Lea Schenk (she/her)

Had a great talk today at the ISGMA conference about our project combining musicological and psychological approaches to understand how sound artifacts are perceived and experienced. 🔔🧠

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and engaged with the ideas! Great event hosted by @fwf-at.bsky.social

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

Great experience presenting at the WASAD Congress! I discussed how Natural Language Processing can advance stress research and how music functions as a cognitive artifact. @wasadorg.bsky.social

Grateful to collaborate with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social & Urs Nater

#WASAD

New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com by PhD candidate Luise Graichen ➡️ saccades 👁️are tied to grid-like codes 🕸️ in the entorhinal cortex 🧠during memory formation: rdcu.be/eLRm2

Collab with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @doellerlab.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social

Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...

✨My first first-author paper is out✨
Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2
Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social

Wissenschafter Claus Lamm, links im Bild, und Moderator Mario Wasserfaller, rechts im Bild, sitzen an einem Tisch, sie sind von leicht oben fotografiert. Sie sprechen miteinander, vor ihnen am Tisch stehen die Mikrofone für die Podcast-Aufnahme.

Empathie hilft uns, die Welt mit den Augen anderer zu sehen. Claus Lamm, Professor für Biologische Psychologie an der #univie, erklärt im #Podcast der Rudolphina die "helle" und "dunkle" Seite der Empathie und wie das Gehirn reagiert. 🎧 Gleich rein hören! 👉 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/podcast-folg...

Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️

🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resources Slides “Everything is causal inference (and causal inference is all the same)” (MPIB 2025) “Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysis” (Wuppertal 2025) “Thinking …

There you go the materials are now on my website. Updated version contains a tiny disclaimer that you should only polynomial safely, if at all.

juliarohrer.com/resources/

Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Of course it is:

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding Histological evidence suggests that the estrous cycle exerts a powerful influence on CA1 neurons in the mammalian hippocampus. Decades have passed sin…

🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 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 🔁

Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mecha...

Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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#StandWithUkraine

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

been waiting for a tool like this - awesome!

This is really handy. #stats #CausalInference

On further reflection, the selection of @simine.com as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science is one of the most important milestones for the reform movement in psychology.

There will be impact on the journal, sure. But more, selecting a committed, visible reformer illustrates its normalization.

Volle Solidarität.