Nils Kohn
nilskohn.bsky.social
Nils Kohn
@nilskohn.bsky.social
psychologist, neuroscientist interested in memory & emotion in health and education, VR for education, father of 2. https://www.ru.nl/en/departments/donders-community-for-medical-neuroscience/memory-emotion
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(1/2) Hiring! 🦠🧠 Postdoc position in my group @univie.ac.at on microbiome-brain interactions as part of the ERC-funded project “MemoryLane: Neural plasticity through the lens of gut-brain interactions”.

📍 Vienna, Austria
📅 Application deadline: 2 Aug 2026
ℹ️ shorturl.at/2E4sf
July 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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"A match official who was set to be the first Somalian to referee at the World Cup finals has been dropped after he was denied entry to the US.."

Why isn't FIFA demanding this decision be reversed? That's a rhetorical question. We all know why.
June 9, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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Ultrasound gives our brain a nudge in the right direction 🧠

👀 Look to your left, look to your right!

We used #ultrasound to stimulate the brain and it changed human choice behavior within a fraction of a second. No surgery, no implants.

Link to paper ⬇️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid modulation of choice behavior by ultrasound on the human frontal eye fields - Nature Communications
Brief ultrasound to human frontal eye fields, but not motor cortex, rapidly biases eye movement contralaterally in a perceptual choice task. The size of this effect scales with individual baseline FEF...
www.nature.com
February 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
A fun spotlight besides the neuroscience stage: one of my postdocs, James, writes absurdly funny fiction.

His debut Blood Brothers is free to download and a “darkly comedic speculative action thriller”

if you like weird worldbuilding and satire go check him out: jamesbitterauthor.com
James Bitter
James Bitter
jamesbitterauthor.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New paper just came out adding brain evidence for emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic contstruct! With @angielaird.bsky.social and Carmen Morawetz. Grateful and happy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emotion regulation: From neural circuits to a transdiagnostic perspective
Emotion regulation is a critical factor implicated in diverse psychopathologies. However, evidence for the transdiagnostic feature of emotion regulati…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Please repost this open PhD studentship.
Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The Computational and Neural Dynamics of Human Motivation and Cognitive Control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The Computational and Neural Dynamics of Human Motivation and Cognitive Control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Fun little tool, summarizes your papers in a pic. Reassuring that it also thinks I’m working on memory and emotion in the brain. 😂 shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 AM