Today we are celebrating the achievements and endeavours of women and girls in science. Recognised or not, their work has been essential to scientific progress. Often ground breaking, sometimes overlooked, but always impactful.
#WomenInSTEM #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
It was a fantastic workshop with a great instructor! I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to use Git for their research!
Already missing this office…Had a great time during my short-term research visit @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and in Boston.
@bwhpsychresidency.bsky.social
@harvardmed.bsky.social
Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem!
She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.
Sadly learned of the passing of Prof. Margaret Boden, an inspiring thinker.
Grateful I had the chance to listen to her talk 7 years ago at the "2018 Religion & Science Conference: AI & Consciousness", organized by Cambridge Muslim College.
I found the video, highly recommend it:
bit.ly/3IJHoUb
Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666065v1
New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The opening page of the Annual Review of Psychology article by Traci Mann and Andrew Ward (2025), entitled The Self-Control of Eating. https://tinyurl.com/bdnebw79 (open access)
As somebody who studies self-control (but is bad at it), I read this 2025 open-access review on the self-control of eating (tinyurl.com/bdnebw79) by Mann & Ward w/ great personal interest. I highly recommend it, esp. if you study self-control and/or want to deal w/ your eating regulation challenges.
3/ If you're interested, feel free to join us via MS Teams at 12:00 (CET):
Meeting ID: 389 620 314 848 5
Passcode: pC9QU6uR
2/ Today, I’ll be giving a talk there as a PhD student. It means a lot to return to the place where my curiosity for science truly began. I’m grateful to my former supervisor, @mattlongo.bsky.social not only for the kind invitation and for staying in touch all these years, but also for his guidance.
1/ Exactly 9 years ago, I did my very first international lab internship as a curious, naive undergraduate student at Body Representation Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. It was my very first hands-on research experience and one of the reasons I chose to pursue an academic path.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:
The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
I read a really old article on broad and narrow attention by Wachtel (1967), and I found this sentence deeply relatable "...the extremely anxious individual becomes a slave to minor variations in the perceptual field, which demand most of his attention and leave him confused and disorganized."
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Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/
I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!
Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !
Deadline Sun 6th July
I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social.
A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions.
#PUG2025
Our symposium continues with @ondrejzika.bsky.social talking about the role of trait anxiety in contextual inference.
@gamerlab.bsky.social
#PUG2025
Attention attention! ⏰ Last 20 minutes to drop by Room 2.007 to discuss our recent 7T MRI study togwther with @jasbisch.gitlab.io #PUG2025
Kicking off the PUG conference with a great talk by @danielamier.bsky.social – looking forward to an inspiring few days ahead!
The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org
Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡
🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf
#PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning
I draw the red line for Gaza
Join us for a zoom talk by Renee Thompson on
"The everyday #emotional experiences of individuals with #depressive psychopathology"
5 June - 2:30pm CEST
@tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
Absolutely well deserved!
Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025
Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025
🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!
This Friday, May 16th, the brain meeting speaker will be Ron Mangun with a talk entitled "Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will"
All are welcome to join us in person or online. Details here:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/brain-...
After serving 130 million meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March.
wck.org/news/gaza-up...
Congratulations to my former supervisor @mattlongo.bsky.social on the publication of "The Invisible Hand". Grateful to have learned from him during my academic journey!
