Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development

CEN Colloquium, Mat White: From “sure, nature is good” to “okay we need to take this seriously”

🚨 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

New paper involving LIP members @brandmaier.bsky.social & Ulman Lindenberger, LIP alumna Sandra Düzel, as well as colleague Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social! 📣

Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme at UCL - London, City of London, England job with University College London (UCL) | 12848765 About us The Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology (NPP) has outstanding research strength in areas that span receptor pharma

If you’re an aspiring group leader in neuroscience, physiology or pharmacology (or all three), there’s still plenty of time to apply to join our fantastic department. #sciencejobs
@uclnpp.bsky.social
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge

I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What ideas would you add? 💡

#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Online talk on value-directed remembering coming up Dec 9!

Ihr Gehirn ist erst mit 32 erwachsen?: Was Ihnen bisher keiner über die virale Studie gesagt hat Eine neue Studie behauptet, unser Gehirn sei bis in die frühen Dreißiger nicht erwachsen, sondern jugendlich. Ganz so einfach ist es aber nicht. Zeit, das zu überprüfen.

🧠Eine Studie behauptet, das Gehirn sei erst mit 32 vollständig ausgereift. 𝐔𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @lipmpib.bsky.social warnt im Tagesspiegel jedoch vor solchen vereinfachenden Aussagen.

www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/ihr-g...

OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis

@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stylized logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!

Check out this new TICS piece from @clmich.bsky.social, which reviews the multifaceted ways in which neuroplasticity and adversity interact throughout development.

🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146

Expertise‐Dependent Brain Network Organization During Music Perception Brain state dynamics adjust to the processing demands of different musical pieces, with higher expertise linked to higher network integration and flexibility in functional organization, enabling more...

New article by LIP colleague Eleftheria Papadaki at al. (including @brandmaier.bsky.social and others) out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Information and energetic efficiency of collectives moving in dynamic media

🚨Next week's talk at ARC

We cordially invite you to join the talk by Dr. Hannah Williams (Universität Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior).

📅 4 December 11:00 (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online

See the link for details👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43971...

Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social
We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions.
@dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 #JacobsCIFARFellowship!

A new partnership between the Jacobs Foundation and CIFAR supports early- & mid-career researchers advancing how children learn & develop worldwide.

🗓️ Apply by 2 February 2026 → cifarportal.smapply.io/prog/jacobs_...

Thanks for the invite and the engaging discussion with a great lab!

ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot

a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fall

the Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees

starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu 🥳

my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception

currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science!

reach out if you're interested 😊

(PDF) The Blind Spot in Research on Nature’s Benefits: Restorative versus Instorative Effects and Potential Biases. PDF | Environmental psychology has extensively documented the restorative effects of nature: the recovery of cognitive resources and emotional... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

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/...

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...

Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.

Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

Andrew R. A. Conway

Michael J. Kane

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Starter Pack: Max Planck scientists on Bluesky

Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack

🧠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! ⬇️

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works - Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Jessica Hullman, 2021 Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, an...

I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Humans can infer global relationships from local comparisons, but how do we adapt when these relationships change? New work by the brilliant @tgham.bsky.social used RL modelling to find out 👇

Biopsychologie meets Entwicklungspsychologie!

Die #DGPs-Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie & Neuropsychologie lädt zum virtuellen Kolloquium ein:

shorturl.at/3FPSU

Am 21.11.2025 spricht Dr. Markus Werkle-Bergner (@markuswb.bsky.social).

Wir freuen uns auf fachgruppenübergreifenden Austausch!

Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...

New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence