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.

What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)? Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How not to waste your life www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/h...

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

Open access link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Psypost published an article on our schizophrenia study 🤩 @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.psypost.org/altered-sens...

We only experience time moving forward. But memory can both predict what comes next and reconstruct what must have happened before. In a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint, we show how hippocampal development enables this flexible representation of time 🧵

'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling' by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Here is a great interview on her life in science samizdathealth.org/wp-content/u...

They Feel Bugs Inside Them. Doctors Don’t Know Why. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

Newest paper from my undergrad research with the wonderful Dr. Kira Bailey: When science isn't beautiful... 🧠🎨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

WAIT WHAT

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.