Social Neuroscience Bern
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🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
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Very cool work alert! It’s concerning that the most influential comms strategies did not nudge proenv beh, when we have found climate disinfo *decreases* proenv beh, even against some of the “successful” comms strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We still have room & need for improvement!
We still have room & need for improvement!
January 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Very cool work alert! It’s concerning that the most influential comms strategies did not nudge proenv beh, when we have found climate disinfo *decreases* proenv beh, even against some of the “successful” comms strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We still have room & need for improvement!
We still have room & need for improvement!
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Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications
Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mecha...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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What better way to end 2025 than getting our paper published in Global Environmental Change 🥳💚
We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support.
Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support.
Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What better way to end 2025 than getting our paper published in Global Environmental Change 🥳💚
We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support.
Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support.
Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
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Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, important and downright strange discoveries about how the human brain, one of the most complex objects in the known universe, works, and 2025 didn’t disappoint. Here are 10 of the most fascinating brain discoveries of this year:
#Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
#Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025
From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
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December 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, important and downright strange discoveries about how the human brain, one of the most complex objects in the known universe, works, and 2025 didn’t disappoint. Here are 10 of the most fascinating brain discoveries of this year:
#Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
#Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at pug2026.org
#pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience
#pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at pug2026.org
#pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience
#pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience
🚨New paper out!
We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤
➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠
To the paper 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤
➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠
To the paper 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🚨New paper out!
We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤
➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠
To the paper 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤
➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠
To the paper 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are hiring an Associate Prof in Social Psychology at UW-Madison! All areas of specialization are open. It’s a quick turnaround time for apps (due Jan 9th) but we are excited to add someone to our area!! Please apply and spread the word! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...
Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We are hiring an Associate Prof in Social Psychology at UW-Madison! All areas of specialization are open. It’s a quick turnaround time for apps (due Jan 9th) but we are excited to add someone to our area!! Please apply and spread the word! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
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A comparison of data from 64,000 individuals in 64 countries with their self-reports of well-being suggests LLMs cannot provide valid predictions for subjective well-being, in part due to biases rooted in global digital and economic inequality. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/yHIt50XC4z3
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A comparison of data from 64,000 individuals in 64 countries with their self-reports of well-being suggests LLMs cannot provide valid predictions for subjective well-being, in part due to biases rooted in global digital and economic inequality. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/yHIt50XC4z3
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Do climate disasters change us? New research with Hoenow & Karki (RWI Essen) examines Germany's devastating 2021 Ahrtal flood. We'd expect a disaster in your backyard to spark urgent climate action—but does it actually? Our findings: it's complicated. 🧵
Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1007/s105...
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Do climate disasters change us? New research with Hoenow & Karki (RWI Essen) examines Germany's devastating 2021 Ahrtal flood. We'd expect a disaster in your backyard to spark urgent climate action—but does it actually? Our findings: it's complicated. 🧵
Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Ventromedial striatal dopamine dynamically integrates motivated action and reward proximity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691784v1
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Ventromedial striatal dopamine dynamically integrates motivated action and reward proximity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691784v1
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A multilayer of time
Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years!
A great collaborative work !
doi.org/10.1007/s113...
Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years!
A great collaborative work !
doi.org/10.1007/s113...
Diurnal dynamics of multilayer brain networks predict cognitive trajectories in aging - GeroScience
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) is a highly dynamic process that varies across different times of the day within each individual. Although this variability was long considered to be noise...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A multilayer of time
Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years!
A great collaborative work !
doi.org/10.1007/s113...
Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years!
A great collaborative work !
doi.org/10.1007/s113...
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*PhD funding through the @mrcaimdtp.bsky.social* interested in doing a PhD aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms underlying how sleep impacts on motivation in health and Parkinsons Disease? Want to learn computational modelling & brain imaging? Get in touch. more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-...
PhD Opportunities – MRC AIM
more.bham.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
*PhD funding through the @mrcaimdtp.bsky.social* interested in doing a PhD aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms underlying how sleep impacts on motivation in health and Parkinsons Disease? Want to learn computational modelling & brain imaging? Get in touch. more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-...
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**JOB OPENING: Assistant Professor in Social Psychology / Environmental Psychology**
Deadline: 25 January
Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Deadline: 25 January
Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology/ Environmental Psychology
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology/ Environmental Psychology,
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
**JOB OPENING: Assistant Professor in Social Psychology / Environmental Psychology**
Deadline: 25 January
Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Deadline: 25 January
Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Are you a PhD or MSc student interested in people's transactions with environments?
Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors?
The ECR workshop @iaps2026.bsky.social is for you!
Deadline 9th January.
Be where many experts in the field once started out.
stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...
Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors?
The ECR workshop @iaps2026.bsky.social is for you!
Deadline 9th January.
Be where many experts in the field once started out.
stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...
IAPS Conference 2026
29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.
stories.surrey.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Are you a PhD or MSc student interested in people's transactions with environments?
Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors?
The ECR workshop @iaps2026.bsky.social is for you!
Deadline 9th January.
Be where many experts in the field once started out.
stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...
Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors?
The ECR workshop @iaps2026.bsky.social is for you!
Deadline 9th January.
Be where many experts in the field once started out.
stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...
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In this study, Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection with computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience.
Addressing low statistical power in computational modelling studies in psychology and neuroscience - Nature Human Behaviour
Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection in the context of computational modelling in psychology and human neuroscience.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In this study, Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection with computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience.
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Posterior Cortex Isolation Enhances Detection of Alpha Desynchronization During Sustained Attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688558v1
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Posterior Cortex Isolation Enhances Detection of Alpha Desynchronization During Sustained Attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688558v1
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Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688922v1
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688922v1
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The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology
🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET
Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?
➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX
#Neuroskyence
🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET
Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?
➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX
#Neuroskyence
CEN Colloquium: Lindsay McCunn, The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology
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November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology
🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET
Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?
➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX
#Neuroskyence
🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET
Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?
➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX
#Neuroskyence
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New in #JNeurosci from Hynes et al: Ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons influence risky decision-making and motor impulsivity differently in male and female rats across learning in a gambling task. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0764-25.2025
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
New in #JNeurosci from Hynes et al: Ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons influence risky decision-making and motor impulsivity differently in male and female rats across learning in a gambling task. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0764-25.2025
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🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social:
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence
Mounting evidence indicates that decisions emerge from a competition between populations of neurons encoding the different choice options. Theoretical models propose that the outcome of this competiti...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social:
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Intrinsic electrophysiological activity maps a latent dimension of poor sleep quality and reduced cognitive performance: a magnetoencephalography study using Cam-CAN data. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.686036v1
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Intrinsic electrophysiological activity maps a latent dimension of poor sleep quality and reduced cognitive performance: a magnetoencephalography study using Cam-CAN data. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.686036v1
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We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
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We are hiring, come work with us!
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025.
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We are hiring, come work with us!
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department
Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky