In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

I am excited to share our latest research published in the EJEP! We used GAMMs to apply Rose’s theoretical work to prevention strategies targeting social isolation. Our results indicate that population strategies are more promising than individualized interventions.

We want to hear *your voice* on taboos in women's and gender diverse health! 💬🧠Your perspective will directly inform priorities in research and a women's health resource platform. Find survey link at our website: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs/en/resea...

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

📢 Call for Papers: NeurReps 2025 ‼️‼️‼️ 🧠 Submit your research on symmetry, geometry, and topology in artificial and biological neural networks. Two tracks: Proceedings (9 pages) and Extended Abstract (4 pages). Deadline: Aug 22, 2025. www.neurreps.org/call-for-pap...

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍 We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes. 👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc 🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 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. 👇 1/13

Werner Reichardt, credited with discovering the neural circuitry for motion detection in the retina in the 1950s, did so on borrowed time.

Hilft künstliche Intelligenz bei der #Demenz - Diagnose? Simon Hofmann @mpicbs.bsky.social erklärt im neuen #AchMensch Podcast, wie sich Ärzte in Zukunft durch #KI unterstützen lassen können und woran der Einsatz bislang scheitert detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m... #Medizin #Gehirn @detektorfm.bsky.social

If you found out a paper with striking results, You should start with the critical point of view. But it's not for the reason of lacking of trust. What you know is unlike from what authors may knew. When you have a critic of substantial length, You can make it a paper and publish yourself.

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44... Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

We're happy to announce the Berlin Consciousness Symposium, an in-person event bringing together expert speakers to discuss new trends in the neuroscience of consciousness. Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior! We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

So happy to see such a rich and big repertoire of events at the MPIB for Long Night of Science!

How does subthalamic nucleus activity relate to Parkinson’s disease symptoms? My last 5 years of Parkinson’s disease research summarized in 5 minutes at the DGKN Congress 2025 :) youtu.be/M9alDh836oU ⬇️ Full preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation

Are you sure that your Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) effect is real? In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.

>>>Job alert<<< For my lab, I am currently recruiting a research assistant (with possibility of extension into full PhD position) in fMRI-TMS. Feel free to reach out if interested! www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/833081/resea...

We are looking for reviewers to serve on the Program Committee of the Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps) workshop at NeurIPS 2025! If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form: forms.gle/wgUXHT7Mq71n... @neurreps.bsky.social

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Science communicators! Doing science communication in any form - talks, videos, blogs, comics, whatever? First of all: Thank you. Please keep doing it! And if you feel like getting some credit for your work — check out the Science Communication Prize of the DGPs & DGPA💥

This is an utterly amazing paper.

Join us for the talk by @lukasmut.bsky.social (Google Deep Mind, TU Berlin) on "Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision" Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28 Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut

How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

Fellow academics. Do you also feel that the #climate crisis doesn't get the attention it deserves in German politics? Please consider signing this petition by @de.scientists4future.org today! It'll be handed to the new Bundestag/Parliament tomorrow www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

Together with @olegolt.bsky.social , @fraukeb.bsky.social and our great colleagues, we are happy to share that our study is published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social now. #XAI for #MRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Simon M. Hofmann, Frauke Beyer, et al: The utility of explainable AI for MRI analysis: Relating model predictions to neuroimaging features of the aging brain doi.org/10.1162/imag...

People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Did you know a women’s heartbeat changes throughout her menstrual cycle? In our contribution to this SI, @cogneuroend.bsky.social and I explore how these cyclical variations shape the brain-heart connection. Read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health - @jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447

Join our Igor pack to discuss and share a specific topic and interest related to open science, bio/cognitive/psychopy & neuroscience - even job/ grant opportunities! go.bsky.app/7GAoP8i

Great news: Thomas‘ study on shared and distinct mechanisms of PD therapeutics out soon! Thanks for the important work and great collaboration over the last years, @tsbinns.com , @julianneumann.bsky.social .

I've just released pleasenox.com – Convert any x.com thread to Bluesky 🦋 #indiehackers #buildinpublic #twitter – Perfect for those who have left Twitter but wish to comment upon a thread there

Happy LoveDataWeek everyone 💝 So many exciting activities happening around #LoveData25 😍 incl @datatrain.bsky.social events: 1. Data Story by @smnhfmnn.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/data... 2. Starter Track "Data Protection and licenses" by @kipker.bsky.social www.bremen-research.de/data-train/c...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Turning videos into 3D humans has never been easier or more accurate. MoCapade 3.0 improves everything over 2.0 while adding 3D camera tracking (and output) and multi-person capture. Try out the new state-of-the-art. Of course, there's more to come.

I'm looking forward to give a talk at this great event👇 about scilaunch 🚀 shescher.github.io/scilaunch/ scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.

▶️ Does it have or can it develop goals or subgoals that may be detrimental to us (like self-preservation, power-seeking)? (yes, already seen in recent months with experiments with OpenAI's and Anthropic's models). 4/8

We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency

⏰ Today's the day: please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us. Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

Happy new year, fellow MindBrainBody researchers! Looking forward to seeing you at the MindBrainBody Symposium in a few months. By the way, the deadline for submission and/or registration: 📆 January 15, 2025 You can do so here: www.mindbrainbody.de

„the high-compute version was allowed 1,024 samples (at a cost estimated to be several thousands of dollars per task, and over $1M total for the whole evaluation…wow, this is a lot of money to solve 100 little puzzles!)“

🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf... We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦

Visit the great @cbeylier.bsky.social at her poster @ the @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop #SciForDL (today, 11:20AM, PST) scienceofdlworkshop.github.io//schedule/ We looked at the development of representational patterns & strategies in #RL agents using #XAI Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.14324

Very cool to see our Nahid Torbati on the big screen @neurreps.bsky.social @neuripsconf.bsky.social It was and still is a great pleasure to work with her on this project, in which we explore the alignment of representational spaces between ANNs & the human counterpart using methods from geometry.

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception