This paper is absolutely wild and amazing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Now out in #JNeurosci -- we found changes in medial parietal cortex after manual exploration of everyday real-world objects doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... with Beth Rispoli, Vinai Roopchansingh & @cibaker.bsky.social

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

This Saturday at Hay Festival - I'll be chatting to @claudiahammond.bsky.social about reading and the brain for #AllInTheMind. Come along at 5.30pm! www.hayfestival.com/p-25581-bbc-...

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

Happy to share our new review on Neural Mechanisms of Social Hierarchy across Species. We discussed different routes to achieve high social status across species, from fish to humans, and the neural circuits that support each of those strategies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk @mtsakiris.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

@parkbmb.bsky.social @rritunnano.bsky.social @michalhajduk.bsky.social

you can read the paper open access here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534895123

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

Political emotions are not experienced as everyday emotions. They are felt differently in the body, are embodied differently according to our ideology and predict political participation. Our latest with @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2nh9maka

Check below our fantastic collab. leading to the paper accepted now in PNAS: "Politics Embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 💫

THURSDAY MAY 14 16.15 - 17:30 in person / online TOO MAD TO BE TRUE IV - CONFERENCE "Reimagining Spiritual and Religious States in Madness, Meaning, and Multiple Realities" With Cherise Rosen, Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tanya Luhrmann, Tatiana Baxter, Sohee Park

National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” Briefly priming national versus ethnic identity increases ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for ethnic out-group faces, a pattern typically reserved for self and in-group processing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

MRI scans in 47 preschool children find two hours of daily screen time linked to lower white matter integrity in language brain regions - JAMA Pediatrics

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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]

New study! SDT used to dissociate body ownership sensitivity from perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion with partial visual occlusion. Disrupting visually-driven tactile predictions shifts perceptual bias but not visuotactile sensitivity. See below.

💬 Perspective: Cuts to social welfare, health agencies, and data surveillance are projected to increase mortality rates and escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations. ja.ma/3OaPQin

The work could help to explain why the risk of developing some brain conditions — such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease — differs between males and females go.nature.com/48Flrzv

As the UK prepares to lower the voting age to 16, our report on UK adolescents aged 12 to 17-years-old asks a major democratic question: how are adolescents approaching political life before they formally enter it? Full report can be found here : www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/zhbnbo...

Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠

The front page photo on today’s Joongang Ilbo, one of the main conservative newspapers in South Korea:

Why does time speed up as we age? Now in Springer Nature's Memory & Cognition journal: A fascinating case of falsification of our strong and convincing hypothesis with lead author Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università da Roma and my team at @igpp.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New from us: A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇

Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me! The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

You may know “a murmuration of starlings,” but did you know that a group of crows is called “a murder” and peacocks “an ostentation”? How groups of birds got their names (thanks to a forgotten medieval woman), with magnificent vintage illustrations: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/11/b...

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.

More common hallucinations experiences to brighten up your feed! Sleep-related hallucinations are know as Hypnogogic (falling asleep) & Hypnopompic (waking up). There very common in the general population & don’t mean you’re experiencing a mental health problem. youtube.com/shorts/lvM0Z...

World Psychiatry ~ The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-produced and co-written by experts by experience and academics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Senator Kim picked up trash in the US Capitol rotunda left behind by the the rioters on January 6, 2020. He is an exceptional person. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Interesting working paper on spill-over effect of giving women tenure. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Why you www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/11/w...

I put forward an alternative to the language-of-thought hypothesis for geometry, the Wanderers Hypothesis for Geometry: Human geometry may originate from the interaction between ancient, navigation-like mental processes that approximate Euclidean geometry and our human capacity for natural language.

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...

Cool! Scientists just pulled off something wild: They transplanted mitochondria into living brains—and it reversed Parkinson’s symptoms in mice. Neuron loss ↓ Motor function ↑ Cell energy restored ⚡ “Organelle therapy”might be the next frontier in medicine. #BlueSky #MedSky

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence. w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk 🧠📈

Happy to share our new work: A simple measure of motor control and fitness is very informative... Transdiagnostic Patterns of Grip Strength in Schizophrenia, Current Depression, and Remitted Depression url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🧠 The brain doesn’t just feel the body—it already knows it. Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard 📅 April 15th | Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Is it a giant wooden horse

According to a senior officer aboard, in 1588 Spanish Armada sailed “in confident hope of a miracle.”

15 April - Oxford Workshop on language, psychopathology and psychotherapy I'll be talking about "Delusions: when the mind speaks the body's language" www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

This week in 1818 Andrew Jackson illegally invaded Florida. President Monroe later claimed he had been unwell so wasn't paying attention.