@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social reports a recent experiment on how human foraging behavior is shaped by the spatial distribution of reward and threat gradients (Poster Session 1, #436)

@em1ly-zoe-burlon.bsky.social shows the results of a recent study on how perceived trustworthiness affects choice and gaze behavior in a social decision task (Poster Session 1, #352)

What better way to start #PuG2026 than with a hands-on Neuroanatomy Workshop by Prof. Joachim Kirsch and Prof. Beate Ditzen 🧠

Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!

Hey #VSS2026 folks 👋 I’ll be presenting our recent work together with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @visualattentionlab.bsky.social today: “Spatial Gradients of Reward and Threat Interact to Guide Human Foraging Patterns.” Come by poster #56.460 ✨ 📍 Where: Pavilion ⏰ When: 2:45–6:45

Check out our #VSS2026 schedule! @vssmtg.bsky.social

Thanks to this beautiful group I have my very first marathon medal 🏅 #relaymarathon #UniWue

On my way to #VSS2026 ✈️ See you in St. Pete Beach after a 10.5-hour flight, from rainy 9°C Frankfurt to sunny 30°C Tampa 😅 @vssmtg.bsky.social

I led a roundtable discussion today at #EMHFC2026 on “power abuse in academia” and keep coming back to this: How much of what we accept as “normal” is actually misuse of power?

Huge applause to @francescotortora.bsky.social for presenting our study “Gradual Extinction via US Intensity Reduction: a Translational Test of Fear Memory Updating in Humans” at #EMHFC2026 👏 Great teamwork, exciting study and results!

Kicking off this year’s conference season at #EMHFC2026 with the best conference gift ever! #thessaloniki

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

Today we are celebrating the achievements and endeavours of women and girls in science. Recognised or not, their work has been essential to scientific progress. Often ground breaking, sometimes overlooked, but always impactful. #WomenInSTEM #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

It was a fantastic workshop with a great instructor! I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to use Git for their research!

Already missing this office…Had a great time during my short-term research visit @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and in Boston. @bwhpsychresidency.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃 #PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem! She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.

Sadly learned of the passing of Prof. Margaret Boden, an inspiring thinker. Grateful I had the chance to listen to her talk 7 years ago at the "2018 Religion & Science Conference: AI & Consciousness", organized by Cambridge Muslim College. I found the video, highly recommend it: bit.ly/3IJHoUb

Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666065v1

New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social). link.springer.com/article/10.3... 👇🧵

As somebody who studies self-control (but is bad at it), I read this 2025 open-access review on the self-control of eating (tinyurl.com/bdnebw79) by Mann & Ward w/ great personal interest. I highly recommend it, esp. if you study self-control and/or want to deal w/ your eating regulation challenges.

1/ Exactly 9 years ago, I did my very first international lab internship as a curious, naive undergraduate student at Body Representation Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. It was my very first hands-on research experience and one of the reasons I chose to pursue an academic path.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer: The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

I read a really old article on broad and narrow attention by Wachtel (1967), and I found this sentence deeply relatable "...the extremely anxious individual becomes a slave to minor variations in the perceptual field, which demand most of his attention and leave him confused and disorganized."

Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have? Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/ I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social. A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions. #PUG2025

Our symposium continues with @ondrejzika.bsky.social talking about the role of trait anxiety in contextual inference. @gamerlab.bsky.social #PUG2025

Attention attention! ⏰ Last 20 minutes to drop by Room 2.007 to discuss our recent 7T MRI study togwther with @jasbisch.gitlab.io #PUG2025

Kicking off the PUG conference with a great talk by @danielamier.bsky.social – looking forward to an inspiring few days ahead!

The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org

Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡ 🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf #PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning

Join us for a zoom talk by Renee Thompson on "The everyday #emotional experiences of individuals with #depressive psychopathology" 5 June - 2:30pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

Absolutely well deserved!

Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025

Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025

🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday, May 16th, the brain meeting speaker will be Ron Mangun with a talk entitled "Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will" All are welcome to join us in person or online. Details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/brain-...

After serving 130 million meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Congratulations to my former supervisor @mattlongo.bsky.social on the publication of "The Invisible Hand". Grateful to have learned from him during my academic journey!

Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Feeling incredibly honored to have been invited to present my PhD project at the University of Würzburg. It was a wonderful experience, and I hope everyone who attended enjoyed the talk as much as I did! 🤗

A heartfelt thank you to @nursenaataseven.bsky.social for accepting our invitation and contributing to our Research Seminar @uni-wuerzburg.de with the presentation "How Prior Information About Task Regularities Shapes Representations in Visual Working Memory".

Gave my first-ever talk in Turkish about my PhD project — at Istanbul University's Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars! Funny how switching languages also shifts how I think. 🧠✨ Feels good to make science a bit more accessible.

At least five students at The Ohio State University have had their F-1 visas revoked recently, according to a university spokesperson. www.10tv.com/article/news...

This is so not okay.

Professor Avi Rubin of Ben Gurion University, on Harvard's shameful removal of Professor Cemal Kafadar from his role as head of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. (Statement from Facebook).

My supervisor is looking for a motivated PhD student to join our lab! If you are looking for a position, this is a great opportunity. Feel free to reach out if you have questions! Please check it out 👇 #PhDposition #AcademicTwitter

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.