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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 8d

🔍 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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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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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations, Ondrej! 🥳

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Janik Goltermann @janikgoltermann.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧠 Help shape a new MRI analysis toolbox for transparent, reproducible & replicable voxel-wise analyses!

📝 5–10 min anonymous survey on community needs/features: trap-survey.uni-muenster.de/index.php/93...

Please share!🔄
#Neuroimaging #OpenScience #Replicability #Neuroscience @traplabms.bsky.social

Survey Open Science MRI Toolbox

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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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Ole Goltermann @olegolt.bsky.social · Jul 22

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity

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We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.

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Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker

To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 21

Given the outstanding quality of applicants, this year at #PuG2025 we awarded two IGOR Prizes: Cassie Ann Short and @msicorello.bsky.social. Congrats for this great achievement in open and reproducible science! 👏

And thanks to the jury and the organisation, Anett!

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Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!

Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations!

More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!

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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · Jun 19

Really happy to be part of the @igor-dgps.bsky.social team!

IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 19

Time for some updates! 📸 We have presented this year’s IGOR projects at the DGPs General Assembly, including the new steering committee.

Now time to wind down and get some drinks together: see you at IGOR Social Event at 20:30 🫂

#PuG2025
@pug2025.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 19

Tonight’s the night! 🎉 Join us for the first-ever IGOR Social Event, starting at 20:30 (more details below) 🫂

Swing by for a relaxed evening of chats, drinks, and a fun pub quiz 🍻🥇 A great opportunity to meet like-minded researchers and wind down after #PuG2025 Day 1! @pug2025.bsky.social

IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 17

🍻 IGOR Social Event
🗓️ Thu, 19.06 | 🕣 From 20:30
📍 Wohnzimmer Bar

Join us for an informal evening of chats, networking, and a legendary pub quiz - with cool prizes 🏆 Whether you're already part of IGOR or want to become a member, everyone's welcome!

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 17

IGOR is going to #PuG2025 in Würzburg! 🧠
@pug2025.bsky.social

We’re bringing open science to the spotlight with a series of events throughout the conference. Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved!

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Jun 11

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · May 22

There is still time to join the @pug2025.bsky.social pre-conference workshop "Multiverse Analysis for Neuroimaging" 🧠 Start navigating the “garden of forking paths” in fMRI & EEG!

📅 When? June 17 (9:00-18:00) & June 18 (9:00-13:00)

Info about prices and regisration: pug2025.org/programm

Program | PuG2025

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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · May 14

Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Apr 23

The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

PCI Psychology

Peer Community in Psychology

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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · Apr 25

A few days are still left until 30 April! Apply for the WissKomm prize of the DGPs & DGPA at the PUG 2025 with your science communication project!

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Mar 5

Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus!

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Apr 24

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha...

In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Apr 16

Don't let your data be the forgotten Easter egg!
Our monthly BIDS consultation hour will help you get started with BIDS, answer your questions, and finally convert your data. It's like a Easter egg hunt for BIDS knowledge 🐇

Next hunt: Friday, April 25th, 12:00 PM (noon) CET

👉 tinyurl.com/igor-bids

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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · Apr 15

To all science communicators out there: apply for the WissKomm prize of the DGPs & DGPA at the PUG 2025! You can also apply with planned science communication projects. Deadline is 30 April! 🎉

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Mar 5

Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus!

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · Mar 28

Deadline is April 30!

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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · Mar 27

If you are doing #wisskomm in the field of biopsychology here is your chance to apply for the WissKomm prize of the DGPs & DGPA at the PUG 2025. You can apply with done or planned science communication projects.

Find out more here: www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jan 20

We offer a monthly sessions with personalized guidance from experienced researchers on all aspects of BIDS. Get your questions answered, learn best practices, and (finally) convert your data to BIDS.
Next session: Friday, January 24th; 12:00 PM CET
More info: juliuswelzel.github.io/igor_bids_co...

IGOR BIDS consultations hour

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · Jan 27

🚨 2 preprints by @tweissgerber.bsky.social et al.

1/ Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper: osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Aug 30

We have another opening for a PhD student! Possible projects focus either on childhood adversity, individual differences in affective and defensive responses or applying similarity-based methods to physiological, behavioral and/or fMRI data. Apply here tinyurl.com/muhbxjc2 !

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (Doktorand*in)

Die Arbeitseinheit „Biologische Psychologie und Kognitive Neurowissenschaften“ hat ihren Forschungsschwerpunkt in der Untersuchung von menschliche...

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Maria Bruntsch @mbruntsch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join our team!

Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Aug 30

Are you passionate about Open Science and Open data! Join us as a Postdoc at Bielefeld University to shape the future of "Living Analyses" in collaboration with the @zpid.bsky.social ! Ready to make a difference?🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/chv4cfuy)

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (Postdo...

Die Arbeitseinheit „Biologische Psychologie und Kognitive Neurowissenschaften“ hat ihren Forschungsschwerpunkt in der Untersuchung von menschliche...

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