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Shawn Rhoads
@shawnrhoadsphd.com
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Assistant Professor @ ISMMS
NIH Director's Early Independence Awardee
Lindau Nobel Laureate Young Scientist
PI @ sinclaboratory.com

Using computational models, fMRI, & intracranial EEG to study social inference, learning, empathy, loneliness, & well-being
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · Sep 22
📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro
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biologicalpsych.bsky.social
In this systematic review, Kabotyanski and colleagues summarize how intracranial neural biomarkers relate to psychiatric symptoms and can guide the development of closed-loop neuromodulatory therapies, emphasizing the need to consider disorder-specific time constants for effective implementation.
Intracranial neural biomarkers of psychiatric symptoms and their utility for guiding neuromodulation therapy: a systematic review
The quest to develop and improve neuromodulatory therapies for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders has been fueled by the discovery of intracranial neural biomarkers of symptom dimensions. These...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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xiaosigu.bsky.social
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org

@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop

More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that the preliminary program for the 2026 GRC on the Frontal Cortex is now live!
www.grc.org/frontal-cort...
Registration is now open for both the GRC and our GRS, chaired by @albitc.bsky.social and @jorge-miranda.bsky.social!
2026 Frontal Cortex Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Frontal Cortex will be held in Holderness, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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gangchen6.bsky.social
And the next step? Full voxel-level modeling.

Recent numerical advances cracked the scalability barrier. Voxel-level hierarchical modeling is now feasible, revealing just how punishing traditional multiple-comparison adjustments really are.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.12825
SIMBA: Scalable Image Modeling using a Bayesian Approach, A Consistent Framework for Including Spatial Dependencies in fMRI Studies
Bayesian spatial modeling provides a flexible framework for whole-brain fMRI analysis by explicitly incorporating spatial dependencies, overcoming the limitations of traditional massive univariate app...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
That’s a wrap on #NYCPW2025! Huge thank you to our instructors and incredible participants for an inspiring, engaging, and energizing three days. Your curiosity and collaboration made this workshop a success. 🙌🧠✨
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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sebospeer.bsky.social
Our latest hyperscanning study tracks how neural coupling unfolds during genuine conversation and how it differs from simply reading scripted dialogue: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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neurostrow.bsky.social
Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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brainapps.bsky.social
Super pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social!
markdhumphries.bsky.social Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 12d
🧪Preprint!
How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions.

A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches.

A 🧵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

With
@emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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halleeshearer.bsky.social
Excited to share our manuscript about BrainEffeX, a tool for exploring fMRI effect sizes. Includes why we made it, how to use it + contribute, and how we made it.

@sneuroble.bsky.social @psychonetrics.bsky.social
@alexkfischbach.bsky.social
@nichols.bsky.social
@dscheinost.bsky.social & MINDS Lab
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
👉 Saren Seeley continues our Day 3 with a discussion on Study Design & Replicability #NYCPW2025
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
@lauraaberner.bsky.social started Day 3 of #NYCPW2025 by helping the group map out their own clinically relevant questions in computational psychiatry. 🧭 🧠
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
💭Closing out Day 2 of #NYCPW2025 with Ülgen Kılıç's talk on Network Theory in Psychiatry and some hands-on project work! 🙌
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
Next up, @bshev.bsky.social inspired some group discussion on Drift Diffusion modeling during #NYCPW2025 Day 2!🗣️📊
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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drjocutler.bsky.social
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?

Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
☀️ Good morning #NYCPW2025 Day 2! @shawnrhoadsphd.com starting strong with a tutorial on fitting computational models to behavioral data!
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social
✨ Program Manager Job Alert ✨ Join our Mount Sinai team in NYC to steer a multi-institutional neuroscience initiative aimed at understanding Bipolar Disorder.

If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you!

Learn More & Apply 👇
careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
Research Project Manager I (Dr Saez's Lab) - Neurosciences in New York, NY | Mount Sinai Health Systems
Mount Sinai is hiring a Research Project Manager I (Dr Saez's Lab) - Neurosciences in New York, NY. Review all of the job details and apply today!
careers.mountsinai.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
Wrapping up Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with @neurokim.bsky.social using LLMs for cognitive model discovery. Excited to end the day with some project brainstorming! 💡🧠
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
📣Up next at the 2025 New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop: @vincgfiore.bsky.social on Bayesian Inference! #NYCPW2025 📊
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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sinaiccp.bsky.social
🙌 @angelaradulescu.bsky.social kicking off Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with a tutorial on Reinforcement Learning!
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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janeacierno.bsky.social
🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
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Redirecting
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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initself.bsky.social
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.

tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬

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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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dimitrisbolis.bsky.social
Understanding and explaining differences across minds in social interaction: insights from social neuroscience and clinical psychiatry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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endoeartha.bsky.social
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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sinaibrain.bsky.social
Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else? @shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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shirleybwang.bsky.social
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
jamanetwork.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM