Vanessa Brown (she/her)
Clinical psychologist/comp neuroscientist studying how anxious people learn about threat | fave topics: models, theory, inclusive science, behavior, cats | #DisabledInSTEM
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)12 out of 10 stars. would recommend
- @kordinglab.bsky.social and I ran a summer school last year to help young profs (<5 yrs) in systems/comp neuro thrive. compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... It was great! Now we want to know if you'd be interested in participating if we did this again this year? Let us know!
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Now out in JEP: General, "How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Preprint with final version: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)@andrewpapale.bsky.social 's new explore/exploit paper in JNeurosci with @vanessabrown.bsky.social @drangelaianni.bsky.social Michael Hallquist & Bea Luna: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Wow: @ajc.com's Lautaro Grinspan reports that in just one week in October, ICE spent nearly $950,000 on ads in Atlanta — more spending than in any other U.S. city. That amount would've been enough to provide SNAP benefits for over 20,000 Atlantans every month.
- I am recruiting a postdoc for a new NIMH-funded R01 using neural and behavioral models to understand anxious avoidance. Please share with anyone who may be interested! Link: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/155929/...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)1: In 2023, I wrote this paper arguing that research on active ingredients of CBT, and by extension on their mechanisms, is not close to improving therapy outcomes. I just read a paper on inhibitory learning improving outcomes of exposure. Egg on my face? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Hey, Neuroimaging friends: I am getting laid off soon due to the cuts to NIH. I have filled out applications far and wide to no avail. Does anyone have any leads on a lab that might be able to use someone with a strong background in neuroimaging data analytics?
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and @salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders. siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers. #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)About my social media grant... mind you the "activities" being referenced are simply that we measure these variables and they'll be features in some machine learning model. The two sociodemographics that most often come up in the moral panic about social media are gender and LGBTQ+ status.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Gift link to article here:
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Here's a database from UCLA on Non-NIH funding opportunities ranging from grad students to faculty from a wide range of biological and medical disciplines: biofund.healthsciences.ucla.edu/crt-funding/...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)As someone who has advocated for the rights of people with disabilities, this endeavor feels really intrusive, icky, and potentially dangerous.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)New pub at the British Journal for Philosophy of Science! "Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience" (1/x) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)🚨 We are looking for a research specialist (lab manager) for my lab at Emory (translational-lab.com). tinyurl.com/muer3ybb * Great match to prepare for clinical psych or computational cog sci grad school * Time reserved each week for independent work/professional development Please RT 🔄 !
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Science, folks. Science. This is wonderful news.
- Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)ATTENTION If anyone has received a NoA after the "pause", please DM me with information about the mechanism and institute or center. THANK YOU
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- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Here is a question for anyone associated with a psychology PhD program (all levels): I’m curious what different mechanisms programs have for prepping students for the academic job market. This could be hard (e.g., research and cv prep) or soft (e.g., fielding questions) skills.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)The TREAT Lab in VCU Psychiatry will also be hiring a CRC to start in June 2025! We have several projects on the mechanisms of eating disorders in young people that use neuroimaging, ambulatory assessments, clinical measures, & computational modeling. Stay tuned for the official job posting!
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Apropos of everything 🌎, we're declaring it "Fear and Anxiety Week" here on Bsky. It's like shark week but better! This week, we'll hear about fear and anxiety from brain researchers, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and individuals with lived experience. We invite you to chime in! 1/n
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Also taking the opportunity to post the two most helpful (imo) links for demystifying the clincial psych hidden curriculum, for those reading who are considering a career in this area: clinicalpsychgradschool.org mitch.web.unc.edu/professional...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.
- "Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Excited to see this Special Focus at @jocn.bsky.social on Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision-Making finally out! Full collection here: direct.mit.edu/jocn/issue/3...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)I think over the next few years the evidence will continue to accumulate that the majority of mental disorders are best treated with short, highly intensive therapies. This will challenge many assumptions on how therapy works.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Our lab is recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Apps for Emory are due in exactly 2 weeks & many of my awesome colleagues are also recruiting including @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social @vanessabrown.bsky.social @jaredmedina.bsky.social & more! More info: psychology.emory.edu/home/graduat...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Hey new followers! 👋 We are excitedly working away on lots of new habit research - days of training with electrophysiology 🧠 with neural decoding, causal work on making and breaking 🙅♀️, and 📱 assessments. As a preview - check out our latest in TiCS www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)Null findings are important ‼️ Excited to share my latest work finding model-based planning does NOT improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩💻 treatments 🧵👇🏻
- Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments: osf.io/hbt6j/
- Reposted by Vanessa Brown (she/her)It's time to start organizing the 2025 #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program! Feel free to reach out with any questions! Mentee application: forms.gle/Xgha7wf6vrwa... Mentor application: forms.gle/mc5a8Bc6mXJX...
