Shawn Rhoads

I am thrilled, honored, & grateful to be a recipient of this year's NIH Director's Early Independence Award @NIH_CommonFund #NIHHighRisk I will be launching my research lab soon, so please stay tuned for announcements & opportunities to get involved! commonfund.nih.gov/highrisk/highl…

Thanks to @DebbieP93188391 @PsychToday for this lovely review of our work on prosocial behavior and how it can promote well-being. @PaigeAmormino @shawnrhoadsphd psychologytoday.com/us/blog/where-…

Neurocomputational underpinnings of suboptimal beliefs in recurrent neural network-based agents biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

🗣️ “Finding joy in helping others is fundamental to who we are as a species.” washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

Altruism improves happiness, reduces pain and may be fundamental to being human. wapo.st/3Zs080c

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Arianna Neal Davis (@ariannabneal) on a successful dissertation defense! 🎉🎉 Her thesis examined the computational & electrophysiological mechanisms of social norm learning in humans You make us all so proud! ✨

A huge congratulations to Dr. @PaigeAmormino, who successfully defended her fantastic dissertation on altruism, social discounting, homophily, and the social factors that shape them--and who we celebrated in an LSAN lab party last night (just before the rains hit)! @GUPsychology

🔥💥📣 Excited to announce a new policy at the Computational Psychiatry (CPSY) journal @CPSYJournal. Starting from April 2025, CPSY will compensate reviewers for their time and effort invested in reviewing manuscripts. w/ Dr. Rick Adams. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.53…

🚨 @mark_ho_ & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience with multi-player web-based experiments & computational cognitive modeling 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry? 🤗 If so, @shawnrhoadsphd and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/165809

A huge congratulations to Dr. @PaigeAmormino who successfully defended her dissertation on "Value-based homophily and the social reach of generosity" yesterday! We in LSAN @GUPsychology are so proud of you!

We are excited to share our latest work showing that mice display rescue-like prosocial behavior toward unresponsive partners. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My lab is hiring a full-time research coordinator! (Ideal for anyone who would like to pursue a PhD in computational social neuroscience and/or computational psychiatry) We will begin reviewing applications on Feb 21, 2025 Learn more here: sinclab.github.io/connect/hiring

For any graduating seniors looking to do fascinating social neuroscience research with an amazing research mentor, check out this new position opening to work with @shawnrhoadsphd at @IcahnMountSinai!

Excited to share this perspective with @yael_niv about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited that George Melchor @thegliaguy's snRNAseq analysis of CNS #remyelination is now in Biorxiv... Remyelination is complicated, it takes a village. Congrat George on your excellent work! Thanks @Zeebamehrin @Jingwen_SMyelin and @Maryna_Baydyuk for contributing to this study.…

🚨 PhD opportunity! 🚨 I will support one application for the MIBTP doctoral training program this year, joint with @thepsychologist. Please get in touch by Jan 7th via email (CV and cover letter) if you are interested in doing a PhD in decision neuroscience. Please RT! (1/2)

Advancing computational psychiatry through a social lens | Nature Mental Health nature.com/articles/s4422…

Congratulations to Dr. Shawn Rhoads on being the recipient of the 2024 National Institute of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award. The award will support Dr. Rhoads as he launches his own lab at Mount Sinai, where he is transitioning to a faculty position as…