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Isabella Wagner @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · Jun 6

Final call to all Austrian microbiome researchers! Extended deadline for the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025 is June 10th! Submit your MSc/PhD thesis or paper to gain recognition. Find more info at microplanet.at. Don't miss out!
@fwf-at.bsky.social

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Kathi Kitzinger @kathikitzinger.bsky.social · Jun 4

Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Senior Scientist

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · May 15

We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Isabella Wagner @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · May 8

Wooowww congrats!! 💐💐🙏

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Isabella Wagner @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · May 5

Nice!! I’ve been looking forward to more of your bread content! :)

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Apr 24

Excited to share our new study:

"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"

by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature

Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...

www.nature.com

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 Come work with us!

3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.

More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2

Please share widely 🔁

3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf

shorturl.at

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Thomas Boettcher @thomasboettcher.bsky.social · Apr 22

We are looking for an excellent and highly motivated PhD student in Chemical Biology for a position in our group within the AIDD docfunds program @univie.ac.at to investigate anti-infectives from antagonistic microbial interactions. Apply until 03.05.2025:
vds-phanuspo.univie.ac.at/application/...

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 16

Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease

https://go.nature.com/4cxFWPk

Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease

Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its effectiveness.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Apr 1

Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.

Polyglot brains

A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · Mar 28

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · Mar 27

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology

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Fabian Schwimmbeck @fabian31415.bsky.social · Mar 23

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation

Memory consolidation is thought to rely on the interplay of sleep-related brain oscillations. Drawing on recent findings that highlight the influence of respiration on these rhythms, we outline a fram...

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🧙🏻‍♀️ Spooky Elle 👻 Ready for Fall 🍄🎃 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · Mar 21

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · Mar 20

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

www.science.org

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DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social · Mar 17

A new Master in Microbiome Science 🦠🧫🔬👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 @univie.ac.at

Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025

studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

#microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts

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EenVandaag @eenvandaag.nl · Mar 11

Waarom de ene persoon gevoeliger is voor PTSS dan de andere

Waarom krijgt de een na een schokkende gebeurtenis posttraumatische stress en de ander niet? Radboud Universiteit deed hier samen met de Nationale Politie onderzoek naar.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 11

A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.

Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)

Science Advances’ special issue on women’s health highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Articles cover a range of studies from the interplay between menopause and Alzheimer’s risk to the menstrual cycle’s influence on the brain-heart connection. It also describes the opportunities pregnancy provides to research aspects of both physical and mental health. By prioritizing women’s unique physiological and psychological experiences, research can expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that benefit everyone.

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Isabella Wagner @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · Mar 2

New preprint together with Jingyuan Ren, @dresler.bsky.social and others on unique neural representations in one’s “memory palace” 🧠

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Feb 25

Method of loci training yields unique neural representations that support effective memory encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639840v1

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 24

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Feb 22

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · Feb 22

Updated from the preprint, our paper, "Spatiotemporal analysis of gene expression in the human dentate gyrus reveals age-associated changes in cellular maturation and neuroinflammation" is now published.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Graphical abstract from the paper depicting the overall study design

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Feb 9

The Lancet, considered by some to be the world's leading medical journal (no, it is not a radical-Marxist-left-wing-rag), is living up to its well-deserved reputation and is not mincing words about the Musk administration's actions and their consequences: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine

Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

www.thelancet.com

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