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Tina Lonsdorf
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Professor of Biological Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience @unibielefeld & Emmy-Nöther Group "Fear Profiles" Systems Neuroscience, UKE Hamburg
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The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online!

Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany

More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.

pug2026.org

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
pug2026.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology
open.lnu.se
October 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
September 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
Psychometric Considerations in Assessing Fear Generalization as a Predictor of Anxiety
The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival in ever-changing environments and may contribute to t…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Noradrenergic activation of the BLA promotes the formation of discrete memories of similar events that were experienced close in time, via a miR-134-regulated consolidation process within the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time - Nature Neuroscience
Atucha et al. provide evidence that noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala facilitates the formation of discrete memories of similar events experienced close in time via a miR-134-regula...
www.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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
Last lecture of the summer term: Check ✅
July 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
arxiv.org
July 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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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
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WOW, what a journey! Finally, our new paper is published in the Journal of Personality Assessment! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]
GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM
The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.
shorturl.at
May 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Nur noch einen Monat bis zur Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg @pug2025.bsky.social - wir freuen uns schon! www.pug2025.org
PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!
www.pug2025.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
still a couple of days left to apply!
⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...
Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha...
In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A few days are still left until 30 April! Apply for the WissKomm prize of the DGPs & DGPA at the PUG 2025 with your science communication project!
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
April 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!
Research Associate (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
April 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...
Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha...
In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Our new preprint has now been reviewed at @elife.bsky.social

We report that nocebo effects in pain are stronger and more persistent than placebo effects in healthy individuals!

Read it here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Nocebo effects are stronger and more persistent than placebo effects in healthy individuals
elifesciences.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!
Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK
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March 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!
Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK
tinyurl.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
March 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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2 Postdoc positions with my fabulous new colleague @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social - chair of biopsychology @tudresden.bsky.social
- thanks for sharing -
@dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
March 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM