SCAN Unit

Happy #worlddogday! 🐶 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️

Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉

Check out our new publication led by former member @clamassaccesi.bsky.social showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝

Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action!

When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods.
Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social

Another highlight in my mentoring career- tinyurl.com/lukelikely 's stellar defense; Lukas provided plenty of evidence to radically update our priors and call him DOKTA Luke from now on. Shout-out also to great co-supervisors @predragpetrovic.bsky.social & Isa Wagner & all @scanunit.bsky.social

Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others" in Brussels on Dec1-2 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

Congratulations to Thomas Baumgartner, Daria Knoch and their team behind this study 🥳

You can find the full publication at:
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

A new study by our colleagues from Bern was covered as research highlight in @natclimate.nature.com: 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

They show how structural neuroscience data can be used to better understand interindividual differences in pro-environmental behavior 🧠🌳

Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition

In case you don't want to read the full paper - it also got covered by several news outlets, including Der Standard and the New York Times: 🗞️
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
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🚨A new multi-lab study with contributions from our head @clauslamm.bsky.social & others in our group got published in Nature Climate Change 🎉
It's about how support for climate change policies is shaped by extreme weather events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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YouTube video by Universitätsbibliothek Wien Save the Date: Open Science Festival 2025

Save the date: Nach Hannover, Köln und Mainz findet das nächste Open Science Festival im deutschsprachigen Raum erstmals in Österreich statt – und zwar am 8. und 9. September am Campus der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at. osfestival2025.univie.ac.at #osfestival2025 #openscience #opensciencefestival

Closing Rreflection. This June, I chaired #SIPS2025 in Budapest 🇭🇺, celebrating 10y of @improvingpsych.org. It was a vibrant & inspiring meeting. We hosted workshops, hackathons, lightning talks, & unconferences on topics from AI & theory building to radical transparency, detecting data fabrication.

One week left to apply for our open phd position 👇

Proud of our new PhD student @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social for delivering a great talk at #ICEP2025 on work he did during his master’s 👏

New paper! When encountering a novel and unfamiliar situation, what mechanisms underly our ability to search and retrieve relevant past experiences? We answer this question by taking first-principles approach – allowing us to bridge between a wide range of previous models (1/16)

Check out this new preprint led by our newest lab member @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social

It's about how disruptive climate protests shaped attitudes towards moderate activists in German news media 👇

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨

4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠

Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W

Pls 🔁

I am grateful to UCLouvain and H. Bukowski for supporting my research over the past year. Now, it's time to return home. In June, I will be teaching at IES Abroad and in July starting my postdoctoral position at the Universität Wien / @scanunit.bsky.social. I'm curious to see what lies ahead.

How many researchers does it take to change the cooling fluid of the heat pain stimulator? 😅

(Answer: Three who learn by doing and one taking the picture)

Love our little #TeamEmpathy at the Bingellab @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social preparing two really cool new studies ❤️

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

Check out this exciting new preprint on predicting climate change intervention success involving several current and former scannies 🤩👇🏼

🚨New paper alert!

In a large collaboration, we investigated how well do 19 individual and nation-level factors predict climate change beliefs, policy support and climate-relevant behaviors 🌎

Led by our @todorova.bsky.social

The Heat and Cognition Project: The Collective Cost of Extreme Heat

📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com

Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠

‼️ Deadline: May 18th

Possibility to contribute with your own ideas, excellent research infrastructure, supportive work environment, supervision and mentoring 🤗

🚨 Come work with us!

3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.

More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2

Please share widely 🔁

🚨 New paper from the lab!

We explore how climate action can support our neurocogntive health and how neuroscience can be used to better understand and stimulate climate action 💪🏼🌍🌱

Win-win for both people & our planet 🤗

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Wir sind überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werden unseren Teil dazu beitragen.
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In SCAN-Unit, wir untersuchen die neuronalen Grundlagen von Empathie, Altruismus, und umweltbewusstem Verhalten. Unser Ziel ist, diese Phänomene besser zu verstehen, um sie damit gesellschaftlich breit und besser fördern zu können. 1/2

#IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien