In-scanner thoughts contribute to resting-state functional connectivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42365014/ I've long thought that this is the "elephant in the room" of resting state #fMRI esp. for comparing groups. If two groups think & feel differently in the scanner, of course rsfMRI will differ!

An eventful week at Scientific American. Owner Springer Nature rushed to sell SciAm 3 days before the staff overwhelmingly voted to form a union, and laid off a lot of people. Including me. I got to work with amazing writers during my time, people who made me better. Thank-you list in comment below:

📢 New paper out in Neurobiology of Language! Using MEG, we found that the brain's responses to full sentences are strikingly similar to those elicited by single words. Our results suggest a "global-to-sequential" process: first a snapshot of structure, then left-to-right composition.

Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Pablo Rojas! He will be working with the groups of @gordonfeld.bsky.social and Georgia Koppe www.linkedin.com/posts/health...

#PuG2026 was a fantastic conference! Now you can already safely the date for #PuG2027 in Oldenburg: 6-8 May, 2027! 🧠

We invite everyone interested in habits to join our symposium on habits at #PuG2026 — today at 4 pm!

The pub quiz at the IGOR Social is about to start. Join us at O’Heerlijk pub and prove your trivia knowledge! 🏆 #PuG2026 #IGOR

Honored to be giving a keynote at Psychology and the Brain (PuG) this week in Heidelberg. Since starting the lab in 2019, we’ve had many wonderful collaborations across Germany, and I’m excited to share our work on the computational neuroscience of interoception. See you there! pug2026.org

🍻 IGOR Social 🗓️ Thu, 04.06 | 🕣 From 20:00 📍 O’Heerlijk Pub Don't be shy! Join us for a relaxed evening of chats, networking, and - following last year's success - an awesome pub quiz with prizes 🏆 Current and prospective IGOR members welcome! Contact us for more details 📩 #PuG2026 #IGOR [2/6]

A clever addition to multi-echo analysis that reduces warping from head motion. The MEDIC software is available here: github.com/vanandrew/wa...

Biopsych Community, we are ready and can‘t wait to welcome you to Heidelberg! #PUG2026

It's that time of the year: IGOR is going to #PuG2026 in Heidelberg! 🧠 Interested in open and reproducible science? Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved. 🧵 Check the thread below for all our events #PuG2026 #IGOR [1/6]

We are excited to be headed to Heidelberg for the annual bioDGPs/DGPA conference "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2026! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣 Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇 🧵[1/6]

The #PuG2026 is taking place in Heidelberg this week! We are very excited about the exceptional lineup of speakers in the symposia and poster sessions and want to draw your special attention to the #Posterblitz organised by the ERCs taking place on Friday from 2 to 3:30 PM in HS13! ⚡

There are still a few spots available for the Twelfth Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School, which will take place from 10–14 August 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. Be quick — the remaining spots will be filled on a rolling basis, so make sure to register soon!

Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!

Our paper "An analysis of functional relationships between systemic conditions and unethical behavior in German academia" has just been published in Meta-Psychology: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html #AcademicSky #compneurosky

What is the most interesting part of the brain? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Who do you review for? Should you boycott commercial publishers? Should you boycott specific publishers? Does it matter for your career? We are orgainizing a one-hour session with lightning talks and an open discussion. Join us on May 26th 12-13 CEST online. Registration at t1p.de/wdirf

Sustainable neuroscience through open science

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Inspiring work by my highly talented PhD-student Juli! Check out how she investigated the role of reward-item-associations for long-term-memory!

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Agnessa Karapetian, Radoslaw M. Cichy, et al: Investigating the temporal dynamics and modeling of mid-level feature representations in humans doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

This is why @easystats.github.io is so great!

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 PLEASE RT! 🚨 7 four-year PhD positions (75%) in DFG-funded Research Training Group “Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation” in Saarbrucken, Germany. Starting date October 01, 2026. Official job ad: tinyurl.com/3v8b4chm (1/3)

🎉 Great news: the Neuroanatomy Preconference Workshop at this year’s PuG is now fully booked! ✨ Thank you for the amazing interest. But don’t worry — there are still spots available in our equally fantastic Using VR Workshop 🥽🚀 🔗 Registration: tinyurl.com/5ck47c3u Grab your place while slots last! 🙌

Take a look at our Feature Articles for discussions on research culture, science policy and funding, careers in science, metaresearch and more. buff.ly/PGh4nIj

Are you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Rethinking how memories are retrieved

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud this work by my very smart and driven PhD student is now published. Detecting replay is hard and we still need to refine the method.

Only 6 days left to register for the early bird price. For only 90 € you get three days of networking on topics of memory and sleep.

Our latest work, on modeling the human brain responses to sight, sound and language at scale:

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

CodaNote: Collaborative Markdown/Quarto/Rmarkdown People were looking for collaborating on MD family files with knit rendering... I built this tool for CORE team, works like Google Docs. Opened it to all from internal use so everyone can use it. Feedback welcome! Try: codanote.vercel.app

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

I think it's weird when my employer asks me to donate money. 🤷‍♂️ But I usually contribute because we get "credit" for department participation and I try to be a team player. But I didn't know they would publish the AMOUNT of donations 😂

New lab paper! We built a new computational model that explains several disparate observations about the conditions that promote (or hinder) associative learning. Main finding is that different kinds of experience (blocked, interleaved) have opposing effect at high vs low memory capacity. 🧵 below!

🚨NEW PREPRINT (w/ Fleming Peck & Hongjing Lu) "Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks" We are constantly predicting what will happen next. Yet the same cue can lead to different predictions depending on context. How might this work...? 🧵1/8

Join us in Paris Sleep Day, 19th of May, a free one-day symposium dedicated to connect early-career researchers working on sleep in Paris and build a long-term local support network. Registration and submission details are available here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Hope to see you there! ✨

Congrats to all co-authors! 👏 Lara M. C. Puhlmann @alinakoppold.bsky.social @gordonfeld.bsky.social @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social Kirsten Hilger @susannevogel.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social @loukulke.bsky.social Alexander Lischke, Anett Müller-Alcazar ...