1/10 Happy to share that our paper, "Acute Anxiety Selectively Enhances Value-Free Random Exploration Through Frontoparietal Engagement", has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience. 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Paper PDF available upon request.

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

100 of 140 unis in the UK will be deciding who will lose their job in 2025. It's the small/mid-range Unis. Sussex will lose 12%. If you review a grant for these faculty, please be kind. This is not the time to be competitive or clever. If it is great, just say so. It could be their last shot.

How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...

Over the MOON with class feedback this term for Social Neuroscience 🌙. I've revamped the material and tried some new things that have worked. Feels good.

Academics in their forties

I just realised I need to be more specific! Papers of processing other people's faces and OTHER people's bodies 😂

What's your favourite face or body processing paper? I am trying to think of a paper about face or body processing for teaching my Social Neuroscience Masters class. Something in the last 10 years, not too complicated but interesting and cool. Any suggestions, hive mind?

I'll be @bacn.co.uk this week if you or anyone you know might be interested in this and want to chat

Got a bad gut feeling 😖? In a new study, led by the brilliant @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo, we combined fMRI & electrogastrographic (EGG) imaging in more than 200 participants to uncover links between the gastric-brain axis and mental health.  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...  🧵👇

We are published!! An SSRI changes neural responses to #interoception and its links to anxious states. This changed how I think about #serotonin, internal sensation, and #anxiety. W/ James Livermore @sarahgarf.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social, Hugo Critchley + more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Miss the PhD deadline? There's a NEW round of PhD scholarships available at Uni of Sussex Psychology, 4 open to international students, 1 for a candidate from a UK BAME background. Loads of supervisors to choose from. Contact me for social cognition/neuroscience projects. tinyurl.com/dpvtzwtz

Is there a consensus on the benefits and costs of task based multi-echo fmri (multi-band multi-echo, ME-ICA etc)? Is it still considered experimental? Does anyone use it routinely? I am thinking about it for a event-related paradigm.

Would journals please take longer to review my paper? I need more time to not think about it and get the rest of my life in order.