Michael Gaebler

Functional architecture of the human insula. Read how your #brain tracks what your body is feeling. "Signals in the insula region, deep in the brain, can make people feel hot, tingly and nauseous." 🧪 #Science #Biology #Neuroscience 1- www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New publication! 🚨 WaveSpace, a python tool for analysis and simulation of cortical #traveling_waves is now published in the Journal of Open Source Software! This work was headed by former Dugué Lab postdoc, Kirsten Petras. joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

From next year, I'll be a Research Fellow under the Humboldt Foundation funding scheme. Joining forces with Arno Villringer's and @michaelgaebler.com labs (in Berlin & Leipzig) and Assaf Breska's lab (in Tuebingen) for exciting #body-#brain research lnkd.in/e72Ey2PN www.waves-conference.com

Registration is now open: survey.academiccloud.de/f/721369?lan... Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

Friendly reminder: we are looking to hire a Full Professor in the field of "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Intelligence" at the IKW. Topic wise, the position is fairly open: www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit... Deadline coming up on the 6th of October.

Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience! Encoding models fit 28,134 features to fMRI from a virtual taxi-driving task, revealing 11 distinct cortical regions that transform perception into action. Read the preprint. gallantlab.org

1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging @natprot.nature.com ⤵️

📢 Save the Date! The IGOR Hackathon is happening Thursday, October 1st (9:00–12:00) Join us to: 🚀 Get to know ongoing IGOR projects 💡 Brainstorm new project ideas 🧠♻️ Join a panel discussion about the current state of open science in journals Stay tuned, the detailed program will be shared soon!

⚠️ To be sure: registration and submission will open in a few days. For the moment it's more of a save-the-date / teaser!

Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

We are excited! @initself.bsky.social & @rowansommers.bsky.social will present their **Umwelt Representation Hypothesis** at our next meeting. Sep 18, 11 am (CET) [Hybrid] Find the link to the online meeting here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut or join us at MPI CBS #neuroai #neuroskyence #ai

Call for Applications! Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a #PhD 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 in Cognitive NeuroImaging with our research partners @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? 📅 Apply by 2 Nov 2026 shortlink.win/1y98h We look forward to your application! 😀

Join the next BodyBrainWaves: 4day summer school + 3day conference in Palermo, #Italy Focus: modulatory role of #body-#brain interactions on #cognition Stay tuned for an exciting #scientific program + #cultural (and #gastronomic) tours The call for applications are now open: waves-conference.com

Just arrived at #adriatica2026 that has beautiful scenery, impeccable organisation, & an ongoing workshop by Juliane Britz on the nitty gritty of EEG experiments that‘s typically not mentioned in the methods sections. E.g., „make your subjects comfortable - turn your #EEG lab into a hair salon“

Sometimes being two professors in the same field pays off! @francescafardo.bsky.social and I are enjoying a family beach trip at the Adriatica Brain Body and Well-Being summer school. The well-being aspect cannot be understated.

Highly recommended!!

🌎🧠 What a privilege to have contributed to the second ever (!) fMRI publication with data acquired in Uruguay. direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Thanks a lot, Francisco Cervantes Constantino, @victoriagradin.bsky.social et al. & @maxplanck.de for the MPG-ANII collaboration. #thinkglobal-actlocal

Let’s cultivate the M/EEG community by attending the Berlin CuttingGarden 🪷🧠 @cuttingeeg.bsky.social 📆 Sept 21-25, 2026 📍 #Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 💶 50 € 🎤 Tutorials/perspectives, posters, jointly viewing global program, etc. Details: cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde... #Cominghome

Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

A really cool #scicomm campaign brought to life by @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & friends. I'm really proud to be part of this. The amazing markusfaerber.de transformed our study on #XAI for #brain-age into a comic, which is now hanging all over the city of Leipzig. sciencestreets.de/comics/brain...

Does sugar affect how you deal with stress? 🍪 I am excited to share that I received funding from the @dfg.de to study the links between acute and chronic glucose intake and HPA axis regulation. I will be hiring one PhD student soon (more infos will follow). (1/3)

This paper on EDIA is in Journal of Vision. VR headsets with eye tracking are everywhere in research now, but they're not built for science. EDIA bridges that gap. Klotzsche et al. (2025), JoV 25(9) doi.org/10.1167/jov.... #EDIA #EyeTracking #XRResearch

Want to build a custom VR experiment without reinventing the basics? AffectTracker did exactly that: continuous emotion rating built on EDIA Core, Eye and LSL, so experiment structure, eye tracking and EEG sync came out of the box. Published in Frontiers in VR. #VR #XRResearch #OpenSource #EDIA

Neue Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie in der Psychologischen Rundschau: KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Now up at @oecs-bot.bsky.social ! Looking to wrap your head around concepts & terms (and debates) in emotion & mood research (“affective science”)? Here’s a go to. oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

Very happy to announce that the journal publication is finally out: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Thanks to all the great collaborators at the #NEUROHUM project, and especially to @michaelgaebler.com! Check it out if you are interested in face similarity judgments in 3D (aka David Marr's 2.5D).

The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv

Central and peripheral dynamics of acute stress: evidence from functional cortical gradients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.08.732866v1

New preprint out now. 🎭 What makes an acted emotion feel believable? We tested whether believability depends on what observers see from the outside, facial movement, and what happens inside the actor’s body, cardiac dynamics during performance. doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)

I left my comfort zone in the last two days - attending the workshop on digital #technologies in operations & marketing #DTOM @tum.de Heilbronn - & really enjoyed it! I learned so much & discovered plenty of shared interests, in humans, experiments, & (immersive) technologies. #VR #MindBrainBody

New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

Wie gewinne ich Vertrauen in Politik und Staat zurück? Sicher nicht so. Stattdessen wäre ein Schritt nach vorne gut: erwartbare Verteilungswirkung neuer Gesetze transparent ausweisen und mit gesellschaftlichen Zielen abgleichen. #GemeinwohlFirst weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Demokratie setzt voraus, dass die Menschen ihren (!) Behörden auf die Finger schauen können. Bitte unterschreibt die Petition, damit es auch morgen noch Informationsfreiheit gibt und Behörden halbwegs transparent arbeiten.

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

We didn’t receive the (randomly drawn) prize money 💰🤷 but are very grateful for the recognition and congratulate the other shortlisted teams - let’s collectively improve the working conditions in academia! 💪 Thanks @jungeakademie.bsky.social and @volkswagenstiftung.de!

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Out now in @pnas.org We present a new metabolism-weighted brain connectome that incorporates each region’s energy expenditure into the mapping of brain connectivity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy to see our new preprint on using AI in biopsychology from an open science perspective out on OSF 📣 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Excited about our new preprint discussing how AI 🤖 may responsibly contribute to fair and open biopsychology🧠 Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thank you for this great team effort🙌 @igor-dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

In this opinion piece, we provide practical recommendations on the strengths and pitfalls of incorporating AI-based tools at each stage of the biopsychological research cycle from an open science perspective 📝 🔗Read the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... [2/4]

Our new preprint "fAIr science — How AI can support a transparent biopsychological research cycle" is out 🚀 AI is rapidly entering biopsychological research, from literature review and study design to data analysis. But can these tools advance open science, or do they risk undermining it? 👇 [1/4]

As an Italian scientist living abroad 🇮🇹->🇩🇪, experiences like this remind me how important it is to give back to the educational system that helped shape me and to make science more accessible, personal and human for young people. Beyond grateful for this opportunity! #scicomm #neuroskyence [3/3]

Our letters became conversations about the brain, memory, emotions, the scientific method and the value of engaging with different cultures. I was amazed by the students' curiosity and thought-provoking questions: how are memories formed? Where do emotions come from? [2/3]

This year I've volunteered with @penneamiche.bsky.social, an initiative that connects Italian scientists and schools through letter exchanges 💌 From Sep to May, I wrote to a middle school class in Verona, sharing what it's like to be a neuroscientist and to build a research career abroad. [1/3]

#PuG2026 in stunning Heidelberg was a blast! 🔥 Every year feels like a family reunion, with many possibilities to both informally network and scientifically connect with like-minded researchers. I was particularly happy to see a big focus on interoception! See you next year in Oldenburg 👋 [3/3]

Scientific presenter by day… pub quiz host by night 🎙️ Another highlight was hosting the IGOR Social, where participants brilliantly fought for eternal glory in our pub quiz… including a trivia category on scientific misconduct & fraud 👀 #PuG2026 #IGOR @igor-dgps.bsky.social [2/3]