Getting ready for #UCL200 where our lab will be in the Yellow room. Excited to be part of the celebrations 🎉

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

I understand UKRI's need to restructure, but MRC reducing awards for applications already under review feels like a retrospective rule change. Applicants invested serious time based on expected success rates. Changing the deal after submission breaks a social contract.

🧠 Join us for the 4th annual Philosophy of AI Conference (21–22 May 2026), focusing on Reasoning and Agency in AI. Spaces are limited—register to secure your attendance! @sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The role of science for democratic societies has never been more important. Register for our upcoming scientific meeting on 16-17 March 2026 and explore the theoretical and practical consequences of treating science as a global public good: https://bit.ly/3Y42i4F

✨ We are all really excited about this! So much work has already been done, but the match has only just begun. We can’t wait for what’s coming next: SCIENCE, INCLUSION, FUN, FOOD, WINE, COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS… we’re ready for it! ✨Don’t miss the chance to be part of it, apply!

The ESCAN Rome 2026 website is finally live! 🎉https://escan2026.eu/ We are working to make ESCAN 2026 a 4-day event dedicated to groundbreaking and rigorous science, an inclusive space, enriched with engaging social activities, great food, all set in the stunning backdrop of the Eternal City ✨.

One of my favourite conferences! So excited for this

ICN bake-off with my lab. Congratulations Wilson @wilsonlimph.bsky.social for all the incredible baking skills (and Sarah too!). Special appearance from Theo the dog

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/

Bloomsbury/UCL people: Have you tried this new Lebanese Cafe - Matbakh Kitchen - located on Great Ormond Street? The food is delicious! My Mums family came from Syria and I’m so happy to find truly authentic home cooking. Do try if you’re in the area.

New paper by @bignardi.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @oxwell.bsky.social The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue

#BACN25 continued to be really exciting with a host of great talks and posters. And an excellent Mid-career prize talk by @sjblakemore.bsky.social 🤩 Lovely community & great event 👌✨️ @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jamiewardsussex.bsky.social + Ed Silson

My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠

On the train back from Edinburgh #BACN25 with my head buzzing from all the great cognitive neuroscience. Loads of enthusiastic, supportive discussion from everyone I talked to so a really great conference!

Well that was a brilliant couple of days at #BACN25. Thank you to the speakers, the organisers, the posterers (?) and everyone else who made it what it was. And particular thanks to the main character, the city of Edinburgh, for the beautiful autumn sun ☀️

That’s a wrap! Thoroughly enjoyed my time at @bacn.co.uk. Looking forward to next year, in Brighton 🏖️🎡 @sarahgarf.bsky.social

Fantastic work by @tessamdekker.bsky.social investigating how “what we know” influences “what we see” across development, including both young and aging populations

British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Day 2: @afelsenheimer.bsky.social detailing her work on the effect of self touch on anxiety, Rania-Iman on heartbeat evoked potential analysis, and @hannahsavage.bsky.social presenting a novel test for gastric interoception.

Day 1 posters at #BACN25. @bethlongley.bsky.social @oliwiastecko.bsky.social @chatrins.bsky.social @wilsonlimph.bsky.social presenting a variety of work from the lab, interoceptive protocols, heart-memory, computational modelling & emotion regulation

Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025

And we’re off! Jamie Ward opening @bacn.co.uk #BACN2025 in Edinburgh with prize talk by @engra.me detailing his work and service to the scientific community

See you tomorrow at #BACN25!!

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what became in time the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which houses the Institute of Neurology, part of @ucl.ac.uk As requested by @matthewbroome.bsky.social If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today! If you’re joining us this September, welcome to UCL. 💜 Got questions about Results Day, visit our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

New from us, led from the front by @gracerevill.bsky.social: Childhood Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Reliably Associated with Anxiety but Not Other Examined Psychiatric Outcomes at Two-Year Follow-up, After Adjusting for Prior Mental Health acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My new obsession: fashion trends in mammals. Grass wearing in chimps and dead salmon hats for orcas www.livescience.com/animals/land... www.livescience.com/animals/orca...

So delighted to be a Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University. Many thanks to my sponsor @giusiporciello.bsky.social and @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social. If you are in Rome come to my seminar!

Making Sense of Sensation: A model of Interoceptive Attribution and Appraisal with Clinical applications New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social #interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁 osf.io/preprints/ps...

The ESCAN Junior Committee is active and thriving! Join them and their series of workshops, to increase your skills, make new work friends and plan for the Rome conference next year. @escaneu.bsky.social it is all free and friendly.

Nature Mental Health's Research Briefing section covers our study, led by Jae Won Suh, on outcomes of stroke survivors with anxiety and depression treated with primary care psychological therapy. Full text of original study www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Inspiring few days in Erice talking all things ‘Stress and the ANS’ and presenting our work by @david-spalding.bsky.social and Toni Ejoor on HRV in GAD.

Can inflammation reveal why some individuals with depression can't feel joy? In this latest work led by Jonathan Savitz, Mike Irwin, and @mpwpaulus.bsky.social published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, we attempted to address just that: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

What an amazing opportunity! Taught by the brilliant @vaughanbell.bsky.social and free for @bnpa.bsky.social members. BNPA is a wonderful society uniting psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and psychologists. Join today

I'm delivering a training day on 'neuropsychiatry for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists' in London on Fri 4th July 👇 Free to BNPA members, £70 to join if you're not a member

It's not surprising to see that cutting off funding disrupts science and impacts its novelty, but I think it's important that this is documented and shared 🧪 . For more see the news coverage in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When your mum drops by your office to give you home-grown flowers ♥️ Thank you @brightphoebus.bsky.social

Great to hear @mtsakiris.bsky.social discuss his latest developmental interoceptive research, lots to understand about developmental phases of interoceptive vs expeoceptive processing #SelfRS2025

What an amazing week on San Servolo on interoception and brain disorders; I learned so much, thanks all for the great discussions and thanks for the great organization and all the the fun! @skhalsa.bsky.social @sarahgarf.bsky.social

Day 1 of the symposium on the self @royalsociety.org is spoiling us with interdisciplinary discussions on the concepts and dimensions of self! Many thanks to @tonyjprescott.bsky.social @awykowska.bsky.social @sarahgarf.bsky.social & Paul Verschure for organising this illuminating event! #selfRS2025

So looking forward to this - starting in 1.5 hours, the island is stunning and the sun is bright. Looking forward to meeting everyone and a week of interoception together! ♥️

Job claxon! Our fantastic colleague Hélio Cuve is looking for a postdoc with expertise in social or affective neuroscience. His lab does cool work on the role of bodily signals in emotions. Apply now! For more info and/or to apply, see: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing. But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...