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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 16h

There are still some places left, don't hesitate and sign up to the Young Scientist Retreat #YSR2025 in beautiful Hamburg 🔥🔥

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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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 8d

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 1d

I experience placebo effects every time I drink kombucha!

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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 2d

⭐ GIVEAWAY! ⭐

We are giving away 3 signed copies of the non-fiction book from our CRC! 📚

In „Dein Körper glaubt dir alles – Wie der #Placebo-Effekt die Gesundheit stärkt“, Prof. Ulrike Bingel and Prof. Sven Benson explain how patients can use the power of #expectations to improve their health. 💪

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Philippe Jawinski @pjawinski.bsky.social · 1d

🧠 Why do some brains age faster than others?
🧬 Our new Nature Aging study of over 56,000 participants explores the genetics of the “brain age gap” — the difference between your brain’s biological and chronological age.
nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00962-7

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Genome-wide analysis of brain age identifies 59 associated loci and unveils relationships with mental and physical health - Nature Aging

This genomic study of magnetic resonance imaging-based brain age in 56,348 people identifies 59 genetic loci, links brain aging to mental and physical health, and suggests high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes as causal factors of brain aging.

nature.com

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Giorgio Vallortigara @gvallortigara.bsky.social · 2d

Our paper on #number discrimination in #Danionella is out #zebrafish #numbersense #number_sense #number
@mirkuz12
#scott_fraser
cell.com/iscience/ful...

Numerical discrimination in Danionella

The transparent teleost Danionella cerebrum offers unique advantages for neuroscience research, including small size, lifelong cranial transparency, and a simplified brain. Despite its suitability for...

cell.com

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 3d

My blog „The Asymmetric Brain“ on @psychologytoday.com reached 6 million views today, so cool to see how many people are interested in brain asymmetries! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

The Asymmetric Brain

The psychology and neuroscience of left and right

www.psychologytoday.com

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 4d

Brain Fog in Long COVID Linked to Increase in AMPA Receptors | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Brain Fog in Long COVID Linked to Increase in AMPA Receptors

Many patients with long COVID experience brain fog, but the reasons are not well understood. A new study links brain fog to a type of neurotransmitter receptor.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 6d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Science & Fiction @scienceandfiction.net · 6d

Have you read last month's short story yet? 🐬

Science & Fiction @scienceandfiction.net · 17d

🐬 New #ScienceandFiction short story 🐬

This time, @sophiebarton.bsky.social tackles a very important topic: The extinction of porpoises, the world's most endangered marine mammal!

Content warning: Death of a juvenile

🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/33_t...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...

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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 6d

New podcast where @ulrikebingel.bsky.social talks about the power of the placebo effect! 🤯

What happens when not only active ingredients, but also expectations, rituals and trust have an effect? Why can colour, price and even the doctor's attitude determine the effect of a medicine?

a row of pink yellow and purple pills on a dark background

ALT: a row of pink yellow and purple pills on a dark background

media.tenor.com

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Gilly Forrester @gillyforrester.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you BBC Radio Sussex for inviting me to share my thoughts about the legendary Jane Goodall this morning - you can listen at 11:09
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 6d

It was a pleasure to talk on the APA „Speaking of Psychology“ podcast about handedness and brain asymmetries: Lefties, righties and mixed-handers: The psychology of brain asymmetry www.apa.org/news/podcast...

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 8d

Even the earth has hemispheric asymmetries! Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation | PNAS

Twenty-four years of satellite observations from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System show a northern hemisphere (NH) minus southern he...

www.pnas.org

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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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Max Korbmacher @maxkorbmacher.bsky.social · Jul 30

Charting structural brain asymmetry across the human lifespan

By Dorfschmidt et al at bioRxiV

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Charting structural brain asymmetry across the human lifespan

Lateralization is a fundamental principle of structural brain organization. In vivo imaging of brain asymmetry is essential for deciphering lateralized brain functions and their disruption in neurodev...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 9d

Left-Handedness and the Brain: Wired Differently? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Left-Handedness and the Brain: Wired Differently?

Are the brains of left-handers different than those of right-handers? A recent study investigated this question from a new perspective and focused on brain connections.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 13d

The Left-Hander Advantage in Sports: New Scientific Insights | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

The Left-Hander Advantage in Sports: New Scientific Insights

Left-handers are better at some types of sports, but why? A new study investigated left-handers' advantage in sports from an interesting new perspective.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14d

“This is an immensely exciting development for the Huntington’s field.” https://scim.ag/4nnW62z

In a first, a gene therapy seems to slow Huntington disease

Small study suggests uniQure drug could be first successful treatment for devastating brain disorder

scim.ag

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Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Less than 1 week to apply! Save your spot for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra

#YSR2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 14d

Here is a link to my book review of „The invisible hand: Neurocognitive mechanisms of human hand function“ by @mattlongo.bsky.social in @tandfresearch.bsky.social Laterality - it is a great book, you should read it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The invisible hand: Neurocognitive mechanisms of human hand function

Published in Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 20d

6 Rules for a Perfect Hug, According to Science | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

6 Rules for a Perfect Hug, According to Science

Have you ever wondered how to have the perfect hug? Here's what science says.

www.psychologytoday.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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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 25d

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory?

Growth mindset interventions targeted at improving students’ academic achievements are common. A new study shows that they have little to no actual effect.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · 26d

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions!

Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response!

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

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

Communicating emotional intentions via emojis influences how people evaluate and mimic facial expressions during social interactions. Sending a smile emoji increased pleasantness and mimicry of happy...

doi.org

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