Science moodboard for all the emotions 😭🤩😱😡

Seit letzter Woche ist unser Museumsexponat "Die Kraft der Erwartung" auf der MS Wissenschaft ausgestellt. Nun tourt es in den nächsten Monaten durch Polen, Deutschland und Österreich 🛳️

Today I signed my unlimited contract to continue working at @neurologieessen.bsky.social / @unidue.bsky.social as a senior postdoc and science communicator 🤩 Two things that do not often come together in science - to find a job you truly enjoy doing and the opportunity to do that job longterm.

🌟 I am both a scientist and a science communicator 🌟 Never have I felt this more than this year, because the wonderful #scicomm team of the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social is creating their first museum exhibit about treatment expectations for the MS Wissenschaft (@w-i-d.de), a traveling museum boat! 🚢

Back again, letting my students torture me with painful stimuli 😂 #postdoclife

Here is a short interview with me on why I do research: www.uni-due.de/2023-08-10-h...

Day 2 is all about how we learn, how we teach, and what makes a good workshop! ♥️

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 💪

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! ✨

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 🧠🧲

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...

What did we find? Mainly mixed and inconsistent effects, meaning some types of pain modulation sometimes increased or decreased social cognition abilities, with the most consistent and replicated result being that placebo analgesia reduces empathy for others’ pain.

The paper also features an absolutely insane table of all the different ways researchers have operationalized social emotions and behaviors in these studies - from emotional face processing over empathy to prosocial behavior! 😱 We hope this overview is helpful to many social cognition researchers!

What manipulations did we investigate? 🤔 Previous studies used substances like opioids, acetaminophen, cannabinoids, placebos, alcohol, or hypnosis to directly or indirectly change participants' pain processing and then look at its social consequences.

Today I went to the Corpus museum in Leiden where you (literally) travel through the human body. Favourite location? Ofc the brain 🧠

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-...

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 ♥️

Made it just in time ♥️

Early bird today to make it to @nawik.de's @wisskon.bsky.social in time ✨ Book, tea and stickers - I'm ready for a day of #scicomm fun 💙 Watch me present @scienceandfiction.net later at 16:00: www.nawik.de/wisskon-netz...

I knit a t-shirt for the first time and it actually turned out quite nice 💕🧶 I present: the #poppytee by #PetiteKnit (which was a wild ride because the original instructions don't account for stripes!)

So very happy to be a part of the group of trainers giving #scicomm workshops for the @nawik.de 💚 I never imagined that I would enjoy presenting and teaching... 🤔 Since then I've discovered that helping others discover the joys of science communication is truly rewarding 😍

This is my 1st year participating in Letters to a Pre-Scientist 🤩 Today I received a letter from a middle schooler in Los Angeles who's interested in science! 😱 Over the next few months, I hope to share my life as a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies brains in pain! 🧠 #SciComm

Back at the MRI scanner today to test the first participant of @rebeccalutz.bsky.social's new study! 🧲🧠 This never gets any less exciting! 🤩 #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence @neurologieessen.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow I am giving my first #scicomm workshop all on my own 😱 It's all about communicating science through fictional short stories (like in @scienceandfiction.net) and on social media! 🤩

Another fantastic gift dropped this weekend, from the DGPs Interest Group Open and Reproducible Science (@igor-dgps.bsky.social) for my 2-year work as coordinator together with @gordonfeld.bsky.social 😭💙 Thanks so much to everyone who made this time memorable (& to everyone who signed this bag!)

Today I'm double- and triple-checking that my scripts correctly extracted the onsets and durations of all events during my task for MRI analysis 🫠 Super tedious but very necessary 😫 #PostdocLife #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence

Such a lovely present from @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social for my two year term as deputy early career researcher representative 😭✨ Huge thanks especially to the dream team @mfjsperl.bsky.social, Marie Mückstein, @annesaulin.bsky.social, @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, Nina Alexander, and Christian Merz 💙

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 ✨

Heute besuche ich selbst mal einen @nawik.de Workshop zum Thema Evaluation von #WissKomm mit @ricardaz.bsky.social & Cecilia Buz‬ 💪 Ich freue mich auf drei Tage Input & Austausch, damit @ulrikebingel.bsky.social, Sven Benson & ich unser @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social Teilprojekt gut evaluieren können! 🤩

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