Huw Jarvis
@huwjarvis.net
Postdoctoral research fellow @ Monash in computational cognitive neuroscience. Previously: Fulbright scholar @ Yale, research translation @ NHMRC. huwjarvis.net
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Huw Jarvis
@huwjarvis.net
· Apr 27
📄NEW PAPER📄
Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction!
w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
1/5
Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction!
w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
1/5
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🚀 PhD opportunity in the Vaghi Lab, starting 2027 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We are looking to support applicants interested in:
🔬 precision neuroimaging
🧠 compulsivity/OCD
💻 computational approaches
Available via the ESRC UBEL DTP
PhD or MSc + PhD routes
🔗 surl.li/qunzzt
Please share! 📢
We are looking to support applicants interested in:
🔬 precision neuroimaging
🧠 compulsivity/OCD
💻 computational approaches
Available via the ESRC UBEL DTP
PhD or MSc + PhD routes
🔗 surl.li/qunzzt
Please share! 📢
ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP
ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...
ubel-dtp.ac.uk
September 29, 2026 at 9:16 AM
🚀 PhD opportunity in the Vaghi Lab, starting 2027 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We are looking to support applicants interested in:
🔬 precision neuroimaging
🧠 compulsivity/OCD
💻 computational approaches
Available via the ESRC UBEL DTP
PhD or MSc + PhD routes
🔗 surl.li/qunzzt
Please share! 📢
We are looking to support applicants interested in:
🔬 precision neuroimaging
🧠 compulsivity/OCD
💻 computational approaches
Available via the ESRC UBEL DTP
PhD or MSc + PhD routes
🔗 surl.li/qunzzt
Please share! 📢
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Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
September 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
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Our paper is now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We identified reproducible human reward-processing phenotypes analogous to sign- and goal-trackers and tested their sensitivity to dopamine D₂ modulation. 🧵 1/4
#neuroskyence #Neuroimaging #RewardSignals
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
#neuroskyence #Neuroimaging #RewardSignals
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Reproducible human reward imaging phenotypes exhibit differential sensitivity to dopamine D2 receptor antagonism - Nature Communications
Brain imaging across more than 1,200 people identifies two reproducible reward profiles, one tuned to cues and one to outcomes. The two profiles respond in opposite ways to dopamine-blocking drugs, an...
doi.org
September 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Our paper is now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We identified reproducible human reward-processing phenotypes analogous to sign- and goal-trackers and tested their sensitivity to dopamine D₂ modulation. 🧵 1/4
#neuroskyence #Neuroimaging #RewardSignals
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
#neuroskyence #Neuroimaging #RewardSignals
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Want to win €10,000 for a prediction that matters?
In collaboration with and co-funded by Alto Neuroscience we hereby launch the Brainclinics Foundation Prize for Predictive Biomarkers.
www.brainclinics.com/research/bra...
In collaboration with and co-funded by Alto Neuroscience we hereby launch the Brainclinics Foundation Prize for Predictive Biomarkers.
www.brainclinics.com/research/bra...
Brainclinics Foundation Prize
www.brainclinics.com
September 1, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Want to win €10,000 for a prediction that matters?
In collaboration with and co-funded by Alto Neuroscience we hereby launch the Brainclinics Foundation Prize for Predictive Biomarkers.
www.brainclinics.com/research/bra...
In collaboration with and co-funded by Alto Neuroscience we hereby launch the Brainclinics Foundation Prize for Predictive Biomarkers.
www.brainclinics.com/research/bra...
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How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16
August 28, 2026 at 7:10 PM
How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16
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#GoTeamInsula!! @joeycharbonneau.bsky.social’s PhD thesis was so good that after I read it (unprompted) I emailed him a note of congrats. Gratitude to Joey and this entire team, led by @eblissmoreau.bsky.social, for this very important comparative analysis of the most fascinating brain region.
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
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
Comparative insights into insula structure and function
Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...
rdcu.be
August 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
#GoTeamInsula!! @joeycharbonneau.bsky.social’s PhD thesis was so good that after I read it (unprompted) I emailed him a note of congrats. Gratitude to Joey and this entire team, led by @eblissmoreau.bsky.social, for this very important comparative analysis of the most fascinating brain region.
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Excited to see this paper on learning about how to learn out in eLIFE, spearheaded by Jonas Simoens and the team from Ghent incl @sebraem.bsky.social @pieterverbeke.bsky.social and Tom Verguts)
July 25, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Excited to see this paper on learning about how to learn out in eLIFE, spearheaded by Jonas Simoens and the team from Ghent incl @sebraem.bsky.social @pieterverbeke.bsky.social and Tom Verguts)
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Why do people stop pursuing goals they care about❓
Motivational deficits are among the most disabling symptoms, yet current treatments often have only modest effects. In @lillyt.bsky.social new paper, she asks if we're missing an important piece of the puzzle 🧠
#neuroscience #cogpsyc #psychscisky
Motivational deficits are among the most disabling symptoms, yet current treatments often have only modest effects. In @lillyt.bsky.social new paper, she asks if we're missing an important piece of the puzzle 🧠
#neuroscience #cogpsyc #psychscisky
Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits
www.nature.com
July 27, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Why do people stop pursuing goals they care about❓
Motivational deficits are among the most disabling symptoms, yet current treatments often have only modest effects. In @lillyt.bsky.social new paper, she asks if we're missing an important piece of the puzzle 🧠
#neuroscience #cogpsyc #psychscisky
Motivational deficits are among the most disabling symptoms, yet current treatments often have only modest effects. In @lillyt.bsky.social new paper, she asks if we're missing an important piece of the puzzle 🧠
#neuroscience #cogpsyc #psychscisky
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Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health.
But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣
🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣
🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
July 23, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health.
But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣
🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣
🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Crowdsourcing: Where can I find good summaries of midbrain dopamine neurons? Starting with response properties including phasic/tonic responses, comparisons across species, etc. Thanks!
July 22, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Crowdsourcing: Where can I find good summaries of midbrain dopamine neurons? Starting with response properties including phasic/tonic responses, comparisons across species, etc. Thanks!
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Tremendous thanks to the @oecs-bot.bsky.social team including @mcxfrank.bsky.social for this incredible encyclopedia of the mind! It’s such a great resource.
oecs.mit.edu
oecs.mit.edu
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...
oecs.mit.edu
July 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Tremendous thanks to the @oecs-bot.bsky.social team including @mcxfrank.bsky.social for this incredible encyclopedia of the mind! It’s such a great resource.
oecs.mit.edu
oecs.mit.edu
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How can 🍪 help us understand anhedonia?
What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med
🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med
🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Blunted anticipation, but not consummation, of food rewards in depression
Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated
with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired
enjoyment itself. Linkin...
www.cell.com
May 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM
How can 🍪 help us understand anhedonia?
What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med
🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med
🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
📄NEW PAPER📄
Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction!
w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
1/5
Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction!
w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
1/5
April 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
📄NEW PAPER📄
Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction!
w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
1/5
Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction!
w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
1/5
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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving
Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...
www.nature.com
March 25, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions.
Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3
Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3
April 2, 2026 at 7:48 AM
🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions.
Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3
Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3
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Currently recruiting 2 postdoc fellows, 1 Ph.D student and 1 research assistant to work on research projects about the EEG/fMRI mechanisms underlying temporal cognition and their modulations using VR.
DM if interested!
DM if interested!
February 23, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Currently recruiting 2 postdoc fellows, 1 Ph.D student and 1 research assistant to work on research projects about the EEG/fMRI mechanisms underlying temporal cognition and their modulations using VR.
DM if interested!
DM if interested!
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Reposted by Huw Jarvis
Excited to share latest study from the lab by an amazing RA, Dylan Flink.
We solved a small (important) puzzle while in the trenches of a larger (wavy 🌊) puzzle.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵...
We solved a small (important) puzzle while in the trenches of a larger (wavy 🌊) puzzle.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵...
Dual cholinergic mechanisms for sculpting striatal dopamine in vivo
Striatal dopamine (DA) and acetylcholine constitute a computationally powerful neuromodulatory dyad that orchestrates action selection, motivational vigor, and reward learning. Striatal cholinergic in...
www.biorxiv.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Excited to share latest study from the lab by an amazing RA, Dylan Flink.
We solved a small (important) puzzle while in the trenches of a larger (wavy 🌊) puzzle.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵...
We solved a small (important) puzzle while in the trenches of a larger (wavy 🌊) puzzle.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵...
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Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social
Antidepressant treatment shouldn't be a guessing game. RELMED is working towards using advanced research to predict which medication is most likely to help each person along their individual path to recovery.
relmed.ac.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social
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Your stomach called – your striatum picked up!
But does this actually happen in humans?
Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need.
Here’s what we found👇
Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3
#neuroskyence #🩺
But does this actually happen in humans?
Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need.
Here’s what we found👇
Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3
#neuroskyence #🩺
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Your stomach called – your striatum picked up!
But does this actually happen in humans?
Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need.
Here’s what we found👇
Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3
#neuroskyence #🩺
But does this actually happen in humans?
Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need.
Here’s what we found👇
Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3
#neuroskyence #🩺
Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a Newton International Fellowship, which will take me to @ucl.ac.uk next year to work with @drrickadams.bsky.social on all things E/I balance and computational psychiatry. Thank you @royalsociety.org, what an unbelievable privilege. See you in London! ✈️🗺️🧠
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a Newton International Fellowship, which will take me to @ucl.ac.uk next year to work with @drrickadams.bsky.social on all things E/I balance and computational psychiatry. Thank you @royalsociety.org, what an unbelievable privilege. See you in London! ✈️🗺️🧠
Great start to #ACNS2025 with pre-conference workshops held at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Lovely campus!
Lovely campus!
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Great start to #ACNS2025 with pre-conference workshops held at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Lovely campus!
Lovely campus!
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📣🔥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!
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
📣🔥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!
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!