Ole Goltermann

Incredible paper - critically important for those of us studying #interoception. Congratulations and major thanks to Joey Charbonneau, @eblissmoreau.bsky.social, and co-authors !

Super proud of many things about this work by the amazing @kristorpjensen.bsky.social. The work is one of my favourite things ever from the lab. Also super proud of Kris for choosing to send it to @elife.bsky.social - we get to see Kris explain every figure! elifesciences.org/articles/109...

Study by Josef Parvizi, published in Nature, reveals how the insular cortex, the brain’s core region for pain and bodily awareness is organized and how its parts communicate with each other and the rest of the brain. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This paper is so so good. If you are interested in insula, this is a must read. 👩‍🍳💋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Vorbereitung für die Themenwoche geht weiter! Sei beim bundesweiten Mega-Zoom mit @arnesemsrott.bsky.social dabei und erfahre mehr über den aktuellen Stand der Vorbereitungen. Den aktuellen Aufruf findest du auf unserer Website. Teile ihn und werde Unterstützer*in. 🤝

New post! In which I discuss a truly amazing piece of science sleuthing that recently appeared on @pubpeer.com neuroskepticbsky.substack.com/p/the-sherlo...

If you were following along the discussions on social media on our recent NN paper, you might enjoy the virtual meeting tomorrow (Monday 19th Oft 6pm CEST)! We'll discuss our findings alongside @olegolt.bsky.social and Nicholas Blockley. Looking forward! 🤗

Excited that this paper, "Highly replicable multisite patterns of adolescent white matter maturation", has now been published in Neuron! It may be found at cell.com/neuron/fullt.... To freely access the paper for the next 50 days, please use this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nxdd3BtfH...

A new fMRI study just out on precision functional mapping of imagined and experienced pain, led by Michael Sun (Sun et al., 2026, Nature Communications). How strongly does imagining pain activate nociceptive representations in the brain? doi.org/10.1038/s41... Thread below 👇

Happy to share the version of record of our locus coeruleus paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Prior thread on some of our discoveries in this study: bsky.app/profile/jere...

I am excited to share that the final study of my PhD is out in @commsbio.nature.com: Defensive cardiac states sharpen neural value representations during decision making doi.org/10.1038/s420... With Bob Bramson, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, @devoogdld.bsky.social and @epanlab.bsky.social 1/5

Our reflections on the recent "AI and Research Integrity" meeting in Montreal: We are somewhat worried that many AI trustworthiness assessment tools are not trustworthy. @lhdjung.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/trustw...

Ob die Ausfälle gegen Philippe Sands ("Clown", "Arschloch", "gewöhnlicher Linker, allzu ergriffen von der eigenen Erhabenheit") antisemitisch sind, sollen andere beurteilen. Vor allem sind es Angriffe auf das Recht, für das sich Sands als weltweit führender Wissenschaftler und Anwalt einsetzt.

This is an astonishing @pubpeer.com post: pubpeer.com/publications... The author compares data points from a figure against random numbers produced with a certain seed, finding r > 0.999999996! 🫠 Could there be any possible innocent explanation? The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for the Brain Function Study Group Virtual Meeting: Quantitative BOLD and the Physiology of the BOLD Signal: Perspectives and Open Questions 19 October 2026 | 16:00 UTC FREE REGISTRATION for members - open to nonmembers: https://ow.ly/7e4Y50ZU3Lc #ISMRM #MagneticResonance #MedicalImaging

Ich habe darüber geschrieben, dass Poschardt in der „Welt“ den rechtsextremen Verschwörungsmythos vom „Großen Austausch“, der zahlreiche Attentäter motivierte, verbreitet. Auf Instagram postete er ein KI-generiertes Video, in dem er den Felix Banaszak, Arne Semsrott und Robert Habeck verprügelt.

Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni... What if #interoception is more than accurately detecting the body? In our super-fresh Opinion in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social w/ @micahgallen.com @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Gioia Bottesi we ask a different question: what do bodily signals mean for the self?

1/ 🚨 Just out in @natneuro.nature.com! 🧠 We profiled >6,000 features of brain dynamics across humans, macaques, marmosets, mice, fish and worms 🧑🐒🐒🐁🐟🪱 to find a shared neural endpoint of anaesthesia: spatiotemporal isolation of local activity 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02460-4

🚨 Very excited to share our latest work: RABBiT: a foundation model for speech- and language-evoked brain activity. 🧠🎧 W/ @mtoneva.bsky.social One model enables: ✅ accurate zero-shot prediction ✅ efficient few-shot adaptation with only 5-10 mins of data ✅ convenient in-silico neuroscience. 🧵👇

Warum ließ Wolfram Weimer drei für den Buchhandlungspreis nominierte Buchhandlungen vom Verfassungsschutz überprüfen? Er begründete das mit der Expertise seiner Beamten. @t-online.de vorliegende Dokumente zeigen jetzt: Seine Fachabteilung empfahl, alle Buchhandlungen auszuzeichnen.

Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incredibly excited to announce that I’m starting my own research group at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen as part of the excellence cluster “The Adaptive Mind”! 🥳 I'm looking to fill the first PhD position. If you’re interested, apply here: tinyurl.com/38p3h22p Please spread the word! 🙏

www.reid-lab.org/blog/22 My (interactive) blog post focused on how #EEG #MEG signals are generated. Aimed at anyone interested in learning about these methods on a biophysical level. Let know what you think -- and share if you think it may interest your followers! #neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Come work with us! Open to different topics, open to different career stages - if in doubt, contact us :) ‼️ Deadline 6th of October 🏃‍♀️

Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️

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 ⤵️

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

The published version of my paper "Understanding, Prediction, and Compression" is now online at Synthese: rdcu.be/svRh41KcQyta

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

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)

Launching scienceofplacebo.org: a living bibliography of placebo and nocebo research. New papers screened & tagged daily by design, population, outcome and findings, with a searchable database (currently about 5,000 papers), an interactive researcher map, events, news and discussion.

Our lab uses Slack to share articles we're reading. It's a kind of virtual forum. Now it's available as a searchable tagged list, with abstracts and discussion. Check it out here: torwager.github.io/canlab/jour...

⏰ New preprint ⏰ Our PhD student Jialin Li (@jialinli02.bsky.social) developed the PAin and RElief Signature (PARES), a multivariate brain signature trained to predict bidirectional changes in pain perception! ⬆️⬇️ Read the work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

🚀 Preprint on how pain is influenced through the pursuit of motivational goals 🚀 Really smart paradigm & important results on opioidergic brain mechanisms. By @asankleo.bsky.social - my brilliant brother. Lab of @christianbuchel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

▶️ Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop 2026 | Layer-specific fMRI Explore predictive processing, deep brain anatomy, pain, fear and working memory. With L. Muckli, A. Alkemade, B. Kincses, A. Bouyeure & H. Olraun. 📅 8 Oct | Essen & online 🎟️ Register by 15 Sept: hahn-institute.de/de/info/hahn-lecture

Eine der wichtigsten und integersten Journalistinnen in diesem Land. Heute ist ein guter Tag, um @akm0803.bsky.social zu folgen, ihre exzellente Arbeit insbesondere zur AfD zu verfolgen, zu teilen und sich öffentlich solidarisch laut zu machen - durch Medienkollegen und durch jede*n von uns.

Excited to share this short & sweet article I wrote with @samhforbes.bsky.social! Teaching coding inclusively: if this, then what? doi.org/10.31235/osf... The title perhaps says it all; we show through arguments and examples what women experience in programming class and what to do to remedy it.

Here's a nice example of the innovative science you can do during a School of Cognition PhD. @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, working across @mpi-nl.bsky.social, @ae.mpg.de & @ki.se, found that genetic pathways involved in music enjoyment are partly distinct from general perceptual & affective traits.🧪

First report on fMRI data from the absolute monster 11.7T Iseult MRI scanner at the NeuroSpin centre in France. Cool stuff. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

“Andere Parteien wollen nicht mit der AfD zusammenarbeiten, weil sie einige (!) Aussagen und Positionen der AfD nicht gut (!) finden, weil sie sagen (!), dass Teile (!) der AfD rechtsextrem sind, und weil es große Unterschiede (!) bei wichtigen politischen Fragen gibt.” www.logo.de/zusammenarbe...

Am Mittwoch sollen 120 Gewerbe in der Hauptstadt von Sachsen-Anhalt geschlossen bleiben. Warum und wie erklärt Saaeid Saaeid vom Flüchtlingsrat.

🔥🔥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...

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

With respect to Cofnas, why is nobody talking about this in the MSM? > We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions. 1/n

He's not in some marginal place or unemployed or anything. > UGent has defended its decision, stating that Cofnas was selected through a "procedurally correct" process that evaluated candidates based on qualifications like publications and expertise. www.brusselstimes.com/2007046/ghen... 3/n

Gamma synchrony communication between the prefrontal cortex and insula. Smells like γ-synchrony: Insula-prefrontal communication depends on γ-synchrony and supports modality-specific changes in behavioral strategies doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience