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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · 15h

#wuertual25 just started!
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀

Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 15h

Our Würtual Reality Conference is underway!🙌👓🤩
@isabelneumann.bsky.social @sabrinagado.bsky.social

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · 2d

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

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PsyFaKo e.V. @psyfako.bsky.social · 3d

Die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung ist noch immer nicht geregelt. 2500 Absolvierende stehen jährlich vor verschlossenen Türen. Die Zukunft der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung ist in Gefahr! Kommt am 24.10.25 um 15 Uhr nach Köln oder Bochum zur Demo, werdet laut für die Finanzierung!

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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 15d

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 13d

Less than one week left to apply 👇 Exciting project, great team, and a stimulating environment!

Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 20d

and see all included articles here 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Behavioural Brain Research | Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow for increasing the ecological validity of experimen...

www.sciencedirect.com

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 20d

Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience

Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Anne Saulin @annesaulin.bsky.social · 26d

Register and connect!🙌
Great program and great people await you🧠

@dgps.bsky.social #ECRs

bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 26d

🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write [email protected]

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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Poster with key data for the Young Scientist Retreat 2025. Dates: October 21–24, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. Costs: €100 for members of DGPA and bioDGPS, €150 for members of DGPA or bioDGPS, €200 for non-members. Includes: 3 nights with meals and coffee breaks at a&o Hamburg City in a 2-bed room (Spaldingstr. 160, 20097 Hamburg). Eligibility: Doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors (up to 8 years after PhD). Registration deadline: September 29, 2025, 16:00 CET. Note: Membership can be obtained with the YSR application to benefit from discounts."

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a joint project with Daniel Gromer (not on Bluesky) and part of the @dfg.de Priority Programme 2481 “Understanding Gaze (UGaze)” www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Priority Programme “Understanding Gaze (UGaze)” (SPP 2481)

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · Sep 4

We are very proud of our researchers Beatrice Baragli, Jerome Beetz, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Garvert, Jake Greenfield, and Jens Hör: They have been awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. Congratulations! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

ERC Starting Grants were awarded to (clockwise): Jerome Beetz, Mona Garvert, Beatrice Baragli, Jake Greenfield, Jens Hör, and Jacqueline Degen. (Photos: Robert Emmerich / Kerstin Flake / Daniel Hanoch / Chris Weiss / Nik Schölzel / Thomas Hovestadt)

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Aug 10

This was my first experience with PCI RR and I can really recommend it! rr.peercommunityin.org

PCI Registered Reports

Peer Community in Registered Reports

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Aug 10

Very happy that this is out now!

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Aug 10

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andreas B. Eder, Matthias Gamer, et al:

Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Yannik Stegmann @yannikstegmann.bsky.social · Aug 5

Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Psychometric Considerations in Assessing Fear Generalization as a Predictor of Anxiety

The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival in ever-changing environments and may contribute to t…

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Aug 5

Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!

Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Jul 14

Join me!

I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of

**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**

Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications

www.wuertual.org

XR-Meeting Würzburg

October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25

www.wuertual.org

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Menghuan Chen @menghuanchen.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7!
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃

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Janna Teigeler @jannateigeler.bsky.social · Jul 14

📢 New Preprint: Acting upon Threat
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Together with @yannikstegmann.bsky.social & @gamerlab.bsky.social, we used EEG, eye-tracking, and autonomic data to disentangle threat intensity ⚡️ from action possibility 🏃‍♂️ in states of attentive immobility.

OSF

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Yannik Stegmann @yannikstegmann.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat

Abstract. Adapting behavior to environmental demands is a fundamental aspect of survival. In the face of unfamiliar potential dangers, organisms display a wide range of defensive mechanisms, such as u...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

Truly proud to receive this award! Huge thanks to my amazing PhD students and colleagues — working with you all is the real reward 😉

GSLS - Graduate School of Life Sciences Würzburg @gslsuniwue.bsky.social · Jul 7

We proudly present the first-ever #GSLS Supervisor of the Year Award! 🏆
From 40 nominations, four top PIs were selected:
🥇 Gabriele Büchel
🥈 Alexander Westermann @westermannlab.bsky.social
🥉 Carmen Villmann & Matthias Gamer @gamerlab.bsky.social
Proud to have the best supervisors! @uni-wuerzburg.de

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Menghuan Chen @menghuanchen.bsky.social · Jul 4

Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...

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Yannik Stegmann @yannikstegmann.bsky.social · Jul 3

🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠

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Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social · Jun 27

WOW, what a journey! Finally, our new paper is published in the Journal of Personality Assessment! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · Jun 21

@yannikstegmann.bsky.social receiving the early career award of the German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application. Very well deserved. Congrats!!! #pug2025

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Jun 21

Now on stage @yannikstegmann.bsky.social presenting his work on contextual influences on threat processing #pug2025

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