Ambra Ferrari
@ambrafer.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow @cimecunitrento.bsky.social (Trento, IT) pondering how we (learn to) communicate before and beyond words. https://ambrafer.github.io/
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Ambra Ferrari
@ambrafer.bsky.social
· Sep 24
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication
Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
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Dr Daniël Lakens presents 'When & How to Deviate From a Preregistration.' Essential for research integrity. Register:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
#Preregistration #OpenScience #DataScience #Statistics #AcademicResearch @lakens.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
#Preregistration #OpenScience #DataScience #Statistics #AcademicResearch @lakens.bsky.social
When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens
Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dr Daniël Lakens presents 'When & How to Deviate From a Preregistration.' Essential for research integrity. Register:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
#Preregistration #OpenScience #DataScience #Statistics #AcademicResearch @lakens.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
#Preregistration #OpenScience #DataScience #Statistics #AcademicResearch @lakens.bsky.social
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I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
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A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs
So important
As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
October 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So important
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🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication
Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
September 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication
Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
Reposted by Ambra Ferrari
Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review?
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
Formative And Interactive Review (FAIR)
🌱 Formative And Interactive Review (FAIR) 🌱
Reviewer Zero's Formative and Interactive Review (FAIR) draft feedback program is designed for early career researchers (ECRs) to receive feedback on a draf...
www.reviewerzero.net
September 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review?
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social
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This paper shows that some human "gestalt" style visual processing can emerge in purely feedforward deep nets with the right inductive biases and fine-tuning:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI
A feedforward mechanism for human-like contour integration
Author summary A central challenge in vision science is understanding how the visual system links fragmented local features into coherent object representations. One foundational process supporting th...
journals.plos.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This paper shows that some human "gestalt" style visual processing can emerge in purely feedforward deep nets with the right inductive biases and fine-tuning:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI
Looking forward to meeting many colleagues in beautiful Padova this September! 😊🧠🧪 Join us!
⏳ The registration deadline for #INCTN2025 is fast approaching — 31 Aug!
Don’t miss the chance to join us in Padova 🇮🇹 this September for exciting neuroscience discussions 🧠✨
👉 Register here: registrations.meetandwork.com/Login.asp?ID...
ℹ️ More info: www.incn.it/registration/
Don’t miss the chance to join us in Padova 🇮🇹 this September for exciting neuroscience discussions 🧠✨
👉 Register here: registrations.meetandwork.com/Login.asp?ID...
ℹ️ More info: www.incn.it/registration/
INCTN 2025 - Italian Network for Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience - Login
registrations.meetandwork.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Looking forward to meeting many colleagues in beautiful Padova this September! 😊🧠🧪 Join us!
Phd students benefit from the infrastructure of a graduate school. But postdocs need guidance too. @brittawestner.bsky.social @devoogdld.bsky.social and I were the first to advocate for this as Donders postdoc reps. Now postdocs have a dedicated coordinator—a unique position on campus. Wonderful!
August 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Phd students benefit from the infrastructure of a graduate school. But postdocs need guidance too. @brittawestner.bsky.social @devoogdld.bsky.social and I were the first to advocate for this as Donders postdoc reps. Now postdocs have a dedicated coordinator—a unique position on campus. Wonderful!
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We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
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The what and when of visual surprise:
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
June 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The what and when of visual surprise:
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
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Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Volatility-driven learning in human infants
Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.
www.science.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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📢 BottiniLab is hiring!
Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).
🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw
#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs
Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).
🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw
#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs
June 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
📢 BottiniLab is hiring!
Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).
🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw
#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs
Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).
🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw
#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs
Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
erc.europa.eu
June 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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🚨 Great PhD opportunity to work with James McQueen and Orhun Ulusahin on the NWO-funded project ’Plugging talkers in: A new solution to the variability problem in human speech recognition’! Deadline 13th of June 📅
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position at the Donders Centre for Cognition: Talker Variability in Speech Recognition | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
June 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨 Great PhD opportunity to work with James McQueen and Orhun Ulusahin on the NWO-funded project ’Plugging talkers in: A new solution to the variability problem in human speech recognition’! Deadline 13th of June 📅
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Let's make Bluesky the home of independent news.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
December 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Let's make Bluesky the home of independent news.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
Unlike X, where algorithms crush links & push content you don't want, news flourishes here. Particularly news from independent & non-profit outlets.
If you prefer news away from MSM, here's a starter pack to share with valuable & verified accounts.
Reposted by Ambra Ferrari
🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
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Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...
The SAFE Labs Handbook: community-driven commitments for group leaders to improve lab culture
Creating positive and equitable lab environments has become a growing priority for the scientific community and funders of scientific research. Research institutions typically respond to this need by ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...