Michael Gaebler
Cognitive, brain & mind scientist @mpicbs.bsky.social & Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition (Berlin) | head of @mbe-lab.bsky.social (he/him)
brain-body coupling | emotion & stress | 3D & XR for naturalistic psychology, neuroscience, & medicine
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerIf you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions. More details here: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerPostdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏
- So much amazing out-of-the-box thinking by Michael Levin (Tufts, drmichaellevin.org) and yummy food for thought about #life, the universe, and all the rest on the @lexfridman.bsky.social podcast. (Don’t be fooled by the misleading title.) podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/l...
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerI wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerJoin my lab and collaborate with excellent scientists Magdalena Schlesinger or Anette Frank at University of Heidelberg! We offer topics on replay in humans and rodents or neurobiologically inspired AI, respectively. Deadline 31st March. Apply here: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler🧠🔬 Was ist eigentlich „Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie“? Zum 🎉4️⃣0️⃣. Geburtstag unserer Fachgruppe @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social in der @dgps.bsky.social werfen wir einen Blick in die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. ⏳➡️🚀 Jetzt in der Psychologischen Rundschau: doi.org/10.1026/0033... 📖🔓🌍
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerA couple of more hours to submit your work and register to attend! Deadline: today (Jan 8, 2026) anywhere on earth. 🌏 🌎 🌍 Do it here: survey.academiccloud.de/f/464284?lan... #interoception #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence
- *13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerPreprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerSehr wichtiges Video eines Russen darüber, wie Propaganda in Wirklichkeit funktioniert. Hört euch mal die 10 Minuten an (englisch) und dann lauscht aufmerksam in euch hinein. Wir sind mitten drin.
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerI have an early Christmas present for you! 🎅 Happy to announce that we have three excellent keynote speakers at Psychology and Brain 2026 in Heidleberg! Professors Shamay-Tsoory, Schönauer and Allen will cover topics from empathy over memory to interoception! pug2026.org
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerAre you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerThis week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉 Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
- *13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerLast preprint 🎶(of the year). If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerHow does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerNew preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerOur paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online! Open access link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get” 🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41... What ideas would you add? 💡 #HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerWe discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerI’m very delighted to share the great news that we will present on this year’s #NeurIPS 2025 workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps). openreview.net/forum?id=fu0... (1/x)
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerDetails: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...
- *13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de! Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler'Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling' New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🔽
- Kudos! The biggest German political podcast @lagedernation.org recently featured endometriosis, women's health & the gender health/data gap lagedernation.org/podcast/ldn4... WDYT @cogneuroend.bsky.social @kimhoffmann.bsky.social @liviaruehr.bsky.social @nifti12.bsky.social @emilybmay.bsky.social ?
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerOrigins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
- It’s getting serious! 🚀😊 Experiments using immersive technologies will get substantially easier in less than 24h - thanks to @flxklotz.bsky.social & @thefirstfloor.bsky.social #vrcademicsky #vrresearch Stay tuned!
- Preparing for launch 🚀 👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerPreparing for launch 🚀 👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerNew primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerSymposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
- @toninfrc.bsky.social will present a talk titled “Studying Dynamics and Physiology of Affective States in Immersive Virtual Reality” 🕶️🧠🫀🫁 📣 Symposium 1.1 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 08:45-10:15 📍Montréal D, 11th floor See you in a few minutes for an excitingly immersive symposium!
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerThe Mind Body Emotion group has arrived at the Society for Psychophysiological Research #SPR2025 in Montréal 🧠 Open below 👇 for presentations from our group members today @therealspr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler@toninfrc.bsky.social will present a talk titled “Studying Dynamics and Physiology of Affective States in Immersive Virtual Reality” 🕶️🧠🫀🫁 📣 Symposium 1.1 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 08:45-10:15 📍Montréal D, 11th floor See you in a few minutes for an excitingly immersive symposium!
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler@martager.bsky.social will present a poster titled “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 🫀🫁🧠🫳🏻 📣 Poster Session 2 - POS085-2 🗓️ Thu, October 16 | 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor Come have a chat!
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- Nice things for the **13th #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026** happening under the hood 😊 Save the date: 📆 March 9-11, 2026 (Berlin and virtual) Stay tuned for the call and announcement! (For info about the last 12 MBBSymposia: mindbrainbody.de) #interoception #neuroskyence
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- Reposted by Michael GaeblerHappy also to chat about our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) pipelines for preprocessing and analysing ECG, PPG and respiration (soon), openly available and ready-to-use with BIDS data as Jupyter Notebooks 🫀🫁 Work of +20 wonderful collaborators! ✨ 📑 Documentation: www.bbsig.de
- Reposted by Michael Gaebler🔗 You can check out the preregistration and poster PDF here: osf.io/5ynzv/wiki?w... Stay tuned, pre-print out 🔜
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerExcited to present my poster at #SPR2025 and share our BBSIG pipelines “Inner Rhythms of the Bodily Self: Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation” 📣 POS085-2 🗓️ Oct 16, 18:30-20:30 📍Grande Place, 8th floor @mbe-lab.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerThe official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up. pug2026.org @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerIllustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerWhen I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerR.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerOut now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
- In this article, @jadynpark.bsky.social et al find that emotionally arousing moments during a narrative are associated with heightened integration across functional brain networks, which in turn predict how well those moments are then remembered.
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerWith an amazing keynote by @michaelgaebler.com #wuertual25 comes to an end. A huge thank you to all participants for sharing your research and perspectives and for contributing to the amazing atmosphere! #tbc
- Reposted by Michael GaeblerStats on #bodybrain #neuroskyence data can become non-trivial pretty quickly: Anything beyond t-tests on 'systole vs diastole' or 'insp vs exp' will include some form of phase binning, so we need adequate surrogates for robust permutation stats. Plus, these are not available for circular data.
