In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden! www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

For the laminauts. @layerfmri.bsky.social

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Tenure-track job in audiology at Western's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, in beautiful Ontario, Canada -- work with a great team, benefit from all the resources that a large research-intensive uni can supply -- and enjoy amazing quality of life!

Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. New book by @falkhuettig.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Big congratulations @estherkuehn.bsky.social‬ and team!!

How do speaker priors shape speech perception? Meet @fabianschneider.bsky.social @ #CCN2025! For a sneak peek at our new findings, see below👇

Fascinating sounding preprint by @fabianschneider.bsky.social and @helenblank.bsky.social on the role of predictions along the speech perception processing hierarchy. #neuroskyence

🚨Great work led by @esterner.bsky.social showing that individuals with higher schizotypal or autistic traits produce less stable semantic predictions over time, potentially showing the impact of exaggerated belief updating! Was a fun project und a fantastic team 🤩

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

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Are you a specialist in the physics behind MRI and want to work at THINK @ruhr-uni-bochum.de? Apply: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4... Thanks for sharing with potential candidates!🧠🙏

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org

🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium "Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research" 🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00 📍 0.004 @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social [3/6]

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749 - with implications for both neuroscience & AI! First in a series - stay tuned!

Patients' treatment expectations may crucially affect their treatment outcomes.☝️ Our new piece in "@jama.com Insights" explores how to help patients have a better experience and better outcomes with their treatments! 🤕 Read it here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Chancengleichheit von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern hat die DFG als Ziel in ihrer Satzung verankert. Mit dem Monitoring stellen wir jährlich Statistiken bereit, die den Frauenanteil bei Antragstellung und -erfolg, Begutachtungen und DFG-Gremien abbilden. 1/2 www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

New paper from the lab!! We add to the (lack of) evidence for expectation effects in carefully-controlled predictive cueing designs. doi.org/10.1111/psyp... Led by Carla den Ouden and Máire Kashyap, collaborating with Morgan Kikkawa

One of this week's talks announced by the Center for Mind & Cognition: 📅May 28, 2025, 6pm CET: Karola Marky (Computer Science, Digital Sovereignty Lab, RUB): An Introduction Into Information Privacy #computerscience #privacy #RuhrUniBochum

#Evolution of #language revisited: Long arcuate fascicle was found in #chimpanzees using high-resolution diffusion MRI #tractography of animals that died naturally in the jungle. Now in Nature Comm: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ybecker.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Super interesting work with a computational model of how auditory hallucinations may arise: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #neuroscience #compneuro

Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: buff.ly/wGQWNqs Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬

still a couple of days left to apply!

To protect an individual's #privacy, facial features are removed before data-sharing of human #neuroimaging data. @oesteban.bsky.social &co show that this procedure affects the quality ratings given by human raters but not automated image quality metrics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Gtr3lo

JOB ALERT💡We (franziskaknolle.com 🇩🇪 and www.derosierelab.com 🇫🇷) are looking for a PhD student to investigate apathy in schizophrenia using computational modelling, imaging and novel subcortical non-invasive stimulation (tTIS). The project is funded by cofund-archifun.univ-lyon1.fr PM for more info🧠

Spoiler alert: yes! And that’s super cool

Registration for GEM 2025 closes soon (30.04.25). Don't forget to register at www.conftool.net/gem2025 and to check out our program at www.conftool.net/gem2025/sess... While you are in Bochum you can check out some of the city's street art. @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #gem2025 #episodicmemory

Proud Doktormutter-Moment: :) Many congratulations, Dr Garlichs! 🎉 You will be missed — not just by our group, but by the entire institute @isnlab.bsky.social ! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! You can be proud of your great work (I am) 👇

New from our predictive coding study: hollow mask illusion is weaker in schizophrenia and non-clinical voice hearers. Trend towards positive correlation between top-down effects and psychosis - not a simple story, but intriguing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]

A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

How do we flexibly categorize objects under changing task requirements? Our new paper in Nature Communications (@serences.bsky.social & @nuttidanuttida.bsky.social) examines this: www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵👇

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Viktor Pfaffenrot, David G. Norris, et al: Characterizing BOLD activation patterns in the human hippocampus with laminar fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

The GEM 2025 program is out and there are a few days left to register. Join us in Bochum from 2nd to 4th June for an excellent line up of talks on episodic memory. www.conftool.net/gem2025/sess... Registration deadline: 30.04.2025 (sharing with you some lovely photographs of Bochum)

Delighted to share paper number three from Annika’s PhD: STAR Protocol to study how expectations guide predictive eye movements and information sampling in humans 👀 doi.org/10.1016/j.xp... star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4134

🗓️ **CCN25 deadline reminder**: 2-page extended abstract submissions are due this Thursday (April 10th). We recommend drafting submissions in OpenReview (openreview.net/group?id=ccn...) well in advance. OpenReview drafts remain editable until the deadline.

Happy to share a new perspective on Loneliness and social conformity: A predictive processing perspective led by Naem Haihambo & Dirk Scheele & his team @ruhr-uni-bochum.de nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Join us on site and if to far away from Cologne online!

Job Alerts: We are looking for a PhD and a postdoc to work on predictive cognition! 👇 Join us in THINK! 🧠 Please, get in touch! Many thanks for sharing! 🙏 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Boycott everything Elon: Tesla, Neuralink, X, etc! betakit.com/its-done-its...

Just a few more days left to apply! Deadline is this Friday, 7 March. #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who is joining us at this year's SIPS conference in Krakow? 🌈 Website: sips2025.eu We are again organising an ECR summer school prior to the conference and you can still register until 1.3. at sips2025.eu/preconferenc... You can also submit a science slam (submission will again open March 1st)! 🤩

Registration for #PuG2025 in Würzburg is open, with early bird pricing available until April 30th 2025! www.pug2025.org/de/register

Wer von Wissenschaft „Neutralität“ verlangt, verfolgt damit oft selbst 1 politische Agenda. Als Wissenschaftler_in unsere Demokratie zur Disposition stellen, um falschem Neutralitätsideal zu entsprechen, IST politisch — & gefährlich. #LauteWissenschaft Danke @annetteless.bsky.social fürs Gespräch!