/ New paper out today from my group, in @natneuro.nature.com, in which we review the anatomical & functional data on insula structure across species. This was a "whole lab" project led by @joeycharbonneau.bsky.social. It's been a 5 year in the making (a full 3 years in review)! rdcu.be/fyd7T

So thrilled to be joining the Psychology Department at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an assistant prof next summer! I'll be recruiting for PhD/postdoc to start in Autumn 2027, so if you're interested in using computational approaches to studying human cognition please get in touch!

Does the brain's response to non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation depend on the current state of the body? Our new paper suggests yes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.

I was already feeling incredibly lucky with the students at the IKW Osnabrück, whose motivation and curiosity makes teaching very enjoyable. Now they told me they're happy too and it was the best imaginable end to my first year in Osnabrück 😍 www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

What an opportunity to work with the brilliant @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social - apply if you can!! Can't wait to see what's coming out of this new lab ✨

Check out how Vickie talks to brains today!

Come join us for a workshop on Neuro-AI in Osnabrück this autumn! Excited about the discussion-style format and it happening in my new home ✨

Very happy this paper I'm part of, led by co-first author Nomiki Koutsoumpari and @efouragnan.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! It uses transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to show the causal role of aIns and dACC in two kinds of learning biases 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Looking forward to presenting our work on the origin and flexibility of reward signals at the @arc-mpib.bsky.social next week!

Many thanks to @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to study the mechanisms underlying naturalistic decision processes in the context of foraging behavior! We’ll also soon have openings for PhD students, stay tuned!

We're so proud of this one - great to see it out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! See Johannes' threads for what we did & found. Excited to be using TUS and what it will teach us about the neural basis of affective cognition ✨

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com

Can't wait to see these results at #cosyne2026

Also shout out to @lilweb.bsky.social, Frederike and Dana for their nice review that helps motivating this study! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking at the program again 👀 I can't wait for this! Stoked to contribute a talk on ✨the interoceptive basis of reinforcement learning✨

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Using EEG and decoding analyses we find dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning, both within and across trials 🧠 @auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik elifesciences.org/articles/103...

"Die Männer um mich herum wollen nichts anzünden. Aber damit der Giftpegel sinkt, muss nicht nur die Scham die Seiten wechseln (...) Auch die Wut muss es. Von uns Frauen zu euch Männern. Es sind nicht wir, die pausenlos über Epstein reden müssen. Ihr seid es."

Check out our new paper which isolates a human brain signal that specifically tracks the growing urgency to commit to a choice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41611534/. This one was a long time coming! Sterling work from @harveymccone.bsky.social and a bunch of past lab members!

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement." Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇