Daniela M. Pfabigan

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later

The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA

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📢Deadline to submit your Symposia & Structured Panels abstracts is March 3, 2026, at 11:59 ET! Link for more info here: sprweb.org/wp-content/u...

First post on Bluesky - here we go! 😊

I’m working on a new book chapter on pupillometry in emotion and emotion regulation research, and would love to hear about relevant papers, preprints, or ongoing work in this area.

Please share or tag colleagues!

#pupil #emotion #emotionregulation

We should rename these types of funnel plots to ‘avalanche plots’

Woohoo!! 🎉🧠 #EEG

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Does anyone have experience with heart rate synchrony analysis of dyads doing something together?

Any practical tips and literature for newbies appreciated!

Call for PostDoc applications: Find the project on Social Touch during Stress by @fbublatzky.bsky.social and myself as #35.
Please reach out to us for any questions and to discuss your thoughts on the project. Colleagues, please repost or forward to candidates. 🧠🫂👇

I can imagine, hahaha!!

Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠

#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition

Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe

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...

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.

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I have an early Christmas present for you! 🎅

Happy to announce that we have three excellent keynote speakers at Psychology and Brain 2026 in Heidleberg!

Professors Shamay-Tsoory, Schönauer and Allen will cover topics from empathy over memory to interoception!

pug2026.org

Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

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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 #🩺

The ESCAN Rome 2026 website is finally live! 🎉https://escan2026.eu/
We are working to make ESCAN 2026 a 4-day event dedicated to groundbreaking and rigorous science, an inclusive space, enriched with engaging social activities, great food, all set in the stunning backdrop of the Eternal City ✨.

** 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)

Comparing Methods for Mass Univariate Analyses of Human EEG: Empirical Data and Simulations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.19.689266v1

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

Woohoo, this is fantastic news!! Congrats!! 🎉

We are hiring, come work with us!

Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department

Deadline: December 1st

#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky

Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices?

Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️

Equitable Research Funding: Strategies, Challenges and the Role of Funding Agencies Equitable research funding is key to scientific progress, yet underrepresented groups still face systemic barriers. Drawing on insights from major funders, this paper outlines how equity, diversity a...

💡 DAY 1 related read: Equitable research funding: Strategies, challenges and the role of funding agencies
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Learn how funding agencies are promoting equity in grant allocation and why resource management is a key challenge for early-career PIs, connecting to Ep 2 of our podcast. 🧵

I will be reviewing graduate student applications in the Social Psychology Area at Miami University for the 2025–2026 application cycle (Ph.D. start date: Fall 2026).

Learn more about the Affective Science & Psychophysiology Lab and how to apply on the “Join Us” tab at www.darwinguevarra.com

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Doing a lit search and finding many recent papers still using the jet colormap 😭😭😭

Please don't use this colormap for anything because it's not perceptually uniform (changes of equal size don't look equal) and not friendly to people with variant colour vision.

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Check out the new Psychophysiology special issue "Psychophysiology on Physiological and Neurophysiological Synchronisation between individuals – Methodological Approaches and Evaluations". Submit by 28 February 2026! @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social

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Don't miss the ALBA-IBRO Social during #SfN2025! At a time when equity efforts in science face resistance, this social offers a chance to connect & reflect
📅 16 Nov 2025 | 19:00-20:30 PST
📍 Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, US

Join us! https://ibro.org/event/alba-ibro-social-sfn-2025/
ALBA Network

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Ghrelin and risky decision-making: No credible evidence for homeostatic state modulation of neural or behavioural effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683454v1

The #2025SPR President's Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Representation featured some fantastic discussions of necessary considerations and improvements to be made in our research approaches! @therealspr.bsky.social

15 Doctoral Candidate positions for MSCA Doctoral Network "Brain Health in Menopausal Women (MenoBrain)" - multiple locations within the EU The Doctoral Network MenoBrain “Brain Health in Menopausal Women" is recruiting 15 highly motivated Doctoral Candidates (DCs). The offered positions are available with a starting date in February 2026...

🚀 Doctoral Network #MenoBrain - 15 Open PhD Positions! 🚀

We are currently recruiting 15 PhDs candidates for our Doctoral Network #MenoBrain “Brain Health in Menopausal Women”, funded as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

I am hiring for DC4!

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We (Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, University of Porto) are seeking candidates interested in applying to a PhD scholarship in the field of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience in 2026. Come join us!

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