Sepehr Razavi
Doctoral student @ox.ac.uk and Member of Social Computation and Representation Lab - socrlab.net/people
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviThis weekend, I'm going on a sponsored walk to help raise money for my friend's younger brother's cancer treatment. If able, I'd really appreciate if you could share or sponsor me here: sites.google.com/view/alex-wa...
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviNew job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviCurious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!
- 🚨Apply now for our #fullyfundedPhDs in #HealthDataScience at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Calling all #healthdatascientists, #computerscientists, #engineers, and #AI 100+ projects available ⬇️ Deadline 12 January 2026. @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingshealth.bsky.social
- Reminder that this is happening tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing some of you there :)
- I am pleased to announce that @davidschultner.bsky.social will be our next guest as part of the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr. Schultner will present recent work that offers evidence for a parsimonious and mechanistic explanation of human social learning strategies via reward learning!
- I am pleased to announce that @davidschultner.bsky.social will be our next guest as part of the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr. Schultner will present recent work that offers evidence for a parsimonious and mechanistic explanation of human social learning strategies via reward learning!
- You'll find the fascinating paper here 👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02269-4 As always, feel free to reach out to me on here or @joebarnby.com via email for a link! We are looking forward to seeing many of you next Thursday :)
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviNew from us, led by the fantastic @elisavetpappa.bsky.social: Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions karger.com/psp/article/...
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviProudly published with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We touch on what has been up with connectionism as a framework for computational modelling — & for everything it seems these days with AI and LLMs — pre-2010 vs post. 1/n
- ‼️ new preprint out with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social on connectionism: the framework that uses artificial neural networks to model human cognition: we split it into Modern and Classical (see figure) to show how the (meta)theoretical commitments (see table) changed after 2010. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
- Confederate flag in plain sight in affluent Britain…. 2025!
- Bonus right outside the frame: a St-George’s Cross the size of a squash court
- What a fantastic opportunity, consider applying!
- 📢 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
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviThis is a complete dereliction of responsibility from all involved. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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- This is happening right now!
- Next week, we have the distinct pleasure of (e-)hosting the fantastic @hayleydorfman.bsky.social at the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr Dorfman will presenting some of her recent work on agency-modulated reinforcement learning 🧵👇
- This is happening in two days! Cannot wait for this talk, please consider joining us
- Next week, we have the distinct pleasure of (e-)hosting the fantastic @hayleydorfman.bsky.social at the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr Dorfman will presenting some of her recent work on agency-modulated reinforcement learning 🧵👇
- Successful British acculturation is seeing an Adrian Chiles headline and thinking « I see where he’s coming from »
- Next week, we have the distinct pleasure of (e-)hosting the fantastic @hayleydorfman.bsky.social at the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr Dorfman will presenting some of her recent work on agency-modulated reinforcement learning 🧵👇
- In order to navigate an uncertain world, we must make flexible predictions for maximizing rewards, minimizing punishments, and guiding future behavior. These predictions are most accurate, and feedback most useful, when our own actions are responsible for the consequences we receive.
- However, it is often impossible to know for certain whether we have control over the environment, so we must instead make inferences and form beliefs about our agency.
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View full threadFeel free to reach out to me, or better yet, send an email to @joebarnby.com to receive a link to this talk. Looking forward to seeing many of you then :)
- Reposted by Sepehr Razavi"Assuming that functional specialisation necessarily implies an ‘encapsulated module’ is a widely recognised error even in evolutionary accounts."
- What a brilliant group of people to work with! Looking forward to expanding some of the crucial ideas only touched upon here. Feel free to share your thoughts, insights, etc.
- 📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky
- Reposted by Sepehr Razavi📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky
- A recently proposed «pseudosocial cognition approach» aims at our previous work on the social dimension of paranoia. The shortcomings of their article raise important questions on how we all connect behavioural models to neural data. Our letter of response: osf.io/preprints/ps... summary 🧵👇
- Reposted by Sepehr Razavi🧠 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
- Just a reminder that this is happening tomorrow :) Feel free to reach out to me or better yet @joebarnby.com for a link!
- It is such a pleasure to kick off the SoCR Lab 2025-2026 talk series with Dr. Ismail Guennouni. His work with @maartenspeek.bsky.social was an early and significant inspiration. Reach out to @joebarnby.com or comment here for a link. Stay tuned as we will be organising monthly talks :) 🧵
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviMy father, Manès Sperber, told me a story that terribly resonnates today: In 1420, at a time of persecution known as the "Vienna Gesera", Jews were banned from the city. Many were killed. Others were placed on rudderless boats on the Danube River and left starving.
- It is such a pleasure to kick off the SoCR Lab 2025-2026 talk series with Dr. Ismail Guennouni. His work with @maartenspeek.bsky.social was an early and significant inspiration. Reach out to @joebarnby.com or comment here for a link. Stay tuned as we will be organising monthly talks :) 🧵
- His talk will highlight computational approaches for modeling social interactions in repeated settings. Generative Dynamical Systems (GDS) models, acting as digital twins, extract latent behavioral strategies from noisy data, predict interaction dynamics, and simulate novel interaction scenarios.
- Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) complement this by characterizing state-dependent strategies, capturing emotional and pro-social dispositions, and enabling adaptive agent design.
- Together, these frameworks enhance the understanding of social behavior, offering tools for behavioral prediction, intervention testing, and designing adaptive human facing AI agents, with applications in computational psychiatry and interactive systems.
- Spelling error aside what is ‘beyond ignites curiosity’ supposed to mean?
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviLilit, a trans human rights defender, was detained in Dubai, denied her rights, and humiliated – all during a layover. Emirates won’t investigate. Demand justice and accountability now. Sign and share! ✈️🏳️⚧️✊ a.allout.org/s/PyeDM/
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviBoiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviIn the context of the Sycamore Gap tree sentencing today, I've written a short opinion piece for @lbc.co.uk on the role of landmarks in shaping place identity and connectedness. Find it here: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... 🧠🌎 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
- If you’re at CPC come hang out with the star of the show @gjcooper.bsky.social
- Having severe fomo not being able to attend #cpconf2025 this year but make sure to check out @gjcooper.bsky.social’s poster #50 today on making comp modelling scalable and intuitive to use 🖐️ ! Also say hi and buy phd student @srazavi.bsky.social a beer 🍺 to celebrate his first cpc
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviHaving severe fomo not being able to attend #cpconf2025 this year but make sure to check out @gjcooper.bsky.social’s poster #50 today on making comp modelling scalable and intuitive to use 🖐️ ! Also say hi and buy phd student @srazavi.bsky.social a beer 🍺 to celebrate his first cpc
- We are reading this fascinating book by @ufeest.bsky.social over the next two months for our cogsci/philsci reading group. Let me know if you are interested in joining us online!
- "Scientific research, in my mind, is still a human activity at heart." @ufeest.bsky.social discusses OPERATIONISM IN PSYCHOLOGY with @psychmag.bsky.social. buff.ly/HTbXeHN
- What a timely release, will be heavily annotating my digital copy :)
- Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
- We are looking forward to exploring some of the thoughts touched here in a longer, more substantial piece. Your comments and feedback would be much appreciated!
- A recently proposed «pseudosocial cognition approach» aims at our previous work on the social dimension of paranoia. The shortcomings of their article raise important questions on how we all connect behavioural models to neural data. Our letter of response: osf.io/preprints/ps... summary 🧵👇
- Reposted by Sepehr RazaviA recently proposed «pseudosocial cognition approach» aims at our previous work on the social dimension of paranoia. The shortcomings of their article raise important questions on how we all connect behavioural models to neural data. Our letter of response: osf.io/preprints/ps... summary 🧵👇
- New from us: Pseudosocial Cognition and Paranoia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... How can delusions have social contents without appealimng to dedicated social mechanisms? Link is open for a month - please download and see what you think!
