Wow, that went fast! The PhD position is already filled - still accepting applications for the postdoc position! Feeling sorry for all the really promising candidates we had to turn down - the quality of applications has been unusually high in this round!

your rejected erc grant resubmitted after one year

PhD Position available! We are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our team at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The position is funded by the German Research Foundation and is available from 10/2026.

Please repost! We have one postdoc and one PhD student position open in my lab (starting from Sept 2026), neuroscience of decision making and learning. Join us @hhu.de in gorgeous Düsseldorf! For details please look here: www.psychologie.hhu.de/en/research-... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Als Wolfram Weimer im Mai 2025 Kulturstaatsminister wurde, waren die Befürchtungen groß. Zu groß, sagten manche. "Lasst ihn doch erstmal ankommen, gebt ihm eine Chance." Zehn Monate später lässt sich sagen: Er hat die schlimmsten Erwartungen nicht erfüllt. Er hat sie übertroffen. Ein Thread. 🧵

Amazing work. And ouch, a heavy blow to one of my favourite literature "classics".

Early heads-up: There will be one postdoc and one PhD position in the field of learning/decision making open in my lab from Sept 2026. More information to follow soon, but feel free to already get in touch for informal inquiries! Please spread the word!

Reporting today as a freshly-minted #MSCA fellow - I will be joining the @epanlab.bsky.social at the @dondersinst.bsky.social 🤩 Over the moon, but also thinking about all the excellent proposals who were not awarded funding in this brutal round - feels more like a lottery than ever.

"Just pathetic". Gavin Newsom spot on about the European leaders' attempts at "diplomacy" with DJT. cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Mq...

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

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Great opportunity to work with the amazing @martinhebart.bsky.social !

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen! 3/3 👉 06.11.25, 19.00 - 20.30 Uhr im Haus der Universität. Die Veranstaltung findet hybrid statt und kann auch per Livestream verfolgt werden: www.youtube.com/live/9bBu8-w... Bild: © iStockphoto / hsyncoban

The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social

Joghurt mit der Ecke. #Müllermilch. Jeder kennt die Produkte. Was viele nicht wissen: Milch-Mogul Theo Müller nennt Alice Weidel ,Freundin’, sympathisiert offen mit der AfD und macht rechte Netzwerke salonfähig. Und das ist kein Zufall.

Really cool work from @hhu.de colleagues Martin Papenberg )(psychology) and ‪@guwek.bsky.social‬ (computer science), together with researchers at UCSF and Stanford! 👇 www.hhu.de/en/news-arti...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

While our official job ad is on the way, we are seeking PhD students to join @neuromadlab.bsky.social for projects running in Bonn. The candidate will lead projects on body-brain interactions using brain stimulation to improve core symptoms of depression: www.neuromadlab.org/jobs #neurojobs

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Job Alert: Our team is looking for someone for a research assistant/manager position for between 6 months and 1 year. Application deadline end of August. Only CV and motivation letter needed. Our team wesite : sites.google.com/view/ecc-tea... . Please get in touch with me if you are interested.

This bit: quentinatkinson.substack.com/p/15-create-...

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

Congrats, @kalenscher.bsky.social and gang!

The excellent @linaskora.bsky.social presenting her work on taVNS modulation of cardiac frequency during threat related decision making at the biology of decision making symposium #SBDM2025

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods. If you know anybody, please tell them to email me. Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

Two papers out today on RL in the dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain of mice (one from McGill's new PI @paulmasset.bsky.social). Both papers demonstrate heterogeneity in discount factors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

Great opportunity to work with @sgluth.bsky.social - much recommended!

📄New paper from our lab @hhu.de on the role of dopamine in multi-attribute decision making. Increasing DA transmission (L-DOPA) increased, whereas D2 receptor blockade (Amisulpride) reduced the effect of individual attributes on choice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This lecture is my favourite part of teaching. All the more completely chuffed that my students nominated me/my lecture for the @hhu.de teaching award! Students participated very actively (despite the late hours 🛌), I genuinely enjoyed the interaction with them! Thank you for nominating me!

Application for our international MSc Translational Neuroscience starts today! 🧠🧑‍🎓🇪🇺 Please apply and/or spread the word. 🙏 It's all in English, small teaching groups, no tuition fees. Join us @hhu.de and become part of our 10th cohort of students! 🥳 All info: www.translationalneuroscience.hhu.de

We are hiring ⚡🧠! Our postdoc @akuehnel.bsky.social was awarded a grant to investigate if pulsed tVNS alters approach and avoidance behavior (in collaboration with @bachlab.bsky.social). The official ad is in German (B2 level is required to run sessions) #neurojobs karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...

R. I. P. Margot Friedländer www.independent.co.uk/news/jews-au...

Certainly this can't nearly cover up the devastating blow to NIH, NSF, .... but still....dear US-based colleagues...there may be a light in all this darkness! 🌤️

Looking to advance your research career? Choose Europe. Practical information: europa.eu/!B8hjh3 Register for the info session on 6 May: europa.eu/!gX3Dgv

"Authenticity is overrated. Most people can't help but be themselves."

Why are we generous to some people but not to others? And which brain mechanisms govern our decision to be generous toward others? In our latest research, published in @pnas.org (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...), we report steeper social discounting after human basolateral amygdala (BLA) lesions.

Great opportunity to work on exciting projects with the fabulous @kalenscher.bsky.social 👇

:🧵👇 Is there a button where I can like this post 10 times?

New preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👇 @katharinadroege.bsky.social on fire 🔥

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my MSN lab, @thechbh.bsky.social, co-supervised with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social & @simonlittle.bsky.social. Deadline 23rd March. Only open to UK candidates. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls repost

Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important thread on the value of peer review - and the temptation of delegating (parts of) it to AI tools. "...it's my job as a scientist. The public pays my salary and trust me to use my time wisely to advance science. Through peer review, I do exactly that." 👏👏👏

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What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers? With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

New paper from the Hirschmann group @hhu.de: DBS in the MEG at beta frequency. 😎 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

New @elife.bsky.social study published! 🚀 Yohimbine modulates memory reconsolidation via hippocampal-cortical reactivation. fMRI & psychopharma findings on memory by Hendrik Heinbockel, Gregor Leicht, Anthony D. Wagner & Lars Schwabe. 🧠💡 #Neuroscience #Memory elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Und die AfD lacht und feixt. "Jetzt beginnt eine neue Epoche!" Der Name Merz wird in die Geschichte eingehen als der Mann, der nach 1945 zum ersten Mal mit Faschisten gemeinsame Sache macht. 80 Jahre nach der Befreiung von Auschwitz haben die Konservativen aus der Geschichte nichts gelernt.