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)

This paper on EDIA is in Journal of Vision. VR headsets with eye tracking are everywhere in research now, but they're not built for science. EDIA bridges that gap. Klotzsche et al. (2025), JoV 25(9) doi.org/10.1167/jov.... #EDIA #EyeTracking #XRResearch

Want to build a custom VR experiment without reinventing the basics? AffectTracker did exactly that: continuous emotion rating built on EDIA Core, Eye and LSL, so experiment structure, eye tracking and EEG sync came out of the box. Published in Frontiers in VR. #VR #XRResearch #OpenSource #EDIA

Neue Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie in der Psychologischen Rundschau: KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1...

KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen: Eine Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Psyc...

Zusammenfassung: Die Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie (BNP) untersucht die biologischen Grundlagen psychischer Prozesse – von molekularen Mechanismen bis hin zu endokrinen Regulationssyste...

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Now up at @oecs-bot.bsky.social ! Looking to wrap your head around concepts & terms (and debates) in emotion & mood research (“affective science”)? Here’s a go to. oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

Very happy to announce that the journal publication is finally out: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Thanks to all the great collaborators at the #NEUROHUM project, and especially to @michaelgaebler.com! Check it out if you are interested in face similarity judgments in 3D (aka David Marr's 2.5D).

Simon M. Hofmann@smnhfmnn.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are happy to share our new paper (under review) on human face perception! In this study, we investigated how face similarity judgments are affected by dynamic 3D vs. static 2D conditions 🗿. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #FacePerception #3D #CognitiveScience #similarity #NeuroAI (1/n)

The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

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Central and peripheral dynamics of acute stress: evidence from functional cortical gradients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.08.732866v1

New preprint out now. 🎭 What makes an acted emotion feel believable? We tested whether believability depends on what observers see from the outside, facial movement, and what happens inside the actor’s body, cardiac dynamics during performance. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Actors' Facial Movement Magnitude and Cardiac Dynamics Predict Observers' Emotion Believability Ratings

In non-verbal communication, observers infer emotions from visible facial movements, yet emotional experiences are described in internal bodily terms (e.g., "my heart skipped a beat"). This contrast h...

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🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)

I left my comfort zone in the last two days - attending the workshop on digital #technologies in operations & marketing #DTOM @tum.de Heilbronn - & really enjoyed it! I learned so much & discovered plenty of shared interests, in humans, experiments, & (immersive) technologies. #VR #MindBrainBody

New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

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Wie gewinne ich Vertrauen in Politik und Staat zurück? Sicher nicht so. Stattdessen wäre ein Schritt nach vorne gut: erwartbare Verteilungswirkung neuer Gesetze transparent ausweisen und mit gesellschaftlichen Zielen abgleichen. #GemeinwohlFirst weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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Demokratie setzt voraus, dass die Menschen ihren (!) Behörden auf die Finger schauen können. Bitte unterschreibt die Petition, damit es auch morgen noch Informationsfreiheit gibt und Behörden halbwegs transparent arbeiten.

FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de · last mo.

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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We didn’t receive the (randomly drawn) prize money 💰🤷 but are very grateful for the recognition and congratulate the other shortlisted teams - let’s collectively improve the working conditions in academia! 💪 Thanks @jungeakademie.bsky.social and @volkswagenstiftung.de!

Die Junge Akademie@jungeakademie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔬🧠🙌Offen, kreativ, wertschätzend! Mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de vergeben wir die Auszeichnung „Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2026“. In den nächsten Wochen stellen wir die 15 Teams der Shortlist vor. Aus diesen werden am 27. Juni 5 Teams ausgelost, die ein Preisgeld erhalten. 🔗 t1p.de/auhey

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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Out now in @pnas.org We present a new metabolism-weighted brain connectome that incorporates each region’s energy expenditure into the mapping of brain connectivity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information www.science.org/content/arti...

Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information

Frequently ignored bodily rhythms may be skewing neuroscience experiments

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Happy to see our new preprint on using AI in biopsychology from an open science perspective out on OSF 📣 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

IGOR DGPs@igor-dgps.bsky.social · last mo.

Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]

Excited about our new preprint discussing how AI 🤖 may responsibly contribute to fair and open biopsychology🧠 Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thank you for this great team effort🙌 @igor-dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

IGOR DGPs@igor-dgps.bsky.social · last mo.

Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]

In this opinion piece, we provide practical recommendations on the strengths and pitfalls of incorporating AI-based tools at each stage of the biopsychological research cycle from an open science perspective 📝 🔗Read the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... [2/4]

Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]

As an Italian scientist living abroad 🇮🇹->🇩🇪, experiences like this remind me how important it is to give back to the educational system that helped shape me and to make science more accessible, personal and human for young people. Beyond grateful for this opportunity! #scicomm #neuroskyence [3/3]

Our letters became conversations about the brain, memory, emotions, the scientific method and the value of engaging with different cultures. I was amazed by the students' curiosity and thought-provoking questions: how are memories formed? Where do emotions come from? [2/3]

This year I've volunteered with @penneamiche.bsky.social, an initiative that connects Italian scientists and schools through letter exchanges 💌 From Sep to May, I wrote to a middle school class in Verona, sharing what it's like to be a neuroscientist and to build a research career abroad. [1/3]

#PuG2026 in stunning Heidelberg was a blast! 🔥 Every year feels like a family reunion, with many possibilities to both informally network and scientifically connect with like-minded researchers. I was particularly happy to see a big focus on interoception! See you next year in Oldenburg 👋 [3/3]

Scientific presenter by day… pub quiz host by night 🎙️ Another highlight was hosting the IGOR Social, where participants brilliantly fought for eternal glory in our pub quiz… including a trivia category on scientific misconduct & fraud 👀 #PuG2026 #IGOR @igor-dgps.bsky.social [2/3]

#PuG2026 comes to an end. One of my highlights was presenting our pilot study using autogenic training to teach voluntary control over interoceptive rhythms, led by @samversc.bsky.social with @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com 🧘🫀 #interoception #neuroskyence [1/3]

Congrats to @henrikejngblt.bsky.social for winning this year’s Science Communication Prize at #PuG2026 with the project @books-and-brains.bsky.social Looking forward to reading your reviews on the neuroscientific bases of popular novels 📚🧠 Go follow @books-and-brains.bsky.social !