Ofer Perl

Time has come to share some exciting news! I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Haifa University in Spring 2025! #AcademicTwitter #Neuroscience #NewYear #newPI

15-year-old me: “Academic research is going to be the most amazing job in the world.” The reality of my postdoc…

@baror_shira and colleagues came up with a clever paradigm to probe the relationship between continuity and segmentation, check it out! Congratulations Shira ❤️

#Throwback! This finding still blows my mind. 🤯 We demonstrated that beliefs about nicotine strength drive dose-dependent signals in the brain, physiologically mimicking the drug itself, even when the actual dose is constant. Beliefs change biology 👇 nature.com/articles/s4422…

Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @XiaosiGu, @JoeBarnby, & I call for models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms

A new semester here at University of Haifa and with it comes something I have been wanting for a long time: a full semester course devoted entirely to human olfaction. Apparently "let's spend 13 weeks talking about odors, stench, sniffing, and pheromones" did not scare them off.

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health: Trends in Neurosciences cell.com/trends/neurosc…

Always nice when science translates to real world observations (watch till the end!) Frumin et al. "A social chemosignaling function for human handshaking" 👋👃🏻 elifesciences.org/articles/05154

New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

I'm grateful for the welcoming atmosphere and support endowed by @ELSCbrain as a whole and Dr. Aya Ben Yakov's guidance in particular 🙏

@LiorTal4 It makes every bit of sense to become attached to such a building, Lior. ❤️

It doesn’t really make sense to feel this attached to a building (one I haven’t set foot in since 2017), but I spent 10 years of my life in it, making friends & scientific discoveries. It was a kind of second home. And now that it’s gone, I’m honestly very sad to say goodbye.

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.

Hey #academia , raise your hand if your alma mater was struck by a missile barrage today We can't share the pics but they're dreadful. 👋

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👃🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT🚨👃 Just out in @CurrentBiology - "Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints" by Timna Soroka et al. (link to #OpenAccess paper @ comment!) TL;DR - Human nasal respiratory fingerprints are individually unique patterns that reflect brain-driven respiration

Nachum's new book Natural Neuroscience is out! A fresh take on how brains work in the real world—well worth a read.

An incredibly comprehensive piece by Tort and colleagues showing to what extent brain activity is shaped by respiration. Take a deep breath and dive in 🤿 nature.com/articles/s4158…

It’s got a name

Thank you all for the goodbye party and the going-away swag. May your shelf will always be full with booze and hippocampuses. or hippocampi, never really got that bit.

Yesterday was my last day with the Ben-Yakov human memory lab at @ELSCbrain. After two and a half wonderful years, going away is bittersweet. I now look forward to starting a new path as a PI @UofHaifa and to forming new hippocampus-mediated memories.

Behold the great #hippocampus shrine of Acre! 😳 #ISCOP