Sehr wichtiges Video eines Russen darüber, wie Propaganda in Wirklichkeit funktioniert. Hört euch mal die 10 Minuten an (englisch) und dann lauscht aufmerksam in euch hinein. Wir sind mitten drin.

„Doppelblindstudie mit bildgebenden Verfahren“ ja was denn nun 😡😡😡

I have an early Christmas present for you! 🎅 Happy to announce that we have three excellent keynote speakers at Psychology and Brain 2026 in Heidleberg! Professors Shamay-Tsoory, Schönauer and Allen will cover topics from empathy over memory to interoception! pug2026.org

Mind blown! Did you know about EMERGE, this amazing resource on self-report scales? All items listed and psychometric properties assessed, in ONE place & user friendly to boot emerge.ucsd.edu/emerge-searc...

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

Lab meetings in Max Planck institutes

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This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉 Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

Finally some good news 🧀

Last preprint 🎶(of the year). If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online! Open access link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social #neuroskyence

💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get” 🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41... What ideas would you add? 💡 #HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM

We discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead (via WSJ)

I’m very delighted to share the great news that we will present on this year’s #NeurIPS 2025 workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps). openreview.net/forum?id=fu0... (1/x)

Details: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de! Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster

'Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling' New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🔽

Kudos! The biggest German political podcast @lagedernation.org recently featured endometriosis, women's health & the gender health/data gap lagedernation.org/podcast/ldn4... WDYT @cogneuroend.bsky.social @kimhoffmann.bsky.social @liviaruehr.bsky.social @nifti12.bsky.social @emilybmay.bsky.social ?

** 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)

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

It’s getting serious! 🚀😊 Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social #vrcademicsky #vrresearch Stay tuned!

Preparing for launch 🚀 👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.

New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence

🧪🍎📃 Vitamin B12 is a rather unique vitamin. Only certain bacteria and archaea can make it, not plants or animals. Animals require B12 and can obtain and store it, which is why meat and fish are well-known sources for humans. But what about non-animal foods? Can they provide any B12 at all?🧵⤵️

Symposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

The Mind Body Emotion group has arrived at the Society for Psychophysiological Research #SPR2025 in Montréal 🧠 Open below 👇 for presentations from our group members today @therealspr.bsky.social

@toninfrc.bsky.social will present a talk titled “Studying Dynamics and Physiology of Affective States in Immersive Virtual Reality” 🕶️🧠🫀🫁 📣 Symposium 1.1 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 08:45-10:15 📍Montréal D, 11th floor See you in a few minutes for an excitingly immersive symposium!

@martager.bsky.social will present a poster titled “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 🫀🫁🧠🫳🏻 📣 Poster Session 2 - POS085-2 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor Come have a chat!

folks, the single best thing to do when cooking pasta is to finish it properly, namely, in a pan over heat with a bit of starchy pasta water motion + heat + starch have a magical effect on the texture of the dish. this levels up even the most mundane pasta (even jarred sauces!) watch max:

Nice things for the **13th #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026** happening under the hood 😊 Save the date: 📆 March 9-11, 2026 (Berlin and virtual) Stay tuned for the call and announcement! (For info about the last 12 MBBSymposia: mindbrainbody.de) #interoception #neuroskyence

Happy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de

🔗 You can check out the preregistration and poster PDF here: osf.io/5ynzv/wiki?w... Stay tuned, pre-print out 🔜

Excited to present my poster at #SPR2025 and share our BBSIG pipelines “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 📣 POS085-2 🗓️ Oct 16, 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor @mbe-lab.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

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

Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...

When I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw

With an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc

Stats on #bodybrain #neuroskyence data can become non-trivial pretty quickly: Anything beyond t-tests on 'systole vs diastole' or 'insp vs exp' will include some form of phase binning, so we need adequate surrogates for robust permutation stats. Plus, these are not available for circular data.

Our Würtual Reality Conference is underway!🙌👓🤩 @isabelneumann.bsky.social @sabrinagado.bsky.social

#wuertual25 just started! Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀

Wuertual Reality in Würzburg is starting with some historic photos from what can be considered the cradle of #VR research in Germany Very much looking forward to the next 3 days! #wuertual25 #XR

Our Dagstuhl Seminar with @panxueni.bsky.social, @vrneuroscience.bsky.social and @pedrolopes.org is now official! Invites will be sent next week by the admins, but stay tuned for the outcomes next July! www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...

Der Brief und die Möglichkeit zur Unterschrift sind unter folgendem Link zu finden: chng.it/VhcP5tDBBY

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience. mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...