Anna-Lena Eckert
@eckertal.bsky.social
Post doc in computational cognitive science @ Uni MR
🧠 computational psychiatry, probabilistic graphical networks
🎓PhD from BCCN Berlin 👟 runner & 1st gen; she,her
🌐Homepage https://eckertal.github.io/personal-website
🧠 computational psychiatry, probabilistic graphical networks
🎓PhD from BCCN Berlin 👟 runner & 1st gen; she,her
🌐Homepage https://eckertal.github.io/personal-website
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Anna-Lena Eckert
@eckertal.bsky.social
· Aug 14
10 years after I came as a participant in 2015, tonight I had the pleasure of giving an evening lecture at the Studienstiftung summer academy in the Swiss mountains ⛰️
My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!
My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!
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✈️ Die Koalitionsspitzen wollen die Flugsteuer senken – und gleichzeitig wird das Deutschlandticket teurer. Statt Billigflüge zu subventionieren, sollten sie lieber in die marode Bahn investieren und für günstige Zugtickets sorgen. Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen ➡️ aktion.campact.de/s/flugsteuer...
Flugsteuer muss bleiben – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen
Die Koalitionsspitzen wollen die Flugsteuer senken – auf Kosten des Klimas. Das müssen wir verhindern!
aktion.campact.de
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
✈️ Die Koalitionsspitzen wollen die Flugsteuer senken – und gleichzeitig wird das Deutschlandticket teurer. Statt Billigflüge zu subventionieren, sollten sie lieber in die marode Bahn investieren und für günstige Zugtickets sorgen. Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen ➡️ aktion.campact.de/s/flugsteuer...
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
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Merz Stadtbild-Aussage ist nicht nur rassistisch, sondern auch ein Ablenkungsmanöver: Unzufriedenheit soll sich an "Ausländern" entladen statt an der Politik, die versagt, lebenswerte Städte für alle zu schaffen. @keremschamberger.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Merz’ rassistische Ablenkung hat Tradition
Die Stadtbild-Debatte ist nicht nur ein Schauspiel des Alltagsrassismus in Deutschland, sondern auch ein Ablenkungsmanöver: Unzufriedenheit soll sich an Ausländern entladen statt an der Politik, die d...
jacobin.de
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Merz Stadtbild-Aussage ist nicht nur rassistisch, sondern auch ein Ablenkungsmanöver: Unzufriedenheit soll sich an "Ausländern" entladen statt an der Politik, die versagt, lebenswerte Städte für alle zu schaffen. @keremschamberger.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
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How does the brain find its way in realistic environments? 🧠 Using deep RL and neural data, we show that hippocampal-like networks support navigation, learning, and generalisation in partially observable environments—mirroring real animal behaviour. Now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
Hippocampus supports multi-task reinforcement learning under partial observability - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning in naturalistic environments are not fully understood. Here authors show that reinforcement learning (RL) agents with hippocampal-like recurrence, u...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
How does the brain find its way in realistic environments? 🧠 Using deep RL and neural data, we show that hippocampal-like networks support navigation, learning, and generalisation in partially observable environments—mirroring real animal behaviour. Now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
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Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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[logging on every day] man what
September 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
[logging on every day] man what
My amazing husband Majed worked *so hard* on this project for >5 years - finally published today @natcomms.nature.com 😍
Absolutely insane array of methods, looking at microglia proliferation patterns & cell-cell interactions after stroke. Proud moment! 💫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Absolutely insane array of methods, looking at microglia proliferation patterns & cell-cell interactions after stroke. Proud moment! 💫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My amazing husband Majed worked *so hard* on this project for >5 years - finally published today @natcomms.nature.com 😍
Absolutely insane array of methods, looking at microglia proliferation patterns & cell-cell interactions after stroke. Proud moment! 💫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Absolutely insane array of methods, looking at microglia proliferation patterns & cell-cell interactions after stroke. Proud moment! 💫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Big congrats to Marishka on this. I know how much time and effort went into it. Really happy to see it out! For those interested, she replicated prior longitudinal results using an approach-avoidance conflict task and showed how model parameters afforded out-of-sample clinical prediction.
New paper in CPsy - 'Computational Mechanisms of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Predictively Differentiate Between Affective and Substance Use Disorders' from Marishka Mehta and the group of @rssmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...
doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...
Computational Mechanisms of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Predictively Differentiate Between Affective and Substance Use Disorders | Computational Psychiatry
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Big congrats to Marishka on this. I know how much time and effort went into it. Really happy to see it out! For those interested, she replicated prior longitudinal results using an approach-avoidance conflict task and showed how model parameters afforded out-of-sample clinical prediction.
Science demos at the town fair in Marburg this Saturday 🧑🔬💫
Talking to Marburgers of all ages about the quirks of perception, & introducing the new DFG-funded cluster of excellence "The Adaptive Mind".
We showed Ames room, a color constancy demo, and hollow mask, size-weight & rubber hand illusions
Talking to Marburgers of all ages about the quirks of perception, & introducing the new DFG-funded cluster of excellence "The Adaptive Mind".
We showed Ames room, a color constancy demo, and hollow mask, size-weight & rubber hand illusions
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Science demos at the town fair in Marburg this Saturday 🧑🔬💫
Talking to Marburgers of all ages about the quirks of perception, & introducing the new DFG-funded cluster of excellence "The Adaptive Mind".
We showed Ames room, a color constancy demo, and hollow mask, size-weight & rubber hand illusions
Talking to Marburgers of all ages about the quirks of perception, & introducing the new DFG-funded cluster of excellence "The Adaptive Mind".
We showed Ames room, a color constancy demo, and hollow mask, size-weight & rubber hand illusions
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Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work!
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Yes! Lovely 2 weeks in the Swiss mountains with an incredibly bright and inspiring group of students 🫰🌄🧑💻
Will remember lots of late night sessions preparing the next day all while having great fun w/ the inimitable @esterner.bsky.social!
Joy in teaching - restored 💫
Will remember lots of late night sessions preparing the next day all while having great fun w/ the inimitable @esterner.bsky.social!
Joy in teaching - restored 💫
Teaching at the #Studienstiftung Sommerakademie in Leysin will definitely remain a core memory of my PhD! Discussing computational psychiatry with such a curious, interdisciplinary group of students was truly inspiring! Sharing the experience with @eckertal.bsky.social made it even more special ✨
September 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Yes! Lovely 2 weeks in the Swiss mountains with an incredibly bright and inspiring group of students 🫰🌄🧑💻
Will remember lots of late night sessions preparing the next day all while having great fun w/ the inimitable @esterner.bsky.social!
Joy in teaching - restored 💫
Will remember lots of late night sessions preparing the next day all while having great fun w/ the inimitable @esterner.bsky.social!
Joy in teaching - restored 💫
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In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
New at the university: Prof. Weber!
Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!
www.uni-osnabrueck.de
August 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
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Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences
PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
August 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
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August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
10 years after I came as a participant in 2015, tonight I had the pleasure of giving an evening lecture at the Studienstiftung summer academy in the Swiss mountains ⛰️
My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!
My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!
August 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
10 years after I came as a participant in 2015, tonight I had the pleasure of giving an evening lecture at the Studienstiftung summer academy in the Swiss mountains ⛰️
My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!
My talk on brains-as-computers fell on open ears and there were 45 min of super exciting questions. What a joy!
Reposted by Anna-Lena Eckert
Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
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Are you at #CPconf2025 and interested in inference and generalization?
@luiantaverra.bsky.social will present on aversive learning and avoidance, and how these are impacted by anxiety P1.67
I will present a poster on the role of internalizing psychopathology in contextual inference P1.72
@luiantaverra.bsky.social will present on aversive learning and avoidance, and how these are impacted by anxiety P1.67
I will present a poster on the role of internalizing psychopathology in contextual inference P1.72
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Are you at #CPconf2025 and interested in inference and generalization?
@luiantaverra.bsky.social will present on aversive learning and avoidance, and how these are impacted by anxiety P1.67
I will present a poster on the role of internalizing psychopathology in contextual inference P1.72
@luiantaverra.bsky.social will present on aversive learning and avoidance, and how these are impacted by anxiety P1.67
I will present a poster on the role of internalizing psychopathology in contextual inference P1.72
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“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏
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July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
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nothing makes sense in computational modelling, except in the light of these two all-time classic maxims:
1. all models are wrong, some are useful - George Box
2. everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - Albert Einstein
1. all models are wrong, some are useful - George Box
2. everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - Albert Einstein
July 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
nothing makes sense in computational modelling, except in the light of these two all-time classic maxims:
1. all models are wrong, some are useful - George Box
2. everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - Albert Einstein
1. all models are wrong, some are useful - George Box
2. everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - Albert Einstein
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We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.
July 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.
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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...