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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Friendly reminder: we are looking to hire a Full Professor in the field of "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Intelligence" at the IKW. Topic wise, the position is fairly open: www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit... Deadline coming up on the 6th of October.

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Jack Gallant @gallantlab.org · 24/09/2026

Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience! Encoding models fit 28,134 features to fMRI from a virtual taxi-driving task, revealing 11 distinct cortical regions that transform perception into action. Read the preprint. gallantlab.org

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Monosov Lab @monosovlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📢 Save the Date! The IGOR Hackathon is happening Thursday, October 1st (9:00–12:00) Join us to: 🚀 Get to know ongoing IGOR projects 💡 Brainstorm new project ideas 🧠♻️ Join a panel discussion about the current state of open science in journals Stay tuned, the detailed program will be shared soon!

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 18/09/2026

⚠️ To be sure: registration and submission will open in a few days. For the moment it's more of a save-the-date / teaser!

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 18/09/2026

Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

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CBS CoCoNUT @cbs-coconut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are excited! @initself.bsky.social & @rowansommers.bsky.social will present their **Umwelt Representation Hypothesis** at our next meeting. Sep 18, 11 am (CET) [Hybrid] Find the link to the online meeting here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut or join us at MPI CBS #neuroai #neuroskyence #ai

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CBS CoCoNUT

CBS CoCoNUT: A new interest group that comes together every two weeks to have an informal exchange about cognitive computational neuroscience.

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IMPRS CoNI @imprsconi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Call for Applications! Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a #PhD 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 in Cognitive NeuroImaging with our research partners @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? 📅 Apply by 2 Nov 2026 shortlink.win/1y98h We look forward to your application! 😀

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Antonio Criscuolo @antocris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Join the next BodyBrainWaves: 4day summer school + 3day conference in Palermo, #Italy Focus: modulatory role of #body-#brain interactions on #cognition Stay tuned for an exciting #scientific program + #cultural (and #gastronomic) tours The call for applications are now open: waves-conference.com

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 31/08/2026

Just arrived at #adriatica2026 that has beautiful scenery, impeccable organisation, & an ongoing workshop by Juliane Britz on the nitty gritty of EEG experiments that‘s typically not mentioned in the methods sections. E.g., „make your subjects comfortable - turn your #EEG lab into a hair salon“

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 30/08/2026

Sometimes being two professors in the same field pays off! @francescafardo.bsky.social and I are enjoying a family beach trip at the Adriatica Brain Body and Well-Being summer school. The well-being aspect cannot be understated.

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Let’s cultivate the M/EEG community by attending the Berlin CuttingGarden 🪷🧠 @cuttingeeg.bsky.social 📆 Sept 21-25, 2026 📍 #Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 💶 50 € 🎤 Tutorials/perspectives, posters, jointly viewing global program, etc. Details: cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde... #Cominghome

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Berlin | CuttingGardens2026

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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...

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PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

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Simon M. Hofmann @handle.invalid · 17/08/2026

A really cool #scicomm campaign brought to life by @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & friends. I'm really proud to be part of this. The amazing markusfaerber.de transformed our study on #XAI for #brain-age into a comic, which is now hanging all over the city of Leipzig. sciencestreets.de/comics/brain...

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Gehirnalter

science streets ist ein Wissenschaftskommunikationsprojekt, das Wissenschaft in den Alltag bringt, indem es Leipzigs öffentliche Räume zu Lernorten macht.

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Does sugar affect how you deal with stress? 🍪 I am excited to share that I received funding from the @dfg.de to study the links between acute and chronic glucose intake and HPA axis regulation. I will be hiring one PhD student soon (more infos will follow). (1/3)

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EDIA @ediatoolbox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This paper on EDIA is in Journal of Vision. VR headsets with eye tracking are everywhere in research now, but they're not built for science. EDIA bridges that gap. Klotzsche et al. (2025), JoV 25(9) doi.org/10.1167/jov.... #EDIA #EyeTracking #XRResearch

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EDIA: An open-source toolbox for virtual reality-based eye tracking research using Unity | JOV | ARVO Journals

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EDIA @ediatoolbox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Want to build a custom VR experiment without reinventing the basics? AffectTracker did exactly that: continuous emotion rating built on EDIA Core, Eye and LSL, so experiment structure, eye tracking and EEG sync came out of the box. Published in Frontiers in VR. #VR #XRResearch #OpenSource #EDIA

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Now up at @oecs-bot.bsky.social ! Looking to wrap your head around concepts & terms (and debates) in emotion & mood research (“affective science”)? Here’s a go to. oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

Emotions, Moods, and Affective States
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Emotions, Moods, and Affective States

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The phenomena that comprise emotions, moods, and affective states are united by their valence—their pleasantness or unpleasantness—such as the pleasure of seeing a baby laugh or the aversion to smelling feces. Beyond this broadly accepted defining characteristic, the researchers who study them have a multitude of ideas about how to best define their constructs, what shapes them, and the most promising path toward understanding them scientifically. For instance, many researchers agree that emotions should be distinguished from moods, but not all agree on the criteria that differentiate them. Similarly, some restrict the terms emotion and mood to instances in which subjective

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Simon M. Hofmann @handle.invalid · 16/07/2026

Very happy to announce that the journal publication is finally out: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Thanks to all the great collaborators at the #NEUROHUM project, and especially to @michaelgaebler.com! Check it out if you are interested in face similarity judgments in 3D (aka David Marr's 2.5D).

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv

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The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Central and peripheral dynamics of acute stress: evidence from functional cortical gradients www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New preprint out now. 🎭 What makes an acted emotion feel believable? We tested whether believability depends on what observers see from the outside, facial movement, and what happens inside the actor’s body, cardiac dynamics during performance. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Actors' Facial Movement Magnitude and Cardiac Dynamics Predict Observers' Emotion Believability Ratings

In non-verbal communication, observers infer emotions from visible facial movements, yet emotional experiences are described in internal bodily terms (e.g., "my heart skipped a beat"). This contrast h...

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Yingtian (David) Tang @davidtyt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 07/07/2026

I left my comfort zone in the last two days - attending the workshop on digital #technologies in operations & marketing #DTOM @tum.de Heilbronn - & really enjoyed it! I learned so much & discovered plenty of shared interests, in humans, experiments, & (immersive) technologies. #VR #MindBrainBody

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Maja Göpel @beyond-ideology.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Wie gewinne ich Vertrauen in Politik und Staat zurück? Sicher nicht so. Stattdessen wäre ein Schritt nach vorne gut: erwartbare Verteilungswirkung neuer Gesetze transparent ausweisen und mit gesellschaftlichen Zielen abgleichen. #GemeinwohlFirst weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

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SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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Ulf Buermeyer @buermeyer.de · 04/07/2026

Demokratie setzt voraus, dass die Menschen ihren (!) Behörden auf die Finger schauen können. Bitte unterschreibt die Petition, damit es auch morgen noch Informationsfreiheit gibt und Behörden halbwegs transparent arbeiten.

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FragDenStaat @fragdenstaat.de · 03/07/2026

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

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SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We didn’t receive the (randomly drawn) prize money 💰🤷 but are very grateful for the recognition and congratulate the other shortlisted teams - let’s collectively improve the working conditions in academia! 💪 Thanks @jungeakademie.bsky.social and @volkswagenstiftung.de!

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

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Valentin Riedl @vavatin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Out now in @pnas.org We present a new metabolism-weighted brain connectome that incorporates each region’s energy expenditure into the mapping of brain connectivity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy to see our new preprint on using AI in biopsychology from an open science perspective out on OSF 📣 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Anne Saulin @annesaulin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Excited about our new preprint discussing how AI 🤖 may responsibly contribute to fair and open biopsychology🧠 Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thank you for this great team effort🙌 @igor-dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In this opinion piece, we provide practical recommendations on the strengths and pitfalls of incorporating AI-based tools at each stage of the biopsychological research cycle from an open science perspective 📝 🔗Read the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... [2/4]

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

As an Italian scientist living abroad 🇮🇹->🇩🇪, experiences like this remind me how important it is to give back to the educational system that helped shape me and to make science more accessible, personal and human for young people. Beyond grateful for this opportunity! #scicomm #neuroskyence [3/3]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our letters became conversations about the brain, memory, emotions, the scientific method and the value of engaging with different cultures. I was amazed by the students' curiosity and thought-provoking questions: how are memories formed? Where do emotions come from? [2/3]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This year I've volunteered with @penneamiche.bsky.social, an initiative that connects Italian scientists and schools through letter exchanges 💌 From Sep to May, I wrote to a middle school class in Verona, sharing what it's like to be a neuroscientist and to build a research career abroad. [1/3]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#PuG2026 in stunning Heidelberg was a blast! 🔥 Every year feels like a family reunion, with many possibilities to both informally network and scientifically connect with like-minded researchers. I was particularly happy to see a big focus on interoception! See you next year in Oldenburg 👋 [3/3]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Scientific presenter by day… pub quiz host by night 🎙️ Another highlight was hosting the IGOR Social, where participants brilliantly fought for eternal glory in our pub quiz… including a trivia category on scientific misconduct & fraud 👀 #PuG2026 #IGOR @igor-dgps.bsky.social [2/3]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#PuG2026 comes to an end. One of my highlights was presenting our pilot study using autogenic training to teach voluntary control over interoceptive rhythms, led by @samversc.bsky.social with @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com 🧘🫀 #interoception #neuroskyence [1/3]

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Congrats to @henrikejngblt.bsky.social for winning this year’s Science Communication Prize at #PuG2026 with the project @books-and-brains.bsky.social Looking forward to reading your reviews on the neuroscientific bases of popular novels 📚🧠 Go follow @books-and-brains.bsky.social !

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The third ongoing project is the perspective paper on using genAI in Biopsychology (led by @annesaulin.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @ocklenburg.bsky.social) Also stay tuned soon for the manuscript! 📣

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You still have time to visit @c-abele.bsky.social poster on the opposing effects of loneliness and interoception on cardiac reactivity to interpersonal distance during a #VR stop-distance task ✋🫀🕶️ #PuG2026

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