(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
Lea Schenk (she/her)
@schenkl.bsky.social
PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience @ Wagner Lab https://www.isabellawagner.com, University of Vienna 🧠 Investigating the gut-brain axis in spatial navigation 🦠🧭📍 "Die Wissenschaft und ihre Lehre ist frei."
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.
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. ⤵️
Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
univie.ac.at
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...
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...
“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...
Such a fun to read and well written review; can really recommend for anyone new to or already proficient in spatial navigation research!
New review from our group out in Nature Reviews Psychology: Determinants of individual navigation ability with my excellent co-author: @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social
Another year, another ice-skating event for our lab ⛸️ Thanks to our colleague Ece Kurnaz for organizing ❤️
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
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
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.
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
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.
Sprachlos. Das neue Jahr hat erst 14 Tage und offenbar den zweiten Femizid.
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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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
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...
careers.univie.ac.at
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)
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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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?
@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...
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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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...
careers.univie.ac.at
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...
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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easystats really improved my coding and analysis - this is a great addition!
🎉 Great news for #rstats users! If you love the native R graphics feel of #tinyplot AND you're a fan of the powerful #easystats #modelbased package, this is for you! Thanks to @gmcd.bsky.social, we significantly enhanced the tinyplot integration. 🔗 Read more: easystats.github.io/modelbased/a...
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
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”.
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
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
✨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
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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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...
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. 🗝️
🚨💩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...
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/
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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