New paper out in NYAS! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝 w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social (thread below)

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

✨ Exciting news for our upcoming S4SN Lisbon meeting! ✨ Join us from September 23-26 for a dynamic program filled with inspiring talks, poster presentations, and networking opportunities. Get ready to connect, learn, and share ideas in the beautiful city of Lisbon! The program is out 😍

Major news! Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation: Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al Thread 👇 osf.io/preprints/os...

New in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and @mael-lebreton.bsky.social We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits. The result? Not really. A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Its a long weekend here in Canada, which seems appropriate to mourn our recent @npp-journal.bsky.social paper, in which we find that FAAH inhibition does NOT improve symptoms in PTSD🙁 A heroic effort w/ @cannabrain.bsky.social @connorhaggarty.bsky.social @ryanntansey.bsky.social & many more 🧵⬇️

Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠 ‼️ Deadline: May 18th

still a couple of days left to apply!

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic @scanunit.bsky.social and do cool research on prosocial behavior 🤝🧠 Apply or share widely!

3-year postdoc position (100% fte, TVL-E13) in human fMRI and psychopharmacology at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoc position in the Comparative Psychology research group

Out in Biological Psychiatry "Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown" www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

🎉New paper out in Royal Society Open Science!🎉 Our lab member Raimund Buehler has just published his second ever, first-author paper! 📄 Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #AutismResearch #Neuroscience

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

A little bby from my PhD is published! we did a complex study to answer a simple Q: do day-to-day feelings impact choices? A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater. open access link: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection! We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis) It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #neuroscience

New preprint from my postdoc work @scanunit.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... “Avoiding pain to others motivates effortful prosocial behavior reducing prosocial apathy” w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social

The first @pact-lab.bsky.social paper of 2025 is out now in @npp-journal.bsky.social 🤩 Led by @madeleinejones.bsky.social & @connorhaggarty.bsky.social ft. @abby-lunge.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social & others www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Negative affectivity drivers of impulsivity in opioid use disorder Review by Jasmin Vassileva, Elena Psederska & James M. Bjork Web: go.nature.com/40hYoG5 PDF: rdcu.be/d6CGB #psychology #psychscisky #addictionsci

The @pact-lab.bsky.social is hiring 🤩 We're looking for a nurse to support our psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy clinical trials for alcohol use disorder (ongoing) and concussion (upcoming) at UCalgary 🍄 More info here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1547185...

We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇

Closing the year with a new paper from my research visit at Quednow's lab @UZH ✨ We examined associations between cumulative hair #testosterone & #cortisol and social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults w/ @lydiafjf.bsky.social and many others

We created a starter pack for all current and former members of the SCAN unit @univie.ac.at Topics: social, cognitive, affective, and environmental neuroscience and psychology 🧠🤗 Follow us for updates on our research! bsky.app/start/did:pl...

Congratulations to @magdalenaboch.bsky.social for receiveing the L’oreal award! 👏👏👏 So well-deserved!