🌿 Nature may do more than help us recover from stress. A new review by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social & Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social suggests that natural environments can also strengthen attention, mood, and well-being even without prior strain. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2397749/pm-2...
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We research the interplay between the environment and human well-being and brain health at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-centers/environmental-neuroscience
📢 LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student for her project "Mapping Early Memory Trajectories Across Species (ATLAS)". careers.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/jobs/8116017...
PhD Position (m/f/d) in Berlin, Germany - Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
At the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, we study how and why people develop differently over the course of their lives, and how physical, societal, and technological aspects of the envir...
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....aand coming up on Tuesday! 🥳
📆 On July 28th, we are happy to welcome Prof. Simone Kühn, Director of the Center for Environmental Neuroscience (@cen-mpib.bsky.social) at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social! 🔗 As always no registration is needed. You can find all further information here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/44834...
CEN war beim örtlichen Kitafest von FRÖBEL dabei, um die Entwicklungsstudien vorzustellen, die wir mit Babys und Kindern im FUNKi-Lab @mpib-berlin.bsky.social durchführen. Für die Kleinen gab es Spiele und Schminken! Herzlichen Dank an die Familien, die unsere Studien ermöglichen! shorturl.at/trzHN
Kinder & Umwelt: Entwicklung im Kontext
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How do children remember the important things in their lives? In this article, Zoe Ngo @zoengo.bsky.social and Pedro Espinosa‑Villafranca describe their research approach to studying the development of memory processes in childhood.🧠 boldscience.org/how-do-child...
“Memories of real-world experiences are shaped by personal meaning, emotion, a child’s own sense of agency, and social interaction.” Zoe Ngo and Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca ask how children remember experiences. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-do-child...
📑 New paper by @sonjasudimac.bsky.social, Johanna Drewelies, Carolina de Weerth & Simone Kühn 🔎How does spending time in residential natural and urban environments affect stress in mothers and infants? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Environmental #Neuroscience #Nature #MentalHealth
Effects of a walk in a residential natural vs. urban environment on objective and subjective stress indicators in mothers and their infants
Despite growing evidence that being in nature positively influences mood and stress, its effects on children are not well understood. Previous cross-s…
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📆 On July 28th, we are happy to welcome Prof. Simone Kühn, Director of the Center for Environmental Neuroscience (@cen-mpib.bsky.social) at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social! 🔗 As always no registration is needed. You can find all further information here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/44834...
Current global evidence on climate-related and nature-based mental health interventions? Partial or lacking, Brandt et al found in this umbrella review. More research is needed, especially in regions most affected by climate impacts and least resourced to address them jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Climate-Related and Nature-Based Interventions for Mental Health
This umbrella review and meta-analysis evaluates associations of climate-related and nature-based mental health interventions with mental health outcomes.
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Stadt vs Land: Was macht glücklicher? Im Podcast "Wissen Weekly" hat Simone Kühn (Direktorin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social) erklärt, dass die eigene Umgebung echte Auswirkungen auf das Gehirn hat. Wie, wieso, und was kann man mit diesem Wissen tun? 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWZ...
SO ungesund ist das Stadtleben! | Wissen Weekly
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📣 New research center on the horizon! The Center will study how midlife autonomic changes may contribute to #neurodegenerative disease risk, focusing on the locus coeruleus, #Alzheimer’s biomarkers, and emotion–cognition interactions. Interested? CAAN-Job openings 👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/career
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Ein toller Anlass, ein höchstwichtiges Thema Erfahren Sie mehr: www.einstein-youthmentalhealth.com/ueber-uns/
Über Uns – Einstein Center for Youth Mental Health
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Heute offiziell eröffnet: das Einstein Center for Youth Mental Health, das psychische Erkrankungen bei 12- bis 25-Jährigen erforscht & die Frühintervention sowie Prävention voranbringen soll. Wie wichtig dieses Anliegen ist, betonte Ellen Haußdörfer, Staatssekretärin für Gesundheit und Pflege. (1/4)
Bei #Quarks: Neue Wege! Wie machen wir den Wald fit für die Zukunft? Mit dabei: Direktorin Simone Kühn und Sonja Sudimac @sonjasudimac.bsky.social @cen-mpib.bsky.social, die zeigen, wie Stadt‑ und Naturumwelten unser Gehirn beeinflussen. 🌳🧠 www.ardmediathek.de/video/quarks...
Quarks: Neue Wege! Wie machen wir den Wald fit für die Zukunft? - hier anschauen
Der Wald ist längst mehr als nur ein Ort der Ruhe. Er soll Freizeitoase sein und Rohstofflieferant, Klimaretter und Lebensraum für zahllose Tier- und Pflanzenarten; doch Klimawandel, Trockenheit und S...
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Tomorrow! ASSAf-Leopoldina International Virtual Panel Discussion From Planetary Change to Psychological Impact: Understanding and Responding to the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change. It promises to be an eye-opening exchange with Simone Kühn & other experts. Join! 📍June 9 12pm CEST online
🧠 How does climate change affect the mind? 🌍 The Virtual Panel “From Planetary Change to Psychological Impact: Understanding and Responding to the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change” opens the discussion on this emerging field by bringing together perspectives from South Africa and Germany.
👉 An exciting PhD position is available at the MPI for Human Development to work with LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social on the WildBrain project. See www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2366555/2026.... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
PhD Position | Center for Lifespan Psychology
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📹 Behind the scenes 📹 @mpib-berlin.bsky.social Direktorin Simone Kühn wurde diese Woche für eine kommende Folge von Quarks zu den Auswirkungen von Stadt- und Naturumwelten auf das Gehirn geinterviewt. Vielen Dank für das Besuch! Die Folge wird im Juni ausgestrahlt. We'll keep you posted 👀
Exciting panel on a highly relevant topic! 🌍🧠 How does climate change affect our mind? Our Director Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social is part of the discussion – don’t miss it! 👇 #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #Leopoldina
🧠 How does climate change affect the mind? 🌍 The Virtual Panel “From Planetary Change to Psychological Impact: Understanding and Responding to the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change” opens the discussion on this emerging field by bringing together perspectives from South Africa and Germany.
@sonjasudimac.bsky.social (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social) represented CEN at the recent roundtable on climate change & health in Singapore. The effects of urbanization and climate change are making themselves felt; international, interdisciplinary exchanges help provide answers to the challenges.
At the MPG–Singapore Roundtable “Climate Research & Health” in Singapore, it became clear how much potential lies in our collaboration. A strong and open exchange, exploring further opportunities for the NTU–Max Planck partnership.
Morgen geht es los! 🚢✨ Wir freuen uns riesig, mit unserem Exponat Elderbot – einem Chatbot gegen Einsamkeit – auf der MS Wissenschaft vertreten zu sein. Kommt an Bord! 💬💙 #MSWissenschaft #WissenschaftErleben
Leinen los für die MS Wissenschaft: Am 7. Mai eröffnen wir in Berlin feierlich die Ausstellung im Wissenschaftsjahr 2026 – Medizin der Zukunft. Von Berlin aus steuert das Ausstellungsschiff zwischen Mai und September 36 Städte in Deutschland, Polen und Österreich an. Wir freuen uns auf euren Besuch!
Berliners 🇩🇪🐻! You are cordially invited to join my talk at @molgen.mpg.de this Monday. I’ll be discussing our efforts in building a "molecular bridge". 📍 MPI-MG, Ihnestraße 63 🗓️ Monday, May 4 | 11:00 AM 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/45291...
Laurel Raffington: A molecular bridge that connects social inequality to biology spanning from childhood to adulthood
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Just a quick reminder that this singular, beautiful, blue & white bauble is our shared home. May we keep it safe. The iconic "Earthrise" image, one of the most famous photos ever taken, was captured by astronaut Bill Anders on Dec. 24, 1968 from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. #EarthDay
💭 Wissenschaftler*innen der #TUBerlin, @humboldtuni.bsky.social & des @igzleibniz.bsky.social untersuchen derzeit, wie Menschen Infos zum #Klimawandel wahrnehmen & darauf reagieren. 📲 Für die Studie suchen sie noch Teilnehmer*innen. Zum Fragebogen 👉 prettyform.addxt.com/a/form/vf/1F... ENG below ⬇️
⚡ Happy to share that Sonja Sudimac and I will again be delivering our environmental neuroscience seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this summer semester: Exploring Minds and Environments. (125264-S26) 1/ @cen-mpib.bsky.social
Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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New CEN paper! 📣 Juan F. Quinones et al. used structural equation models & regularized multivariate path analysis to identify macroenvironmental features that predict changes in whole-brain structural features in a sample of 368 adolescents www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence
Developing brains and changing worlds: Macroenvironmental changes and their association with brain development
Growing evidence suggests that physical environmental features at the neighborhood level are linked to brain structure during human development. In a …
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Premiere am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung! 🎉 Ein mobiler Magnetresonanztomograph geht an den Start – und reist im Spezialtrailer direkt an Forschungsorte – für eine lebensnahe Umweltneurowissenschaft @cen-mpib.bsky.social 🧠🌍 Mehr erfahren: youtube.com/shorts/3sTKv...
Ein MRT auf Reisen
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The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer
📢 #CallForParticipation: Nachwuchsforschende aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum und Südafrika haben die Chance, an einem Workshop zu „Klimawandel und mentaler Gesundheit“ vom 8. bis 10. September 2026 in Südafrika teilzunehmen. 🇿🇦 Bis Freitag, 3. April 2026 bewerben: www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...
Workshop zu Klimawandel und psychischer Gesundheit: Leopoldina und Südafrikanische Akademie fördern junge Forschende
Extreme Hitze, Naturkatastrophen, Ernährungsunsicherheit: Die Folgen des Klimawandels sind vielerorts bereits deutlich und immer mehr spürbar. Die Folgen für die körperliche Gesundheit sind zunehmend ...
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Last Thursday, postdoc Sonja Sudimac joined @berlinualliance.bsky.social's annual Career Day to talk about her career journey. A good opportunity for researchers from different fields to get together, and a nice break from the computer/lab! 👩🔬 www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitmen...
🚨 Student Job Alert 🚨 Unsere Serviceeinheit Scientific Technology and Computing sucht eine Studentische Hilfskraft zur Unterstützung und Betreuung von IT- und Technologielösungen in Forschungslaboren und der organisatorischen Mitarbeit im Laborbetrieb. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2259305/2026...
Studentische Mitarbeitende (m/w/d) | Scientific Technology and Computing
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🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨 Laura Desirée di Paolo will present the ERC project XSCAPE – Material Minds, an interdisciplinary effort to understand how artefacts actively participate in cognitive processes and in the formation of mental models. Join us! 📅 20 DEC 15:00 📍MPIB & online shorturl.at/IxjRu
CEN Colloquium: Laura di Paolo, XSCAPE- Material Minds: Artefacts, Prediction, and the Cognitive Life of Things
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