Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
@helenahartmann.com
Neuroscientist, psychologist & science communicator ✨
www.helenahartmann.com
Pain & expectations in the (social) 🧠
Postdoc @ulrikebingel.bsky.social's lab & @SFB-TRR-289.bsky.social 💊
Explaining science with fictional stories 📖 @scienceandfiction.net
www.helenahartmann.com
Pain & expectations in the (social) 🧠
Postdoc @ulrikebingel.bsky.social's lab & @SFB-TRR-289.bsky.social 💊
Explaining science with fictional stories 📖 @scienceandfiction.net
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What to expect on this account:
- #Postdoclife on pain⚡, expectations 💊, & the (social) brain 🧠🧲
- #ECR at @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
- #SciComm/#WissKomm at @nawik.de & @scienceandfiction.net 🗣️
- #OpenScience at @forrt.bsky.social & @igor-dgps.bsky.social 👩💻
- Team #Knitting 🧶
- #TeamGIF ✨
- #Postdoclife on pain⚡, expectations 💊, & the (social) brain 🧠🧲
- #ECR at @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
- #SciComm/#WissKomm at @nawik.de & @scienceandfiction.net 🗣️
- #OpenScience at @forrt.bsky.social & @igor-dgps.bsky.social 👩💻
- Team #Knitting 🧶
- #TeamGIF ✨
So happy to finally be at one of the @nawik.de trainer days! 💙
➡️ Meeting many new and old great people 👥
➡️ Updates and future plans for the NaWik
➡️ Discussing about how to best teach science communication 💪
➡️ Meeting many new and old great people 👥
➡️ Updates and future plans for the NaWik
➡️ Discussing about how to best teach science communication 💪
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
So happy to finally be at one of the @nawik.de trainer days! 💙
➡️ Meeting many new and old great people 👥
➡️ Updates and future plans for the NaWik
➡️ Discussing about how to best teach science communication 💪
➡️ Meeting many new and old great people 👥
➡️ Updates and future plans for the NaWik
➡️ Discussing about how to best teach science communication 💪
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
Introducing CORTRE: a reporting guideline for reproducibility efforts 👉 cortre.github.io
We are excited to officially announce CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts 🎯
🧵👇
We are excited to officially announce CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts 🎯
🧵👇
January 19, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Introducing CORTRE: a reporting guideline for reproducibility efforts 👉 cortre.github.io
We are excited to officially announce CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts 🎯
🧵👇
We are excited to officially announce CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts 🎯
🧵👇
I'm finally in southern Germany since a loooong time and can order a Colaweizen without a weird look (it's wheat beer and coca cola) 🍺
And also I had the best, lightly caramelized Kaiserschmarrn 😍
Best start to the two upcoming @nawik.de trainer days starting tomorrow! ✨
And also I had the best, lightly caramelized Kaiserschmarrn 😍
Best start to the two upcoming @nawik.de trainer days starting tomorrow! ✨
January 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I'm finally in southern Germany since a loooong time and can order a Colaweizen without a weird look (it's wheat beer and coca cola) 🍺
And also I had the best, lightly caramelized Kaiserschmarrn 😍
Best start to the two upcoming @nawik.de trainer days starting tomorrow! ✨
And also I had the best, lightly caramelized Kaiserschmarrn 😍
Best start to the two upcoming @nawik.de trainer days starting tomorrow! ✨
Of course the scanned fruit and vegetables from my time in Vienna @scanunit.bsky.social moved to the new place with me and found a fitting place in the kitchen ✨
Can you guess all of them? 😁
Shout-out to @lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social, my PhD-partner-in-crime 🧠🧲
Can you guess all of them? 😁
Shout-out to @lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social, my PhD-partner-in-crime 🧠🧲
January 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Of course the scanned fruit and vegetables from my time in Vienna @scanunit.bsky.social moved to the new place with me and found a fitting place in the kitchen ✨
Can you guess all of them? 😁
Shout-out to @lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social, my PhD-partner-in-crime 🧠🧲
Can you guess all of them? 😁
Shout-out to @lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social, my PhD-partner-in-crime 🧠🧲
Thanks to everyone who was there!
It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱
Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k
Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨
It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱
Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k
Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Thanks to everyone who was there!
It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱
Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k
Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨
It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱
Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k
Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
Don't miss this #scicomm talk by @helenahartmann.com talking about @scienceandfiction.net tomorrow! ✨
➡️ Register with @psycomm.bsky.social at [email protected]!
➡️ Register with @psycomm.bsky.social at [email protected]!
In genau einer Woche findet unser nächstes Kolloquium statt! Am 16.1. um 12 Uhr nimmt uns @helenahartmann.com mit in die Welt von "Science and Fiction - WissKomm mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten".
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Don't miss this #scicomm talk by @helenahartmann.com talking about @scienceandfiction.net tomorrow! ✨
➡️ Register with @psycomm.bsky.social at [email protected]!
➡️ Register with @psycomm.bsky.social at [email protected]!
I love those pedestrian traffic lights that immediately switch to green upon one button press. All this power to make all the cars stop 🚦
a woman is standing in a room with lightning coming from the ceiling and a netflix logo behind her
ALT: a woman is standing in a room with lightning coming from the ceiling and a netflix logo behind her
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I love those pedestrian traffic lights that immediately switch to green upon one button press. All this power to make all the cars stop 🚦
Currently reviewing some new "In a nutshell" videos for our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social YouTube channel! 🤩
Some cool videos coming up feat. @janhaaker.bsky.social, @jlaferton.bsky.social and Christine Knaevelsrud! 🤯
For now, stay tuned and subscribe: youtube.com/@sfb-trr_289...
Some cool videos coming up feat. @janhaaker.bsky.social, @jlaferton.bsky.social and Christine Knaevelsrud! 🤯
For now, stay tuned and subscribe: youtube.com/@sfb-trr_289...
January 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Currently reviewing some new "In a nutshell" videos for our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social YouTube channel! 🤩
Some cool videos coming up feat. @janhaaker.bsky.social, @jlaferton.bsky.social and Christine Knaevelsrud! 🤯
For now, stay tuned and subscribe: youtube.com/@sfb-trr_289...
Some cool videos coming up feat. @janhaaker.bsky.social, @jlaferton.bsky.social and Christine Knaevelsrud! 🤯
For now, stay tuned and subscribe: youtube.com/@sfb-trr_289...
It's about time somebody did this ⤵️
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
It's about time somebody did this ⤵️
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡
Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
Our science communication PI @helenahartmann.com will present her project @scienceandfiction.net next Friday! 🤩
Mark your calendars if you're into #scicomm, #storytelling, and #sciencefiction #shortstories! 📚
Mark your calendars if you're into #scicomm, #storytelling, and #sciencefiction #shortstories! 📚
In genau einer Woche findet unser nächstes Kolloquium statt! Am 16.1. um 12 Uhr nimmt uns @helenahartmann.com mit in die Welt von "Science and Fiction - WissKomm mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten".
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
January 9, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Our science communication PI @helenahartmann.com will present her project @scienceandfiction.net next Friday! 🤩
Mark your calendars if you're into #scicomm, #storytelling, and #sciencefiction #shortstories! 📚
Mark your calendars if you're into #scicomm, #storytelling, and #sciencefiction #shortstories! 📚
This month's #ScienceandFiction short story is a comic! 💙
🦠 New #ScienceandFiction short story 🦠
This time, a team from @uni.lu created a comic about all our helpful gut bacteria! Do you recognise some?
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/37_a...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #comic
This time, a team from @uni.lu created a comic about all our helpful gut bacteria! Do you recognise some?
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/37_a...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #comic
January 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This month's #ScienceandFiction short story is a comic! 💙
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
In genau einer Woche findet unser nächstes Kolloquium statt! Am 16.1. um 12 Uhr nimmt uns @helenahartmann.com mit in die Welt von "Science and Fiction - WissKomm mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten".
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
In genau einer Woche findet unser nächstes Kolloquium statt! Am 16.1. um 12 Uhr nimmt uns @helenahartmann.com mit in die Welt von "Science and Fiction - WissKomm mit fiktionalen Kurzgeschichten".
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
Nähere Infos und die Anmeldung findet ihr im Bild.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
@scienceandfiction.net
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
And another publication from our A04 project!
This time, Milena Pertz and colleagues investigated empathy for different pain modalities! 🤷♀️
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
This time, Milena Pertz and colleagues investigated empathy for different pain modalities! 🤷♀️
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
January 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
And another publication from our A04 project!
This time, Milena Pertz and colleagues investigated empathy for different pain modalities! 🤷♀️
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
This time, Milena Pertz and colleagues investigated empathy for different pain modalities! 🤷♀️
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
True bliss is paying for a butter croissant but getting a chocolate croissant by accident 🥐
a croissant next to a chocolate fountain and banana
ALT: a croissant next to a chocolate fountain and banana
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 PM
True bliss is paying for a butter croissant but getting a chocolate croissant by accident 🥐
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
Der Vortrag von @helenahartmann.com von der @nawik.de Konferenz #Wisskon25 über das Projekt ist nun auf YouTube verfügbar! 💙
Schaut mal rein (ab 6:32:00): www.youtube.com/live/qBieeNI...
Schaut mal rein (ab 6:32:00): www.youtube.com/live/qBieeNI...
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Der Vortrag von @helenahartmann.com von der @nawik.de Konferenz #Wisskon25 über das Projekt ist nun auf YouTube verfügbar! 💙
Schaut mal rein (ab 6:32:00): www.youtube.com/live/qBieeNI...
Schaut mal rein (ab 6:32:00): www.youtube.com/live/qBieeNI...
Today I went to the Corpus museum in Leiden where you (literally) travel through the human body. Favourite location? Ofc the brain 🧠
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Today I went to the Corpus museum in Leiden where you (literally) travel through the human body. Favourite location? Ofc the brain 🧠
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
🐀 New #ScienceandFiction short story 🐀
This time, @stinaborchers.bsky.social wrote about how evolution reacts when food runs out. Utopia or dystopia?
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/36_t...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #sciencefiction #shortstories #writing
This time, @stinaborchers.bsky.social wrote about how evolution reacts when food runs out. Utopia or dystopia?
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/36_t...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #sciencefiction #shortstories #writing
| Science and Fiction
The food ran out and evolution answered—not with strength, but with instinct. CW: Hunger.
scienceandfiction.net
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🐀 New #ScienceandFiction short story 🐀
This time, @stinaborchers.bsky.social wrote about how evolution reacts when food runs out. Utopia or dystopia?
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/36_t...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #sciencefiction #shortstories #writing
This time, @stinaborchers.bsky.social wrote about how evolution reacts when food runs out. Utopia or dystopia?
🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/36_t...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...
#scicomm #wisskomm #sciencefiction #shortstories #writing
One of hopefully many future projects with @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social - it was an absolute pleasure to work in tandem on this! 🥰
@helenahartmann.com and me just published our study on #nocebo, deceptive #placebo and open-label placebo effects on performance in a virtual bird feeding game: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Direct comparison of nocebo, deceptive placebo and open-label placebo effects on sustained visual attention
Positive and negative expectations crucially shape how we perceive our surroundings, including our emotional and cognitive abilities. Prior work shows…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
One of hopefully many future projects with @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social - it was an absolute pleasure to work in tandem on this! 🥰
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
Das Lab von @ulrikebingel.bsky.social war dieses Jahr wirklich nicht faul, und hat mit Kollegen von der Universitätsmedizin Essen mal eben noch an einem Buch zum Placebo-Effekt mitgearbeitet. @helenahartmann.com 👏🍾
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Das Lab von @ulrikebingel.bsky.social war dieses Jahr wirklich nicht faul, und hat mit Kollegen von der Universitätsmedizin Essen mal eben noch an einem Buch zum Placebo-Effekt mitgearbeitet. @helenahartmann.com 👏🍾
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
Have you read this month's short story yet? It's about a decision as old as time... the red or the blue pill? 💁♀️
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Have you read this month's short story yet? It's about a decision as old as time... the red or the blue pill? 💁♀️
I dreamt that someone was willing to borrow me their Bahncard 100 for my commute 😂 @amreibahr.bsky.social?
a train is pulling into a station with a sign that says h
ALT: a train is pulling into a station with a sign that says h
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I dreamt that someone was willing to borrow me their Bahncard 100 for my commute 😂 @amreibahr.bsky.social?
Love this and definitely guilty 🥲 on the other hand, arrows are just so versatile haha
Arrows are tricky. For us, as the designer of the visual, it will be super clear what it means. But for someone looking at our visual for the first time, it can be highly ambiguous. Depending on the reader, the same arrow can mean sequence, zoom, range, label, movement,...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Love this and definitely guilty 🥲 on the other hand, arrows are just so versatile haha
Reposted by Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
New #openscience work from one of our PIs, @helenahartmann.com ✨
Super important topic and great resource to track replications!
Super important topic and great resource to track replications!
Now we wrote a piece about many things we always wanted to say about replications.
How they are used, tracked and valued by the science community. And how we can evaluate their results, whatever those may be 🤔
Read the preprint 📃 osf.io/preprints/me...
Browse the Hub 🌐 forrt.org/replication-...
How they are used, tracked and valued by the science community. And how we can evaluate their results, whatever those may be 🤔
Read the preprint 📃 osf.io/preprints/me...
Browse the Hub 🌐 forrt.org/replication-...
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
New #openscience work from one of our PIs, @helenahartmann.com ✨
Super important topic and great resource to track replications!
Super important topic and great resource to track replications!
It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social...
It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.
We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️
It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.
We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social...
It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.
We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️
It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.
We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️