Maria Meier
@mariame.bsky.social
Postdoc at Uni Konstanz and University Hospital Ulm. Psychologist interested in stress, relaxation & metabolism. 🧠🫀🧪 Likes (trail) running, biking & ski touring. Takes pictures. Loops R & guitar. https://mariameier.eu
I am so grateful to my supervisor @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social my office buddies and everyone who supported me through this chapter. Excited for what's next: finding a postdoc in human brain data & cognition, curious about all the ways to stimulate the brain! Know of any opportunities? #PostdocSearch
2/ The ReSST is a setup for inducing stress in the lab both WITHIN & BETWEEN sessions We adapted the Trier dream job talk+maths task, added the Iowa singing task for a second stress session (all in front of unresponsive panel 🫣) ReSST materials & detailed instructions here: osf.io/rq5wv/overview
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Does sugar affect how you deal with stress? 🍪 I am excited to share that I received funding from the @dfg.de to study the links between acute and chronic glucose intake and HPA axis regulation. I will be hiring one PhD student soon (more infos will follow). (1/3)
Pleased to announce that our work on the influence of glucose and acute stress on food craving has been accepted for publication in Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology 📃 The paper will be available #OpenAccess soon! Huge shoutout to my former master student Flora Nasilowski who took the lead! 🌻
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As a rather stubborn person, I was happy to find out that there is a protein family named Dickkopf. There are five Dickköpfe (for now). For more fun facts read the Wikipedia page 📃 🐸 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickkopf
Dickkopf - Wikipedia
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Am Wochenende hat das @dgps.bsky.social Projekt zur Einheit und Vielfalt der Psychologie in Berlin getagt - es war eine tolle und intensive Zeit im Haus der Psychologie, mit Besuch der Geschäftsstelle und vielen neuen Ideen und Aha Momenten. Bin gespannt, was uns im Herbst in Göttingen erwartet!
Do chimpanzees reflect on the beauty of dawn when they gaze at the sky? This is one of the questions that occupy @benmocha.bsky.social in his photographic work. @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social presents his photo exhibition "The Animal’s Inner World" in the library of #UniKonstanz. t1p.de/dpwb2
Big news! 🚀 The preprint for our #NODES Delphi study is out on PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5bt6s_v1 What's this all about? 🧵
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Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.
Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.
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The #PuG2026 is taking place in Heidelberg this week! We are very excited about the exceptional lineup of speakers in the symposia and poster sessions and want to draw your special attention to the #Posterblitz organised by the ERCs taking place on Friday from 2 to 3:30 PM in HS13! ⚡
After two days on the bike, around 265km and 2000m elevation gain, we arrived in Heidelberg for the #PuG2026 yesterday. Very much looking forward to the pre-conference workshop on neuroanatomy 🧠 tomorrow, seeing friends and colleagues and discussing our latest findings!
1/ New paper alert! Stress often builds over time, but many scientific studies treat it as just an on/off thing. In this paper, we introduce the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST): a new paradigm for inducing graded, mild-to-moderate stress in the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task: A tool to reveal physiological dynamics using graded stress induction
Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…
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Hello #RStats folks 👋 I’m preparing a manuscript for publication and am struggling with the text sizes in #ggplot and #ggarrange. I came across /.pt but am nevertheless not happy with the end product when saving as png - any tutorials and pointers to good introductions are most welcome! 🙏
Maria Meier@mariame.bsky.social · last yr.Here is a little video of the end result btw #RMarkdown 🙏
As every year: very inspiring! 🚴
Nils Weidmann@nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday, I kicked off this year‘s #BikeAndTalk2026 trip through Switzerland together with @alexaisa.bsky.social . Thanks to @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and amazing colleagues for hosting us! Tomorrow, I’m off to Fribourg and then Bern (Wednesday).
Am Montag wird in Campus & Karriere über #Machtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft und das neue HG von NRW diskutiert – mit Ina Brandes, @soppie.bsky.social und @leising.bsky.social! www.deutschlandfunk.de/programm?drs... #IchBinHanna @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
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Das Programm des Deutschlandfunks mit Links zu Beiträgen und Audios aus allen Sendungen.
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Reposting this for @pnirs.bsky.social and @ispne.bsky.social who might have people on their community who are interested in the results ⬇️
Maria Meier@mariame.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew #OpenAccess paper in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 📄 Childhood maltreatment (CM) increases the risk for lifelong mental illness - but which biological pathways are involved here? One prominent target put forward is inflammation. But what drives proinflammatory states? A paper🧵
Want to help science about the understanding of comics? My lab is running several new studies about the cognition of comics! Here’s one about graphic cues that convey motion. It works on a Mac/PC and takes about 10-15 minutes. Please participate and share! jatos.uvt.nl/publix/run?c...
New #OpenAccess paper in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 📄 Childhood maltreatment (CM) increases the risk for lifelong mental illness - but which biological pathways are involved here? One prominent target put forward is inflammation. But what drives proinflammatory states? A paper🧵
Redox dysregulation, inflammation and mental health in adults with high risk of childhood maltreatment
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Last year, I found that ~30% of term papers I graded included refs with links to “DOI not found”, wrong titles, years, authors or author order. How do you deal with hallucinated references in term papers? 📝 PS: Some titles sounded really compelling, I wish someone would write those papers 😬
How can 🍪 help us understand anhedonia? What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med 🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Blunted anticipation, but not consummation, of food rewards in depression
Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired enjoyment itself. Linkin...
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Ich werde heute Abend in #Konstanz im K9 beim #ScienceSlam 🎤auftreten - Beginn um 19:30 Uhr, mein Thema: Fight, Flight, Fruchtgummi 🍬 Freu mich drauf! ⬇️ www.k9-kulturzentrum.de/programm.php
K9 - Veranstaltungen
Das Kulturzentrum K9 in Konstanz bietet ein umfangreiches Kulturprogramm mit Kabarett, Theater, Musik,Disco, offener Bühne und open Stage
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The anxiety when your work gets cited by a statistician and you can't access the article so you don't know whether you are cited as the example that really fckd things up or not. 😬
