and of we go #escan2026 in Roma, la città eterna - with our preconference on bridging the gap(s) from basic research in social neuro to real-life impact

Happy New Year to everyone. I am forever grateful for another amazing year with my wonderful mentees and collaborators at and beyond the SCAN Unit. And I look forward to many more good moments in 2026. But my biggest wish is the return of peace and some sort of sanity. I try to be optimistic

✨My first first-author paper is out✨ Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2 Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social

Another highlight in my mentoring career- tinyurl.com/lukelikely 's stellar defense; Lukas provided plenty of evidence to radically update our priors and call him DOKTA Luke from now on. Shout-out also to great co-supervisors @predragpetrovic.bsky.social & Isa Wagner & all @scanunit.bsky.social

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎 Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨A new multi-lab study with contributions from our head @clauslamm.bsky.social & others in our group got published in Nature Climate Change 🎉 It's about how support for climate change policies is shaped by extreme weather events: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2 ‪

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

“In the past 48 hrs, we have seen Putin conform to his very worst instincts and unleash large-scale missile & drone attacks on Ukrainian cities.” Overall, attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine are up in the past 4 months New from @warinthefuture.bsky.social mickryan.substack.com/p/kyiv-burns...

BALLISTIC MISSILES HEADED TO KYIV AGAIN FUCK FUCK

Choose to walk 🚶‍♂️ or cycle 🚲 whenever possible. It can help improve: ♥️ your heart, 😇 your mind, 🌏 and the planet. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/43eExcc #RoadSafety #BeActive

Die Informatikerin @laurakoesten.bsky.social erforscht, wie Menschen #Daten am besten visuell begreifen können. Ihr Ziel ist es, komplexe Informationen so aufzubereiten, dass sie intuitiv verständlich werden – und die unsichtbaren Barrieren aufzudecken, die diesem Verständnis im Weg stehen. Mehr: 🎧⤵️

Psyched & honored to deliver 1st keynote on this virtual free event on the neurobiology of empathy organized by NAS USA tinyurl.com/empNAS join me & stellar speakers e.g. @moeneuro.bsky.social @valeriagazzola.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @torwager.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social

Join me, @clauslamm.bsky.social @valeriagazzola.bsky.social and many others For a @nationalacademies.org virtual workshop on May 19 and 21 on the biological mechanisms behind empathy and compassion. Register here: events.nationalacademies.org/44350_05-202...

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

It’s amazing how hardly anyone knows that fossil fuel power kills 35 times more birds than wind turbines. I rarely hear anyone talk about that! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Wow, Donald Trump you really had the war over within 24 hours. F Putin and Trump

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

“Scientists reject the idea that race is biologically real. The claim that race is a “biological reality” cuts against modern scientific knowledge” theconversation.com/race-isnt-a-...

Just another example of the genius level of the 47 administration. And yes, Rubio is the brainiac of the bunch. #DemVoice1

Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!

This is why people hate Washington. The President is bragging about his buddies' investments while people see their retirements go down the drain.

spot on op-ed on hipocritic big tech and science awards: "Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy" www.scientificamerican.com/article/dear...

🚨NEW PAPER OUT🚨 Climate action helps mitigate climate change ♻️ Climate change harms the brain 🔥🌎🧠 Can climate action promote brain health? 🤔 We review in: Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health OA: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... 👇 thread.

Most people might not realize this, but climate change isn’t just bad for the planet — it’s bad for your brain. • Worse mental health • Increased chance of cognitive decline • Higher risk of neurological disorders But here's the twist...

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Wir sind überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werden unseren Teil dazu beitragen. Wir leben und forschen gern in Wien!2/2 @clauslamm.bsky.social

In SCAN-Unit, wir untersuchen die neuronalen Grundlagen von Empathie, Altruismus, und umweltbewusstem Verhalten. Unser Ziel ist, diese Phänomene besser zu verstehen, um sie damit gesellschaftlich breit und besser fördern zu können. 1/2 #IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien

Wir haben ein neues Sharepic :-) @friedrichbohn.bsky.social macht aber sicherlich auch noch gerne Sharepics für 10.000, ... 🙂 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Russia attacked a hospital in Kharkiv region with drones last night, and repeatedly targeted rescuers. A 33-year-old employee of the emergency crew was wounded. The explosion caused the roof of the building to catch fire, the flames spread over 1,500 square meters.

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

We will be joining with our own march from Vienna, Austria

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

very nice end of year summary. thanks for sharing your impressive achievements - especially the plants are a major challenge :D

A scientist new to Bluesky? @steveharoz.com and @markrubin.bsky.social have put together some great resources to get you started!

🚨Join our team! We’re hiring a PhD student in Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience 🧠 🎓 at @uni_wue & @UKW_Wuerzburg! Explore mechanisms of decision-making in healthy people & Parkinson’s using new deep brain stimulation methods. German & English required. Apply by 20 Dec! 🌟🎄 Details: shorturl.at/IcNa0

🔥🔥🔥 Absichtlich Eskalation statt Dialog?! Warum das? 💡💡💡 Weil es Aufmerksamkeit bringt, von komplexeren Themen ablenkt und eine „Wir-gegen-die“-Mentalität befeuert. Populismus lebt davon. Fall nicht drauf rein! #btw2025

Incredibly proud of @magdalenaboch.bsky.social for receiving the L'Oréal www.forwomeninscience.com award. The world needs Science, and Science needs Women. More women like Lena I'd add :) @univie.ac.at @scanunit.bsky.social

Honored&humbled to receive APS 2024 Mentor Award. didn't pick it up in person at @psychscience.bsky.social because I don't fly for 'business' anymore -> noflyclimatesci.org I look 4wd to the APS Global Psychological Science virtual summit in the fall. 🫶 to all my mentees & @robert_bohm for the pic

Nice to start the year with our recent Trends in Cognitive Sciences review featured on the main University College London news site: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/ja...

Apply for a PhD position in my lab! Please share🔁: 3-4 years of funding, working on neuroimaging, cognitive testing, apps and endocrine mediators; check out our 🎄 xmas greetings to get to know us better: www.instagram.com/stories/high... apply here: www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/de/jobs-und-...

In case someone hasn't realized it yet from this list: the people @ScanUnit are the coolest, kindest, and smartest collaborators I could ever have wished for :) Thanks so much for letting me live my dream - do great science, satisfy my curiosity, and having fun w/ others doing it

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Awesome collaboration - "from mice to men" (kind of) on the amygdala. Finally convinced by @sweetneuron.bsky.social his favorite area, the amygdala, may be more interesting than mine, the (anterior) insular cortex :) Curious to hear and read how the views we propose resonate with our peers

www.nature.com/articles/s41... folks, we're doomed. when we take into account realistic physiological contexts + empirical data, the impact of climate change on deaths caused by heat stroke will be quite a lot higher than previously expected based on barefoot models. happy holidays.

Immense gratitude for the "More than SCAN-Unit" (more than because u go beyond what a classical lab acronym could capture). Got most awesome b'day gift-"a mixed methods case study" about my "special" supervision style. It was published in Nurture Neuroscience ;) you all rock! 🫶 @scanunit.bsky.social

Getting ready for Xmas Party of the More than SCAN Unit (aka greatest lab on earth). This was y'day. And yes you may ask why I am up already. Because we were decent and didnt overdo it. And maybe coating the stomach by all those crisps helped prevent the worst 🤔

A letter to Social Psychologists, regarding the war, by (the vast majority of) Israeli social psychologists. We would appreciate it if you can read and share. docs.google.com/document/d/1... #SocialPsyc #PsychSciSky

This looks very helpful for choosing registered report outlets. #psychscisky

Outstanding global collaboration really happy to have contributed with samples, feedback and partly financing the key ingredient to good science: women power :) @kimdoell.bsky.social @todorova.bsky.social