📣 Calling: Alle Eltern Wir planen psychotherapeutische Gruppen für Eltern von Säuglingen mit Regulationsschwierigkeiten, um zu entlasten & stärken. Sagt uns, was ihr euch wünschen würdet: www.soscisurvey.de/saeuglingsgr... Danke fürs Mitmachen & Teilen! 🙏✨ @tudresden.bsky.social

Registration open 🎉 MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor Sessions on: memory processes sleep & replay analysis and stimulation techniques www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab... plz rp

Biological sex impacts TMS intensity because ♀️ typically have shorter scalp-to-cortex distances than ♂️ While these differences are widespread, they are absent in the motor cortex—the site usually used to determine clinical dosage

Awesome opportunity as head of an MRI core facility in Bielefeld: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/471...

Reminder on the postdoc call: Applications need to get in contact with us before submitting their application. We are interested in the effects of touch by significant others and its stress-buffering effects on a neurobiological level 👩‍🍼💑🫂🫀🧠. Project #35 @hlsalliance.bsky.social 👇

Job Alert! The Sprenger Lab is looking for a Postdoc! www.age.mpg.de/job-9f350f6e...

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Altered body representations are central to many neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. At the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting, we’ll explore these questions under the theme “The Uncanny Body.” Poster deadline: 20.02.2026 Registration: 30.03.2026 bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...

New research publication: Predicting suicide attempts in a high-risk clinical cohort of adolescents using machine-learning by Hertel et al in our #ECAP journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #youthmentalhealth #suicideprevention @koeniglab.bsky.social

Cracking the code of gut–brain sensing — a Journal Club article by Lihua Ye #neurocience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Call for PostDoc applications: Find the project on Social Touch during Stress by @fbublatzky.bsky.social and myself as #35. Please reach out to us for any questions and to discuss your thoughts on the project. Colleagues, please repost or forward to candidates. 🧠🫂👇

📢 Postdoctoral Position (2 years) – Social Neuroscience / Psychophysiology @monikaeckstein.bsky.social & myself invite applications from an outstanding early-career PostDoc to join a new project on social touch, stress, and health at the CIMH in Mannheim and Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me. 🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026 Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning) ⬇️ Call for Papers tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

We all knew Tylenol didn’t cause autism. Now the data in the @thelancet.com confirm it—no increased risk of autism, ADHD, or Intellectual Disability when used as directed in pregnancy. Misinformation from HHS keeps failing the science test. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In den vergangenen Tagen wurde auf verschiedenen Social-Media-Plattformen über die Vorankündigung diskutiert, dass die DFG zukünftig unter bestimmten Rahmenbedingungen die Nutzung von KI in der Begutachtung ermöglichen wird. Mehr⏬

New paper from our STAR Consortium “Self-Injury: Treatment, Assessment, Recovery” now published in ECAP!

Join my lab and collaborate with excellent scientists Magdalena Schlesinger or Anette Frank at University of Heidelberg! We offer topics on replay in humans and rodents or neurobiologically inspired AI, respectively. Deadline 31st March. Apply here: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

Two joint #CallForProposals for multinational & translational research projects in the new "European Partnership for Brain Health". Call 1: Neurological, mental, and sensory disorders Call 2: Neurodegenerative disorders Proposals should combine basic and clinical approaches. More🔽 sohub.io/dith

We are back online and are wishing everyone a happy New Year! In case you missed this during the holidays: The December issue of our #ECAP journal is now available: www.escap.eu/ecap-journal...

Nach 11 Monaten Arbeit findet morgen die Konsensuskonferenz der S2K-Leitlinie Long-/Post-COVID statt. Die Mandatsträger:innen stimmen nun über die Empfehlungen der einzelnen Kapitel ab. Das ist der zentrale Schritt auf dem Weg zur finalen Leitlinie. #PostCovid #MECFS #PEM #PEMistnichtVerhandelbar

Very much looking forward to this great conference!

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

How do gut signals shape motivation? After years of hard work led by the fabulous @corcerebrum.bsky.social, we show that ghrelin infusions increase hunger, food motivation, and FC between the hypothalamus and the striatum. This is driven by more pulses in the NAcc. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Hot from the @nbkroemer.bsky.social lab 👇🏻

ERC Consolidator Grant for Professor Dr. Debora Gerstenberger. Congratulations! 🎉 💻👥 Her project "Wired History. Computers, Humans, and the Making of Latin American Futures (1950s–2000s)" (WIRED) will be funded for five years with two million euros.🌎 ▶️ uni.koeln/74EA5 #unicologne #ERCCoG #Research

Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...

// D7 Newsletter ✉️ // The latest edition of the D7 Newsletter with new calls for proposals of national, European and international #research #funding organisations is now available! #uniköln #bmbf #transfer #DFG #postdocs #erasmusplus ➡️ verwaltung.uni-koeln.de/d7_newsletter_en

📣 Our latest Special Issue is now out! 📣 Exploring Sleep Alterations in Severe Mental Disorders: Converging Evidence From Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research was edited by Armando D’Agostino, Anna Castelnovo, Giulio Tononi, and Fabio Ferrarelli. 💤 🧠 🧬 Learn more about what's in the issue ⬇️

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Die DFG begrüßt die heutige Einigung in der Gemeinsamen Wissenschaftskonferenz des Bundes und der Länder (GWK): Eine Erhöhung der #Programmpauschale ab 2027 von derzeit 22 auf 25 % ist nicht der eigentlich notwendige (30 %), aber ein wichtiges Zeichen für die Stärkung der Wissenschaft. sohub.io/aqsm

Great piece on #interoception and brain body interactions by @carlzimmer.com in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s... What an exciting time to work on this. Join us @cshlmeetings.bsky.social to learn more about the this exciting field meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

The November issue of our ECAP Journal is out now: ➡️ www.escap.eu/ecap-journal... Editorial by Christine M. Freitag: Research in child and adolescent mental Health – How does it relate to clinical research and practice in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy?

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

ESCAP practice guidance on #autism now available in Romanian: www.escap.eu/uploads/Clin... The paper is also available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish, and Bulgarian and can be accessed from our website: www.escap.eu/resources/gu... Many thanks to our authors and translaters!

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:

Was ist dran am “Vagus-Hype”? Auszüge aus meinem Gespräch mit Carolina Torres jetzt zu hören in der aktuellen Episode von Wissen Weekly “Breathwork, Vagusnerv & Eisbaden: wie beruhigen wir unser Nervensystem?” @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/w...

ERC Synergy Grant für Physiker Michael Lässig und Virologen Florian Klein!🎉🦠 Das Projekt CoEvolve wird vom Europäischen Forschungsrat für die Dauer von sechs Jahren mit rund 10,5 Millionen Euro gefördert. Mehr dazu: ➡️ uni.koeln/PGFFM #uniköln #uniklinikkoeln #ERCSyG #virologie @erc.europa.eu

(Vicarious) Paper Alert for @finnluebber.bsky.social et al. Funding schemes that run a lottery to select scientists for submission of full grant proposals can counteract gender bias and reduce societal monetary costs of research funding. Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper and research on a #taVNS #MRI setup has now been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @nbkroemer.bsky.social @glassybrain.bsky.social

📌 PhD positions in Precision and Personalized Medicine at Danube Private University! ▶️ Proud to be involved as one of the PhD supervisors that can be selected by prospective applicants! 🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/danube... 🌐 #DHPSP #ScienceCommunication #PublicHealth

A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...