Christian Bäuchl
@lifeofthemind.bsky.social
psychologist, postdoc at TU Dresden
working on cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory and decision making
working on cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory and decision making
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
Perfectly encapsulates why reading Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens" was such a frustrating experience.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Perfectly encapsulates why reading Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens" was such a frustrating experience.
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Besten 1:42 Stunden, die man sich zu diesem Thema anhören kann! Große Empfehlung von @mattxiv.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/23LB...
open.spotify.com/episode/23LB...
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Besten 1:42 Stunden, die man sich zu diesem Thema anhören kann! Große Empfehlung von @mattxiv.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/23LB...
open.spotify.com/episode/23LB...
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Erkenntnis: man soll Faschos nicht nach dem Maul reden, sondern sie bekämpfen.
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Erkenntnis: man soll Faschos nicht nach dem Maul reden, sondern sie bekämpfen.
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
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Why I left academia and neuroscience.
This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Why I left academia and neuroscience.
This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
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job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃
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Terrific video. I knew this book would be bad but I was genuinely shocked at just *how* bad
September 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Terrific video. I knew this book would be bad but I was genuinely shocked at just *how* bad
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American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine:
"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️
"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️
August 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine:
"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️
"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️
"...Baumgartner, der Fan von Viktor Orbán war und in Österreich gern eine „gemäßigte Diktatur“ gesehen hätte... leugnete ... den Klimawandel, und ... war während der Pandemie für eine Durchseuchung. Sein Standpunk: das alles, was ihn einschränkt, rigoros bekämpft gehört."
taz.de/Felix-Baumga....
taz.de/Felix-Baumga....
Felix Baumgartner verunglückt: Die größte aller Ich-Hupen
Dass bei dem tödlichen Unfall Baumgartners auch eine Frau verletzt wurde, wird kaum berichtet. Der Extremsportler sorgte sich wenig um andere.
taz.de
July 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"...Baumgartner, der Fan von Viktor Orbán war und in Österreich gern eine „gemäßigte Diktatur“ gesehen hätte... leugnete ... den Klimawandel, und ... war während der Pandemie für eine Durchseuchung. Sein Standpunk: das alles, was ihn einschränkt, rigoros bekämpft gehört."
taz.de/Felix-Baumga....
taz.de/Felix-Baumga....
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You know I think it’s best not to rise to Friedrich Merz’s dumb outrage bait. Why don’t we all stipulate to facts we all recognize — that Germany’s chancellor hates LGBT people — and move on?
Bundestag "kein Zirkuszelt": Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat sich bei "Maischberger" hinter Julia Klöckners Verbot der Regenbogenflagge gestellt
Merz zu Regenbogenfahne am CSD: Bundestag "kein Zirkuszelt"
(Politik - Deutschland) Der Bundeskanzler hat sich hinter die Entscheidung von Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner gestellt, zum CSD nicht mehr die Regenbogenflagge zu hissen.
www.queer.de
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
You know I think it’s best not to rise to Friedrich Merz’s dumb outrage bait. Why don’t we all stipulate to facts we all recognize — that Germany’s chancellor hates LGBT people — and move on?
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
May 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
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Excellent piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. We all need to campaign for the UK government to tax wealth in its upcoming spending review & budget.
bsky.app/profile/geor...
bsky.app/profile/geor...
It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Excellent piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. We all need to campaign for the UK government to tax wealth in its upcoming spending review & budget.
bsky.app/profile/geor...
bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Wir beobachten, wie Rechte - zunehmend auch in Deutschland - "Antisemitismus" lediglich in "Kritik an Netanjahu" sehen, während sie selbst frei antisemtisch sein dürfen, solange sie nur die israelische Regierung unterstützen.
Donald Trump hat gestern behauptet, der jüdische Vorsitzende der Demokraten Chuck #Schumer "used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.” Da sind wir also: die ideologische Bestimmung von Jüdischkeit durch einen Rechtsradikalen. Mazzel Tov an alle, die das möglich gemacht haben.
March 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Wir beobachten, wie Rechte - zunehmend auch in Deutschland - "Antisemitismus" lediglich in "Kritik an Netanjahu" sehen, während sie selbst frei antisemtisch sein dürfen, solange sie nur die israelische Regierung unterstützen.
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Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The End of the Postwar World
Trump and Vance are sending a dark message to America’s allies.
www.theatlantic.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
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Our study on the effects on L-DOPA on grid-like activity is published! Thanks to the whole team
Lorenz Gönner, @lifeofthemind.bsky.social, Franka Glöckner, Philipp Riedel, Michael Smolka and Shu-Chen Li
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Lorenz Gönner, @lifeofthemind.bsky.social, Franka Glöckner, Philipp Riedel, Michael Smolka and Shu-Chen Li
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
October 5, 2023 at 11:21 AM
Our study on the effects on L-DOPA on grid-like activity is published! Thanks to the whole team
Lorenz Gönner, @lifeofthemind.bsky.social, Franka Glöckner, Philipp Riedel, Michael Smolka and Shu-Chen Li
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Lorenz Gönner, @lifeofthemind.bsky.social, Franka Glöckner, Philipp Riedel, Michael Smolka and Shu-Chen Li
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...