My current favourite football video: 3 professional Japanese footballers vs 100 primary school children. youtu.be/MYFcTWKcuQM?...

Very excited for my paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social on spontaneous emergence of #Interpersonal #Physiological #Synchrony (IPS). We show that, even without a structured task, your autonomic bodily signals synchronize with another person just by looking at them! doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵 1/6

Enjoying this talk about how to inflict maximum tickle. For anyone curious: (1) Touch velocity non-linearly modulates ticklishness, (2) force monotonically increases ticklishness until the touch is perceived as painful, (3) the smallest contact size & (4) longer duration induced more tickle #ESCAN

“But the best cable is the one you have already.” My talented brother @curiousscutter.bsky.social who really loves wires and cables ♥️

Abstract submission now open for this excellent conference, which will be held in Brighton on 2-3 September www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/...

In case it's of interest to anyone, here's a regularly updated list of UK postdoctoral research fellowships - feel free to share/copy sites.google.com/site/blakemo...

Got over excited when I saw them and dropped my phone!!! #Arsenal #Parade #COYG

Deep breaths #Arsenal

Do you like tactical card placement games? My talented friend Gary (we were undergraduate psychology students together many years ago!) has a kickstarter. Please consider supporting if this is your thing www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

What a match! Thank you Bournemouth ♥️🤍 #Arsenal

Lost.Resigned.Defected.Suspended.Sacked. #NotARealParty Stop the shift to popularist extremists with no expertise or experience

This is a new paper testing Bayesian computational mechanisms of improvements in cardiac interoception due to a training program developed by @sarahgarf.bsky.social and colleagues. Led by a very talented grad student @chatrins.bsky.social (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Massive study in @nature.com, converges with our past study of 750,000 people (Sea hero quest) to show u-shape curves for the impact of sleep. We studied cognition, here its disease impact: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come on Arsenal…

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Excited to share our new paper asking a simple question: Why do mental and metabolic health so often go hand in hand? We (@camillanord.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social) tested whether shared neurocognitive signatures play a role in this relationship www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to this!

Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]

To my American colleagues, friends & collaborators: Masud Husain is amazing, do go if you’re in DC

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Oh Arsenal..

🧠 Focused ultrasound changes emotional processing 🔊 In a new study published in Neuron today, we stimulated the human amygdala using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and show it plays a causal role in detecting and resolving emotional ambiguity.

Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar

I am pleased to announce the Embodied Minds Summit, a two-day gathering on interoception, consciousness, and the future of self-understanding in the age of artificial intelligence. May 2–3, 2026 | Los Angeles embodiedminds.ai

Major Depressive Disorder is characterized by a disrupted heart-brain relationship, where cardiac dysregulation (faster heart rate, reduced HRV) is linked to reduced insula gray matter volume.

We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission. Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!

Congratulations Dr Woelk! Thrilled that Sascha Woelk has successfully passed his viva, congratulations on an amazing thesis. Thank you so much to examiners @guidorgs.bsky.social and Ruben Azevedo! 🎉

Congratulations to Benedict Greenwood for successfully passing his viva! First Dr from my UCL lab with brilliant co-supervisor @jameskilner.bsky.social. Many thanks to wonderful examiners @carien.bsky.social and @katerinafoto.bsky.social

March issue @brain1878.bsky.social with winning article in Brain Essay Competition by @oharealex.bsky.social considers if it is technologically feasible for machines to achieve human-level intelligence, and philosophically plausible for them to possess consciousness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans Journal of Neuroscience January 2026 #interoception #neuroskyence www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

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! 🧠