Great to see our work at ESCAN 2026! Thanks to all who attended the symposium and contributed to the discussion, where @alessandro-valvo.bsky.social presented our findings. 🧠🌍

🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience

Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)

🚨Fed up with the "individual vs. system change" debate?🚨 We've got you covered. 🙌 In our new paper in Nature Climate Change, we endeavour to move beyond that binary by introducing the agency frame (a-frame), a practical lens for identifying and intervening on high-impact climate behaviours. (1/n)

📣 Postdoc position Build 🤖 LLM-based behavioral clones for economic games together with Pınar Uğurlar and me. The position (up to 3 years) is based in Pınar's lab at Özyeğin in Istanbul, with regular visits to my lab. Please share / reach out if interested. 🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1ftqi...

Actions that support cooperation, such as indirect fitness, reciprocity, partner choice, or punishment, also perpetuate social division Group cooperation enforces boundaries and paves the way for intergroup conflict, while free-rider narratives can lead to polarization and identity-based conflicts.

#POLITKOLUMNE: It’s not so much what people think that has changed, but what has become *publicly sayable*. The fear of social stigma when voting for the radical right has declined. Very glad to have been able to cover @valentimvicente.bsky.social ’s seminal research www.derbund.ch/radikale-rec...

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

New in #eNeuro from Snipes et al: Sleep and age influence aperiodic and oscillatory measures from awake EEG recordings, supporting previous EEG work on sleeping participants. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0384-25.2026

Now published at Scientific Reports 🚀 If you ever wondered whether and how hunger affects your decision-making beyond food choices, make sure to check out our paper! 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵below

❗🐟 Fast die Hälfte der europäischen #Süsswasserfische ist vom Aussterben bedroht. 📉 Weitere 18% gelten als potenziell gefährdet. 📝Dies zeigt die neue Rote Liste der #IUCN, an der auch @oleseehausen.bsky.social #unibern & @eawag.bsky.social beteiligt ist. ▶️ Hier geht es zum Bericht 👇 sohub.io/nvoz

🥁🎉The Psychosis Collective proudly presents our first preprint 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝘈 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 starring Le He & Harriet Feldman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We wanted to understand how antipsychotics work. Thread🧵

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests go.nature.com/4bYvpgl

We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!

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

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

Nice to wake up to the news that our paper on the ESDist R package for calculating effect size distributions has been accepted for publication 🎉 Since our initial 2023 (!?) preprint we’ve made lots of improvements to the package based on feedback

How do scientists balance science with protest? My new piece for @theconversation.com, explores how scientists transition into activism and sustain their engagement. This is based on my recently published ethnographic paper journals.plos.org/climate/arti... theconversation.com/how-climate-...

Job opportunity! @cast-centre.bsky.social are seeking a Research Fellow to lead a programme of quantitative behavioural research to advance understanding of climate-relevant behaviour change and life choices. 48 month fixed-term full-time see: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1

Menschliches Verhalten treibt den #Klimawandel voran – doch wie kommen umweltrelevante Entscheidungen zustande? Daria Knoch & Annika Wyss zeigen in @natrevneuro.nature.com, warum der Blick ins Gehirn den Klimaschutz wirksamer machen könnte. Mehr in uniAKTUELL: www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2026/mit_bli...

Knoch, D., Wyss, A.M. Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to be participating in the workshop on Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings in Lucca (Italy) April 27-28. There's a great lineup, with Giorgio Coricelli, Susann Fiedler, Andreas Glöckner, and Carlos Alós-Ferrer. Join us! decisionmaking.imtlucca.it

📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS) 🔬 The role Experimental consumer research Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments 📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible) ⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable) 🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Feel free to share with anyone 🌱

In this Comment, Yao et al. proposes an age-sensitive climate adaptation framework that emphasizes non-digital communication, financial assistance, and community-based strategies to support them.

Altered theta distribution and coherence during set-shifting in older age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701912v1

Honoured to see our Comment on environmental decision neuroscience shared by @natrevneuro.nature.com ✨

✨We are thrilled to see our Comment on “Environmental Decision Neuroscience” published in @natrevneuro.nature.com 🌱🧠 Check it out ➡️ 📄 rdcu.be/e0oLM #EnvironmentalNeuroscience

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

Very cool work alert! It’s concerning that the most influential comms strategies did not nudge proenv beh, when we have found climate disinfo *decreases* proenv beh, even against some of the “successful” comms strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41... We still have room & need for improvement!

Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

What better way to end 2025 than getting our paper published in Global Environmental Change 🥳💚 We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support. Let me tell you all about it🧵👇

Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, important and downright strange discoveries about how the human brain, one of the most complex objects in the known universe, works, and 2025 didn’t disappoint. Here are 10 of the most fascinating brain discoveries of this year: #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at pug2026.org #pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience

🚨New paper out! We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤 ➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠 To the paper 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring an Associate Prof in Social Psychology at UW-Madison! All areas of specialization are open. It’s a quick turnaround time for apps (due Jan 9th) but we are excited to add someone to our area!! Please apply and spread the word! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

A comparison of data from 64,000 individuals in 64 countries with their self-reports of well-being suggests LLMs cannot provide valid predictions for subjective well-being, in part due to biases rooted in global digital and economic inequality. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/yHIt50XC4z3

Do climate disasters change us? New research with Hoenow & Karki (RWI Essen) examines Germany's devastating 2021 Ahrtal flood. We'd expect a disaster in your backyard to spark urgent climate action—but does it actually? Our findings: it's complicated. 🧵 Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Ventromedial striatal dopamine dynamically integrates motivated action and reward proximity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691784v1

A multilayer of time Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years! A great collaborative work ! doi.org/10.1007/s113...

*PhD funding through the @mrcaimdtp.bsky.social* interested in doing a PhD aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms underlying how sleep impacts on motivation in health and Parkinsons Disease? Want to learn computational modelling & brain imaging? Get in touch. more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-...

**JOB OPENING: Assistant Professor in Social Psychology / Environmental Psychology** Deadline: 25 January Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Are you a PhD or MSc student interested in people's transactions with environments? Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors? The ECR workshop @iaps2026.bsky.social is for you! Deadline 9th January. Be where many experts in the field once started out. stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...

In this study, Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection with computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience.

Posterior Cortex Isolation Enhances Detection of Alpha Desynchronization During Sustained Attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688558v1

Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688922v1

The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology 🌎 Online 📅 18.11. 3pm CET Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened? ➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX #Neuroskyence

New in #JNeurosci from Hynes et al: Ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons influence risky decision-making and motor impulsivity differently in male and female rats across learning in a gambling task. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0764-25.2025

🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: “Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence” by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...