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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 17h

Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!

You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 6d

Check out our new publication led by former member @clamassaccesi.bsky.social showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝

Claudia Massaccesi @clamassaccesi.bsky.social · 6d

New paper out in NYAS!
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝
w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · 23d

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action!

When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance

Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 16d

New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods.
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social

APA PsycNet

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Claus Lamm @clauslamm.bsky.social · Aug 31

Another highlight in my mentoring career- tinyurl.com/lukelikely 's stellar defense; Lukas provided plenty of evidence to radically update our priors and call him DOKTA Luke from now on. Shout-out also to great co-supervisors @predragpetrovic.bsky.social & Isa Wagner & all @scanunit.bsky.social

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henrykbukowski.bsky.social @henrykbukowski.bsky.social · 20d

Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others" in Brussels on Dec1-2 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congratulations to Thomas Baumgartner, Daria Knoch and their team behind this study 🥳

You can find the full publication at:
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Aug 11

A new study by our colleagues from Bern was covered as research highlight in @natclimate.nature.com: 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

They show how structural neuroscience data can be used to better understand interindividual differences in pro-environmental behavior 🧠🌳

Neural traits of pro-environmental behaviour - Nature Climate Change

Nature Climate Change - Neural traits of pro-environmental behaviour

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Jul 13

Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 1

Flexible Behavior or Flexible Methods? A Cross-Taxon Review of Experimental Designs in Reversal Learning: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvche_v1

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jul 10

In case you don't want to read the full paper - it also got covered by several news outlets, including Der Standard and the New York Times: 🗞️
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨A new multi-lab study with contributions from our head @clauslamm.bsky.social & others in our group got published in Nature Climate Change 🎉
It's about how support for climate change policies is shaped by extreme weather events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Monika Bargmann @librarymistress.bsky.social · Jan 23

Save the date: Nach Hannover, Köln und Mainz findet das nächste Open Science Festival im deutschsprachigen Raum erstmals in Österreich statt – und zwar am 8. und 9. September am Campus der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at. osfestival2025.univie.ac.at #osfestival2025 #openscience #opensciencefestival

Save the Date: Open Science Festival 2025

YouTube video by Universitätsbibliothek Wien

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Jun 29

Closing Rreflection. This June, I chaired #SIPS2025 in Budapest 🇭🇺, celebrating 10y of @improvingpsych.org. It was a vibrant & inspiring meeting. We hosted workshops, hackathons, lightning talks, & unconferences on topics from AI & theory building to radical transparency, detecting data fabrication.

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jun 23

One week left to apply for our open phd position 👇

SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jun 3

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨

4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠

Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W

Pls 🔁

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE ([email protected]).

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jun 17

Proud of our new PhD student @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social for delivering a great talk at #ICEP2025 on work he did during his master’s 👏

Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · Jun 17

Awesome talk by @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social on how the emergence of radical climate activists (Last Generation) impacted portayals of moderate activists (Fridays for Future) 🤩👏

See also our preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Achiel Fenneman @achielfenneman.bsky.social · Jun 10

New paper! When encountering a novel and unfamiliar situation, what mechanisms underly our ability to search and retrieve relevant past experiences? We answer this question by taking first-principles approach – allowing us to bridge between a wide range of previous models (1/16)

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jun 4

Check out this new preprint led by our newest lab member @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social

It's about how disruptive climate protests shaped attitudes towards moderate activists in German news media 👇

Lukas Mayrhofer @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social · Jun 4

One month into my phd and my first preprint is out - at this pace I'll be done by the end of the year, right? 🥳

"Radical climate protests shaped portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes in German news media"

Read here or the🧵: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jun 3

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨

4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠

Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W

Pls 🔁

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE ([email protected]).

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · May 28

I am grateful to UCLouvain and H. Bukowski for supporting my research over the past year. Now, it's time to return home. In June, I will be teaching at IES Abroad and in July starting my postdoctoral position at the Universität Wien / @scanunit.bsky.social. I'm curious to see what lies ahead.

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · May 16

How many researchers does it take to change the cooling fluid of the heat pain stimulator? 😅

(Answer: Three who learn by doing and one taking the picture)

Love our little #TeamEmpathy at the Bingellab @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social preparing two really cool new studies ❤️

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · May 17

Check out this exciting new preprint on predicting climate change intervention success involving several current and former scannies 🤩👇🏼

Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · May 16

🧵New preprint!
Can experts accurately predict real-world effectiveness of 11 climate change interventions?

We ran a preregistered forecasting study with 862 participants and compared their predictions to real-world outcomes from 6,954 Americans.

What we found surprised us.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · May 13

🚨New paper alert!

In a large collaboration, we investigated how well do 19 individual and nation-level factors predict climate change beliefs, policy support and climate-relevant behaviors 🌎

Led by our @todorova.bsky.social

Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · May 8

🌍 So excited to share our new paper “Machine learning identified key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors”, just out in npj Climate Action!

🔗 Fully Open Access: rdcu.be/ele9s 1/

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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · May 7

📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com

The Heat and Cognition Project: The Collective Cost of Extreme Heat

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · May 12

Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠

‼️ Deadline: May 18th

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 🔁

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Apr 16

Possibility to contribute with your own ideas, excellent research infrastructure, supportive work environment, supervision and mentoring 🤗

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