Very happy to share this pre-print from our translational mouse-human study on the role of oxytocin in modulating spinal cord processing 🧠🥰🐁
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
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
I am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...
The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
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Bee positive: A demonstrator’s positive attitude toward the potential for a reward is picked up by an observer in 🐝 #neuroskyence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thanks ACNP! Excited to (virtually) attend my first ACNP meeting 🤩
🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇
If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at ondrej.zika@pm.me :)
Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
New paper out in NYAS!
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑🤝🧑🤝
w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
(thread below)
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...
✨ Exciting news for our upcoming S4SN Lisbon meeting! ✨
Join us from September 23-26 for a dynamic program filled with inspiring talks, poster presentations, and networking opportunities. Get ready to connect, learn, and share ideas in the beautiful city of Lisbon!
The program is out 😍
Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS
By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al
Thread 👇
osf.io/preprints/os...
I am still 100% in
New in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and @mael-lebreton.bsky.social
We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits.
The result? Not really.
A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Its a long weekend here in Canada, which seems appropriate to mourn our recent @npp-journal.bsky.social paper, in which we find that FAAH inhibition does NOT improve symptoms in PTSD🙁
A heroic effort w/ @cannabrain.bsky.social @connorhaggarty.bsky.social @ryanntansey.bsky.social & many more 🧵⬇️
Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠
‼️ Deadline: May 18th
still a couple of days left to apply!
⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...
Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic @scanunit.bsky.social and do cool research on prosocial behavior 🤝🧠
Apply or share widely!
3-year postdoc position (100% fte, TVL-E13) in human fMRI and psychopharmacology at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoc position in the Comparative Psychology research group
Out in Biological Psychiatry
"Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown"
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
🎉New paper out in Royal Society Open Science!🎉
Our lab member Raimund Buehler has just published his second ever, first-author paper!
📄 Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
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A little bby from my PhD is published!
we did a complex study to answer a simple Q:
do day-to-day feelings impact choices?
A: Yes. When feeling motivated (independent of other stable or unstable feelings) choices changed because rewards seemed greater.
open access link:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
As the world grows scarier, let's talk about social connection!
We review its role in addiction & how it's influenced by opioids, now out in Biological Psychiatry (special issue on social homeostasis)
It's @loseth.bsky.social's brainchild & covers A LOT🧠
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
Overall, our results challenge the notion that individuals exhibit prosocial apathy when effort is required to help others and suggest that the type of incentive (avoiding harm vs. increasing wealth) is a key factor in shaping effortful prosocial behavior.
Last, using computational modelling, we show little credible evidence that discounting of pain reduction by effort differs between self and other
Participants also exerted a similar amount effort to reduce their and the other's pain, indicating that this prosocial motivation to protect others’ form harm extends beyond decision-making to action invigoration
We showed that when pain reduction is the outcome of the prosocial act individuals are similarly willing to mobilize effort to help themselves and a stranger
Prior research suggested that when effort is required to help, individuals become prosocially apathetic. Here we adapted a well-validated prosocial effort task (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28819649/) and we examined if this is the case also for non-monetary rewards, i.e. reducing other’s pain