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Nadine Herzog
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Cracking Brain Signals
🧠 Neuroscientist | 🎯 Dopamine & Food Reward Systems
📡 EEG-fMRI Fusion | 🤖 Deep Learning
Advancing obesity treatment through the science of cognition and reward.
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sanjanah.bsky.social
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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February 14, 2026 at 1:32 AM
ndherzog.bsky.social
Woop woop 🎉 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted in Imaging Neuroscience!

Can ventral striatal reward signals — originating from deep within the brain — be reconstructed from scalp EEG?

We tried to answer this question using deep learning.

More soon 👀 Stay tuned.
February 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
ndherzog.bsky.social
On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, this article hit me: more children are drawing scientists as women than ever before. Yay! 🎉
🤔 But still only ~30%.
Progress, yes.
Equality, not yet.
www.science.org/content/arti...
What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades
www.science.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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fraukeb.bsky.social
@cbsopenscience.bsky.social great opportunity to connect over open science in Leipzig coming up!
idiv-research.bsky.social iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 10d
📢 Call for registrations - Science:TBD
📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026

Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes:
⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer
⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social
⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier
⭐Ulrich Dirnagl
⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social

Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
February 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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studenova.bsky.social
If oscillations are modulated in amplitude from trial to trial, and those oscillations have a non-zero mean, they "create" an evoked response. It is a baseline-shift mechanism for ERP/ERF generation. Here is a simulated example of how alpha oscillations may generate readiness potential.
#brainmovies
February 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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studenova.bsky.social
I have been trying to simulate event-related alpha amplitude decrease with the Jansen-Rit model. Turns out adding external inhibitory input abolishes alpha. Pretty obvious. But how does it agree with more alpha = more inhibition?
#brainmovies
January 23, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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realscientists.de
Heute noch Thema Vereinbarkeit (Familie & Beruf). Das ist mir auch deshalb wichtig, weil ich selbst als Doktorandin so gut wie keine Professorinnen mit Kind(ern) als Vorbild hatte, mir das aber gewünscht hätte. Meine Karriere sieht auf dem Papier jetzt wie ein "Vorzeigemodell" für Vereinbarkeit aus.
January 17, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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nschawor.bsky.social
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
December 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!
martinhebart.bsky.social Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Nov 4
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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mariawalt.bsky.social
Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!

Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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plosbiology.org
Is overeating driven by hedonism? @danasmall.bsky.social &co argue that the pleasure of eating food is not a driver of the #obesity epidemic, but rather the regular consumption of an unhealthy diet blunts sensitivity to interoceptive signals that drive food reward #neurosky 🧪
plos.io/4nTlHQc
Photograph of a half-eaten jam doughnut. Image by Alexander Fox | PlaNet Fox from Pixabay.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
Wer in der Wissenschaft als exzellent gelten will, muss sichtbar sein. Nur: Frauen werden für Sichtbarkeit abgestraft. Sie können es schlicht nicht richtig machen! Kein Wunder, dass Gleichstellung im dt. Wissenschaftssystem schleppend vorangeht. Das #Sichtbarkeitsparadox: heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!
Das Sichtbarkeitsparadox: Warum Wissenschaftlerinnen es nicht richtig…
Als exzellent gelten setzt voraus, sichtbar zu sein. Wissenschaftlerinnen werden jedoch für Sichtbarkeit abgestraft. Egal was sie tun: Sie können es nur falsch machen!
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
ndherzog.bsky.social
Big shake-up for dopamine theory?
This new @NatureComms paper argues that VTA dopamine isn’t signaling reward prediction error but instead modulates force and performance.
If true, it decouples learning from motivation and puts pressure on decades of RPE-based models.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dopamine dynamics during stimulus-reward learning in mice can be explained by performance rather than learning - Nature Communications
VTA dopamine activity control movement-related performance, not reward prediction errors. Here, authors show that behavioral changes during Pavlovian learning explain DA activity regardless of reward ...
www.nature.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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lkjanssen.bsky.social
Fresh from the press 🍃
In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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studenova.bsky.social
Functional connectivity (FC) is driven by 1/f. The approach: compute FC as usual, compute FC only with ROI where oscillations are 'present', then compare. Alpha lives, but not other bands. Idk, seems overstated. If beta comes in bursts: no peak, but could be FC
doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1041-25.2025
Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling
Functional connectivity (FC) has attracted significant interest in the identification of specific circuits underlying brain (dys-)function. Classical analyses to estimate FC ( i.e ., filtering electro...
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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nikweiskopf.bsky.social
We are looking for “Data Scientist or ML/AI expert” who will work at the cutting edge of data science and neuromaging in a collaboration between @mpicbs.bsky.social and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF).

Deadline: 10th Nov. 2025.

Apply here:
Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d)
Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d) to join the AI and High-Performance Data Analytics division of MPCDF.
www.mpcdf.mpg.de
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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nbkroemer.bsky.social
Published now (after long last & 10 citations). Although tVNS does not alter food reward ratings in healthy people, it acutely improved liking ratings in patients with MDD (also correlated with anhedonia). #neuroskyence 🩺

Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs Although the ideal randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for causal inference, real randomized trials often suffer from imperfections that may hamper causal effect estimation. Stating the estimand of interest can help reduce confusion about what is being estimated, but it is often difficult to determine what is and is not identifiable given a trial’s specific imperfections. We demonstrate how directed acyclic graphs can be used to elucidate the consequences of common imperfections, such as noncompliance, unblinding, and drop-out, for the identification of the intention-to-treat effect, the total treatment effect and the physiological treatment effect. We assert that the physiological treatment effect is not identifiable outside a trial with perfect compliance and no dropout, where blinding is perfectly maintained Table 1 showing the Identifiability of target estimands depending on whether there is blinding, full compliance, and no drop-out An example DAG from the paper. Fig. 4: A blinded trial with noncompliance. U are unobserved confounders, Z is treatment assignment, C is compliance, X is the realized treatment, S is the subject's physical and mental health status, Xself and Xcln are the treatment that the participant and the clinician believed the participant received, Y is the outcome.
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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natmetabolism.nature.com
#Throwback 🧪

REVIEW | Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis

@elizschneider.bsky.social‬
‪@jfcryan.bsky.social et al
Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis - Nature Metabolism
This Review provides an overview of the interplay between host diet and the gut microbiota, and how this affects brain function.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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omegalab.bsky.social
🧠 Join Our Team! 🧠
2 PhD candidates and 1 Study Nurse positions ope as part of our new RCT within the LeiCeM Excellence Cluster.
- PhD (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/35e5tbhy
- PhD within the IMPRIS-CONI (deadline:02/11): tinyurl.com/y9yt4akf
- Study Nurse (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/4zztjmj9
www.uniklinikum-leipzig.de
October 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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studenova.bsky.social
I read books on various topics. This time, I picked up a book that I thought would be about cognitive science, but turned out to be political. Still, the central argument applies to the lives of every scientist. “The Bias That Divides Us” by Keith E. Stanovich
www.alinastudenova.com/home/blog/bo...
Alina Studenova - myside-bias
Have you ever argued with someone about a political issue and lost your temper because they just didn’t seem to hear your arguments? Why don’t they hear your arguments? Your arguments were perfectly s...
www.alinastudenova.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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studenova.bsky.social
Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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michaelgaebler.com
In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · Sep 23
'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM