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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · Aug 31

Super news and congratulations! 🎉

Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers

The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds.

www.nature.com

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 20

So proud of, and excited about, this project with the brilliant @johalgermissen.bsky.social, @mirunarascu.bsky.social, and @mkflugge.bsky.social + an amazing team of collaborators. Check out Johannes' summary thread 👇 #tFUS #amygdala

Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · Jul 25

Wenn man über Forschungsförderung spricht, ist es erstmal natürlich interessant, welches Geld wo benutzt wird. Die @dfg.de hat einen Förderatlas herausgegeben, den ich fürs Beantworten dieser Fragen super hilfreich finde:
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foerderatlas.dfg.de/wp-content/u...

foerderatlas.dfg.de

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · Jul 25

Ihr könnt mehr zu der Idee im Paper mit @finnluebber.bsky.social @soerenkrach.bsky.social
@fmpaulus.bsky.social
@mamarmat.bsky.social
Lena Rademacher und Jule Specht (beide nicht auf Bluesky?) lesen:
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Rethink funding by putting the lottery first - Nature Human Behaviour

Research funding determines the course of science and thus shapes future knowledge. However, funding allocation is inherently biased, non-optimal and costly. We present a Shiny app that simulates the ...

doi.org

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Jul 2

Excited to share our new review on how neuroimaging and computational models can help uncover how people see what they want to see, now out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! It was a blast writing this with Haena Kim and @iancballard.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A neurocomputational account of motivated seeing

Do goals, beliefs, and desires affect visual experience? This question has long been controversial in cognitive science. There exists extensive litera…

www.sciencedirect.com

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ccnberlin.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Yael Niv from Princeton University will present @ccnberlin.bsky.social Seminar Series @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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Title of Talk: Metacognitive control of information seeking
For Abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

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Rima-Maria Rahal @rimamrahal.bsky.social · Jun 30

🍀#morethanluck Rethinking #Research Funding workshop tomorrow! Public program + Zoom 🔗https://bit.ly/fundingluck

Program ⬇️
🍀Jul 1: Essentials. Does the way we fund research make sense?
🍀Jul 2: Practice. How are funders dealing with challenges?
🍀Jul 3: Future. How can research funding work better?

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Rima-Maria Rahal @rimamrahal.bsky.social · Jun 26

🍀 More than Luck: Rethinking Research Funding 💵

Research costs money. Are we making the most of it?
🔗 Program & Zoom Access: bit.ly/fundingluck

#MetaScience #OpenScience #SciencePolicy

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Jun 18

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? This.

Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · May 2

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

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ccnberlin.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Lilian Weber from
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity will present @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: Neural Mechanisms of Control in Emotional Decision-Making
For Abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Jun 13

Looking forward to this!

ccnberlin.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social · Jun 13

June 16th at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Lilian Weber from
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity will present @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: Neural Mechanisms of Control in Emotional Decision-Making
For abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 13

In Nature Human Behaviour, Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and willing to do so to speak out publicly against the Trump administration’s attack on science, and argues that although dissent carries risks, it is riskier to stay silent. go.nature.com/3FIV7cC 🧪

Peter Gleick
Image courtesy of Curtis Lomax.

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · Jun 9

Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/

🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct
📍 Brown University
👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb
👇 Speakers

Please submit & share!

CISE 2025

ciseconf.github.io

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · May 30

Die #DFG richtet zur weiteren Stärkung der #Spitzenforschung 13 neue #Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) ein. Darunter 7 Transregio (TRR) von mehreren Hochschulen gemeinsam. 24 Fortsetzungsanträge werden im Nov. begutachtet. Diese SFB erhalten eine Überbrückungsfinanzierung:
www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

176 Mio. Euro für die erste Förderperiode
Die Themen reichen von Lebererkrankungen über Verkehrsplanung bis hin zu marinen Mikroorganismen. Einzelheiten zu allen neuen Verbünden und Forschungsprojekten in der Pressemitteilung.

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Kristin Eichhorn @drkeichhorn.bsky.social · May 27

15 Unis dürfen sich bewerben, 5 werden gefördert, 10 vernichten Steuergelder.

Dazu mehr von @amreibahr.bsky.social und mir: substack.com/home/post/p-....

#ExitExzellent #ExStra #ArbeitInDerWiss

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · May 27

Falls ihr diese These für die #ExIni oder andere Verfahren testen wollt: wir haben eine interaktive, sehr einfache App entwickelt, um Kosten von Antragsverfahren zu simulieren
👇🏼
osi-luebeck.shinyapps.io/socostli/

osi-luebeck.shinyapps.io

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · May 27

Thanks, Jan and group! It was our pleasure!

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Jan Haaker @janhaaker.bsky.social · May 27

So nice to have a shared lab-meeting with @soerenkrach.bsky.social and @fmpaulus.bsky.social and their crew. Thanks for accommodating us!

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · May 16

Great piece on how publication delays negatively impact careers and the pace of science.

We just had a reviewer ask us why it's taken us so long to publish our data. It was because 2 other journals dragged review out for months and months only to reject it.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careers

Chia-Hsuan Hsu waited 18 months before chasing an editor for a decision on a paper. The answer surprised him.

www.nature.com

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ccnberlin.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social · May 12

May 19th at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Mauricio Delgado
from Rutgers University will present for the control series @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: The Subjective Value of Perceived Control
For webex link: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · May 6

New Viewpoint in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science on the use of the term “normal” in the DSM over time.

It’s increasing, and it’s an unclear term. I found the discussion of this fascinating.

Check it out.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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