In our latest scientific blog, @johnnyparr.bsky.social describes the high rates of falls in children and adults (mean age 44 yrs) with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). DCD adults were nine (!) times more likely than controls to fall at least once a month. ispgr.org/developmenta...

Pleased to announce the Embodied Tech Summit, happening in London June 10: embodied.tech

In this new blog post, Dr Sanne Ettema describes work from her PhD exploring how to best implement robotic harnessing systems into rehabilitation. ispgr.org/rising-to-ad...

It’s time to submit your abstracts for this great conference www.posture.sk #posture @cybal.bsky.social @smbruijn.bsky.social @tobyellmers.bsky.social @elmarkal.bsky.social @eleagle.bsky.social @melvynroerdink.bsky.social @deepak-ravi.bsky.social @antoinelangeard.bsky.social @phterrier.bsky.social

New work, now out in PLoS Biology. Using intracranial recordings & EEG, we find that the human STN rapidly engages / releases motor inhibition depending on task context, does so in tight accord w/ frontal cortex, and shows little to no lateralization while doing so. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Come along if you're in the Washington DC area to listen to a discussion about what people with brain disorders reveal about our selves. Politics and Prose Bookstore 1324 4th St NE

One month left to apply for our: ✅ Proleptic Postdoctoral Fellowship ✅ Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship The deadline for both opportunities is Friday 22 May, 5pm and you can find more information here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... #FundingForAgeingWell

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Excited to share that our paper, “Cerebellar Contributions to Action and Cognition: Prediction, Timescale, and Continuity,” is now published in @pnas.org! Grateful to the reviewers, colleagues, and editors for their thoughtful and constructive feedback.

In most vestibular structures, sensory input is suppressed during self-generated movement. Here, postdoc Robyn Mildren shows an exception in the cerebellar nodulus/uvula, which faithfully encodes head motion in space across behavioral contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI agent comparing p-values from t-tests instead of looking at the interaction only reflect the frequent mistakes from humans Error 2 in our ten common statistical mistakes: elifesciences.org/articles/48175

🔓 We have just opened the next round of our Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship. Applicants can apply for up to £350,000 over a maximum duration of three years full-time. Find out more and how to apply here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... The deadline is Friday 22 May, 5pm.

Vestibular Perceptual Thresholds, Balance Impairment, and Fall Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.19.26346653v1

⏱️ Two weeks left to apply for the Joint @gerisoc.bsky.social / Vivensa Foundation Doctoral Training Fellowship. The deadline for applications is 20 March, 5pm. More information and how to apply here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... #FundingForAgeingWell

“In a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.” Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer! bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

An excellent and inspiring blog post from our 2025 Promising Scientist Award winner, @chrismccrum.bsky.social. ispgr.org/fall-prevent...

We have again partnered with @gerisoc.bsky.social (BGS) to co-fund one Doctoral Training Fellowship to support front-line health professionals to develop a career in ageing-related research. Apply by the deadline of 20 March, 5pm. More: vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-fu... #FundingForAgeingWell

I couldn’t agree more. Olu Ajijola & I are attempting to bridge this divide in interoception via conceptual frameworks (see below) but also via integrated multidisciplinary lab group activities. It’s simultaneously invigorating and daunting, but needs to happen. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excellent new blog post from our 2025 Emerging Scientist Award winner, Dr Benjamin Filtjens, who describes his award-winning programme of research on enhancing the use of artificial intelligence in clinical gait analysis. ispgr.org/using-artifi...

Save the date for our biggest in-person event of the year. The Annual Symposium is taking place in London on Thursday 23 April 2026. More information and a booking link to follow soon. #AnnualSymposium2026 #FundingForAgeingWell

New paper in @elife.bsky.social led by Tianhe! Motor errors shape everyday actions—from spilling milk to missing a hold while climbing. Why are some errors systematic? We show motor biases arise from misalignment between visual and proprioceptive reference frames. tinyurl.com/t7h786m5

Happy New Year, everyone! Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza @rezashadmehr.bsky.social. Paper: tinyurl.com/yyfast5m

If your New Year’s resolution is to find a fantastic 3-year post doc position in a great city with a small, friendly lab group and national collaborators… you’re in luck!!! Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... @ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social

Did you ask Santa for a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies? The new AMSTAR-PF tool is now published in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/391/... Excellent work from Michael Henry @UNISA driving this project. @cochranesmg.bsky.social @jbiebhc.bsky.social

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Neural control of movement in Parkinson’s (3 years) This fantastic three-year postdoctoral position at Cardiff University and funded by Parkinson's UK, has now re-opened for applications. Full details and application here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...

Read the latest developments in posture and gait research from our two 2025 early career award winners @chrismccrum.bsky.social and Benjamin Filtjens (not on bluesky). Great work, both! And proud to have you both within our society.

The neurological condition that is often dismissed as clumsiness @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

So happy our latest study is finally published! We show that falls are a major issue across the lifespan for individuals with DCD (i.e., Dyspraxia). Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Hidden Epidemic of Falls journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal... Key findings 👇

Prof. Chang Liu did an amazing job with this behemoth of a project!!!

As a funder, we are keen to support nurses, allied health professionals and care home staff into research. Our Academy Ignition Fund provides flexible funding and two of our Excellence Award winners are using their funding to help too: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/how-the... #FundingForAgeingWell

Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology has been released! I'm pleased to see that the cover is pretty close to my initial mockup. You can find the entire collection here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

** 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)

Postdoc (and PhD) opportunity in my lab. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" doi.org/10.1371/jour... We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

Book now for next week's free online masterclass with @magswatson1.bsky.social on how to mentor effectively in academia. We have covered the cost of the session for Academy members, and you can book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclas... #FundingForAgeingWell #MentoringMasterclass

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social: How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :) #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested! #locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics

**Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!

New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

We were honoured to award Prof Bradford McFadyen @bjmcfadyen.bsky.social ISPGR's Honorary Membership at our 2025 World Congress. Prof McFadyen reflects on this award - and what it takes to make a meaningful career in posture and gait research - in our latest #ISPGRBlog. tinyurl.com/5n7ces5h

Amazingly rich and in-depth reflections on a career well spent from the legend that is @bjmcfadyen.bsky.social. Must read for early career researchers in any area (but particularly posture and gait)!

🏆 How often do you get the opportunity to apply for flexible funding? How would you use £120k over three years? The deadline to nominate for the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards is next week (31 October, 5pm). Visit: vivensafoundation.org.uk/wp-content/u... #FundingForAgeingWell #ExcellenceAwards

This is a very nice cross-species articulation of findings and challenges in body-brain and brain-body processing. Recommended reading for anyone interested in dipping their toes into this broad and rapidly developing area!

The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK. One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities. My views on how to change the system academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Really enjoyed my weekend read on 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: local recurrence amplifies natural input patterns and suppresses stray activity. This review beautifully argues that sensory cortex itself is a site of memory and prediction. Food for thought on hallucinations! #neuroskyence #neuroscience