Dear colleagues, we want to improve our social media and adjust them to your needs. We'll be posting a few polls to identify your interests over the next week. Would be great to have lots of feedback from you. Please #Repost 1⃣ Which general topics are of interest for you?

it’s a win for the team! 🙌 thanks so much to Nevena, Sofie Valk et al for the excellent teamwork and to OHBM for the honour of selecting our abstract!

What have we learnt about working from home in the past year? How can home office improve for everyone? 💻🏡 Discuss with Dr. Ulla Weber Yu-Xuan Lyu (Lu), PhD Sofie Valk @KontisP Dr. Hana Gründler & us Max Planck Postdocnet IDEA seminar | 14.4. | 12-1pm 👉 register here tinyurl.com/56w48v4z

“Brain charts for the human lifespan”! The result of 200 people putting their 🧠🧠🧠together (120,000+ of them!) to generate growth curves from mid-gestation to 100 years. brainchart.io & biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Jakob Seidlitz Simon White #FBPE @edbullmore Aaron Alexander-Bloch

Join us for our last emergent session on 🔥A community-built template for the pre-registration of fMRI studies🔥 with Frauke Beyer! #OHBM2021 #OSR OHBM Link: crowdcast.io/e/osr-emergent…

Vascular risk factors have a stronger associations to health outcomes (e.g. dementia) in ~ midlife ~ than later life. In our new paper in Gerontological Society of America (GSA), we show such this age-dependent association exists for depressive symptoms, too 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/geronb…

Marta Porniece Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research Max Planck PhDnet Deputy Spokesperson Lina Schaare researches health risk and the brain at @mpi_cbs. She also serves as a postdoc rep and has co-led the equity/diversity working group. Her aim: develop PostdocNet into a stable community in the MPG

If you're curious, drop by our Q&A on 15 Feb at 16:00 (Central European time) on Zoom, link will be shared via the mailing list (sign up here: postdocnet.mpg.de/join-us/) /2

Hello OHBM attendees. Now that the conference is drawing to a close, did you get Covid?

We loved OHBM 2022 It was an honour to write and perform our music for OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group (OS-SIG) party👇open.spotify.com/album/24ULdfBV… Our poll suggests ^ 100 - 400 Covid cases occurred What does this mean for in-person meetings? Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Psychonomic Society Is this acceptable? Do we change the model?

Greetings from Munich! Our Deputy Spokesperson Lina Schaare visited 🕵️‍♀️ Max Planck HQ yesterday to prepare for our upcoming General Meeting. 📆 Oct 17 to 19 on Zoom, all MPG postdocs welcome! More info coming soon...

Congratulations🎉to Anneke Heins at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and to Felipe Nathan de Oliveira Lopes at the MPI for Plasma Physics, our new Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson! Looking forward to a great year of working with you!

Congratulations 🙌 also to our section reps: Jeremias Brand at MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences for BMS, Barbara at @MPIEisen for CPTS, and Sajjad Safaei, Dr. 🇮🇷 at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology for HSS

The WissZeitVG proposed reforms would change the maximum time that a postdoc is allowed to be a contract in Germany from a total time of 6 years to 3 years. This is absolutely insane. More stress, more precarious working conditions, and worse research. #ichbinhanna

Joint Statement from German Postdoctoral Networks on the Eckpunktepapier from the BMBF postdocnet.mpg.de/127851/Stateme… with Munich Postdoc Network LeibnizPostDocs Helmholtz Munich PhD & Postdoc | Career Center @FMP_MDC_PDA Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany Sociedad CERFA Rede Apoena AWI Postdoc Team and more. #WissZeitVG #ichbinhanna

Wie sich hoher #Blutdruck auf die psychische Gesundheit #mentalhealth auswirkt 🫀🧠 - das haben Lina Schaare maria blöchl @denizkumral_ Marie Uhlig https://det.social/@marieuhlig Lorenz Lemcke, Sofie Valk & Arno Villringer in ihrer aktuellen Studie Nature Communications erforscht: cbs.mpg.de/2124535/202304…

📢🔬 Exciting news! 🚀🎉 The Max Planck PostdocNet Survey Report 2022 is finally out! 🤯📊. A huge thank you to all postdocs who filled out the survey & big applause for the PostdocNet Survey Working Group who wrote the report. Check it out here postdocnet.mpg.de/134932/survey-… 👇