1/2 New #openaccess Psych Methods paper: "Identifying Careless Responding in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Inconsistent Signals From Different Detection Methods in the WARN-D Data" led by @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Exciting day. My set-theoretic reconceptualization of the DSM (w/ MDD, GAD, and PTSD as empirical examples) is out today in JPCS, along with four invited commentaries and my response. I'm biased, but I recommend all six papers. I was really jazzed by all four commentaries. 1/25

New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

Mixed methods in ESM? Still very uncommon. 💥 That should change, we think: we should go beyond numbers, and know what people mean with their numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Call for papers /w @nbkroemer.bsky.social 📢 Cutting-edge work on neuromodulation of vagal afferents in humans or animals using neurostimulation or pharmacological approaches. Robust null results very welcome! Submit by 31.10.2026 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #neuroskyence #interoception

The #SAA2026 conference programme (and presenter guidelines) is now available: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/prog...

[2] Led by Johanna Löchner: an expert consensus and recommendations on ambulatory assessment in mental health, with recommendations on 8 topics incl. methodological considerations, technological advancements & practical applications. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Job alert! 🚨 We are currently recruiting for two exciting positions as part of a large international Wellcome Trust-funded research project investigating the neural mechanisms of decision-making impairments in #schizophrenia and #OCD.

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We @saschafrolich.bsky.social @stefankiebel.bsky.social investigated how habitual- and goal-directed control interact when actions must be made under time pressure. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Won't make it to #APS26BCN but my poster did and I couldn't have asked for a more expert presenter than @clairegillan.bsky.social! Enjoy the Friday reception with a deep dive into the habitual properties of transdiagnostic compulsivity 🗝️🍽️📱 For spoilers, check out the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

and a poster from Hanna Sosliuk "Accelerating Habits: The Role of Reaction Time Improvement in Habit Expression" on Saturday at 10am!

We have a poster from @parnianrafei.bsky.social on her project "Linguistic Markers of Temporal Focus In Behaviour Change: Insights from a Smoking-Cessation Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy". Friday 11am!

Then @eikekofi.bsky.social has a talk on Saturday at 4pm on A Neural Decoding Approach to Understand Habit Formation

On my way to #APS conference #aps26bcn for the FIRST TIME EVER! Here's a few things the lab are presenting. I have a talk on Friday: "Mapping Extreme Deviations In Cognition to Transdiagnostic Compulsivity: A Normative Modelling Approach" with work from @alicemcox.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨 We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper in Nature Mental Health: www.nature.com/articles/s44... After decades of seeing limited progress in depression research despite enormous scientific effort, we started asking a more fundamental question:

How can 🍪 help us understand anhedonia? What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med 🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

Excited to share our new paper asking a simple question: Why do mental and metabolic health so often go hand in hand? We (@camillanord.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social) tested whether shared neurocognitive signatures play a role in this relationship www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪

Latest preprint from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social by @teresaberther.bsky.social and @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social on cardio-respiratory modulation of arousal and excitability states in the human brain - overlap, distinctions, and implications for brain-body #neuroskyence. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Does social media use show established neurocognitive signatures of addiction? Concerns about social media addiction are widespread, yet whether platforms' design features actually engage the same neurocognitive pathways as established addictions has remained untested. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Really pleased to share our review of evidence for the diverse roles of the #vagus in each phase of eating behaviour, and our thoughts on how dysfunctional vagal #interoception drives obesity pathogenesis. Hope it provokes some thoughts, and many experiments! 🧠📈 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Can your brain's white matter proxies of inflammation re-identify you like a fingerprint? Turns out: yes, and we used this to psychometrically evaluate diffusion basis spectrum imaging and to detect depression-related changes in the cingulate bundle. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪

New @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social preprint, and this is a big one for the lab: @teresaberther.bsky.social did the deepest of dives into #gut-brain coupling with MEG and HD gastrography. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief 🧵on our first trip into this corner of #brain-body #neuroskyence:

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SAA is offering a total of three travel scholarships of 750€ (within-continent travel) and three travel scholarships 1500€ (across continent travel) each for active participation in the #SAA2026 conference. Submit your application by 15 April. More info: ambulatory-assessment.org/call-for-app...

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10

What a brilliant commentary by @glassybrain.bsky.social on our paper- it’s been exciting to work w @hugofleming.bsky.social on how metabolic processes might influence learning computations & mental health… and as every scientist knows, validating that at least one other person is interested too ;)

In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Great perspective piece on open-ended questions in ESM data by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and colleagues that came out of this year's #MITNB meeting!

Really pleased to see this commentary from @glassybrain.bsky.social on our paper. She situates our findings within the immunometabolic depression framework and points to some cool directions for future work, including longitudinal designs and measuring insulin resistance more directly. Take a look!

Thoroughly enjoyed writing a commentary on a great paper by @hugofleming.bsky.social et al for @biologicalpsych.bsky.social:GOS, focusing on how to further explore metabolic contributions to learning and feeling using real-time data and interventional designs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#MSCA success rates now below 10%, yet the work that goes into writing this application is immense. Beyond the obvious increase in funding we need to find ways to lighten the time investment as well. Thousands of researchers spend weeks if not months working on this.

Have you been interested in any of the set theory stuff I've been doing recently? Wondered at all how you can get in on the fun? Here's an R package @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social and I built called 'setweaver.' This vignette should get you up and running. Yay :) cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

How does metabolic learning shape human behaviour? In our recent study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we found that it shapes flavour preferences but, surprisingly, not action. Thread 🧵

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Someone read this + noted a coding error to determine the 3-day mean correlations. Now updated with the new code + submitted a revision to bioRxiv. On one hand, induced a moderate shame spiral. On the other, super appreciative to see how I hope these open-science practices will work in action!

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry ! Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach. #neuroskyence

New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC! TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔 Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below...

New in Nature Neuroscience: We developed a flexible model that reveals how animals learn tasks—uncovering stages, sudden insights, and gradual improvements unique to each animal. Learning isn't monotonic, and our model captures that complexity 🐭📊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to everyone who was there! It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱 Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨