Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️

Activity-based maps of the prefrontal cortex in mice, presented in @natneuro.nature.com today, challenge classical descriptions of the brain. The new maps reveal functional territories that differ from traditional, tissue-based maps. #Neuroscience #Brain 🧪 news.ki.se/new-brain-ma...

New brain maps challenge traditional descriptions of the brain

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the...

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Mind blown! Did you know about EMERGE, this amazing resource on self-report scales? All items listed and psychometric properties assessed, in ONE place & user friendly to boot emerge.ucsd.edu/emerge-searc...

New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.

Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity - Nature Communications

This study shows that non-invasive ultrasound to the human nucleus accumbens can modulate deep brain activity and enhance reward-guided learning, offering a potential alternative to invasive neuromodu...

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So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 9mo ago

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

A few weeks ago, utbildningsradio visited my lab to understand what we do and what it’s good for. Check out the result: youtu.be/1BbcqBywSdc?...

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Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

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Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications

Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...

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🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)

Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention

Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…

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What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications

The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...

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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

PREPRINT ALERT! Come and check out our (with @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social and @jseubert.bsky.social) on how overlapping insular codes of retronasal odours and their associated tastes! 1/n

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631354v1

This has been such a pleasure to work on and make new friends across the senses! In this review, we compare the evidence for perceptual penetrability across the senses-that is, to what extent cognition shapes experience as opposed to biasing it. High in olfaction, low in gustation is my take home :)

Nature Reviews Psychology@natrevpsychol.nature.com · 2y ago

Evaluating cognitive penetrability of perception across the senses Review by Petra Vetter, Stephanie Badde, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Janina Seubert & Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Web: go.nature.com/4hOrQeV PDF: rdcu.be/d0K0k #psychology #psychscisky #cogpsy

🌶️🌶️JOB ALERT 🌶️🌶️Nutrilab@KI is recruiting a postdoc to join the team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... suits a candidate with a cog neuro background, expertise in perception/motivation and interest in gut-brain interactions and food consumption. Come join us in Stockholm!

New preprint with @agustation.bsky.social and @odorjohan.bsky.social on contributions of perception and metabolic state to flavor pleasantness perception. We find additive instead of the expected interactive effects-also, mere exposure arises rapidly and obscures these effects if not accounted for 🍔

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3y ago

Dissociable effects of hunger, exposure and sensory overlap on flavour liking: http://osf.io/ucbn4/

🍔🍕Job Alert 🍩🍭 Nutrilab@KI is now recruiting a postdoc to join our team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/... suits candidates with a cog neuro background and an interest in gut-brain interactions and food perception! Come join us in lovely Stockholm

For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/

Hey #NeuroSky, we have published the paper from my PhD work, where we show that the orbitofrontal cortex encodes the texture and reward value of fat. Decoding strength is correlated with high fat consumption during a real-life eating task. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroscience #PsychSciSky

My lab is looking to hire a full time research assistant for one year. Main responsibilities are to help with data acquisition and data management for an ongoing behavioral study that studies metabolic modulation of anticipatory food reward processing. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/...

Forskningsassistent i experimentell psykologi och hjärnavbildning

Vill du bidra till en bättre hälsa för alla? I vår forskargrupp finner du en unik möjlighet att arbeta tätt tillsammans med toppforskare i gränslandet mellan psykologi och neurovetenskap. Du ko

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🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

Fantastic postdoc opportunity!

Konstantina Kilteni@kkilteni.bsky.social · 3y ago

Our lab is hiring at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour! One post-doctoral research position at the @DondersInst to study gargalesis (ticklish touch). Details below | Deadline 15.10 10 more days to apply! #youhaveaparttoplay www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Are you in the Brussels area and want to join the debate on how basic science can help identify strategies for more sustainable food production and consumption? Come by and hear my cognitive neuroscience take on this question 🙂 bit.ly/3Lai5Jc

#HiSciSky Janina Seubert here, researcher in psych/ cog neuro from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. I lead a research group that studies encoding and retrieval of sensory pleasure during food consumption. More soon :)