Caroline Charpentier, PhD
Assistant Prof at the University of Maryland, PI of Social Learning and Decisions lab, broadly interested in social neuroscience and computational psychiatry. Avid traveller. Views my own.
- 🚨🚨Postdoc job alert!🚨🚨
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD🚨Introducing the SANS Fellows Program 🚨 We’re excited to honor members whose scholarship, mentorship, & service have shaped social & affective neuroscience! Nominate someone—or yourself—to be a SANS Fellow! Details: socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD🎉 Got exciting news to share? We’re excited to highlight accomplishments from across the SANS community! If you (or someone you know) has a recent paper, award, or other recognition, please send it our way using the Spotlight form below! Submit here: forms.gle/CNpanwJZFTPg...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDOur neuroscience department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience who works in "areas such as artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks, reinforcement learning, decision making, memory, computational modeling, cognitive and neural processing".
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD#Neuro4Pros 4ever 🧠🤓 Grateful for a week of learning from & being in community with fellow early career profs & amazing facilitators @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social Hannah Bayer 📸: @mohebial.bsky.social
- Come join us at UMD as an MRI Tech! Feel free to share wide if you know suitable candidates - great opportunity for new grads with a Bachelor's degree and an interest in MRI research. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD#CPConf2025 looking forward to seeing you at our symposium tomorrow on cognitive map biases across psychopathology. The design choice is a combination of first-year PI + addressing post-lunch fatigue. Here you go...! with the inimitable @mgarvert.bsky.social, @carocharp.bsky.social & Matt Nour.
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD💥New postdoc position! 💥 Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution. Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social 📍 Stockholm More info: shorturl.at/CY4wk
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDAt @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social this week? Check out our social learning workshop from @amritalamba.bsky.social and I tomorrow! Inc. talks from @natashajaques.bsky.social, @nitalon.bsky.social, @carocharp.bsky.social, @kartikchandra.bsky.social & more! Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/rldm202...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDGut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute). "let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...
- And it's worth "plumbing" (pun intended) the depth of our minds! #sans2025 @kevinochsner.bsky.social
- “Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025
- The Social Learning and Decisions lab is represented at #SANS2025. Come check out our posters from two amazing first-year graduate students!
- Today (Thursday), Yukta Thyagaraj @yuktat.bsky.social will present her work dissecting cognitive mechanisms of feedback-seeking decisions and how those vary along internalizing symptoms, particularly social anxiety (P1-D-36)
- And Saturday, Chaebin Yoo will present some computational modelling of ABCD behavioral data to characterize profiles of decision-making in early adolescence, in hope of identifying/predicting clinical symptoms (P3-A-14)
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDGreat news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDThe crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
- 🚨This should be amplified!! Study sections and council meetings are still being cancelled despite the court order unblocking NIH freezes, effectively halting any new research grant from being funded: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
- 'rescheduled at a later date' rather than cancelled, but no information about when that date might be. Such a shame for all the possibly impactful and transformative proposals...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDUpon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDOver the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDWelcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhDFrom reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...
- Devastating is an understatement. Please take action! This article has a template of what you can write to your representatives: fromthescienceclass.substack.com/p/biomedical...
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
- Reposted by Caroline Charpentier, PhD🚨 Clinicians have noted for decades how planning & anxiety are linked. Yet, computational psychiatry thus far failed to show how. Here, I explain that we need to broaden how we model planning to reveal its *biases* in chronic anxiety. A 🧵 on the framework 1/n authors.elsevier.com/a/1kAJC4sIRv...
- Exciting!!!
- #SANS2025 will feature two debates! First Damien Fair will debate @thaliawheatley.bsky.social about the usefulness of large consortia vs. small bespoke studies, then @mohammadatari.bsky.social will debate @markthornton.bsky.social about caution vs. acceleration in applying AI to social neuroscience!
- Come be our new colleague in Computational Psych/Cog Sci/Neuro at UMD Psychology. More details and apply here: ejobs.umd.edu/postings/120948 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #compneurosky #psychjob #cpsy
- A bit late on this, but our new paper is out in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... In this study, we embrace the noisiness of large-scale online data to characterize heterogeneity in experiential vs observational learning strategies, and its potential relevance to psychopathology.
- Crossing all my fingers that NIH takes this seriously, acts fast, and increases both postdoc salary minimums and grant budgets to cover those raises and general inflation! www.science.org/content/arti...
- So I guess this is my intro to bsky, and with this comes our new lab website, thanks to amazing lab manager Xiaodi (Sara) Hu: sociallearninglab.wixsite.com/my-site We are also hoping to recruit a PhD student starting Fall 2024! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky #BehSciSky #compneuro #cpsy
- Deadline is December 1st, and more info on the "Lab Philosophy & Opportunities" tab of the website.
