I was so pleased and proud to watch my 2nd year PhD students, Lisa Woodley + @holmyers.bsky.social present their work at our PGR conference yesterday. Oh, and @lucysta02475610.bsky.social submitted a grant, and @kellydonegan.bsky.social chaired the mental health session. What a day!

1/ New paper alert! Stress often builds over time, but many scientific studies treat it as just an on/off thing. In this paper, we introduce the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST): a new paradigm for inducing graded, mild-to-moderate stress in the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)

claude and have figured out how to (a) critique papers, while auto-deploying methods checklists; (b) integrate our critiques (cos we each miss stuff the other catches); and (c) provide career-stage-calibrated feedback and suggestions for improvement. perfect for stress-testing lab manuscripts.

New #OpenAccess paper in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 📄 Childhood maltreatment (CM) increases the risk for lifelong mental illness - but which biological pathways are involved here? One prominent target put forward is inflammation. But what drives proinflammatory states? A paper🧵

some big news! hBayesDM has now been fully ported to cmdstan/cmdstanr/cmdstanpy check out the PR below, or the changelog for an overview: PR: github.com/CCS-Lab/hBay... Changelog: ccs-lab.github.io/hBayesDM/new... stay tuned for some additional features coming soon, including covariate support 🤓

If you have not seen our new paper yet, check out the final publication 🍪 👇

This is us 🎈. The study was led by @corcerebrum.bsky.social and the @neuromadlab.bsky.social team.

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...

Hiring! Please share! Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers. Details & applications: www.fens.org/careers/job-... www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

🚨 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...

So exciting to see @lucysta02475610.bsky.social present the results of her mammoth, multi-year project to develop a questionnaire measuring the Negative Appraisal of Gastric Sensations (NAGS): it differentiates between people with eating disorders and gastric disorders! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

📣 Join us for the next GSRNet Flagship Webinar with Brenda Penninx, chaired by @dequervain.bsky.social Don't miss this opportunity to explore current perspectives on measuring stress in daily life! 📅 June 10, 2026 🕒 3pm CEST / 9am EDT / 6.30pm IST 🔗 gsr-net.org/workshops-we... #GSRNet #stress

📄NEW PAPER📄 Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction! w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/5

Excited to share our new Nature Methods paper on DeepCor, a contrastive autoencoder for denoising fMRI. DeepCor separates neural signal from noise at the voxel level, works for single participants, and outperforms CompCor by up to 215% on real data. 1/7 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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

New paper lead by my fab grad student Quynh Nguyen (who is on the postdoc job market btw) 🧵https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-026-10226-5?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20260408&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs11031-026-10226-5

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...

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A teaser for our upcoming preprint on the short-term test-retest reliability of diffusion basis spectrum imaging. Voxel-level reliability of hindered fraction (a proxy measure of edema) in white matter is good, particularly close to cortical gray matter. W/ @lhkal.bsky.social @akuehnel.bsky.social

I am enjoying a few uninterrupted hours of plotting today. Finally got my hands on our diffusion basis spectrum imaging data, and it looks good, particularly in white matter voxels. I hope we will have a preprint coming out in a few weeks, led by @lhkal.bsky.social & @akuehnel.bsky.social

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...

Thanks to Deanna Barch for the opportunity to write this and @akuehnel.bsky.social for her thoughts on the first draft! And check out @hugofleming.bsky.social's paper for an exciting blend of computational psychiatry & real-time metabolic monitoring: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching. #neuroskyence 🩺 Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Diese Woche berichtet @glassybrain.bsky.social u.a. vom Vagus und von vielen anderen spannenden Neuroscience Themen auf @realscientists.de ! Schaut mal vorbei 🔥

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

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

📣 Happy to share that our paper with Johan Vegelius is published! Title: “Developmental differences in reward-learning and its connection to resting-state functional connectivity modeled using a hierarchical Bayesian model” Find the full paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41478440/

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

Spent some time today playing around with the #Rstats package orchaRd 2.0 It offers a really nice way of visualizing #metaanalysis, especially moderator meta-regression models (with both categorical & continuous moderators!) #dataviz 🔗 daniel1noble.github.io/orchaRd/ 📄 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

I have an early Christmas present for you! 🎅 Happy to announce that we have three excellent keynote speakers at Psychology and Brain 2026 in Heidleberg! Professors Shamay-Tsoory, Schönauer and Allen will cover topics from empathy over memory to interoception! pug2026.org

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...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🥳 The interoception accuracy part is still my favorite 🤩 Have a look: www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

What started as a spinoff project for Madeleine's PhD became one of the most striking indications that glucose levels play an important role in regulating everyday stress responses. This shows the potential of biosensors to evaluate whether metabolism alters stress reactivity #neuroskyence 🩺

📣I’m excited to share our new preprint on how our body’s energy supply shapes everyday stress experiences: 📄𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Your stomach called – your striatum picked up! But does this actually happen in humans? Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need. Here’s what we found👇 Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3 #neuroskyence #🩺

Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...

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!

There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon! If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!

Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social

First up, this paper led by Bronagh McCoy: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... When noise and volatility are independently manipulated people behave differently depending on their anxious traits.

Happy to say that our overview of how to modify your taVNS setup for safe use in the MR scanner is now published! dx.doi.org/10.1111/jon.... There are more details in the thread below but next to lower temperatures 🌡️, we also saw better signal-to-noise ratio with the modification 📶 #neuroskyence

I am pleased to announce that our new book on "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications" is now published by @springernature.com ! A collection of 17 chapters over 325 pages on #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Philosophy #Psychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🔈 Our edited volume "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social and Bert Heinrichs, is out. url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9P5mCROAEn... #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy

📆Save the date: new lecture series [1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.

My first post into the bsky void, the first preprint of my PhD! A novel task to bridge learning and effort decision-making. Of course, we find that effort choice is sensitive to prior learning, but this integration of beliefs into action is affected by anhedonia. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📣 Excited to share that my first paper is now published! 📄"Metabolic state shapes cortisol reactivity to acute stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of metabolic and hormonal modulators" You can find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...