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Lea Schenk (she/her)

@schenkl.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience @ Wagner Lab www.isabellawagner.com, University of Vienna 🧠 Investigating the gut-brain axis in spatial navigation 🦠🧭📍 "Die Wissenschaft und ihre Lehre ist frei."

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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
(1/2) Hiring! 🦠🧠 Postdoc position in my group @univie.ac.at on microbiome-brain interactions as part of the ERC-funded project “MemoryLane: Neural plasticity through the lens of gut-brain interactions”. 📍 Vienna, Austria 📅 Application deadline: 2 Aug 2026 ℹ️ shorturl.at/2E4sf
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easystats @easystats.github.io · 30/06/2026
Big news from the #rstats #easystats universe! 🚀 We’ve just released updates for several of our packages to CRAN. Time for a quick highlight reel of the most important new features. 🧵 (1/4) You find the details on the related package websites (shown below), and on CRAN.
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 20/05/2026
Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf‼️ Die Unis befürchten Einsparungen von einer Mrd. Euro im #Budget. Rektorensprecherin Brigitte Hütter sprach bei einer Pressekonferenz von einem "Supergau" für Unis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Rektor Schütze sprach von enormen Schaden für die Reputation. ⤵️
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Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Two weeks left to apply for our Master’s Programme “Microbiome Science” at @cemess.bsky.social | @univie.ac.at! Explore microbial communities shaping health, the environment, and ecosystems. Application Deadline: April 7 All Details: studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...
Germany does not lack talent, and it does not lack funding. But we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies. We are asking brilliant young scientists to build the future of the German economy, but refusing to give them the lab space, the job security, or the scientific independence to actually do it. If we want to reclaim our place as an industrial superpower, we have to stop the rat race of trying to keep every technology and structure alive that made us successful in the 20th century. Instead, we must fix our system that pushes our most ambitious scientists away. The money is there. The talent can be there. Now, we also need the courage to fix what’s broken.
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Lea Schenk (she/her) @schenkl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Such a fun to read and well written review; can really recommend for anyone new to or already proficient in spatial navigation research!
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Another year, another ice-skating event for our lab ⛸️ Thanks to our colleague Ece Kurnaz for organizing ❤️
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend. 1/3
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
4/🧵 RegCheck's layout now reflects its purpose: to assist humans in doing a research activity that they otherwise do not do - not to replace them. Most importantly, the UI provides direct quotes from the papers and registrations to make it easier to verify/refute judgements made by the software.
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Susanne Schnabl @susanneschnabl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Sprachlos. Das neue Jahr hat erst 14 Tage und offenbar den zweiten Femizid.
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Mordverdacht: Frauenleiche in Erdkeller entdeckt
In Wilfersdorf (Bezirk Mistelbach) hat ein 47-jähriger Mann einem Bekannten gegenüber am Telefon gestanden, seine 36-jährige Lebensgefährtin erdrosselt zu haben. Die Leiche der Frau konnte von der Pol...
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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
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Max Steininger @maxsteininger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)
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Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health
The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pa...
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026
In den Medien liest man nun, Venezuelas Staatschef Maduro wurde "festgenommen", "gefasst" oder "aufgegriffen". Dabei wurde er durch das US-Militär entführt, Venezuela angegriffen und nein, auch das Maduro ein Diktator ist, rechtfertigt diesen Schritt nicht. Wo bleibt Europas Reaktion?
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StressLab UniVienna @stresslabvienna.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@adreisoerner.bsky.social and @markusforamitti.bsky.social appeared on camera for a PULS 4 documentary on the topic of stress — with an expert interview, a guided meditation and insights into a stresstest. 🔬🎊 👉 Check it out: www.joyn.at/filme/puls-4...
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PULS 4 Doku: Stress: Freund oder Feind?
Stress, Stress und noch mal Stress – niemand mag ihn. Alle wollen ihn loswerden. Jeder 2. Österreicher meint: Stress ist schädlich. Stress nimmt zu, u
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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
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markusforamitti.bsky.social @markusforamitti.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New paper out! 🥸 Over the last 50 years, people have gravitated toward music with increasingly negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics. Societal crises like COVID-19 disrupted these long-term trends, suggesting escapist music preferences at a societal level. 🎶🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
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Lea Schenk (she/her) @schenkl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
easystats really improved my coding and analysis - this is a great addition!
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markusforamitti.bsky.social @markusforamitti.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Had a great talk today at the ISGMA conference about our project combining musicological and psychological approaches to understand how sound artifacts are perceived and experienced. 🔔🧠 Thanks to everyone who stopped by and engaged with the ideas! Great event hosted by @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
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markusforamitti.bsky.social @markusforamitti.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Great experience presenting at the WASAD Congress! I discussed how Natural Language Processing can advance stress research and how music functions as a cognitive artifact. @wasadorg.bsky.social Grateful to collaborate with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social & Urs Nater #WASAD
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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com by PhD candidate Luise Graichen ➡️ saccades 👁️are tied to grid-like codes 🕸️ in the entorhinal cortex 🧠during memory formation: rdcu.be/eLRm2 Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social
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Luise Graichen @graichenl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
✨My first first-author paper is out✨ Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2 Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
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Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation
Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 18/09/2025
Empathie hilft uns, die Welt mit den Augen anderer zu sehen. Claus Lamm, Professor für Biologische Psychologie an der #univie, erklärt im #Podcast der Rudolphina die "helle" und "dunkle" Seite der Empathie und wie das Gehirn reagiert. 🎧 Gleich rein hören! 👉 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/podcast-folg...
Wissenschafter Claus Lamm, links im Bild, und Moderator Mario Wasserfaller, rechts im Bild, sitzen an einem Tisch, sie sind von leicht oben fotografiert. Sie sprechen miteinander, vor ihnen am Tisch stehen die Mikrofone für die Podcast-Aufnahme.
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 22/08/2025
Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬 Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️
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Isabella Wagner 🧠🦠 @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 16/07/2025
There you go the materials are now on my website. Updated version contains a tiny disclaimer that you should only polynomial safely, if at all. juliarohrer.com/resources/
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Resources
Slides “Everything is causal inference (and causal inference is all the same)” (MPIB 2025) “Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysis” (Wuppertal 2025) “Thinking …
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 09/07/2025
Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Of course it is: Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...
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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...
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Introducing Papercheck
Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...
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Michael Goard @michaelgoard.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:
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The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding
Histological evidence suggests that the estrous cycle exerts a powerful influence on CA1 neurons in the mammalian hippocampus. Decades have passed sin…
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁
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Max Steininger @maxsteininger.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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...
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Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications
Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mecha...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Lea Schenk (she/her) @schenkl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
been waiting for a tool like this - awesome!
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 30/11/2024
This is really handy. #stats #CausalInference
An explanation of confound, collider, and mediator
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
On further reflection, the selection of @simine.com as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science is one of the most important milestones for the reform movement in psychology. There will be impact on the journal, sure. But more, selecting a committed, visible reformer illustrates its normalization.
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Lea Schenk (she/her) @schenkl.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Volle Solidarität.
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