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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · 2d

Today, I also learned the scary spooky hard way that when you are alone at night at a lake in pitch black darkness, you will hear a sudden, VERY LOUD bang on the water because the local beaver is protecting their territory

Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · 2d

🍁🍂 (or: if you are interested in amygdalar contributions to verbal emotion processing come to my poster 44-3 on Friday #SPR2025 @therealspr.bsky.social)

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amar ojha @amarojha.bsky.social · Sep 13

How does human amygdala circuitry develop through adolescence to support affective and cognitive control processes? Excited to share recent work from my dissertation, now out in Cell Reports, that uses longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging at 7 Tesla to answer this question! A 🧵 tinyurl.com/5aaf9fpv

Human amygdala nuclei show distinct developmental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in functional integration with prefrontal circuitry

Ojha et al. use longitudinal 7 T neuroimaging to characterize distinct developmental trajectories of fronto-amygdala connectivity across nuclei through adolescence. They identify how age-related conne...

www.cell.com

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Aug 27

Rethinking women’s brain health — a Comment article by Julia Sacher & Ingo Bechmann

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

Rethinking women’s brain health - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Far from being a niche concern, women’s brain health is a global issue, affecting more than half of the world’s population. Despite this, the unique aspects of how the female brain adapts, reorganizes...

www.nature.com

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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Aug 18

And this as well: github.com/ChrisWoodsSa...

GitHub - ChrisWoodsSays/bird_colours: #rstats project to create a complete data visualisation using ggplot, i.e. without the need to add any finishing touches with a package such as Illustrator. To in...

#rstats project to create a complete data visualisation using ggplot, i.e. without the need to add any finishing touches with a package such as Illustrator. To include specific fonts, cropped image...

github.com

Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Aug 18

g-thomson.github.io/Manu/ this is wonderful

Manu - NZ native bird palettes

A collection of colour palettes for data visualisation derived from photos of birds native to New Zealand.

g-thomson.github.io

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Aug 13

Matlab has live scripts that are kind of similar to markdown I guess, but the initial matlab script might need to be changed a bit to make the live script more informative

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jul 30

Looking forward to our SciComm and Art-Sci workshop tomorrow at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social with @edgeneuro.bsky.social 🌈💖 www.neurocamp-munich.com together with @prask.bsky.social

NeuroCamp | Munich | Neuroscience summer school

NeuroCamp is a summer school for high school students in Munich that is organized by LMU students as well as young researchers. We want to get students enthusiastic about the fascinating and exciting ...

www.neurocamp-munich.com

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · Jul 25

Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear perception, while the left down-regulates it continuously.
@eweidner1.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes - Communications Biology

Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear perception, while the left d...

www.nature.com

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jul 25

This took a WHILE but here it is!! The last part of my PhD work is now published @commsbio.nature.com 🕊 We uncovered the temporal and spatial context that define the mTL's role in fear processing. Huge thank you to my co-authors, reviewers, editors, and participants 💖

rdcu.be/exQKb

Fear perception as a function of hemisphere- and time-specific dynamics in the medial temporal lobes

Communications Biology - Electrophysiology from resection patients reveals lateralized, temporally specific functions of the medial temporal lobes in fear perception: the right enhances early fear...

rdcu.be

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you're gonna assign ontological properties to a fucking AI bro I'm gonna walk out of here right now.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jul 14

There’s a reason Peter Thiel hesitated when asked in a recent interview if he “would prefer the human race to endure”:

Within certain tech circles, pro-extinctionism is a mainstream ideology—and some are trying to realize it.

A must-read by @xriskology.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity | TechPolicy.Press

If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.

techpolicy.press

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bonus bonus

Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jul 8

Team knitting forever!! (and the rest is also very impressive, ofc)

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jul 3

Bonus picture

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Daniela Mier @danielamier.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)

Bewerberfrist: 06.07.2025

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jul 3

No neuroscience but my favorite compilation of pictures of myself

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jun 21

It is the view from the library 💖🤣

Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jun 20

#PuG2025 see you later! @pug2025.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social 🌞

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hellooooo Würzburg! @pug2025.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social I have to admit I am here since Monday but all I have got to know is the inside of the university library and the stunning view from up here. Looking forward to talk to somebody besides my computer soon! 🌸

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · May 30

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jun 14

(And yes I noticed the typo after printing)

Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jun 14

(I would also love to talk about the data)

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Enya Weidner @eweidner1.bsky.social · Jun 9

(Ironie der langen zerstörerischen Autofahrt)

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