Our paper is now published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @carlsbergfondet.dk See summary 👇

Our new article is out! 🧠🫀 We investigated heartbeat-locked brain activity using #MEG and found that beta-band suppression was enhanced during interoceptive attention and in individuals with higher interoceptive accuracy. #neuroskyence #interoception @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

Two Group Leader positions (5+4 years) open now in NC(HiLIFE). One with focus on clinical research in neurology, psychiatry or neurophysiology: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Another with focus on computational neuroscience and neuro-AI: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Apply latest on 24.5.!

📣 Emotion researchers! We need your input! We're designing a 2D/screen version of AffectTracker for real-time continuous ratings of affective experience, and we want the community to shape it. Got 1 minute? Fill out our short survey and help us make the right design choices 👇 🙏🙏🙏

Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨! We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Out now in @natcomms.nature.com, our latest from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social: Visual perception, oscillatory excitability markers, and network connectivity are modulated by the breathing rhythm - depending on how much you know about the stimulus. #brainbody #neuroskyence

CuttingGardens 2026 is back 🌍 Global EEG & MEG multi-hub meeting 📅 Save the date: Sept 21–25 20+ Gardens worldwide 🇦🇷🇦🇺🇧🇪🇨🇱🇨🇳🇨🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇪🇸🇨🇭🇹🇭🇹🇳🇬🇧🇺🇾🇺🇸🇳🇬🇰🇪🇪🇬🇹🇿 Join the movement 🌱 #EEG #MEG #Neuroscience #OpenScience #CuttingGardens

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

New @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social preprint, and this is a big one for the lab: @teresaberther.bsky.social did the deepest of dives into #gut-brain coupling with MEG and HD gastrography. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief 🧵on our first trip into this corner of #brain-body #neuroskyence:

Remarkable study from Christoph Thaiss and colleagues demonstrating a lifespan impact of a microbiome-vagal-CNS pathway dysfunction of gut interoception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

Body and brain signalling during naturalistic learning situations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698657v1

New preprint! 🧠🫀 Combining #EEG and #HRV, we examined how students' and instructors' cardiac and brain activity varied across the progression of a naturalistic learning situation in aviation and forestry contexts. @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @tiinapa.bsky.social #neuroskyence

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Very proud to announce that the final chapter of my thesis is now out in Cell Reports! How do neurophysiological traits that characterize individuals evolve across the lifespan? We combined data from over 1,000 individuals aged 4–89 to answer this question. (1/6) 🧠👶👦👧👱👩‍🦱🧔‍♂️🧓👴 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

📣 New Event! 🧠 #turkubrainandmind is collaborating with Jyväskylä Brain & Mind to host a BrainBreak webinar on Big Data in Brain & Biobank Research. 📅 January 19, 2026 ⏰ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 🌐 Online (Zoom) Register here: buff.ly/v45DLPn @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @utu.fi #brainbreak

🫀 New preprint alert! 🌆 Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

The role of the #SpinalCord in relaying brain-body signals has been hard to study noninvasively. @giuliog.bsky.social &co develop Electrical Spinal Imaging (ESI), enabling high-resolution, noninvasive recordings, revealing how #attention modulates spinal activity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3MswZOf

'Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling' New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🔽

** 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)

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New perspective paper out now in @plosbiology.org with a few thoughts on #interoception: What it is (or rather is not), how it can inform therapeutic interventions, and where (we think) the field of brain-body #neuroskyence has yet to find more solid ground to build on. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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

More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How does mindfulness change body awareness? Excited to share our meta-analysis on mindfulness training and #interoception. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper just accepted in NBBR investigating the relationship between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and stress. Some relationships....but it’s complicated! One area where how we measure both interoception and stress really matters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social): Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.

Nice things for the **13th #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026** happening under the hood 😊 Save the date: 📆 March 9-11, 2026 (Berlin and virtual) Stay tuned for the call and announcement! (For info about the last 12 MBBSymposia: mindbrainbody.de) #interoception #neuroskyence

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health' by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Tervetuloa Tutkijoiden yöhön! 🧠 Muuttuvat aivot 🕛 26.9. 16.00-21.00 📍 Alfa, Agora, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social #TutkijoidenYö #ResearchersNight #Tiedetaivas

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

Miten äänikirjat vaikuttavat tunteisiimme? Tule mukaan aivotutkimukseen! 🧠 Juuri alkaneessa aivokuvantamistutkimuksessa hyödynnetään äänikirjojen kuuntelua ja mielikuvaharjoituksia, jotta voidaan paremmin ymmärtää, kuinka keho ja aivot toimivat yhdessä tunnekokemuksen aikana. tinyurl.com/2s24byp5

3 (!) open PhD positions at @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on brain and bodily oscillations and their role in cognition: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

📣Call for applications We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...

You’re now breathing manually 🌬️ What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing? In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇

🧠 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!

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍 We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes. 👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc 🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!