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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That’s a wrap! The scientific part of our LBP retreat is over. We talked about genetic mouse models for ASD, bipolar disorder, naturalistic environment & pro-social behaviour. Thanks @eliskbv.bsky.social Emilie Bartsoen, @fjrsousa.bsky.social @ozgesungur.bsky.social @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On day 2 of LBP retreat, it’s the turn of Rudi D’Hooge’s group. We heard about chemotherapy brain, maternal care, and brain activity during two tasks for cognitive flexibility. Thanks Jeffrey Goris, Batuhan Uysal, @joshmariabeem.bsky.social, Sien Verelst, Jolien Neven & Kaat Dewals.

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here we are again: our annual LBP retreat! On the first day, some colleagues from @wohrlab.bsky.social are presenting data on Tph2 KO rats, social behaviour, USV and placebo effect. Thanks Maria Willadsen, @parnian-saberi.bsky.social, @pvsarchi.bsky.social, Henry Werk

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Elahe' Yargholi @elaheyargholi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From our symposium on continuous movement tracking ECVP 2026. Thanks for joining, presenters @tmaniquet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social @omar jubran @ maximilian Wolkersdorfer and audiences.

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Tim Maniquet @tmaniquet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I look serious on the picture but it was lots of fun presenting my work at @ecvp.bsky.social, thank you @elaheyargholi.bsky.social for organising this brilliant symposium! 📝 More mouse tracking in our paper with @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & @apurvaratan.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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ebbsociety.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 Congratulations to our FENS Forum 2026 Travel Grant Awardees! 👏👏👏 We are delighted to have supported our awardees in participating in FENS Forum 2026 and sharing their research with the neuroscience community🧠

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Livia Di Crescenzo @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Back home, another badge to add to the collection! Thanks @ebbsociety.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to present my PhD work at @wohrlab.bsky.social. It’s always exciting to talk about science! And also thanks @fens.org for awarding me the Childcare grant! #FENS2026

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Fábio J. Sousa @fjrsousa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Great experience attending @ibnsconnect.bsky.social annual meeting in Cape Town! I presented work from my PhD from @Wohrlab in a poster and a talk in a symposium session. I am grateful to IBNS for the Travel Grant and for this opportunity. It was also wonderful experience #IBNS2026 #PhDLife

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Wöhr Lab @wohrlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Last week Dr. Theresa Kisko, @fjrsousa.bsky.social & @parnian-saberi.bsky.social had the opportunity to share their work at #IBNS2026! What a great experience! Thanks @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📣The Laboratory of Biological Psychology is hiring! 📣 We are looking for a full-time lab tech to help us in the daily operation of the lab. Friendly & inclusive work environment guaranteed! Check here for more details: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... ⏰Apply by May 27th.

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Wöhr Lab @wohrlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Congratulations to @ozgesungur.bsky.social & Emilie Bartsoen for this achievement! Dr. Özge Sungur was nominated IBNS Fellow for her contribution to the Society and to the field of behavioral neuroscience, while Emilie Bartsoen is the new Trainee Representative 🎉. Thanks @ibnsconnect.bsky.social!

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I.B.A.N.G.S @ibangs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New research shows that an animal’s personality, like being bold, shy, social, or aggressive can directly impact whether it survives in the wild. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Open call for a permanent MEG Lab Manager position for our new MEGIN scanner at CIMeC Trento. You have extensive MEG experience, a degree in physics, engineering, neuroscience: Apply here lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-pta/co... Deadline 29th April! p.s. call in Italian but foreigners welcome!! 🌎

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Fábio J. Sousa @fjrsousa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It was with great pleasure that I have received the news that I was awarded the IBNS Travel grant to attend the IBNS Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. Thank you @ibnsconnect.bsky.social (IBNS) for this opportunity, looking forward for this opportunity.

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Filippo Cerpelloni @fcerpelloni.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

How to assess the roles of vision and language to reading? We studied how purely visual computational models for word and letter recognition processed visual Braille (⠉⠑⠗⠏⠑) and found that they don't replicate human behavioural / neural results, showing the need of language processing in reading

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Wöhr Lab @wohrlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Big news! Our WöhrLab team members received an impressive number of awards recently! Thanks to @ebbsociety.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social & @fens.org, @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social, Sara Mejía Chávez, @tianhuawang.bsky.social & @fjrsousa.bsky.social will be able to attend #FENS2026! Congrats🎉

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Wöhr Lab @wohrlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Second great news of the day: Dr. Theresa Kisko received a Early Career Achievement award from @ibnsconnect.bsky.social! And @fjrsousa.bsky.social won a second travel award this year to attend #IBNSSouthAfrica! Congrats 🎉

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Filippo Cerpelloni @fcerpelloni.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Out now another piece of my PhD. In short, we show that learning a new script, with or without line junctions (├ v. ⠗), mostly relies on the linguistic mapping of one script to a pre-existing orthography, with limited contribution of the script's visual features doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02788-1

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Connecting the dots: Similar visual orthographic acquisition for Braille or line junctions - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Most written systems share basic shape features with natural objects such as line junctions, a commonality thought to be at the basis of fluent reading. Studies that compared reading acquisition for d...

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🚨New paper alert from #HopLab! Check the preprint below 👇🏼

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Livia Di Crescenzo @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Thanks @ebbsociety.bsky.social for this amazing opportunity! It’s a pleasure for me to share my work at such international conference. #FENS2026

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Livia Di Crescenzo @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a #MargueriteMarieDelacroix research grant to continue studying ASD-related biological mechanisms in a new mouse model. I’m deeply grateful for the renewed support and looking forward to starting this new project. Stay tuned for the results!

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Congratulations to Samuël Budniok for successfully defending his PhD doctoral thesis “oxytocin across species: from mechanisms in rodents to implications for human attachment development”. Well done!

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📣New paper in LBP by Samuel Budniok with Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Guy Bosmans, and @mhvij.bsky.social. Check it out below! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Markus Wöhr @markuswohr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The party drug MDMA (“ecstasy”) shows promising efficacy as adjunct to psychotherapy. The psychostimulant with entactogenic properties is known to induce arousal and euphoria. We now studied the neurochemistry underlying the behavioral effects of MDMA in rats lacking serotonin in the brain.

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Livia Di Crescenzo @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Just attended another interesting meeting organized by #StichtingMarguerite-MarieDelacroix. Very intriguing talks and discussions. I’m very glad to be part of this! Thanks to the organizing committee and scientific board, and for the inspiring words by Prof. Dr. Rudy Van Coster.

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Andrea Costantino @costantinoai.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Another LBP story has reached the end: yesterday Laura Vercammen from Bram Vervliet’s lab successfully defended her PhD! Congrats, Laura! @tombeckers.bsky.social @lauraluyten.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

🚨New paper in LBP! Check it out below 👇🏼

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Hans Op de Beeck @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

New paper (and thread) on the representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 1/n

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Representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: Face/body selectivity aligns temporally with animal taxonomy but not with animacy | JOV | ARVO Journals

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Markus Wöhr @markuswohr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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EARA @eara.eu · 27/10/2025

Two #comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of #animals in #biomedical #research have been featured in the scientific journal #Nature, fueling a polarised discourse that can confuse and misinform the public and decision-makers. #NAM #SciencePolicy www.eara.eu/post/eara-co...

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EARA COMMENT: Nature highlights polarised discourse over the value of animal research

Two comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of animals in biomedical research have been featured in Nature.

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

‼️ New paper alert in LBP! Check this recently published paper from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social group below 👇🏼

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📢 Big news in LBP! Congratulations to our PhD students who won the prestigious @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social fellowship!

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

‼️New Dr. in town! Huge congrats to @fcerpelloni.bsky.social from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social lab for successfully defending his PhD! Well done!

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It’s that time of the year again: LBP retreat! Rudi D’Hooge and @markuswohr.bsky.social labs gathered together for 2 full days of science. A special thank you to Dr. Elodie Ey for bringing her expertise on animal research to this event!

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Andrea Costantino @costantinoai.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It was great reconnecting with friends and colleagues at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam and presenting our latest #expertise work. We 👀 into how #chess experts represent the board, and how the content, structure, and location of these repr shift w/ expertise.⬇️

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Tim Maniquet @tmaniquet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The 2nd VSS is even better than the first one, look how serious I was presenting my poster #VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social

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Markus Fendt @mfendt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

You like behavioral neuroscience? Time to register for IBNS @ibnsconnect.bsky.social meeting in Tromsø (June 24-29, 2025)! www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting

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Leuven Brain Institute @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

❤️ Verliefdheid vergelijkbaar met dopinggebruik, commentaar door LBI lid professor biologische psychologie Rudi D'Hooge. 🚗 “Eigenlijk kan je het vergelijken met een nieuwe auto kopen, elke keer als je erin stapt, ben je gelukkig. Maar een jaar later is dat al een oude auto.” @biopsylbp.bsky.social

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Wöhr Lab @wohrlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Theresa Kisko & Fábio Sousa had such a great visit to the IGBMC in Strasbourg to work hard on our exciting collaboration using the Live Rat Tracker with Dr Elodie Ey! The trip was supported by FWO/TOURNESOL mobility grant awarded to Dr Elodie Ey and Dr Theresa Kisko.

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Laura Luyten @lauraluyten.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hi Bluesky, quick question. Which passive avoidance setup for rats do you like best? 🐀 Thanks!

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Laboratory of Biological Psychology @biopsylbp.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

🚨 Paper alert! Check Elahe’s work below 👇🏼

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sara-decoster.bsky.social @sara-decoster.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025! The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...

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