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Vanessa Teckentrup
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Neuroscience/Psychology · IRC GOIPD Holder · Digital Mental Health · Smartphone Science · Brain Stimulation · Brain-Body Communication
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Thanks to everyone who was there!

It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱

Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k

Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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I’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature

Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward.

Full text here:
rdcu.be/eY5nh
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases.

🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed).

First up: item quality.
A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items.

👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...
What makes a good ESM / EMA survey item?
blog.m-path.io
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Are you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on?

Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab)

We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting:

www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

#neuroscience 🧪
RetINaBox: A Hands-On Learning Tool for Experimental Neuroscience
An exciting aspect of neuroscience is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, the experiment and discovery component of neuroscience is...
www.eneuro.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data!

Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210...

Code: github.com/DepressionCe...
EMA-CleanR: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Data Processing in R
teamdynamix.umich.edu
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.

If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs

Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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It’s a great study, and I’m excited to see this entering public awareness! But there’s still much more to cover, as BOLD coincides with other metabolic changes, including anaerobic metabolism and lactic acid production. In fact, others have proposed ↑CBF may help regulate local pH homeostasis.
December 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Horrifying glimpse into a possible future of the scientific information ecosystem.

Fake papers cited dozens of times in real journals, and indexed in our most commonly used databases -- As this grows, it could become a corruption of the literature impossible to undo.

1/2

#academicsky 🧠🟦
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
www.pnas.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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One initial line of defense could be to require transparency statements regarding how instruments have been vetted to combat malicious users, based on best practices (like a STAR editor check). In a recent workshop, we aimed to create such a compendium (see @andreaaaaa.bsky.social for access)!
December 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!

In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Last preprint 🎶(of the year).

If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”

In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.

rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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📣I’m excited to share our new preprint on how our body’s energy supply shapes everyday stress experiences:

📄𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Higher glucose levels buffer against everyday stress load
Adaptive stress responses are dependent on the availability of energy and the body's effectiveness in metabolizing glucose as fuel. However, it is not well understood if glucose levels contribute to t...
www.biorxiv.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Your stomach called – your striatum picked up!

But does this actually happen in humans?

Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need.

Here’s what we found👇
Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3

#neuroskyence #🩺
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨.
Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺
www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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'Robust circular cluster-based statistics
for respiration-brain coupling'

New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses.

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵🔽
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🚨 Preprint alert: Do 1) smartphone event log data access and 2) the Experience Sampling Method cause reactivity effects in studies? @dougaparry.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, and I investigated this very question using data from 815 German Android users.

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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New perspective paper out now in @plosbiology.org with a few thoughts on #interoception: What it is (or rather is not), how it can inform therapeutic interventions, and where (we think) the field of brain-body #neuroskyence has yet to find more solid ground to build on.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Beyond the buzz: Grounding interoceptive interventions in mechanisms of brain–body coupling
The field of interoception research is growing at a rapid pace. This Perspective highlights why establishing both mechanistic insight and construct validity will be critical prerequisites for developi...
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Metacognition is a term with lots of meanings, especially in mental health. Together with Lena Jelinek and Steffen Moritz, @seowxft.bsky.social has taken on the mammoth task of bringing these different fields together in our latest paper.
Have a read how we think they can inform each other 👇🏼
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy to say that our overview of how to modify your taVNS setup for safe use in the MR scanner is now published!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/jon....

There are more details in the thread below but next to lower temperatures 🌡️, we also saw better signal-to-noise ratio with the modification 📶 #neuroskyence
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM