Reposted by Helen BlankOndrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Only a few days remaining to submit an Expression of Interest for this PhD/Postdoc. 031
Reposted by Helen BlankFranziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🚨 Registration closes September 30! We have an amazing programme! So join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes!! We are looking forward to seeing you in Munich! 🧠🥨 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comICHR and ECHR Satellite Meeting 2026, Munich, Germany - REGISTRATIONWe are pleased to welcome you to the 2026 ICHR and ECHR Satellite Meeting, hosted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Klinikum rechts der Isar, in Munich, Germany, from 19–21 October 2026. Pl... 022
Reposted by Helen BlankThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Here are some impressions from the Essen #GlobalWalkAgainstPain, held in the remarkable surroundings of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein. Together, we raised awareness of what it means to live with pain — and of the challenges we still face in understanding and treating it. 122
Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Very much looking forward to our Network symposium on predictive processing in Bochum this October: predcommlab.github.io/symposium-20...predcommlab.github.ioPredictive Processing Network Symposium 2026 052
Reposted by Helen BlankFranziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026🚨Registration is now open for the 2026 ICHR & ECHR Satellite Meeting in Munich, 19–21 October! Deadline: 30 September 2026 Programme and registration details: sites.google.com/view/echrich... We hope to see many of you in Munich in October!🥨🧠 @theichr.bsky.social&@echrhallucinations.bsky.social 079
Reposted by Helen BlankTina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026we have an open position for a post-doc (100%) or PhD student (75%) at Bielefeld University - starting 1.11 or later (there is room for flexibility). jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/503...jobs.uni-bielefeld.deResearch Position (m/f/d) (Postdoctoral researcher...<p>The ‘Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience’ research group investigates human experience and behaviour at the interface betwee... 11711
Reposted by Helen BlankThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New opinion paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social led by Katja Wiech and @ulrikebingel.bsky.social! ▶️ Beyond Bayesian integration: how meaning shapes placebo effects Read the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1126
Reposted by Helen BlankHeleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...workingat.vu.nlVacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial AttentionAre you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise... 03934
Reposted by Helen BlankJamal A. Williams @jayneuro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! 🎶🧠✨ If you're interested in how the brain represents meaning evoked by music, check it out. Shout out to my Princeton team for making this happen!🚀 @jalon.bsky.social, @margulisa.bsky.social, Karen Christianson, Cara Turnbull, Grace Simmons, Uri Hasson 0166
Reposted by Helen BlankTim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...uni-osnabrueck.de129 FB 8 W3 Professorship Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems, Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück 05731
Reposted by Helen BlankMatthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...workingat.vu.nlVacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive NeuroscienceJoin the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience. 16348
Reposted by Helen BlankThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tolles Interview mit @ulrikebingel.bsky.social vom Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) 🔽 www.gesundheitsforschung-bmftr.de/de/mit-dem-p...gesundheitsforschung-bmftr.deMit dem Placebo-Effekt wirken viele Behandlungen besser - DLR GesundheitsforschungWie gut eine Therapie wirkt, wird auch durch den Placebo-Effekt beeinflusst. Wie sich dieser beeinflussen lässt und welche Rolle Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten dabei spielen, erläutert Professorin Ulr... 043
Reposted by Helen BlankAidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Check out the new preprint from the amazing @adamjcurtis.bsky.social! Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 13113
Reposted by Helen BlankPhil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026A key challenge for computational psychiatry is to distinguish state from trait markers and go beyond cross-sectional studies. Here we show that as paranoia waxes and wanes in patients with schizophrenia, so too do volatility priors 14315
Reposted by Helen BlankbioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Neue Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie in der Psychologischen Rundschau: KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1...econtent.hogrefe.comKI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen: Eine Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Psyc...Zusammenfassung: Die Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie (BNP) untersucht die biologischen Grundlagen psychischer Prozesse – von molekularen Mechanismen bis hin zu endokrinen Regulationssyste... 1128
Reposted by Helen BlankPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The PhD position in our lab closes 31 July - apply now! 01918
Reposted by Helen BlankThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 27/07/2026A lay summary explains this cool study from @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social et al. 😍 www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...clearskyscience.comAcute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment · Clear Sky ScienceStudy shows that positive treatment expectations can bias emotional perception toward happiness and predict antidepressant outcomes. 073
Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Congrats to Sihui Zhang and team Ioannis Terzidis, @rosenblaug.bsky.social & Christoph Korn! It was a pleasure to be a (small) part of this one: Pupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others’ personality traits 👀⁉️https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsag060doi.orgPupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others’ personality traitsAbstract. Learning about others’ personality traits is crucial for building personal relationships. This learning process can be conceptualized as reductio 040
Reposted by Helen BlankShitMyReviewersSay @shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026'The enormous and overwhelming -not to say pathetic- admiration, even adoration of the author for her subject is barely acceptable'static.klipy.comGordon Ramsay Says 'Pathetic' on MasterChefALT: Gordon Ramsay Says 'Pathetic' on MasterChef 042
Reposted by Helen BlankRicarda Lang @ricardalang.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026Friedrich Merz wollte doch was gegen hohe Krankenstände machen - wie wäre es, die Psychotheraphie nicht kaputt zu sparen? 481401340
Reposted by Helen BlankThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 20/07/2026More than words: Experience shapes #placebo pain relief through additional brain pathways 🧠 We're excited to share our latest publication in @natcomms.nature.com! 🤩 🔗 Read the paper: rdcu.be/fuxmn #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #PainResearch #BrainImaging #TeamScience #Reproducibility 11810
Reposted by Helen BlankPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.socialroyalsocietypublishing.orgVolume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal SocietyInfluential themed journal issues across the life sciences. 211753
Reposted by Helen BlankClare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026An exciting MEG+pupillometry study by @quiringehmacher.bsky.social demonstrating coordination between mechanisms mediating perception and learning. Sensory cortex tracks prediction error continuously in a graded manner, while the brainstem only responds once crossing a threshold. Excellent summary👇 0147
Reposted by Helen BlankPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3 210391
Reposted by Helen BlankMatan Mazor @matanmazor.bsky.social · 20/06/2026A bee analogue of Kohler's insight learning experiments 0195
Reposted by Helen BlankDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 17/06/2026#ECR, PhDs and postdocs, take note! Are you aiming for a professorship and would like to lead an independent junior research group? Then come to our info session about the DFG's Emmy Noether Programme, its eligibility requirements and your funding opportunities. Full Details▶️ sohub.io/gnb1 12115
Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Proud to share @carina-ufer.bsky.social's new preprint on prior precision as a key in perceptual inference under competing priors. 👇 180
Reposted by Helen BlankShervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 09/06/20261/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇cell.comPerceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctionsPerceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a... 320966
Reposted by Helen BlankbioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026#PuG2026 was a fantastic conference! Now you can already safely the date for #PuG2027 in Oldenburg: 6-8 May, 2027! 🧠 05616
Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Fantastic resource of German sentences to study predictive processes! Thank you @esterner.bsky.social & @franziskaknolle.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Helen BlankStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪doi.orgFree and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrationsPhylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics 6406227
Reposted by Helen BlankThe International Consortium on Hallucinations Research @theichr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n 188
Reposted by Helen BlankJonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be... 12428
Reposted by Helen BlankIGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It's that time of the year: IGOR is going to #PuG2026 in Heidelberg! 🧠 Interested in open and reproducible science? Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved. 🧵 Check the thread below for all our events #PuG2026 #IGOR [1/6] 11911
Reposted by Helen BlankRuhr-Universität Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de · 26/05/2026Mit seinem Werk über das Bewusstsein erlangte David Chalmers vor 30 Jahren große Popularität. Im Juni diskutiert er in Bochum alte und neue Fragen zum Thema.news.rub.deInternationale Koryphäen diskutieren das Problem des BewusstseinsVor 30 Jahre veröffentlichte David Chalmers sein bahnbrechendes Buch „The Conscious Mind“, in dem er eine Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins theoretisch fundieren wollte. Im Juni kommt er nach Bochum. 0103
Reposted by Helen BlankPhilip Sulewski @psulewski.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵nature.comFixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand - Nature NeuroscienceBy combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ... 323377
Reposted by Helen BlankBernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · 27/05/2026💭 How, when, and where do we remember events we have truly experienced? Philosophers and computational neuroscientists are working together to answer this question. Learn more in this @ruhr-uni-bochum.de story feat. Bernstein member Sen Cheng 👉️ bit.ly/4fz8n2R #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork 🧠 📈 072
Reposted by Helen BlankOle Goltermann @olegolt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A recent paper by Epp et al. in NN claimed that ~40% of reported BOLD findings could be misinterpreted. In our reanalysis, we identified several statistical issues that, in our view, undermine these conclusions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 👇 1/11biorxiv.org 14626
Reposted by Helen BlankStefanie Brassen @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026How much do treatment expectations matter in depression? Our new paper underscores the translational value of experimental placebo models for understanding and predicting real-world expectation effects. Part of our work in @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social Read more: rdcu.be/fiAkdrdcu.beAcute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatmentTranslational Psychiatry - Acute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment 0216
Reposted by Helen BlankUlrike Bingel @ulrikebingel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026What an inspiring day focussing on Translation in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience! Thanks to Sigrid Elsenbruch, Dirk Scheele and Adriane Icenhour for bringing us together and the great talks and discussions. So glad to have such amazing colleages nearby and in our Network! 022
Reposted by Helen BlankDirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network - Nature Reviews NeuroscienceThe auditory system differs from other senses in the complexity of its subcortical pathways. King and colleagues examine how subcortical structures transform sound representations and integrate sensor... 24414
Reposted by Helen BlankBenjamin Lowe @brainboyben.bsky.social · 12/12/2025And it's out now in Cortex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary below 🧵sciencedirect.comThe latency of a domain-general visual surprise signal is attribute dependentPredictions concerning upcoming visual input play a key role in resolving percepts. Sometimes input is surprising, under which circumstances the brain… 1217
Reposted by Helen BlankThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 07/05/2026😍 What an opening day of @w-i-d.de's museum boat #MSWissenschaft 2026! 😍 Our speaker and PI @ulrikebingel.bsky.social presented our finished exhibit to school children and invited guests such as Dorothee Bär (@dorobaer.bsky.social), the Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space. 1114
Reposted by Helen BlankMatt Davis @drmattdavis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I'm pleased to share this excellent paper from @abbiebradshawphd.bsky.social with @clarepress.bsky.social that presents an active inference account of speech motor control doi.org/10.3758/s134... 1198
Reposted by Helen BlankJonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de 14444
Reposted by Helen BlankEfthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 16/04/2026New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏 193
Reposted by Helen BlankUlrike Bingel @ulrikebingel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Yeah - unser SFB Podcast „Wirkstoff Wort - der Podcast für Gute Kommunikation in der Medizin ist draußen! Hört mal rein. Danke an das großartige Public Outreach Team des SFBs! 0116
Reposted by Helen BlankChristian Schnell @neuroschnell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026New Unsolved Mystery, by Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social and Samuel D. McDougle @actlab.bsky.social, published this week in PLOS Biology about the contributions of the cerebellum to cognitive function: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...journals.plos.orgHow does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions?The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks... 0298
Reposted by Helen BlankPhil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Some thoughts on @franziskaknolle.bsky.social recent paper on speech expectations, hallucinations, and glutamate: illness and chronicity may be important in understanding the role of glutamate in prior weighting www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...biologicalpsychiatryjournal.comHallucinations, Prior Overweighting, and GlutamatePerception is not passive. It is a synthetic process, governed not only by the information incident on our sensory epithelia but also by our knowledge and prior experiences of the world, through model... 075