Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs" www.iflscience.com/living-in-me...

"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state." Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/08/p...

These are amazing! www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Poet Elizabeth Bishop, born on this day in 1911, on why everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/e...

We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...

IMH researcher Adam Powell has contributed a chapter to a new publication which sheds light on people's experience of hearing spirit voices. The chapter draws on data from a study of clairaudient mediums, part of our research project Hearing the Voice. Read more 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Good morning! As an addiction scientist and clinical psychology PhD candidate writing their dissertation on compulsive alcohol use: THIS IS GOING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED. Moral conceptualizations of addiction and mental health lead to shame and bad outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/h...

What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/m...

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

What makes you and your childhood self the "same" person, despite a lifetime of physical and psychological change, from your cells to your social circle? Superb read from philosopher Rebecca Goldstein: www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/29/r...

Help protect Maine from ICE. I'm donating to Food For All, and if you: - repost this, I'll donate $1 - call your representative, tell them to ABOLISH ICE, and quote-post this with whether you got a machine or a staffer on the phone, I'll donate $10 - quote-post this with your donation, I'll match!

It is impossible to overstate how important individual acts of courage are in this moment in history. It REALLY REALLY REALLY matters that you stand up for what is right.

The USA is not an appropriate place to hold either the World Cup or Olympics at present.

Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/23/p...

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney received a rare standing ovation at Davos yesterday after warning that the “old order is not coming back”. jrnl.ie/6933363

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

The Microbiota Shapes Central Nervous System Myelination in Early Life Really excited to see this paper out-A great cross-species collaboration with David Lyons, Edinburgh & Iiris Hovatta Helsinki. Huge kudos to former PhD student Caoimhe Lynch et al advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/U0fviLiM

6/n. Residents of AL, CT, WV & my beloved WI: Your voice carries extra weight—your members chair or rank on the LHHS Appropriations subcommittees: Aderholt (AL)—House Chair; DeLauro (CT)—House Ranking Member; Capito (WV)—Sen Chair; Baldwin (WI)—Ranking Member Senate. AL/CT most crucial presently

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

Really happy to share that my talk on how spatial finger augmentation reshapes proprioceptive and tactile maps was accepted as an oral presentation at @ncmsociety.bsky.social meeting in Kobe 🇯🇵 I will present a computational framework for how artificial extensions integrate into body representation.

Are you someone taking care of someone who experiences psychosis? You may be a loved one, partner, relative, or close friend of this person. If so, please consider taking part in our study on the experiences of caregivers of people with psychosis. lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

Check below, this year Perception x Body (intero, propio) studies are also very wellcome! join us in Majorca in May; best month to visit the islands ;)

James Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/j...

Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Christ Church, Oxford The College is also Oxford Cathedral, which overlap is also a feature of some ancient Arabic-world universities, such as Fez If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

With so much reason for sorrow right now, we could all use a small bright oasis of joy – Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" brought to life by a Spanish flashmob of 100 musicians www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/07/o...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Delighted to see our paper out in The Lancet Psychiatry!

Despite 50,000+ studies on relapse in psychosis, there's been no consistent definition until now 🤔 This systematic review and Delphi study developed consensus criteria for schizophrenia research, finding 85% of trials used inconsistent definitions. #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia #Research 🧵 THREAD

📢 Don't miss our new paper just out in The Lancet Psychiatry Psychiatry today‼️📆 "Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK" Full Open Access article 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New results! Faster parietal alpha frequency tightens, and slower alpha widens, the temporal window for vision–touch integration for the sense of one’s own body. Causal and computational evidence. Nature Communications news.ki.se/how-brain-wa...

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Each Friday, I write a briefing on what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪 This was Year 2, Week 2: - science budgets avoid catastrophic cuts, but NOT okay - vaccination schedule hijacked & kids will suffer - university mergers in Oregon & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... @marcwittmann.bsky.social Call for papers for this special issue 'Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research

The nose knows: Thermal responses to active psychological stressors journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

Hard agree! I’ve heard this said many times in the last week from non Americans.

Just accepted 🎉 An integrative review on interoception and perception: Cardiac, gastric, and respiratory brain–body axes; perceptual, emotional, and decisional modulation; neural markers (HEPs); + active sensing and ecological validity of current studies 🔗 shorturl.at/mtEVM

This is less know... bsky.app/profile/jofr...

Just after 2:00 p.m., on the west front, the police - bloodied, battered, and overwhelmed - blasted this message, ordering people to leave. The Capitol was breached minutes later.

As violence against police escalated on the west front of the Capitol, some of the rioters appeared to take pleasure and even laugh.

"You better run, cops!"

And then there's this video, of officers talking with each other about what they just witnessed. "We didn't have a chance," one officer said. "[Trump] was still giving his speech, and I just had to leave, because he's basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down."

We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

Here’s the link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QHSGP...