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Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social · 26d

💡Our director Elisabeth Binder will speak about science, #history and #morality at the ECNP Congress in October. Read her interview below to get an insight into the difficult history of #psychiatry and of our Institute.

ECNP @ecnp.eu · 27d

💡Science, history, and morality — explore more in our interview with Elisabeth Binder, Germany.
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🧠 At the #ECNP2025 Congress, she will speak on the importance of #psychiatry and #science generally being grounded in a sense of what is right.

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you're contemplating new study to start,
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.

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Women In Neuroscience Repository @winrepo.bsky.social · Sep 9

There is still time until tomorrow to support Emily's research project about taboos in women's and gender-diverse people's health! 👇👇👇

Emily May @emilybmay.bsky.social · Aug 28

New graphic dropping 🥁🥁🥁: Requesting your perspective on taboos in women’s and gender-diverse people’s health ⚧️
participant.groupwisdom.tech/invite/proje...

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Sep 4

Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · Aug 29

What can *genetic insensitivity to opioids* teach us about endogenous opioid function in humans?

Fully funded position in Oslo (PhD student or postdoc)

Interested in pain, mu/kappa opioids, behavioural genetics, RCTs, or related? Apply here:
2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui...

Please RT for reach

Phd candidate or postdoc– Genetic determinants of opioid responsiveness

The Department of Research and Development at the Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital in collaboration with Leknes Affective Brain lab (www.affectivebrains.com) and the...

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations dear! ✨

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Sep 3

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Aug 30

Growing up as close friend of Martin’s daughter, I spent countless days at their home — full of curiosity, books, and little discoveries, where you could simply be yourself. It was my introduction to life in science and has meant so much.

www.mps.mpg.de/in-memory-of...
@mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

In Memory of Dr. Martin Hilchenbach

www.mps.mpg.de

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨

#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia

Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Aug 27

Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey

@megancarey.bsky.social ‪

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Aug 27

Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

Rethinking women’s brain health - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Far from being a niche concern, women’s brain health is a global issue, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Despite this, the unique aspects of how the female brain adapts, reorganizes...

www.nature.com

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · Aug 27

3 (!) open PhD positions at @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on brain and bodily oscillations and their role in cognition: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD Candidates - Flexible Oscillatory Workspace (FLOW)

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · Aug 25

📰 SUMMARY OF OUR NEW PRE-PRINT 📰

Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is a temporary slowing down of the heart during the anticipation of task-relevant events.
ACD is typically calculated from the amount of increase in R-R intervals on the ECG signal, which is fair enough...

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 21

Disentangling Respiratory Phase-Dependent and Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration in a Visual Perception Task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670501v1

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Turns out my physio is in Fechner’s old home! Both profs @unileipzig.bsky.social — #Fechner author of the famous Elemente der #Psychophysik (1860) paved the way for #Wundt ’s #ExpPsy lab here in 1879. Love it 💘
#CognitiveScience #HistoryOfPsychology #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #SciComm #AcademicLife

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Ege Kingir @ege-kingir.bsky.social · Aug 25

📰 SUMMARY OF OUR NEW PRE-PRINT 📰

Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is a temporary slowing down of the heart during the anticipation of task-relevant events.
ACD is typically calculated from the amount of increase in R-R intervals on the ECG signal, which is fair enough...

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 21

Disentangling Respiratory Phase-Dependent and Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration in a Visual Perception Task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670501v1

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 22

Did you register to help moderate PsyArXiv preprints but haven’t heard from us yet? Check your spam folder and add [email protected] to your contacts! We are onboarding moderators in batches to avoid overloading the system, but rest assured we will get to everyone. #PsychSciSky

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 15

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 22

We are in awe of our community's response -- over 300 people have volunteered to moderate PsyArXiv! We’ve already cleared 13% of the backlog and expect to make even faster progress next week. Thank you for your patience as we work through this, and special thanks to our volunteers! 🎉 #PsychSciSky

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Aug 22

@ege-kingir.bsky.social ! 🔥🧚‍♂️

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Aug 21

Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is when heart rate fluctuates along with the respiratory cycle. Anticipatory cardiac deceleration (ACD) is when heart rate decreases in anticipation of stimulus. RSA and ACD overlap. This study attempted to disentangle them. Nice work!👏

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 21

Disentangling Respiratory Phase-Dependent and Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration in a Visual Perception Task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670501v1

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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Super pleased to see this heroic effort finally in print!! Many thanks to Hunter, our amazing study participants, and everyone else who made this fantastic study come true.

Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

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Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?

In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · Jul 23

#Recording is out — it was a crazy honour to share the session with @micahgallen.com ! ✨

▶️ shorturl.at/p06n1
Fast forward to *31:40* for my presentation 🦋

For all other recordings, go to www.cbs.mpg.de/mbb2025
& click on bold green headers with circular arrow icons!

#MBBS25 @mpicbs.bsky.social

Microsoft OneDrive

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Jul 16

How do major political events affect our mental health? Prof @jonroiser.bsky.social and Dr @lbernardi.bsky.social have received funding from @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social and the University of Liverpool to find out.

Professor Jonathan Roiser and Dr Luca Bernardi on the impact of politics on our mental health

How do major political events affect our mental health? Professor Jonathan Roiser and Dr Luca Bernardi have received funding from UCL Grand Challenges and the University of Liverpool to find out.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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