We're less than two days away from our IGOR panel discussion "Have we solved the replication crisis?" - yes, the title’s provocative on purpose! 📣

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET

Contact us in DM to attend!
#OpenScience #Neuroskyence

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

Wuertual Reality in Würzburg is starting with some historic photos from what can be considered the cradle of #VR research in Germany

Very much looking forward to the next 3 days!

#wuertual25 #XR

There are still some places left, don't hesitate and sign up to the Young Scientist Retreat #YSR2025 in beautiful Hamburg 🔥🔥

One week left to apply!

🧠 Why do some brains age faster than others?
🧬 Our new Nature Aging study of over 56,000 participants explores the genetics of the “brain age gap” — the difference between your brain’s biological and chronological age.
nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00962-7

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⭐ GIVEAWAY! ⭐

We are giving away 3 signed copies of the non-fiction book from our CRC! 📚

In „Dein Körper glaubt dir alles – Wie der #Placebo-Effekt die Gesundheit stärkt“, Prof. Ulrike Bingel and Prof. Sven Benson explain how patients can use the power of #expectations to improve their health. 💪

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

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

Studienteilnehmer*innen gesucht für eine Studie zu interozeptiver Sensibilität und emotionaler Verarbeitung im Kontext außergewöhnlich bedrohlicher Erfahrungen!

hochschulen-fresenius-unipark.de/uc/INTRA/

A new PhD position in Cognitive Neuroscience just opened up in our lab @brainnetleipzig.bsky.social at @mpicbs.bsky.social !
Apply if you're interested and/or share with your network 😊🧠

www.mpg.de/25427952/phd...

New podcast where @ulrikebingel.bsky.social talks about the power of the placebo effect! 🤯

What happens when not only active ingredients, but also expectations, rituals and trust have an effect? Why can colour, price and even the doctor's attitude determine the effect of a medicine?

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

It was a pleasure to talk on the APA „Speaking of Psychology“ podcast about handedness and brain asymmetries: Lefties, righties and mixed-handers: The psychology of brain asymmetry www.apa.org/news/podcast...

🚨 We are hiring a new PhD at @traplabms.bsky.social !
The position is part of my group TRIAD in a DFG-funded project in collaboration with Prof. Natalia Chechko (Univ. Hospital Aachen).

🔗 Apply: jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-Wiss...

@uni-muenster.de @ecnp.eu @trr393.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social

📣Job alert 📣
11 positions for PhD candidates (100%) open in the RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age"(Wuerzburg). You can apply for 3 areas:
✅ Immersive virtual reality
✅New (Para-)Social Encounters
✅Epistemic challenges
Topics: VR/XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation 👇

♻️ From preregistration to data sharing, Open Science has changed the field. But have we truly addressed core issues of the replication crisis or just shifted them?

🤝 Let’s discuss what’s working, what were unintended consequences, and what’s still missing for the future of robust science.

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🎤 Speakers:
– Dorothy Bishop (Uni of Oxford)
– Andrea Hildebrandt (Uni of Oldenburg)
– Britta Westner (Donders Institute)
– Sein Jeung (TU Berlin)

🗣️ Moderator: Gordon Feld (ZI Mannheim)

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🔍 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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#WissenschaftlicheIntegrität: Zur Einhaltung wissenschaftlich fundierter, nachvollziehbarer Methoden & Standards braucht es oft enge Kooperationen. Leitlinie 11 der "Guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis" #GWP erläutert, was das bedeutet - und welche Erfahrungen die Community damit schon hat:
fcld.ly/ll11

In den letzten Wochen haben viele Fachgruppen der @dgps.bsky.social ihre Jungmitglieder-Vertreter:innen in den Fachgruppenleitungen gewählt. 🗳✨
Wir haben diesen Anlass genutzt, um uns zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und spannende neue Angebote für unsere Jungmitglieder zu planen. 🚀🤝

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...