Enya Weidner
banner
eweidner1.bsky.social
Enya Weidner
@eweidner1.bsky.social
PhD || neuroscience of emotions in Bielefeld || artist in Dortmund || birds
Pinned
This took a WHILE but here it is!! The last part of my PhD work is now published @commsbio.nature.com 🕊 We uncovered the temporal and spatial context that define the mTL's role in fear processing. Huge thank you to my co-authors, reviewers, editors, and participants 💖

rdcu.be/exQKb
Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes
Communications Biology - Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear...
rdcu.be
Reposted by Enya Weidner
"What is baseline, maladaptive, rest or post depends on context" - great presidential address by Christine Larson at #SPR2025
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🍁🍂 (or: if you are interested in amygdalar contributions to verbal emotion processing come to my poster 44-3 on Friday #SPR2025 @therealspr.bsky.social)
October 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
How does human amygdala circuitry develop through adolescence to support affective and cognitive control processes? Excited to share recent work from my dissertation, now out in Cell Reports, that uses longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging at 7 Tesla to answer this question! A 🧵 tinyurl.com/5aaf9fpv
Human amygdala nuclei show distinct developmental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in functional integration with prefrontal circuitry
Ojha et al. use longitudinal 7 T neuroimaging to characterize distinct developmental trajectories of fronto-amygdala connectivity across nuclei through adolescence. They identify how age-related conne...
www.cell.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
Reposted by Enya Weidner
Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear perception, while the left down-regulates it continuously.
@eweidner1.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes - Communications Biology
Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear perception, while the left d...
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This took a WHILE but here it is!! The last part of my PhD work is now published @commsbio.nature.com 🕊 We uncovered the temporal and spatial context that define the mTL's role in fear processing. Huge thank you to my co-authors, reviewers, editors, and participants 💖

rdcu.be/exQKb
Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes
Communications Biology - Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear...
rdcu.be
July 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
If you're gonna assign ontological properties to a fucking AI bro I'm gonna walk out of here right now.
July 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
There’s a reason Peter Thiel hesitated when asked in a recent interview if he “would prefer the human race to endure”:

Within certain tech circles, pro-extinctionism is a mainstream ideology—and some are trying to realize it.

A must-read by @xriskology.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity | TechPolicy.Press
If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.
techpolicy.press
July 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)
Bewerberfrist: 06.07.2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
July 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
No neuroscience but my favorite compilation of pictures of myself
July 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
June 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Hellooooo Würzburg! @pug2025.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social I have to admit I am here since Monday but all I have got to know is the inside of the university library and the stunning view from up here. Looking forward to talk to somebody besides my computer soon! 🌸
June 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
"Der Wettbewerb ist spannender denn je" - ich habe mir Wissenschaft ja irgendwie anders vorgestellt als ich damals angefangen habe zu studieren.
‼️Ebenso wissen wir jetzt, dass sich 15 Unis Hoffnung machen dürfen, im Neuantragsverfahren als Exzellenzuniversität ausgewählt zu werden. Der Wettbewerb um Spitzenforschung und internationale Sichtbarkeit ist spannender denn je!

Alles zum Neuantragsverfahren: www.wissenschaftsrat.de/DE/Aufgabenf...
May 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
In a recent podcast @dyamins.bsky.social argues: "We want to be able to use the model of the digital brain as a neurobiomedical discovery and diagnostic design platform." neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/buildin... - That view is popular and I believe that there is a fundamental logical error. Thread
Building AI simulations of the human brain
In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Dan Yamins explores how foundation models of the human brain could
neuroscience.stanford.edu
May 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Our lab now also moved to the cool kids' twitter! @sanlabbielefeld.bsky.social 🫶
April 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus!

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Damn I did it... I successfully completed my PhD. More than anything I am grateful for every bit of help I got along the way. I do not have an academic background and I always felt like I was a little behind. Thanks to my family, colleague, and friends, I did it 😭❤️ I am so excited for what's next!!
February 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Enya Weidner
📢 New preprint from the lab:

We are very excited to report the discovery of an oscillation in the Central Thalamus using rare direct recordings of human thalamic electrophysiology.

The novel oscillation is tightly coupled to specific, natural states of consciousness.🧵
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635248v1
January 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Finally made it over here!
December 1, 2024 at 8:17 PM