@cen-mpib
We research the interplay between the environment and human well-being and brain health at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-centers/environmental-neuroscience
Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!
The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer
📢 #CallForParticipation: Nachwuchsforschende aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum und Südafrika haben die Chance, an einem Workshop zu „Klimawandel und mentaler Gesundheit“ vom 8. bis 10. September 2026 in Südafrika teilzunehmen. 🇿🇦 Bis Freitag, 3. April 2026 bewerben: www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...
Last Thursday, postdoc Sonja Sudimac joined @berlinualliance.bsky.social's annual Career Day to talk about her career journey. A good opportunity for researchers from different fields to get together, and a nice break from the computer/lab! 👩🔬
www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitmen...
🚨 Student Job Alert 🚨
Unsere Serviceeinheit Scientific Technology and Computing sucht eine Studentische Hilfskraft zur Unterstützung und Betreuung von IT- und Technologielösungen in Forschungslaboren und der organisatorischen Mitarbeit im Laborbetrieb.
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2259305/2026...
🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨
Laura Desirée di Paolo will present the ERC project XSCAPE – Material Minds, an interdisciplinary effort to understand how artefacts actively participate in cognitive processes and in the formation of mental models.
Join us!
📅 20 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online
shorturl.at/IxjRu
🎉 The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are now accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social.
This is a unique longitudinal data set with great potential – also for young scientists.
👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/base-data-av...
Die Daten der Berliner Altersstudie (BASE) sind ab sofort über das Forschungsdatenzentrum des ZPID @zpid.bsky.social weltweit für Forschende verfügbar.
Ein einzigartiger Langzeitdatensatz mit großem Potenzial – auch für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs.
👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/datenschatz-...
Our new mobile MRI scanner brings state-of-the-art imaging directly to the field—without compromising data quality! Read more about the 1,5 Tesla and our plans with it: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new...
#Neuroscience #FieldResearch #InnovationInScience #BrainScience #NewYearNewGoals
Ta-da! We are proud to present our new mobile MRI scanner, which will enable us to conduct neuroscience research in the field.
#NewYearNewGoals: We're kicking off the new year with a "little" surprise 🌟
Take a peek! More soon...
#LoveScience #ScientificCuriosity #ScienceForward #Innovation #MaxPlanckSociety
This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉
Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
New paper involving LIP members @brandmaier.bsky.social & Ulman Lindenberger, LIP alumna Sandra Düzel, as well as colleague Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social! 📣
🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨
The idea that spending time in natural settings can promote health and well-being is not new, so why is it so hard to implement?
Today we are lucky to host health and environmental psychologist Mat White @univie.ac.at. Join us!
📅 9 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online
shorturl.at/VwDe4
🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨
We are pleased to host Dr Ivan Kroupin @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social for his talk 'From village to metropolis: Predictable and pervasive changes to visual and cognitive environments as a function of general evolutionary pressures'
📅 2 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online
shorturl.at/JfJgM
New preprint is out! @cen-mpib.bsky.social
The Blind Spot in Research on Nature’s Benefits: Restorative versus Instorative Effects and Potential Biases
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
🧠From Perception to Appraisal: Hierarchical Brain Responses to Natural and Built Features in Urban Environments🧠
New pre-print from Carolina Zaehme & @izzysander.bsky.social, with
@aleksandrskoselevs.bsky.social, Simone Kühn and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social
Worth reading the whole thread! ⬇️
The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology
🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET
Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?
➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX
#Neuroskyence
Have you ever wondered why your mind suddenly feels unburdened in the presence of trees? Outdoor spaces are scientifically proven to soothe the nervous system—and quickly. VIU Environmental Psychologist Dr. Lindsay McCunn explains for @outsidemag.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lNdCwk
🚨New paper🚨
What makes a room visually appealing? Kira Pohlmann @mpib-berlin.bsky.social led a study asking people to decorate a virtual living room. Most chose angular furniture over curved, challenging the idea that people naturally prefer softer and rounder shapes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Direktorin Simone Kühne @mpib-berlin.bsky.social ist auch am 13.11. dabei, und wird ein Impulsvortrag um 11.15 Uhr zum Thema 'Ins Grüne? Wie Natur-Erleben Gehirn und Verhalten beeinflussen' halten.
⌚Anmelden für das virtuelle Symposium hier: www.leopoldina.org/veranstaltun...
🚨 The Power of Wellbeing
🚨 Epigenetic Studies in Twins
We are thrilled to be co-hosting epigenetics researchers Dr Jenny van Dongen and Dr Meike Bartels at the
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social next week. Join us live or online on 4.11. for their fascinating talks.
➡️ shorturl.at/z3v2s
➡️ shorturl.at/p9dW1
One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).
We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin!
Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications
🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...
🚨CEN Colloquium🚨
Thanks to Andreas Pohlmann for introducing us to his beautiful photographs yesterday.
"Nothing is beautiful, nothing is ugly... Every habitat has its own value."
"To perpetuate life...this is the beauty of nature."
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43201...
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social
💻 Last week 💻
@isdedal.bsky.social and @nourtawil.bsky.social were at the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture conference presenting their upcoming paper (w Claire Pauley) on how the brain processes face-like house façades 🏠
#ANFA2025 #Neuroscience #Architecture #EnvironmentalNeuroscience
Our director, Simone Kühn is also on the MPSCogs faculty. Applications for PhD positions and scholarships are open now: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
The call for Max Planck Research Groups 2025 is open (9 Sep–14 Oct). Postdocs can launch independent careers w/ 6+ yrs, budget, team & world-class support.
👉 mpg.de/max-planck-research-groups
#AcademicJobs #PostdocOpportunities #PostdocAppreciationWeek
🌍🧠 Climate change also takes a toll on mental health. The new Lancet Psychiatry Commission @thelancetpsych.bsky.social aims to develop solutions to integrate mental health into climate and health strategies. @cen-mpib.bsky.social is also taking part.
👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2155581/lanc...
A scientist stands in front of an A0-sized poster on "Exploring infants' visual preferences in the context of natural versus urban landscapes. She has blue hair, is dressed in black, and wears an orange lanyard around her neck. She is smiling proudly at the camera.
Spot CEN postdoc @marlena-mayer.bsky.social at last week's International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development @lancasteruni.bsky.social. She introduced the MPIB's new #babylab, and presented a study design on infants' visual preferences for natural v urban landscapes 🐿️
#LCICD2025 #funki
