Meanwhile: not about work/research. Yet.. youtube.com/watch?v=fkOF...

🎉 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....

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Today at @mbe-lab.bsky.social we celebrate the end of data collection for our Berlin side of the INTACT project, a collaboration with ACE2Lab @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social & Lucas 48 participants, ca. 72hr of ECG/PPG/RESP recording later🫀🫁 thanks to the amazing help of Mascha & Aileen! Data analysis 🔜

Really cool and informative study👇

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:

1/9 I’m excited to share our new pre-print! 𝐈𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧–𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 with @abeba.bsky.social, Thomas Pollak, and @leoschilbach.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

How does stress impact #navigational performance? This study shows that #cortisol administration impairs path integration, a specific navigational process, and reduces grid-like brain activity patterns in the #entorhinal #cortex @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3NmX3eG

Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows? BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 www.bbsig.de We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions #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...

Now, @martager.bsky.social presents our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) to facilitate and harmonise the processing and analysis of cardiac and respiratory data. Try it yourself! 🔗www.bbsig.de #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026

Now the long-awaited „special talks“ at the #MindBrainBody Symposium! First, @antocris.bsky.social on body-brain-behavior rhythms, variability, and time (chronos != kairos). #MBBS2026

Meanwhile in the #MBBS2026: Victor presenting his poster in Cardiorespiratory coupling with eye movements And Lucas with daily life experiences (as subjectively reported with text and classified by LLM) We had a great time learning & catching up, such a fantastic meeting! 🤜🤛

Super exciting to see the fresh-out-the-oven results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, the winner of last year’s #MindBrainBody Young Scientist Award, comparing #cardiac phase effects for visual and somatosensory perception in the same participants. #MBBS2026 #MBB

Me and Sonja are in Berlin for the Mind-Brain-Body Symposium and are presenting preliminary data from our #body - #brain - #behavioral study with #wearable techs Strongly recommend joining this fantastic community! And get in touch if you're interested in hearing more and/or collaborate :)

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody 📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

The ACE²Lab is presenting in the #MindBrainBody Symposium: Victor (poster C24 - 3.20pm) on Visual search & cardiorespiratory coupling Lucas (D35 - 4.20pm) on breathing coupled to daily life experiences Plus, ongoing collab. with @michaelgaebler.com in B12 (today 7.45pm) with Mascha #MBBS2026 🫁🫀

Oxytocin is typically described as a "social" hormone. In our new article, we propose that it should instead be viewed a hormone that modulates behavioral flexibility doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

The latest version of this preprint "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" that addresses the coupling between action, perception and interoception. Thanks @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @micahgallen.com Lucas Naranjo for a very interesting collaboration on this topic osf.io/preprints/ps...

Out now in @plos.org CB: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Neural representations of tasks change over time, even in the absence of changes in task performance. But neurons change tuning at different rates. How does a neuron's stability relate to its interactions with the population? #compneuro #neuroskyence

📣Job alert! Research Group Health Psychology at KU Leuven is hiring a PhD student for an exciting 4-year project on slow breathing and stress recovery😮‍💨 If you (are about to) have a master degree in psychology and an interest in psychophysiology and stress research, you may be who we are looking for!

Quick question: Do you know about any online course on lab-ethics, data handling, etc? *for PhD & masters students. Thanks!

NeuroBrain is now open source! Real-time AI pipeline that filters Bluesky's firehose into a curated neuroscience feed using a local LLM. Includes a step-by-step guide for building your own AI-curated feed on any topic. github.com/micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain

📢 Deadline Extended! You now have until March 12th to submit your work. This year, we’re are also looking for submissions on perception, including x Interoception and/or Proprioception 🧠✨

Happy to share our new Opinion now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Anthony Clément! A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling Full access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1miOLbotqB... #neuroskyence

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

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...

Un nuevo estudio confirma lo que muchos ya sospechábamos: menos de dos meses de exposición al algoritmo de X/Twitter altera significativamente las opiniones políticas de las personas, inclinándolas hacia la derecha. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

We've updated our preprint (Action-perception coupling x Interoception). - Minor clarity edits, refined statements, and an updated interactive Figure 3 that now runs directly in the browser ✨ 🔗 Figure: galvez-pol.github.io/bodily-rhyth... 🔗 Preprint (v3): osf.io/preprints/ps...

meanwhile: The evidence for constrained total energy expenditure in humans and other animals (Herman Pontzer & Eric T. Trexler). Curr. Biol. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement." Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Perceptual reaction times are coupled to the gastric electrical rhythm" By Marie Loescher, Nicolai Wolpert, & Catherine Tallon-Baudry 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Authors can now include video explainers in their papers with eLife! Take a look at our first example from @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social in ‘A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain’ buff.ly/LzvvVb9

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry ! Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach. #neuroskyence

Updated now with: 📣 keynote speakers confirmed (Carlos Velasco & Elisa Raffaella Ferre). See www.cip2026.com/speakers 🗓️ Tentative program.

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 ;)

Incredibly excited to announce I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for the project BodyCrave! This project tackles the bodily processes underlying alcohol and tobacco craving, from bench to bedside. #ERCStG

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

Cooperation is a universal feature of complex systems, from the origins of life and microbiomes to societies. What universal patterns can be found in these systems? Here's our new @pnas.org paper. @jordipinero.bsky.social @artemyte.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Save the date & call for symposia: XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS)  Estimados socios y socias: Nos complace anunciar que el II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS) tendrá lugar del…

*I just realised the short 🔗 to our preprint takes a few seconds to load, so here’s the full link instead: osf.io/preprints/ps... Plus, the interactive figure was accidentally saved as a private file 🤦; it’s now public. You can download it here and open it in your browser 👉 osf.io/ty3cw/files/...

My very first paper is finally out in @pnas.org, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard! Interoception, exteroception, the self and more, it's got it all. Also it should go open access at some point www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk at City St George’s, Univ. of London I’ll revisit recent work on active sensing & interoception + present our new proposal on how interoceptive rhythms gate action–perception coupling 🧠 🔗 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... See you!

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

Check out our brilliant PhD student Hanlu He's @hanluhe.bsky.social 1st paper on heart-rate synchrony in real-world urban environments, replicated across 3 datasets recorded in NYC! HR sync is enhanced by social proximity, familiarity, social context, and better acoustic conditions. 🧵👇