Christian Büchel

Tagging @isnlab.bsky.social @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social @helenblank.bsky.social @janhaaker.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social @aulenkamp.bsky.social @wohrlab.bsky.social @sheddenmora.bsky.social @rief01.bsky.social and all other CRC members! 😍

Starter pack: go.bsky.app/TgjkCXL

It is with profound sadness that we share that Professor Andrea Evers passed away. Andrea was a visionary leader, a brilliant scientist, and a compassionate colleague.
As we begin to process this immense loss, let us remember Andrea for her remarkable legacy and kindness she brought into our lives.

🚨 Fresh preprint w/ @helenblank.bsky.social!

How does the brain acquire expectations about a conversational partner, and how are priors integrated w/ sensory inputs?

Current evidence diverges. Is it prediction error? Sharpening?

Spoiler: It's both.👀

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I appreciate the effort in digging into this and doing the analysis. Very few people are spending the time to do it!

Any time a paper reports an AUC of 1.0 on test data, my hackles are raised. This commentary by @olegolt.bsky.social @tspisak.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social nicely dissects problems with a recently reported "biomarker" for pain.

Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.

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Very sad news! She was my dear desk neighbor at UCL for many years. She made outstanding contributions to the science of learning and memory, and the fact that one of her PhD students was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2024 further highlights her exceptional abilities as a mentor in the field of science.

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Exciting PhD opportunities in various labs in Hamburg, including ours. Feel free to contact me regarding details. www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Excited about the next SIPS conference on all things #placebo and #nocebo in Krakow! For the second time, there will also be a (free!) summer school for Early Career Researchers on the two days before the conference. Be an early butterfly and register soon!
@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

protesters holding signs against budget cuts

protesters holding signs against budget cuts

protesters holding signs against budget cuts. 'no science no future'

Today we protest to support the future of the Netherlands. with more than 20.000 people we say 'Stop the cuts to science and science education!' #woinactie #dja

What a great decision! www.science.org/content/arti...
Thank you Clarivate, it makes me want *even more* to submit my next paper to @elife.bsky.social !

I started (at @katesadlerphd.bsky.social's suggestion, thanks Kate for pushing me) a pain neuroscience and pain research starter pack. I am sure I have missed many people so if I missed you, I am sorry, but please just ask me to add you in the thread below and I will do that. go.bsky.app/KboKNhg

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions: Affective Neuroscience and Pain Lab Dr. Lauren Atlas’s laboratory is recruiting up to two postdoctoral researchers with expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and affective science to join the Section on Affective Neu...

Hello new followers! We have positions available in my lab for one postdoc and 2-3 postbacs to start over the next year and lead studies on pain & emotion using high field MRI. Join us! www.nccih.nih.gov/about/jobs/p...

Comparing Painful Stimulation vs Rest in Studies of Pain To the Editor A recent Research Letter in JAMA Neurology1 presented results of a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of individuals with rare loss-of-function SCN9A mutations2 that abolish sen...

Not so sure. See our letter regarding this paper in the same journal jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Breaking Up With Bad Science Podcast: The Huberman Hubris You know it's bad when even a therapist can tell it's bad science. Next stop? The Lizard brain.

Breaking up with bad #science podcast.
A science podcaster endorsing the world’s most prominent #neurobollocks is too much, even for a #therapist… Sorry Baby XoXo
#neuroscience #TherapistSky #TherapistsConnect #NeuroTherapy #psychotherapy
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/bad-sci...

Check out our new review on "How control modulates pain" doi.org/10.1016/j.ti.... We have not only summarized many studies in this field, but also suggest that in the context of a Bayesian pain model, control might be mediated by changes in expectation.

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Hi #Neuroskyence #PsySciSky
Introducing our institute of Systems Neuroscience:
This is our large magnet with the radio antenna. With this, several brains can look at one brain. And you can make nails on a thread fly - at least a famous physicist in the institute can make this happen.🧠🧲⚡

We are here! Thanks to all who provided us with codes 🙏

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Very interesting paper comparing rsfMRI, various FC parameters derived from task fMRI and task fMRI parameters for the prediction of behavior.

Check out our 🔥 preprint on paradoxical heat! Big shoutout to @agmitchell.bsky.social and the team for the awesome work 👏

Excited to be here!