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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 6d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 9d

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 14d

In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 16d

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states

Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Laurenz Lammer @laurenzlammer.bsky.social · 17d

I am excited to share our latest research published in the EJEP! We used GAMMs to apply Rose’s theoretical work to prevention strategies targeting social isolation. Our results indicate that population strategies are more promising than individualized interventions.

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Cognitive Neuroendocrinology Lab @cogneuroend.bsky.social · Aug 19

We want to hear *your voice* on taboos in women's and gender diverse health! 💬🧠Your perspective will directly inform priorities in research and a women's health resource platform. Find survey link at our website: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs/en/resea...

Cognitive Neuroendocrinology - Get Involved!

www.cbs.mpg.de

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

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Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations @neurreps.bsky.social · Jul 8

📢 Call for Papers: NeurReps 2025 ‼️‼️‼️

🧠 Submit your research on symmetry, geometry, and topology in artificial and biological neural networks.

Two tracks: Proceedings (9 pages) and Extended Abstract (4 pages).

Deadline: Aug 22, 2025.

www.neurreps.org/call-for-pap...

NeurReps Workshop - Call for Papers

Call for Papers

www.neurreps.org

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍

We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes.

👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc

🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

Breathing Through Your Day: A Brief Reflection Survey

You move, interact, speak, listen, think, and feel. Life unfolds through a rich variety of experiences and tasks.

test.uib.es

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Ole Goltermann @olegolt.bsky.social · Jul 22

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.

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Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker

To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

jamanetwork.com

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jul 22

Werner Reichardt, credited with discovering the neural circuitry for motion detection in the retina in the 1950s, did so on borrowed time.

As a young student, Werner Reichardt was a pupil in the laboratory of Hans Erich Hollmann, a pioneer of ultra-shortwave communication. Because of his knowledge he was drafted in 1941 to the German air force as a radio technician.There he met members of the resistance and established a covert radio connection with the Western Allies. In 1944 Reichardt was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, but escaped, and hid in Berlin until the end of the war.

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Jul 9

Hilft künstliche Intelligenz bei der #Demenz - Diagnose? Simon Hofmann @mpicbs.bsky.social erklärt im neuen #AchMensch Podcast, wie sich Ärzte in Zukunft durch #KI unterstützen lassen können und woran der Einsatz bislang scheitert detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m... #Medizin #Gehirn @detektorfm.bsky.social

Kann KI in der Medizin Leben retten, Simon Hofmann?

Der Neurowissenschaftler Simon Hofmann untersucht, wie künstliche Intelligenz in der Medizin zum Einsatz kommen kann.

detektor.fm

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you found out a paper with striking results,
You should start with the critical point of view.
But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust.
What you know is unlike from what authors may knew.
When you have a critic of substantial length,
You can make it a paper and publish yourself.

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Simon M. Hofmann @smnhfmnn.bsky.social · Jul 3

This looks very interesting.
Haven’t read the full paper yet, but from what I have seen, it’s reminiscent of the program by Randall Beer. Do you see a connection there?

Congrats!

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Jun 23

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence

An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...

www.nature.com

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Jun 22

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

www.nature.com

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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · Jun 18

We're happy to announce the Berlin Consciousness Symposium, an in-person event bringing together expert speakers to discuss new trends in the neuroscience of consciousness.

Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social

www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

Berlin Consciousness Symposium: New Trends in the Neuroscience of Consciousness

www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de

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cogscikid.bsky.social @cogscikid.bsky.social · Jun 16

Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior!

We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

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Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social · Jun 17

So happy to see such a rich and big repertoire of events at the MPIB for Long Night of Science!

Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Wir öffnen unsere Türen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften! ✨

Vielfältiges Programm für Groß & Klein – kommt vorbei!
📍 Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin (Lentzeallee 94)
📆 28. Juni 2025
💸 Jubiläumstickets online: nur 5 €

🔗 Programm: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2047157/prog...

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Moritz Gerster @moritz-gerster.bsky.social · Jun 17

How does subthalamic nucleus activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms?

My last 5 years of Parkinson’s disease research summarized in 5 minutes at the DGKN Congress 2025 :)
youtu.be/M9alDh836oU ⬇️

Full preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation

Beyond beta rhythms - Moritz Gerster at DGKN Congress 2025

YouTube video by Moritz Gerster

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Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Jun 14

Are you sure that your Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) effect is real?
In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jun 13

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Paul Steinfath, Arno Villringer, et al:

Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · Jun 3

>>>Job alert<<< For my lab, I am currently recruiting a research assistant (with possibility of extension into full PhD position) in fMRI-TMS. Feel free to reach out if interested! www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/833081/resea...

Research Assistant in Real-Time fMRI and Closed-Loop Brain Stimulation (fMRI-TMS)

www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de

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Francisco Acosta @franciscoacosta.bsky.social · May 23

We are looking for reviewers to serve on the Program Committee of the Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps) workshop at NeurIPS 2025! If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form: forms.gle/wgUXHT7Mq71n...

@neurreps.bsky.social

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alexandros Kastrinogiannis @alexandroskas.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨 Science communicators!
Doing science communication in any form - talks, videos, blogs, comics, whatever?
First of all: Thank you. Please keep doing it!

And if you feel like getting some credit for your work — check out the Science Communication Prize of the DGPs & DGPA💥

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Mar 30

Hast du dich schon beworben? Einen Monat hast du noch Zeit! 🤩

@dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Mar 5

Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus!

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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