Elisabeth Sterner

🎨 A moving end to Day 2 with Lorna Collins sharing how art helped her navigate her lived experience of psychosis, followed by a wonderful interactive art session. A memorable close to another day of insightful talks, posters, and discussions! @theichr.bsky.social @echrhallucinations.bsky.social

The ICHR/ECHR Satellite Meeting 2026 kicks off today at TUM Institute of Advanced Studies Garching! 🥨🧠 @theichr.bsky.social @echrhallucinations.bsky.social The registration desk is now open! In case of any questions/assistance, please find people with the heart badges. 🤎 #ICHR2026 #ECHR2026

Die Deutsche Bahn hat im offiziellen Katalog 65 Verspätungsgründe („Reparatur an einem Signal” etc.). Mir waren die zu konkret. Deshalb gibt es jetzt das „Bahnhoroskop”: Man trägt die Verspätung ein und bekommt den Grund, berechnet aus der echten Sternkonstellation zur Abfahrt. bahnhoroskop.ggor.de

🚨 Registration closes September 30! We have an amazing programme! So join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes!! We are looking forward to seeing you in Munich! 🧠🥨 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

🚨 💫 💥 Interested in PhD / Postdoc opportunities in computational psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience? My lab at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 is currently accepting expressions of interest for internally funded PhD/Postdoc applications for positions starting in September 2027 (!). 1/

Excited to share our new preprint! 🎈 We reversed risk contingencies in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task and used computational models to reveal latent risk-taking mechanisms missed by standard measures. Huge thanks to @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & @thorstenpachur.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨Registration is now open for the 2026 ICHR & ECHR Satellite Meeting in Munich, 19–21 October! Deadline: 30 September 2026 Programme and registration details: sites.google.com/view/echrich... We hope to see many of you in Munich in October!🥨🧠 @theichr.bsky.social&@echrhallucinations.bsky.social

🚨 Excited to share our latest preprint with my supervisor @franziskaknolle.bsky.social We describe a way to measure transdiagnostic mental-health burden in adolescents and examine how higher burden is associated with differences in cognition and brain structure. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to be back at one of my favorite conferences 🧠#PUG2026 Come talk to me on Friday about our recently published MuSe database 📂(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) and very fresh results on speech detection and content recognition under auditory ambiguity in psychosis-proneness 💬

Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

🚨Abstract submission for the @theichr.bsky.social & @echrhallucinations.bsky.social satellite meeting is open! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Dr @kathaschmack.bsky.social , Dr @veithweilnhammer.bsky.social, Prof @mruscalafell.bsky.social & Prof Paul Fletcher! See you in Munich 🥨🧠!

Samira's work made the cover of @natneuro.nature.com this month 🎉 🔗 nature.com/neuro/volumes/29/issues/5 I also want to highlight two recent comments that engage with our quantitative approach to interpreting the BOLD signal; both are worth reading (see below).

We had an amazing Girls‘ Day today!! 🧠👩‍💻👩‍⚕️ Neuroradiology @tum.de Klinikum Rechts der Isar!

🚨 Our database is published in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3... with Maximilian Stadler and @franziskaknolle.bsky.social If you plan on working with German speech stimuli, check out our osf for auditory stimuli and our online tool for selecting sentence material 🪄

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Some thoughts on @franziskaknolle.bsky.social recent paper on speech expectations, hallucinations, and glutamate: illness and chronicity may be important in understanding the role of glutamate in prior weighting www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

🚨Paper alert: Very happy to share a new preprint investigating the stability of human-based sentence entropy measures and how well they are represented with LLM-based measures! Spoiler alert: We still need human data!💡 Thanks to the amazing team!! 🤩 arxiv.org/abs/2602.04570

🚨Paper alert: So great to see this published. Our review on the predictive processing account of psychosis! Thanks to the amazing team 🧠 - it was so much fun writing this piece. 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Save the Date: The next ICHR Satellite Meeting will be in Munich, Sep 21-24 2026! Hosted by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & co-organised with @echrhallucinations.bsky.social, this will be our 5th satellite meeting and first trip to Germany. hallucinationconsortium.org

🚨New preprint looking at neurobiological and computational mechanisms underlying altered language-related predictive processing and subclinical symptom formation in a schizotypy sample! Great work by medical student Verena Demler! 🎉🧠 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨lf you’re based in Munich and have a daughter or friends with one, this might be interesting to them! Experience a day as a neuroscientist 🧠💡we’re very excited to show the girls around and introduce them to our work!!! 🤩 www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/tum...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡

Thrilled to share that @cognemo.bsky.social and I are guest editors for a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Computational markers of psychosis: From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms 🧠✨ If you’re working on this topic, we’d love to see your work! academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Teaching at the #Studienstiftung Sommerakademie in Leysin will definitely remain a core memory of my PhD! Discussing computational psychiatry with such a curious, interdisciplinary group of students was truly inspiring! Sharing the experience with @eckertal.bsky.social made it even more special ✨

What makes a puzzle hard? I found this video delightful.

⏳ How stable are semantic predictions over time? And how do autistic and schizotypal traits influence this stability? Excited to see our new paper on the temporal stability of semantic predictions published - together with my supervisor @franziskaknolle.bsky.social and Andrea Greve: rdcu.be/ewV32

Thank you #CPConf2025 for the great opportunity to share our research and for bringing together such an inspiring community! Already looking forward to next year! 🙌🧠

📢 Finally out! 🎉 — Our paper exploring model-free vs. model-based decision-making in OCD using fMRI and Bayesian modeling. Many thanks to my supervisors @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & Prof. Dr. Kathrin Koch for the incredible support throughout this journey! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Finally out-Our paper on how overweighting priors during semantic processing gives rise to misperceptions (or task-based hallucinations) in schizotypy! Thanks to the amazing team❤️ @esterner.bsky.social Verena Demler Lucy MacGregor Chris Mathys www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... 🧵👇

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Well that was fun! A big thank you @cognemo.bsky.social @rssmith.bsky.social @esterner.bsky.social & R. Maramotti for coming all the way to Würzburg and delivering amazing talks. Bringing Active Inference down to empirical data is not an easy feat but today's symposium was really inspiring! 🤓

Thrilled to co-chair my 1st symposium @ #PuG2025. Make sure to drop by, this will be incredible! 🌟 Thu, 19.06.2025, 10:30-12:30 (session 1.013 Z6) "Active Inference in Psychiatry" w/ R. Smith, R. Maramotti, @cognemo.bsky.social & co-chair @esterner.bsky.social 👇 www.pug2025.org/de/sessions/...

Finally out 🎉 - Our new paper explores the neuroimaging and computational differences of reward anticipation in kids with and without psychotic-like experiences. Well done, Pritha Sen, for the great work!!🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am very excited to share our new preprint together with @Isabella Goodwin, @Kelly Diederen, @Emily Hird, @veithweilnhammer.bsky.social, and @Marta Garrido! Where does predictive processing stand in psychosis research - revisiting Sterzer et al (2018) seven years later. 🧠🔍? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Super excited to share our lates preprint, in collaboration with my amazing students Elisabeth and Verena, Lucy MacGregor (Cambridge) and Chris Mathys (Aarhus): Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate osf.io/preprints/ps... A thread🧵: