Estherina Trachtenberg

I'm super excited to share my freshly published article in @BBI_Health 🎉, where I elaborate on how important it is to help others, live in a supportive society and how it can improve our health through PNI mechanisms! #OpenAccess @PNIRS doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih… 1/3

הרעבת האנשים בעזה לעולם אבל לעולם לא תביא בטחון למדינת ישראל, זה לא אנושי ולא מוסרי זה פשע... تجويع الناس بغزة ولا مرة راح يجيب الأمن لإسرائيل، ولا مرة. هذا غير إنساني، ويتناقض مع جميع القيم، هذا إسمه إشي واحد إجرام...

Not in my name

Tell me that this does not look like a photo from the Holocaust. I cannot believe, cannot believe, that the people who suffered the Holocaust, my people, would do this to anyone. How can this be??

+100 for this (surprisingly short) take! "writing the paper" is not something that happens at the END of a research project.. it's an integral part of it. personally, blindly offloading that part to an LLM would be the surest way to hurt the quality of my research.

🧠 Want to boost your CV with public engagement but not sure where to start? @beccasue99 shares how she got into SciComm during her PhD - and why it’s been career-changing. 📣 New #BridgingTheGap interview 👉 womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridging-… #SciComm #PhDLife #WomenInSTEM

Ever walked into a room and immediately forgotten what you walked in for? 🔎 The latest #BeckyandtheBrain video is now out! This week we focus on...err... its that thing that happens when you...um... can't quite remember... MEMORY- its memory 😅 youtu.be/anHmu0W1JCg

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alicja Monaghan, Danyal Akarca, and Duncan E. Astle: Brain wiring economics, network organisation and population-level genomics doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…

We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us! Details 👇🏾 dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt @fct_pt @CaixaResearch

If you’re around at OCNS and want to learn about network structure, dynamics, and function, we’ve got a workshop for you: sites.google.com/view/cns2025wo…

🚨New paper Alert! So many people ask AI for emotional support – but is it like support from a human? Our new paper published in @NatureHumBehav explores whether people value #AI - generated #empathy as much as human empathy, in 9 preregistered studies with 6,282 participants.🧵

🚨 Funded PhD @CambridgeUni! Work with top minds — @DuncanAstle & @sjblakemore on the impact of #developmental differences on #education!🧠📚 A month to apply ⏰ For details see👇 🔗drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvgoU… Newnham-based 👩‍🎓💅 @mrccbu #psycology #cambridge #opportunity

New research tracks how empathic disequilibrium, the balance between emotional and cognitive empathy, shifts from age 3-12: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy." Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵

Excited to share our new study tracking how empathic disequilibrium develops in children aged 3–12! Led by @FUzefovsky and together with Dr Rebecca Waller (@EDENLabUPenn) and @nickjameswagner, we found that both forms of empathic disequilibrium are common across development.

@BrazeltonUK celebrating this year's #BabyCommunicationWeek 🙌 💡In addition to supporting UK baby banks, they have launched a YouTube Series #BornReady 👉Head over via the link below to learn about babies' impressive inventory of skills🤯 🔗 youtube.com/playlist?list=…

על הקשר בין רגשות, מדע וחמלה. וגם תרגול מודע. רוצות.ים כמה טיפים שיסייעו להרגיע את הנפש? המלצה לקורס מקוון וקליל (רק 3 שעות) שאפשר לראות מהבית (או מהממ"ד) - מיינדפולנס ובודהיזם – פרקטיקה ותיאוריה, אז והיום.

My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.

Interested in exploring a transdiagnostic approach to #Neurodevelopment? @DuncanAstle joins us to consider how this perspective might help us understand the foundational mechanisms that drive developmental change & differences. Book now to attend! bit.ly/4jujuJ6

PhD studentship at Cambridge! Closing date for applications: 26/07/25 You need to be a woman and eligible for UK home fees. And interested in doing a PhD in developmental cognitive neuroscience and education, based in Cambridge, UK (not hybrid/remote)

Excellent talk by @AnneliseMadison at #PNIRS2025! 👏👏👏 📣 She recently opened her own lab - sites.lsa.umich.edu/pni/people/lab… and is looking for students and postdocs. Highly recommend Anneliese as a PI - she is an incredible person! @PNIRS