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Woop woop 🎉 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted in Imaging Neuroscience! Can ventral striatal reward signals — originating from deep within the brain — be reconstructed from scalp EEG? We tried to answer this question using deep learning. More soon 👀 Stay tuned.

On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, this article hit me: more children are drawing scientists as women than ever before. Yay! 🎉 🤔 But still only ~30%. Progress, yes. Equality, not yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

@cbsopenscience.bsky.social great opportunity to connect over open science in Leipzig coming up!

If oscillations are modulated in amplitude from trial to trial, and those oscillations have a non-zero mean, they "create" an evoked response. It is a baseline-shift mechanism for ERP/ERF generation. Here is a simulated example of how alpha oscillations may generate readiness potential. #brainmovies

I have been trying to simulate event-related alpha amplitude decrease with the Jansen-Rit model. Turns out adding external inhibitory input abolishes alpha. Pretty obvious. But how does it agree with more alpha = more inhibition? #brainmovies

Heute noch Thema Vereinbarkeit (Familie & Beruf). Das ist mir auch deshalb wichtig, weil ich selbst als Doktorandin so gut wie keine Professorinnen mit Kind(ern) als Vorbild hatte, mir das aber gewünscht hätte. Meine Karriere sieht auf dem Papier jetzt wie ein "Vorzeigemodell" für Vereinbarkeit aus.

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!

Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share! Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!

Is overeating driven by hedonism? @danasmall.bsky.social &co argue that the pleasure of eating food is not a driver of the #obesity epidemic, but rather the regular consumption of an unhealthy diet blunts sensitivity to interoceptive signals that drive food reward #neurosky 🧪 plos.io/4nTlHQc

Wer in der Wissenschaft als exzellent gelten will, muss sichtbar sein. Nur: Frauen werden für Sichtbarkeit abgestraft. Sie können es schlicht nicht richtig machen! Kein Wunder, dass Gleichstellung im dt. Wissenschaftssystem schleppend vorangeht. Das #Sichtbarkeitsparadox: heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Big shake-up for dopamine theory? This new @NatureComms paper argues that VTA dopamine isn’t signaling reward prediction error but instead modulates force and performance. If true, it decouples learning from motivation and puts pressure on decades of RPE-based models. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh from the press 🍃 In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Functional connectivity (FC) is driven by 1/f. The approach: compute FC as usual, compute FC only with ROI where oscillations are 'present', then compare. Alpha lives, but not other bands. Idk, seems overstated. If beta comes in bursts: no peak, but could be FC doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1041-25.2025

We are looking for “Data Scientist or ML/AI expert” who will work at the cutting edge of data science and neuromaging in a collaboration between @mpicbs.bsky.social and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF). Deadline: 10th Nov. 2025. Apply here:

Published now (after long last & 10 citations). Although tVNS does not alter food reward ratings in healthy people, it acutely improved liking ratings in patients with MDD (also correlated with anhedonia). #neuroskyence 🩺 Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Throwback 🧪 REVIEW | Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis @elizschneider.bsky.social‬ ‪@jfcryan.bsky.social#Throwbacket al

🧠 Join Our Team! 🧠 2 PhD candidates and 1 Study Nurse positions ope as part of our new RCT within the LeiCeM Excellence Cluster. - PhD (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/35e5tbhy - PhD within the IMPRIS-CONI (deadline:02/11): tinyurl.com/y9yt4akf - Study Nurse (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/4zztjmj9

I read books on various topics. This time, I picked up a book that I thought would be about cognitive science, but turned out to be political. Still, the central argument applies to the lives of every scientist. “The Bias That Divides Us” by Keith E. Stanovich www.alinastudenova.com/home/blog/bo...

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉. @willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data meegsim.readthedocs.io I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!) #brainmovies

In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

What drives how much we eat? A new paper from Dr. Barbara Rolls et al. highlights “The Big Three” food properties that shape consumption: 1️⃣ Portion Size 2️⃣ Energy Density 3️⃣ Variety See: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey Everyone! Before we kick off our review of the #SSIB special issue review we wanted to make sure that we connected with as many members as possible. Please help us by sharing this post and tagging anyone who is or should be a member of #SSIB!

Love it! Especially the boundaries part... not sure I agree with the “I won’t open my laptop until the kids are in bed” part though... probably you shouldn’t open your laptop after the kids are in bed at all — there needs to be some space for “me-time” as well.

If you're contemplating new study to start, Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart, And you search for clear analytical steps, That give you a good estimation of HEPs. This review uncovered how most people act, When they heart reaction from data extract.

Join us !!! obrainlab.com/our-symposiu...

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

NEW PREPRINT Explainable AI refers to an extremely popular group of approaches that aim to open "black box" AI models. But what can we see when we open the black AI box? We use Galit Shmueli's framework (to describe, predict or explain) to evaluate arxiv.org/abs/2508.05753

🧵 Beautiful new preprint by @marishishi.bsky.social on the genetic architecture of impulsivity. With the UCSD team of Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Abe Palmer et al. and Lang Liu, Ziv Gan-Or @ukuvainik.bsky.social @filipkmorys.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social and others www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you sure that your Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) effect is real? In our new paper, we show that task-evoked activity can overlap with HEPs, creating false positive effects - unless you correct for it.

ARTE released a nice trailer for the upcoming documentary on the vagus nerve, which will cover our ongoing work on gut-brain interactions. It also features @neurometabolic.bsky.social, so I am sure it will be worth watching 👀 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

New paper! In ~30k people from UKBB we show that ultra-processed food consumption 🍔 is associated with structural integrity of feeding-related brain regions (Hpth/NAcc) 🧠 Some of the changes occur independent of obesity, through inflammation. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @alaindagher.bsky.social

nice review on "The neurobiology of overeating". This new @NeuroCellPress review unpacks the circuits of hunger, reward & overeating—and how GLP-1 fits into the puzzle. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Hier nochmal der Link dazu: www.3sat.de/wissen/scobe...

The Gender Equality Plan @mpicbs.bsky.social is finally presented! It was a pleasure and empowering team effort to draft it with Anahit Babayan, @ndherzog.bsky.social and @braincox.bsky.social. Thanks also to current EO Officer Karina Naethe (shorturl.at/VbNda) for sharing the stage with me! 🔥💜 1/3

@liobaenk.bsky.social delivered a super relevant Special Talk at #MindBrainBody Symposium on how to improve our citation practices towards more diversity and representativeness 🫂 with some pilot data on citation practices from recent papers of @mpicbs.bsky.social #MBBS25

@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @unileipzig.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #DietAndHealth #HealthyAging #Prevention #Dementia

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Simon M. Hofmann, Frauke Beyer, et al: The utility of explainable AI for MRI analysis: Relating model predictions to neuroimaging features of the aging brain doi.org/10.1162/imag...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Can we use macronutrients to understand altered food reward in depression? Our new preprint shows that patients with MDD report lower wanting & liking for foods rich in fat or protein (vs. carbs). #neuroscience 🩺 W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nadine Herzog, Annette Horstmann, et al: Balancing excitation and inhibition: The role of neural network dynamics in working memory gating doi.org/10.1162/imag...

“The problem is that we’ve allowed society, insurance companies [...] to decide that obesity is just too much fat, which is an oversimplification.” Julia Belluz about the complexity of defining obesity as a disease and the implications of treatments like Ozempic. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/o...