Full Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience & MSNlab PI-- Motivation, decision-making & social cognition in human brains. Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK. www.msn-lab.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3mu4q2pusqk2yOut now @natcomms.nature.com. how do deadlines shape effort processing? We show that deadlines cause us to seek high effort rather than avoid it. Why? Becease effort makes progress towards completing goals, making it valuable, a process coordinated by fronto-striatal computations. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2026 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu4q2pusqk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m764yh2tf22m*PhD funding through the @mrcaimdtp.bsky.social* interested in doing a PhD aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms underlying how sleep impacts on motivation in health and Parkinsons Disease? Want to learn computational modelling & brain imaging? Get in touch. https://more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-opportunities/04 Dec 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m764yh2tf22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m764yh2tf22m*PhD funding through the @mrcaimdtp.bsky.social* interested in doing a PhD aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms underlying how sleep impacts on motivation in health and Parkinsons Disease? Want to learn computational modelling & brain imaging? Get in touch. https://more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-opportunities/04 Dec 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m764yh2tf22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m4ututaws22cHow can we encourage people to put in effort to benefit the climate? Our new task can help tell us how... [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2025 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ututaws22chttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m5hhcp3jw22ySuper pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Nov 2025 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hhcp3jw22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m4ututaws22cHow can we encourage people to put in effort to benefit the climate? Our new task can help tell us how... [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2025 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ututaws22chttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m4uqvynuz22cDay 2 starts with a keynote from Susan Healy on learning from mistakes!05 Nov 2025 09:39 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4uqvynuz22chttps://bsky.app/profile/brainapps.bsky.social/post/3m4s6kvzrw22rNearly ready to go! Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025!04 Nov 2025 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:tpl46o7zunknm2bm2ef6swhm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4s6kvzrw22r