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

See our research at the #pug2025. @jannateigeler.bsky.social now presenting a novel gaze-congruent approach-avoidance task.

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 $.

These "federal agents" abducted a student at Tufts University in Somerville Massachusetts, covering their faces with black cloth. What are the mayor, governor, other politicians, Tufts leadership, doing? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

A Tufts international student getting her PHD, Rumeysa Ozturk, was pulled off the streets of Somerville, Mass by masked ICE agents for a ***student newspaper*** oped last year. Her lawyer has no idea now where she is. Another thought crime arrest. Another obscenity. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Free speech warriors and conservatives who fight for the First Amendment and bla bla bla, please defend this. A student arrested by masked individuals on campus for writing an OP-ED! Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

First abduction of a student in Boston. Unacceptable. Protest this afternoon:

Rumeysa is a dear friend of mine from college. She is the most naive person I’ve ever met. Now, she has been ambushed and abducted by ICE agents just because she participated in the protests against ongoing genocide. Where is the freedom of speech? Be her voice! #tuftsuni #phdstudent #rumeysaozturk

A peer review guide - Empowering early career reviewers: 🔹 interactive version rachelheyard.pages.uzh.ch/ecr-reviewer... 🔹 pdf version osf.io/ubqyf

Birkbeck's offering fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its Diversity 100 scheme. If you qualify as a Home student, & come from an ethnic background that's underrepresented in academia, you're eligible! If that sounds like you, and you'd like to discuss PhDs in my lab, please do get in touch.

Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}. haven.tidyverse.org

Last day of #teap2025! Stay until the end for the final symposia—especially the one in Hörsaal 2 😉

Enjoying a sunny and beautiful day at the TEAP conference! 🌞 Looking forward to inspiring talks and great discussions. #teap2025

I wholeheartedly recommend this Postdoc opportunity. Don’t miss the chance to work with @eazanon.bsky.social. She was one of the most supportive and inspiring mentors I’ve had!

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the A.M. Turing Award for developing the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, a key method behind many major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. 🧵

We look forward to see you in Würzburg! #PuG2025 #Würzburg