Two weeks left to apply for our Master’s Programme “Microbiome Science” at @cemess.bsky.social | @univie.ac.at! Explore microbial communities shaping health, the environment, and ecosystems.

Application Deadline: April 7

All Details: studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Germany does not lack talent, and it does not lack funding. But we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies. We are asking brilliant young scientists to build the future of the German economy, but refusing to give them the lab space, the job security, or the scientific independence to actually do it. If we want to reclaim our place as an industrial superpower, we have to stop the rat race of trying to keep every technology and structure alive that made us successful in the 20th century. Instead, we must fix our system that pushes our most ambitious scientists away. The money is there. The talent can be there. Now, we also need the courage to fix what’s broken.

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

Such a fun to read and well written review; can really recommend for anyone new to or already proficient in spatial navigation research!

Another year, another ice-skating event for our lab ⛸️

Thanks to our colleague Ece Kurnaz for organizing ❤️

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend.

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RegCheck's layout now reflects its purpose: to assist humans in doing a research activity that they otherwise do not do - not to replace them.

Most importantly, the UI provides direct quotes from the papers and registrations to make it easier to verify/refute judgements made by the software.

Mordverdacht: Frauenleiche in Erdkeller entdeckt In Wilfersdorf (Bezirk Mistelbach) hat ein 47-jähriger Mann einem Bekannten gegenüber am Telefon gestanden, seine 36-jährige Lebensgefährtin erdrosselt zu haben. Die Leiche der Frau konnte von der Pol...

Sprachlos.
Das neue Jahr hat erst 14 Tage und offenbar den zweiten Femizid.

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

And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pa...

Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)

In den Medien liest man nun, Venezuelas Staatschef Maduro wurde "festgenommen", "gefasst" oder "aufgegriffen".

Dabei wurde er durch das US-Militär entführt, Venezuela angegriffen und nein, auch das Maduro ein Diktator ist, rechtfertigt diesen Schritt nicht.

Wo bleibt Europas Reaktion?

PULS 4 Doku: Stress: Freund oder Feind? Stress, Stress und noch mal Stress – niemand mag ihn. Alle wollen ihn loswerden. Jeder 2. Österreicher meint: Stress ist schädlich. Stress nimmt zu, u

@adreisoerner.bsky.social and @markusforamitti.bsky.social appeared on camera for a PULS 4 documentary on the topic of stress — with an expert interview, a guided meditation and insights into a stresstest. 🔬🎊

👉 Check it out:
www.joyn.at/filme/puls-4...

Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

New paper out! 🥸
Over the last 50 years, people have gravitated toward music with increasingly negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics. Societal crises like COVID-19 disrupted these long-term trends, suggesting escapist music preferences at a societal level. 🎶🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

easystats really improved my coding and analysis - this is a great addition!

Had a great talk today at the ISGMA conference about our project combining musicological and psychological approaches to understand how sound artifacts are perceived and experienced. 🔔🧠

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and engaged with the ideas! Great event hosted by @fwf-at.bsky.social

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

Great experience presenting at the WASAD Congress! I discussed how Natural Language Processing can advance stress research and how music functions as a cognitive artifact. @wasadorg.bsky.social

Grateful to collaborate with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social & Urs Nater

#WASAD

New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com by PhD candidate Luise Graichen ➡️ saccades 👁️are tied to grid-like codes 🕸️ in the entorhinal cortex 🧠during memory formation: rdcu.be/eLRm2

Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social

Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...

✨My first first-author paper is out✨
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social

Wissenschafter Claus Lamm, links im Bild, und Moderator Mario Wasserfaller, rechts im Bild, sitzen an einem Tisch, sie sind von leicht oben fotografiert. Sie sprechen miteinander, vor ihnen am Tisch stehen die Mikrofone für die Podcast-Aufnahme.

Empathie hilft uns, die Welt mit den Augen anderer zu sehen. Claus Lamm, Professor für Biologische Psychologie an der #univie, erklärt im #Podcast der Rudolphina die "helle" und "dunkle" Seite der Empathie und wie das Gehirn reagiert. 🎧 Gleich rein hören! 👉 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/podcast-folg...

Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️

🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resources Slides “Everything is causal inference (and causal inference is all the same)” (MPIB 2025) “Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysis” (Wuppertal 2025) “Thinking …

There you go the materials are now on my website. Updated version contains a tiny disclaimer that you should only polynomial safely, if at all.

juliarohrer.com/resources/

Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Of course it is:

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...