Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

Have you read last month's short story yet? 🐬

New podcast where @ulrikebingel.bsky.social talks about the power of the placebo effect! 🤯 What happens when not only active ingredients, but also expectations, rituals and trust have an effect? Why can colour, price and even the doctor's attitude determine the effect of a medicine?

Thank you BBC Radio Sussex for inviting me to share my thoughts about the legendary Jane Goodall this morning - you can listen at 11:09 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It was a pleasure to talk on the APA „Speaking of Psychology“ podcast about handedness and brain asymmetries: Lefties, righties and mixed-handers: The psychology of brain asymmetry www.apa.org/news/podcast...

Even the earth has hemispheric asymmetries! Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit. 📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) #OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky [1/3]

Charting structural brain asymmetry across the human lifespan By Dorfschmidt et al at bioRxiV www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Left-Handedness and the Brain: Wired Differently? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

The Left-Hander Advantage in Sports: New Scientific Insights | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

“This is an immensely exciting development for the Huntington’s field.” https://scim.ag/4nnW62z

🚨 Less than 1 week to apply! Save your spot for this year's @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social Young Scientist Retreat here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra #YSR2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists

Here is a link to my book review of „The invisible hand: Neurocognitive mechanisms of human hand function“ by @mattlongo.bsky.social in @tandfresearch.bsky.social Laterality - it is a great book, you should read it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

6 Rules for a Perfect Hug, According to Science | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions! Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response! doi.org/10.1111/psyp... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

New @maxplanck.de study: We looked for left-right differences of gene expression and cell-type abundances in the brains of MICE 🐭using Xenium @10xgenomics.bsky.social. Possible clues to how functional brain asymmetry is supported !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Short thread below ⬇️

Damit die Angst vor Spinnen nicht das Leben bestimmt, entwickeln Psycholog*innen effiziente und nachhaltige Trainingsprogramme. Sie suchen Erwachsene mit Spinnenangst, die kostenlos an einem eintägigen Einzel- oder Gruppentraining teilnehmen möchten. news.rub.de/wissenschaft...

🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍 📅 October 21–24, 2025 👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form) If this does not work, feel free to write [email protected] Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟 ⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists (more below)

New paper in @springernature.com Journal of Nonverbal Behavior: Three-Dimensional Movement Analysis of Hugging in Romantic Couples and Platonic Friends Using Markerless Motion Capture link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New blog post on @psychologytoday.com What Differentiates Romantic and Platonic Hugs | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

New blog post on @psychologytoday.com 4 Types of Ghosting That Have Nothing to Do with Dating | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

New blog post at @psychologytoday.com Better Together: Friendly Companionship Increases Happiness | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Thanks so much to everybody who already supported the project on @ko-fi.com! 💙 For anybody who would like to help support running costs, you can donate here starting from 1 Euro: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi... It's also possible to order fancy stickers here: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...

If you are interested in using functional neuroimaging and neuromodulation to improve key symptoms of depression, we are still looking for PhD students: Official ad (in German, B2 level or better is required): karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...

🚨 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...

New blog post @psychologytoday.com Meeting Partners Online Linked to Less Loving Relationships | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

📢 Save the Date! Our next IGOR Hackathon is happening Friday, October 10th (9:00–15:00) Join us to: 🚀 Get to know ongoing IGOR projects 💡 Brainstorm new project ideas 🧠♻️ Engage in discussions on open and reproducible science in biopsychology Stay tuned, the detailed program will be shared soon!

New blog post: Ghosting vs. Rejection: Which Is Worse? | @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Submit your work until August 15, 2025, and join me!

Exciting paper on genetic influences on speech fluency, out now in @natgenet.nature.com. In a big step forward for the field, genome scans of almost 100,000 people with self-reported stuttering, & 1 million controls, identify 57 associated loci. Great work by @piperbelow.bsky.social & her team.🗣️🧬🧪

New blog post: How Mental Disorders Run in Families: New Insights | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

We also had the Posterblitz session 🎤 at our #PuG2025, where the following researchers presented their work: @danschfbg.bsky.social, @cstier.bsky.social, @gaertneranne.bsky.social, Anna-Lena Tebbe, Paula Lea Usemann, Hilmar Zech, Nils Wehner, and Emely Voltz 🥳👏

Heutiges Thema der Biopsychologie Vorlesung: Lateralität und Sprache 🧠 Perfektes Timing, dass diese Meldung über eine Studie mit @ocklenburg.bsky.social gestern veröffentlicht wurde ⏱️

If you are at SMHS in Hamburg come and have a look at our amazing symposium on heat and health about to start at 8am!

Post #PuG2025 blues? No worries, we got you covered! Let's celebrate the poster award winners from last weeks conference, one awardee per day 🧵

Katzen schlafen bevorzugt auf der linken Schulter. Das haben Onur Güntürkün von der RUB und ‪@ocklenburg.bsky.social‬ mit internationalen Kolleg*innen herausgefunden. Sie vermuten, dass dieses Verhalten die Überlebenschancen der Tiere steigert. #CatContent Mehr Infos: 👉 news.rub.de/wissenschaft...

The deadline for our art competition is TOMORROW. Send in your contribultions soon! hahn-institute.de/en/artifact

Cats Prefer to Sleep on Their Left Side! 😻🐈 news.rub.de/english/pres... @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @currentbiology.bsky.social Thanks to everyone for this nice collaboration! 🤝 @ocklenburg.bsky.social @nadbab27.bsky.social @reinhardtpr.bsky.social @ysdemirbas.bsky.social #CatScience #Laterality

NEW PAPER! 🐈 Why do cats prefer sleeping on their left side? Our new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social suggests it may give their right hemisphere (specialized for threat detection) a better view, even during awakening!🧠 cell.com/current-biolog… @ocklenburg.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

🚨 Registration Deadline Extended! 🚨 Only a few weeks left! The #CogEvo2025 registration deadline has been extended to June 16! Spots are still filling quickly — don’t miss your chance to join us. Secure your place now: event.unitn.it/cogevo/ @cimecunitrento.bsky.social @orsolars.bsky.social

We are happy to announce that the DGPA is now a member of @germanrepro.bsky.social after signing the Memorandum of Understanding last week. We look forward to a fruitful and successful collaboration in support of open and reproducible science!

Best souvenir from @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social #PuG2025 ? Clearly the @igor-dgps.bsky.social tote bag I brought back to Hamburg!

A wonderful conference at the Galapagos organized by Kostya Anokhin, with several esteemed colleagues @anilseth.bsky.social‬ ‪@larschittka.bsky.social‬ @martingiurfa.bsky.social‬ and several others I talked of some of the topics covered in my book "The Origins of Consciousness"

I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social! Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 🦵 off with the preparations! More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!

And #PuG2025 is a wrap! I went to my first @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social conference in the mid-2000s to present my Master thesis project on left-right confusion and all these years later I’m still going.

Need some reading material for the way back home from @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social in Würzburg? Have a look at my blog „The Asymmetric Brain“ 🧠 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

PuG Band is back 🤘 #pug2025