Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Cass literally saying there has been no increase in suicide as a result of her ban on puberty-blockers. Tell that to the family of Leia Sampson-Grimbly. She is also ignoring all the other harm her ban is causing, that I have documented here in my peer-reviewed (unlike the Cass Review) research.

It‘s that time of year again, I‘m looking for postdoc positions in psychiatric genetics. I have a PhD in genetic epidemiology in genetics of psychosis from King‘s College London, postdoc experience in postpartum psychosis, autism, and ADHD at Mount Sinai, and love open science. Thanks for any leads!

I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me! bit.ly/4aiUIKQ

My return grant got rejected and I only got notified now. I will have 1 month left with salary only to return to Switzerland with nothing in my pockets. I have no savings. This research life surely isnt easy....

I'm looking for people who would like to co-create a resource helping EDI organisations in academia to be more trans and non-binary inclusive. Ideas include:

When transphobic “academics” complained about a “chilling effect” on their “research” they meant people describing their transphobic “research” as transphobic. Now there is a REAL chilling effect for trans academics of top-down establishment measures like fines & toilet bans. archive.is/oYqXS

When transphobic “academics” complained about a supposed “chilling effect” on “research” of people saying it is transphobic, they got plenty of column inches. Now that trans academics are facing actual heavy-handed chilling effects imposed top-down by government, the media (except THE) is silent.

How does the brain encode pain variability? New preprint: EEG markers of pain are robust within individuals over time, but unstable between individuals—even with replication. Suggests EEG is better for longitudinal pain tracking. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s... (Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)

🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.” Yeah. 🫢 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

I think whoever decides that BL staff should consider saving money by not giving presents should hand over their own salary to BL staff and consider living from hot air themselves

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

personal midnight observation but I realised that almost every person widely known to be narcissistic and hard to work with in neuroscience also has a loving and devoted partner or family. I find this somehow contradictory.

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

We're excited to share our latest profile! Dr. Alicia Che studies how early-life experiences impact cortical circuit assembly and function. Follow the link below to listen! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInNeuro www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

anyone got any advice on the following situation? I wrote and did a big chunk of the admin for a large MRC grant which also also awarded. I am named in the Staff breakdown on the grant as "researcher co-lead" with 100%FTE, and I am mentioned by name as "postdoctoral researcher Maria Niedernhuber"

looks like we just got a big grant! say hello to employment! future me will not have to worry about a job! yessss

I am super thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to build novel interventions for #OCD. The plan is to exploit recent insights from computational neuroscience and closely work together with people with lived experience of OCD to create novel treatments.

youtu.be/rK-UfTCGOdU?... super interesting work

I am so sorry to share that my friend Amber died this weekend. Nobody knows what happened yet.

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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

** 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)

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up. Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

There is so much to be disappointed about in this story--from the institutional response to Miles Hewstone himself. We still have a lot of work to do to make academic environments inclusive spaces where everyone can thrive, and where harassers are held accountable.

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women. Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻

Lisa Bero with shocking admission of how the sponsor was involved in their studies. #AIMOS2025 But almost all article sponsor involvement says they werent involved, should ask her if these authors also wrote that in their articles. #metascience

If you are new to Bluesky, check out our Starter Packs: go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ go.bsky.app/3mRkF5i And send us a message if you want to be included (just know that today is manic, so maybe bookmark this and get in touch at a later day - this is still our gay job, not day job 😜)

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! How are you celebrating it? #LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025! ⭐️🧠🌏🤩💫 www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Great news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Out now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Bees, blindsight, and consciousness, by Tamietto et al. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

After initially being place on the reserve list, my Academy Research Fellowship has now received a positive result from the Research Council of Finland 🥳 Next year I will be starting my own team where we will work on identifying new interoception-based treatment targets for mental health disorders!

indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better. we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... instead of making this about immigration, it would be best to make it about the cost of living crisis. people are fed up about the cost of living.

Absolutely! We take Women to include anyone who identifies as a woman, as well any non-binary or gender non-conforming individual who has identified as a woman at any point 💜

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

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

Proud to share L'Oréal USA’s 2025 For Women in Science awardees — five brilliant women driving discovery & innovation in STEM. Honored to be quoted in the release. 🌍🧪 Read: prn.to/3Xsnila @aaas.org @aaascsew.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #ForWomenInScience #L'OrealUSA

Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3) Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44... PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG

I gave a guest lecture broadly on consciousness research in neurology and psychiatry at Cambridge University and also at Queen Mary University. Does anyone in London need a guest lecture in their consciousness module (potentially next year, this year is almost over)?