Anna-Lena Eckert
@eckertal.bsky.social
Post-doc computational psychiatry @ UCL 🧠 working on psychosis, planning, RNNs 🎓PhD: BCCN Berlin 🌍Post-doc #1: Uni Marburg 👟 runner 👩🎓 1st gen - she,her 🌐 https://eckertal.github.io/personal-website
Das Versprühen von #Glyphosat durch israelische Flugzeuge hat im #Libanon und in #Syrien gravierende Folgen: In dieser Reportage berichten Bäuer:innen aus den Golanhöhen, wie seitdem nichts mehr auf ihren Feldern wächst. Hilfe bekommen sie keine. 1/2
Israel versprüht Glyphosat in Syrien - Bauern stehen vor dem Nichts
Israel sprüht Glyphosat in Grenzregionen Syriens und Libanons, zerstört Felder und schadet Bauern. Umwelt und Landwirtschaft leiden stark.
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New, expanded preprint! Sensorimotor training makes a finger-extending exoskeleton feel lighter, suggesting active use helps wearable augmentation become perceptually transparent. Much longer, much better version now on bioRxiv: w/ Arina Schippers @mattlongo.bsky.social @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
Sensorimotor training lightens the perceived weight of body augmentation devices
Wearable haptic and robotic devices must transmit useful forces and tactile information without remaining perceptually intrusive. Here we show that perceived weight provides a behavioral marker of thi...
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Our next workshop will be at @imperial-ix.bsky.social -> 16.07 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @sdrsd.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there
Marcus Ghosh@marcusghosh.bsky.social · 5mo agoHow can we build better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience? We're hosting a series of 6 in-person, interactive workshops to discuss this. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
I don't use the H-word lightly, but this has been an absolute honor. My brain got tickled by quantum mechanics, evolution, RNA, computer graphics, neutrinos... Meeting brilliant ppl from around the globe, young & old, swimming daily in spectacular Bodensee. Cannot believe this job sometimes #LINO75
Anna-Lena Eckert@eckertal.bsky.social · last mo.Made it to Lindau through the heatwave and the classic DB rollercoaster, just in time for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2026 #LINO75 Ready for a week of inspiring science and Bodensee charm 🏞🍷 Thanks alma mater @unimarburg.bsky.social for nominating me!
Amazing 1st lecture by Katalin Karikó, who gave candid insights into her life in science & deeply non-linear path towards her Nobel Prize in 2023. Favourite quote: "When things go wrong, don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself" What a way to kick off #LINO75 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462526...
Breaking Through
Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher’s daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water, she saw potential everywhere: in the promise of a seed, in th...
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Made it to Lindau through the heatwave and the classic DB rollercoaster, just in time for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2026 #LINO75 Ready for a week of inspiring science and Bodensee charm 🏞🍷 Thanks alma mater @unimarburg.bsky.social for nominating me!
It's not "the new normal": this heatwave shows that we're never going to have "normal" again - by @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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I 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
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5
New preprint alert! doi.org/10.64898/202... Throughout life, we are often told to persist in the pursuit of our long term goals. However, the most important factor to consider in the real world for whether to continue pursuit or abandon one's goal is knowing how much progress you are making.
Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys
Primates pursue goals over extended periods and over multiple steps. The ability to track progress and its rate is critical for such pursuit, yet the neural mechanisms of this tracking are unclear. We...
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one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.
New preprint from down under: Can acute TMS effects on dynamic brain states predict subsequent symptom change during treatment for depression? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #restinstateEEG #TMS #Depression #HMM #longitudinal
#arXiv is banning researchers for one year whose manuscripts contain hallucinated references. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @briannosek.bsky.social, @tdietterich.bsky.social, @richardsever.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, @philipncohen.com, #WCRI2026
Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban
The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.
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📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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How networking harassment fuels the leaky pipeline
How networking harassment fuels the leaky pipeline
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 15 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02484-7The leaky pipeline is not only about hiring and promotion but also what happens in networking spaces where harassment goes unchecked. When careers depend on conferences and collaborations, institutions and research communities must stop leaving people to manage the risk alone, argues Shahar Hechtlinger.
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📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
If you're interested in doing a 2 year Schmidt "AI in science" postdoc fellowship in neuroscience/AI stuff with me starting in July or Oct 2027 take a look at this and get in touch soon. We've had a lot of luck recently getting these fellowships. www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-e...
Fellowships
We welcome applications from outstanding researchers applying for external fellowship funding.
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Hiring: Neuroscience roles at the International Brain Laboratory. We’re looking for: Neuroscience Community Engineer Neuroscience Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist All applications must be submitted by May 8th. Flexible US/Europe locations. www.internationalbrainlab.com/opportunitie...
Come learn some programming with a healthy helping of critical thinking; something no genAI can take away from you :) Also Prague is great fun ;)
Anna-Lena Eckert@eckertal.bsky.social · 4mo agoSadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school
I was lucky to be part of ASPP, Bordeaux in 2021. I learned so much, but more importantly it gave me the confidence and skills to keep going afterwards. It really shaped the path I took, including getting involved in MNE-Python. It’s a great opportunity, the people running ASPP are just the best.
Anna-Lena Eckert@eckertal.bsky.social · 4mo agoSadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school
the median number of authors on a research paper who are familiar with the underlying code: 1 it generally feels like that number will decrease even further, honestly a quite scary development. 😕⬇️
Anna-Lena Eckert@eckertal.bsky.social · 4mo agoSadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school
Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school
“eight years after the arrival of their first child, women were 29% less likely to be employed at a university than if they had not become mothers”
Nature@nature.com · 4mo agoBecoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
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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Conference & holiday travels are upon us: taking the chance to re-share some good eco travel resources 🌍🌱 Starting with a nice tool to compare emissions & other metrics from train vs. car vs. plane travel (Uni Graz): carbontracer.uni-graz.at/en/app-emiss...
💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social
Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 5mo agoAnxiety is associated with increased generalisation of threat to similar stimuli. This paper dissociates perceptual mistakes from value generalisation and links stronger value-transfer to trait anxiety. @nicoschuck.bsky.social @ondrejzika.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.
