Emma Scholey

PhD researcher in @MSNlab at @UniBirmingham @Impact_Aim_Mrc. Studying the role of dopamine in motivation and decision making using computational models

[Emma Scholey @emmavscholey]

Excited to share a new preprint with @LugtmeijerSelma and @brain_apps!

https://t.co/KAqA0JcULd

Our review synthesises recent findings to build a neuroeconomic framework of effort-based decisions @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP

[Emma Scholey @emmavscholey]

Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September!

This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.

https://t.co/rTsddigOHx

Pls share!

[Ahmed El Hady @zamakany]

Please share around this Job ad :

Are you excited about foraging ? do you want to analyse multidimensional large scale behavioural, metabolic and neural data ? I have a job opening for you :D

I have an opening for a postdoc in my @IntBioPhysics group. The Postdoc will be working as part of a recently funded Human Sciences Frontiers Program (HSFP) research grant ‘”Neurometabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging” in collaboration with the experimental groups of Robert Froemke (New York University) and Jee Hyun Choi (Korean Institute of Science and Technology). The project aims to understand neuro-metabolic mechanisms underlying social foraging. The PostDoc will have the opportunity to travel to the collaborators in New York and Seoul.

All details here and below in the thread : https://t.co/6P5W3ngjAn

[Mark Humphries @markdhumphries]

My lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. A @BBSRC funded project in collaboration with @brain_apps & @nathanlepora.

Closes May 5th

Pls share!

https://t.co/7Xs7qsTzh8

[Jo Cutler @DrJoCutler]

So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @BrownUniversity. Amazing speakers https://t.co/M7vUAB9h1Q and free!

Abstract submissions are open until 7th July

With @froemero1 @hayleydorfman @dan_ohad @NassarLab. Please share!

[Prof. Matthew Apps @brain_apps]

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my @MSNlab, @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP, co-supervised with @LugtmeijerSelma & @littleneuro. Deadline 23rd March. Unfortunately only open to UK candidates. More details here: https://t.co/1wEH802Zst
Pls retweet.

[Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) @lei_zhang_lz]

🚨 Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.

Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @DianaTamir, and David Amodio @david_m_amodio.

👇
Apply by 18 April (https://t.co/7xiZwGJGcS) and RT!

[Prof. Matthew Apps @brain_apps]

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in @MSNlab, co-supervised by @froemero1? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. https://t.co/tlCp9dp3N2

[Laura Grima @LauraGrimaNeuro]

The first preprint of my postdoc with @jtdudman
is now online! Here we wanted to understand the algorithms mice use when learning to forage in large environments with many potential resources. 1/n https://t.co/2LHb6TMnbr

[Emma Scholey @emmavscholey]

@DrAlexLloyd @jonroiser Congrats! 🎉

[Arkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov]

🚨 New preprint!

Happy to share a preprint of a chapter written for the forthcoming book "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions"; any thoughts and feedback are most welcome!

https://t.co/66Ax5bWBxd

[Jo Cutler @DrJoCutler]

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟

I'm looking for an RA to support new projects @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP on social information seeking and decision making inc. fMRI and MEG 🧠

Details: https://t.co/SYf1rvCpJU
Deadline: 24th September ⏳

Get in touch w/ questions 👋
Please share 🔁

[Mark Humphries @markdhumphries]

If motor cortex is a dynamical system, how does it control independent parameters of movement?

Our new paper at #jneurosci reveals arm direction and speed are respectively encoded by the trajectory of neural dynamics and how quickly it unfolds.

https://t.co/eGSqPVxttP

[Lydia Hickman @LydiaJHickman]

So happy that this chapter of my PhD thesis is now out in Behavioural Brain Research. Here, we investigated the role of dopamine in the modulation of speed during naturalistic movements. https://t.co/JOsF43gPpR

[Julia Cox @JuliaMaryCox]

I’m looking for a research technician to help study the role of the basal ganglia in foraging decisions
@Neuroscience_NU. This is a great opportunity to get experience before grad school and help lead a project!

[Colin Hoy @colinwhoy]

Our study on reward and effort signals in PFC theta and basal ganglia beta is now out in @PNASNews! Big thanks to the team (esp @coradehemptinne and @littleneuro), reviewers, and patients.
https://t.co/Gjgqz1YUcP

Data: https://t.co/YMzSH9E15o
Code: https://t.co/W5LJeAUgON

[Yidian Gao @gao_yidian]

🚨Thrilled to share our first paper from the ENIGMA-Antisocial Behaviour working group, published in Lancet Psychiatry! Co-led with @MStaginnus, this study took four years of work by 104 international collaborators, and used @enigmabrains' standardized protocol. We compared brain structures of 1185 youth with conduct disorder to 1253 typically developing youth across 15 international cohorts. Funded by @acmedsci.

https://t.co/aS2WngJA2c

💡Results below: 1/8

[Aamir Sohail @AamirNSohail]

@thepsychologist kicking off the Birmingham-Leiden Summer School for what should be a great three days!
@TheCHBH @UoB_SoP

[Emma Scholey @emmavscholey]

Really excited to be a part of this project for my @Impact_Aim_Mrc PhD, with a great team to work with!

[Prof. Matthew Apps @brain_apps]

Yesterday these lovely people from @MSNlab started our first psychopharmacology study @TheCHBH / @UoB_SoP looking at the effects if dopaminergic medication on thr computational mechanisms of effort and reward. Exciting new step for the lab.

[Nikita Mehta @nikitamehta22]

Read our blog, ‘How Do We Decide to Leave a Social Interaction?’ by @brain_apps and me on a recent paper by Gabay et al. (2024).
Special thanks to @AnthonyGabay, @thepsychologist, and @DrJoCutler.

https://t.co/JbGp421Xch