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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12/09/2026

I don’t care if OpenAI has solved an age-old math question in the same way that I don’t care if anything useful has come out of unethical psychological or medical experiments. If it’s worth knowing, we‘ll get there a different way.

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's great that there are new #taVNS studies, but please use an ear electrode that can be customized to fit each individual 👂🏻 ⚡, rather than a one-size-fits-all model that doesn't fit different ears properly❗

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Back in 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 for #AAIC2026 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐬 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 Are you passionate about #neuroimaging, #brainstem #research, and #MRI sequences? Let's connect to discuss my latest findings & exchange ideas. 📍 Board no. 1124 🗓️ Sunday, July 12

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Saturday morning well spent at the #neurology meeting for the Hamburg, Kiel and Lübeck sites. Diverse mix of topics, from the oral microbiome @csi-lab.bsky.social and movement disorders to updates from ongoing #Alzheimer’s disease trials.

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I surprised myself: I'm saying NO to the Olympics in #Hamburg and I love sports and sport events! but the scale of costs and resources required for only a few weeks feels disproportionate to me. I see greater long-term value in investing in science and research 🧠 #nolympia

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 29/03/2026

The biological sciences make no statement whatsoever about how many genders there are

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#VAGUSNERVE - I finally saw it with my own eyes during an iVNS implantation. Seeing it directly provided a much finer sense of its anatomy and the challenges we face (& we have to face) with #taVNS 🧠⚡

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Heated debate about lesion network mapping - you should check out @petersenm.bsky.social work! 🧠

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Our paper and research on a #taVNS #MRI setup has now been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @nbkroemer.bsky.social @glassybrain.bsky.social

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I am currently at #ESOC2025 with the @csi-lab.bsky.social to present latest findings on #sleep and cerebral small vessel disease ( #CSVD ) ❤️ Big thanks to the whole team for this wonderful dataset including excellent #neuroimaging 🧠

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#TaVNS inside the MR scanner IS POSSIBLE! ⚡🧠 I hope that this paper and its guidance on the taVNS MRI set-up will help those planning concurrent #fMRI and #vagusnervstimulation Checkout our new preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... Endless gratitude to @nbkroemer.bsky.social & @glassybrain.bsky.social

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Across institutes. One contributing factor is the filling of leadership positions with individuals who lack both leadership knowledge and a genuine interest in this responsible task, focusing instead on their own self-interest and personal ego.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 19/01/2025

The thing is, it’s not like the resistance has failed. They set out to impeach him, to convict him for his many felonies, to vote him out of office. They have achieved all of that. It’s just that it has now turned out that all of those achievements were meaningless. That’s where hopelessness lives.

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨 STIMULATE TO REMEMBER ? ⚡ Link to publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⚡ 3 sec of taVNS (5 mA, 25 Hz, 250 μs) during an emotional memory task ⚡ real (cymba conchae) vs. sham (earlobe) vs. no stimulation trials

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Stimulate to Remember? The Effects of Short Burst of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) on Memory Performance and Pupil Dilation

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Heidi Jacobs @heidijacobslab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New work from our postdoc Elouise Koops just got published: #locuscoeruleus metabolism is elevated in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, and provides resilience against cognitive decline! In collaboration with Joyita Dutta (UMass) alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Elevated locus coeruleus metabolism provides resilience against cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

INTRODUCTION Alterations in locus coeruleus’ (LC) metabolic turnover are associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD)-pathology and cognitive impairment. However, the evolution of these changes across d...

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

We plan to recruit a new PhD student, who will work on projects testing the effective neuromodulation (tVNS, ghrelin) of gut-brain interactions in Bonn. A good command of German is necessary for this position. Please spread the word. #neuroscience #psychscisky neuromadlab.com/en/research/...

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Mareike Ludwig @cogneuroludwig.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Germany's best show with great scientists and topics - that was a great evening with @evaschulz.bsky.social and @fmriguy.bsky.social 🧠 and the whole maithinkx team - thank you! Sundays on ZDFneo or ZDF Mediathek

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