Wow that’s really cool!

My first symposium talk - what a thrill! Thanks to the other speakers, the audience, and #PuG2026 for giving early career scientists the chance to present their research :) What a wonderful conference!

The science communication prize at #PuG2026 went to @books-and-brains.bsky.social , and that blog idea really looks so cool! (booknerd here!) 📚💖✨🧠 My bookclub recently read "The other black girl" by Z.D. Harris. There is some weird brain stuff going on in there, if you need recommendations! haha

Congrats to Roza for making a wonderful poster that was awarded with the poster prize at #PuG2026! 🥳👍☀️

📢 RTG is at #PUG2026! 🎉 Congrats to all! @marianboor.bsky.social @enaalcan.bsky.social Saskia Leißner @aminjahani.bsky.social @laraorphal.bsky.social @zeydsoyuk.bsky.social Franziska Usée @niau.bsky.social et al. 🎓

📄New publication from Kai Schüren et al. shows that acute stress impairs memory integration by reducing hippocampal reactivation during new learning. With Broad implications for educational, legal & clinical settings. 🔗https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A recent paper by Epp et al. in NN claimed that ~40% of reported BOLD findings could be misinterpreted. In our reanalysis, we identified several statistical issues that, in our view, undermine these conclusions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 👇 1/11

I'm happy to announce that the program of our 4th Marburg climate camp is ready :) Consider stopping by! 🌳 climateconnect.earth/de/projects/...

🚨 1/ Check out a new paper on perceptual and value-based mechanism of generalization by the amazing @luiantaverra.bsky.social ! A very very proud for moment for me - Lui is my first PhD student and this is her first paper ^^ Pls repost to spread the word :)

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇 If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :) Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share a new article published in the J of Affective Disorders: In four experiments, we systematically examined the relationship between the strength of an expectation violation and the extent of expectation change/updating, for pos vs neg information www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

🚨💫Check out our new work on perceptual and value-based mechanisms of aversive generalisation 👇 Project led by the truly outstanding @luiantaverra.bsky.social. #veryveryveryproudsupervisor Together with @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

Come join us! www.emotionalmemory.de

Social expectations in depression Review by Lukas Kirchner, Tobias Kube, Max Berg, Anna-Lena Eckert, Benjamin Straube, Dominik Endres & Winfried Rief Web: go.nature.com/41kXLO1 PDF: rdcu.be/d2yHr #psychology #psychscisky #clinpsy

I highly recommend this position. Jan is a great scientist and an amazing supervisor! + Hamburg is an excellent city to live in

Absorbing all the inspiration I got at the #EMHFC2024 Also, a huge thanks to everyone who offered their comments and ideas at my poster presentation!

In 2023 I: - moved to Hamburg where I had an amazing time learning to work with fMRI data - finished my MSc in Neuroscience and Cognition - moved to Marburg for my PhD (currently designing the first study of my PhD - exciting!) - presented a poster at a conference (NVP 2023) for the first time

An awesome keynote by @eikofried.bsky.social about the importance of using complex systems rather than a single cause description to understand depression