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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 4d

🎈 Ready for a (B)rainy weekend? 🧠☔

Vandaag nemen wetenschappers van het Donders Institute het Donders Brein Museum over tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap! Tussen 12:00 en 17:00 uur ga je op wetenschappelijke safari!

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 13d

🎉 Veni Grant for Nicky Scheefhals to study “mix-and-match” synapses in the brain. Using stem cells and the microSCOOP 🔬, she can isolate and study these synapses in detail.

This could open new paths for autism and developmental disorder research. Read more 👇

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Veni award for Nicky Scheefhals: How “Mix and Match” synapses keep our brains flexible | Radboud University

Supported by a Veni grant, Nicky Scheefhals aims to study a special type of synapse in which components of both excitatory and inhibitory synapses come together: mixed synapses.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 19d

🌍 Today is the last day of Postdoc Appreciation Week #PAW_NL.

Paula Fikkert, Dean of the Faculty of Arts reflects on her time as a postdoc and the role postdocs currently have: “Postdocs are indispensable." Read the full story: 👇

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“A wonderful time, but with a lot of uncertainty” – Paula Fikkert on postdocs | Radboud University

During Postdoc Appreciation Week, we reflect on the value of postdocs. For Paula Fikkert, dean of the Faculty of Arts and researcher, it is a familiar theme: “I am an expert by experience, spending te...

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 22d

🎓 What does it mean to be a #postdoc?

For Abdelrahman Rayan, it’s a journey of discovery, challenge & self-care. From medicine & physics to systems neuroscience, he now studies one of science’s biggest mysteries: sleep.

Read his story for #PAW_NL 👇

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Navigating the postdoc journey: Abdelrahman Rayan on research, challenges, and self-care | Radboud University

As part of Postdoc Awareness Week, Abdelrahman Rayan, postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience in Lisa Genzel’s group and a former member of the Postdoc Council, shares his exper...

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 Next week: NL’s first Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW)! Workshops, talks & networking at Donders, Nijmegen. “Postdocs often fall between the cracks—let's recognise & support them.” —Lisa Groendendaal-van Weert, Postdoc coordinator.

Read more about this week:

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Kick-off Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) | Radboud University

The very first Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) in the Netherlands will take place next week. From 15 to 19 September, Donders Institute is also organising a packed programme in collaboration with part...

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 27d

👨‍🍼 Early maternal sensitivity matters. Children whose mothers were more attuned to their signals had fewer respiratory & digestive problems up to age 14.

🏆 Findings from Nijmegen’s 19-year BIBO study, winner of the Radboud Team Science Award.

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Early maternal sensitivity linked to better children’s physical health | Radboud University

Does the way parents respond to their baby’s signals affect not just emotional wellbeing, but also physical health later in life? A new study suggests the answer is yes.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 28d

🎉 Tomorrow the #Infinity #Festival kicks off in Nijmegen!

🧠 This includes a special exhibition Tracing Changes, showing artworks made by people living with #Parkinson’s where art and science meet such as the artwork shown here.

👉 Curious?

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 29d

🎉 The ADHD Escape Room gets €50,000 NWO funding + new timeslots this fall!

Created by RU & HAN students/researchers, this escape room shows the world of #ADHD challenges and creativity.
👉 Book October slots now: www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Sep 4

👀 👂 How does the brain merge what we hear & see? @lindadrijvers.bsky.social got an ERC Starting Grant (≈ €1.5M) for HANDWAVE, studying how we integrate audiovisual signals.

Vital for understanding language disorders & improving diagnostics.👇

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ERC Starting Grants for research into language, money circulation and medieval songs | Radboud University

Three researchers at Radboud University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). They will receive a grant of rougly 1.5 million euros.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Sep 3

👏👏👏 Postdoc Appreciation Week (#PAW_NL): 15 - 19 September.

From sessions on well-being and career paths, workshops on research impact and science communication, to networking drinks. We look forward to celebrating postdocs together!

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Sep 2

👀 How do we stay curious – and how can curiosity improve learning?

Congrats to Lieke van Lieshout on her prestigious #Veni grant from NWO! She’ll study how curiosity lasts, how it boosts memory, and whether freedom of choice plays a role.

Curious to know more? 👇

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Veni grant for research into curiosity, an important motivator for learning | Radboud University

Lieke van Lieshout has received a prestigious NWO Veni grant for her research into curiosity. She will use this grant to gain a better understanding of how we remain curious and how this can improve l...

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Aug 29

❓ Ever stopped presenting after one bad experience, or avoided dogs after one bite? Radboud Recharge spoke with Bob Bramson about how #anxiety shapes learning from rewards & punishments.

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New research: how to get out of a vicious cycle when dealing with persistent anxiety?

Neuroscientist Bob Bramson is with a Veni grant launching a study on how the brain learns from rewards and punishments, and how anxiety affects this process.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wat is ADHD precies? En hoe is het om ADHD te hebben? Radboud Recharge bezocht de #ADHD #escape #room die door studenten en onderzoekers werd gemaakt: 👇

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Een ADHD Escaperoom: Aan ADHD kun je niet ontsnappen

Wat is ADHD precies? En hoe is het om ADHD te hebben? Studenten en onderzoekers van de Radboud Universiteit, het Radboudumc en de HAN maakten een interactieve escaperoom over leven met ADHD.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Aug 13

♾ Can solidarity ever run out? Can we live forever? Can psychopathy be cured?

On 11 & 12 Sept, join scientists at the #Infinity #Science #Festival in #Nijmegen for talks, podcasts, sky-high walks and surprising experiments. 🌌⛪

🎟 Programme & tickets: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Infinity | Science Festival on Top of and Around Stevens' Skywalk | Radboud University

Experience Infinity, Radboud University’s science festival, in and around the Stevenskerk.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Aug 12

🧠🔊💡 Brain-computer interfaces are evolving fast.
In this Dutch article by @tweakers.net, Jordy Thielen explains what’s possible, what’s happening in Nijmegen, and where gains can still be made.

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Hersenchips geven patiënten hun spraak terug en bedrijven toegang tot hun brein

Hersenimplantaten ontwikkelen zich snel: steeds meer patiënten kunnen weer communiceren of computers bedienen. Maar wil je een bedrijf toegang geven tot je brein?

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BrainHelpDesk @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social · Jul 17

Answer by Ines Ben Haj Kacem en Francesca Siclari of the @nin-knaw.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/kan-ik...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

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BrainHelpDesk @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social · Jul 24

Answer by Fleur Zeldenrust, editors: Sjoerd Murris and Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/waa...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the
@dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

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BrainHelpDesk @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social · Jul 31

Answer by Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes, editors: @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social and Sjoerd Murris: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/hoe...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 Eric Ruhé appointed Professor of Difficult-to-Treat Depression 🧠

“It’s very discouraging for patients when treatment doesn’t work or depression returns,” says Ruhé.

Using brain scans, AI and new medicines like esketamine, he aims to improve care. More: 👇

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Eric Ruhé Appointed as Professor of Difficult-to-Treat Depression

11 July 2025

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jul 9

🧠✨ Beauty of the Brain

This time in our Donders Beauty of the Brain series: a stunning image of a hippocampal brain slice, captured with a confocal microscope.

Discover more at www.dondersdiscovers.nl/en/

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Two Donders Institute projects just received €400K NWO grants. @stephforkel.bsky.social studies speech circuits in Parkinson’s for better treatments. Meyer & @robertoostenveld.bsky.social track 200 infants to see how early brain learning shapes language & social skills.

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NWO grants to explore brain circuits and baby’s learning | Radboud University

Two projects have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Competition M grants of €400,000 by NWO. Their work will shed new light on how our brains support speech and learning.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚀 That went fast! Our escape room is already fully booked for all Saturdays this summer.

Missed out? No worries! A perfect chance to visit the Brain Museum is during the Infinity Science Festival in September. 👉

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚓🕶️⌚ VR vs stress & aggression

Nearly €7M from the NWA for #CONTEXT: reducing stress and aggression in police & at-risk youth. Smartwatches + VR teach early stress detection & emotion control.

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New research tackles stress and aggression with virtual reality | Radboud University

The CONTEXT project has been awarded nearly €7 million from the National Science Agenda (NWA) for an ambitious project to reduce stress and aggression among police officers and at-risk youth.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jul 1

🎉✨ Janna Vrijsen appointed Professor of #Transdiagnostic #Psychopathology: ‘I look forward to teaching researchers and psychologists to look beyond mental disorders. It is also my goal to establish exercise as a treatment for depression and other mental disorders.’

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Janna Vrijsen appointed as endowed Professor of Transdiagnostic Psychopathology

30 June 2025

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Jun 27

🎥🌍 Over 1,000 neuroscience talks now free on YouTube and published at @apertureohbm.bsky.social. 🧠 “Now anyone, anywhere can binge-watch brain science like a box set,” says @stephforkel.bsky.social:

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Global access to brain science: OHBM launches channel with 1,000+ talks | Radboud University

What if you could journey back in time to hear world-leading neuroscientists present the ideas that shaped today's brain science? A new open-access initiative led by researchers from the Donders Insti...

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