It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms www.psypost.org/scientists-d... Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅: x.com/OwenGregoria...

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

Reilly, Brown & Frank link altered taste, touch, vision, and gut sensing to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, highlight knowledge gaps, and proposing neurobiologically-informed strategies for clinical translation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38730196/

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars? Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa! Register to join, it’s free 🤓 #somatosensation #interoception #sensory #body #science #neuroscience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Spotlight, I describe how a recent paper by @leahbanellis.bsky.social, @brainandstomach.bsky.social, et al. opens new avenues in interoception research, including those focussed on the subjective interpretation of internal signals: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

🧠 New publication out! 👁️‍🗨️ 🫀 In this perspective, we draw parallels with anosognosia for hemiplegia, commonly seen in acute stroke patients, in the attempt to explain anosognosia for the illness in anorexia nervosa, based on recent computational accounts   www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

A roller coaster of a thread for any interoceptive researchers ⬇️

Wow, this is the kind of evidence we need to move ahead in the field. I'll go out on a limb here: I guess it is more about the gut than cardiac and respiratory domains. Huge effort by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com and the entire team 👏

the tldr of my thread is that, interoceptive sensing at rest has no relationship to mental health symptoms, and we think this is likely because we need to measure interoception during and after arousal, close in time to symptoms, with ecological measures.

The latest from our lab @the-ecg.bsky.social: interoceptive sensing at rest is *not* related to mental health symptoms 🤔 Read our study here 👇

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 👇

This leads me to our final point. Interoceptive accuracy is not the construct for emotion or mental health. We think that interoceptive narratives and beliefs, and how interoceptive sensastions change during acute stress and arousal, is so much more important.

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Research opportunity! Email or click the link for more info: www.canva.com/design/DAGmM... Please share thank you! #eatingdisorders #EDAwareness #emotions #ResearchStudy #ParticipateInResearch #PsychologyResearch #NHSresearch #UKresearch #students @jrefox.bsky.social ‪@livuniresearch.bsky.social‬

📢New research 📢 Our new qualitative study provides the first in-depth study exploring individuals experiences and views regarding why people with eating disorders are at risk of suicide. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @saakshikakar.bsky.social @mrtzhrl.bsky.social (1)

🚨 New preprint on the role of eating disorder symptoms in accelerating response vigor during foraging decisions 💫 w/ Sam Hall-McMaster 📜Link: t.co/C2lep57X4k 💻Code and data: t.co/C2lep57X4k TLDR: RTs of the eating disorder group get progressively faster over the course of a block.

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:

Join us for this free online seminar - Positive body image and prevention of #eating #disorders in a #school context, Dr Hannah Lewis, 23 September 2025, 4-5PM UK. Please share and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/positive-b...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

🧠 New study at KCL looking for volunteers with both #FND and #Autism to take part in an interview sharing your experiences! - 15 minute survey followed by a 1 hour interview Interested? ✉️ Please message me: [email protected] Thanks for sharing!

The final paper from my PhD has been published! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e

I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏

Today is the last day of our early bird rates! We have talks on body perception, body image intervention, critical perspectives on beauty, LGBTQ+ experience of appearance pressures, male body image, stigma, indigenous body ideals... Come join us! lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...

New paper on body image during pregnancy! Free to download for 50 days kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

While many believe being ‘more in tune with your body’ improves mental health, we surprisingly found the opposite: worse mental health (higher anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue & reduced well-being)—with stronger stomach-brain connections.

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Trying to wrap these up before September- so close now! 😮‍💨Looking for people based in York to take part in an interoceptive lab experiment and/or an MEG experiment. Reimbursement for both. See details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... @cejpreston.bsky.social @alexandrapike.bsky.social

Making Sense of Sensation: A model of Interoceptive Attribution and Appraisal with Clinical applications New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social #interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Relative to a comparator, our interoception intervention led to improvements in PTSD symptoms among service members. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/jts....

Why does this matter? Low body trust can interfere with: - Emotion regulation - Identifying personal needs - Processing stress This may help explain why survivors of emotional trauma are at higher risk for anxiety, depression, or eating disorders. 🙍‍♀️

New preprint! People vary in healthy food preferences, with some veering towards obsessive. We found #orthorexia associated with disgust-like facial responses to unhealthy foods. BUT: also with appetitive stomach responses! Is it an interoceptive self-control mechanism? doi.org/10.1101/2025... (1/7)

Now heading home from Utrecht, Netherlands after presenting with @ruthknight.bsky.social and @ercaldwell.bsky.social at #BRNet2025! A proud moment showcasing our inclusive methods, hopefully encouraging others to reflect. It's bad science if the computational models are based off inaccurate data!

Impressive and much-needed review on reinforcement learning models of interoception by @lilweb.bsky.social this month out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Will definitely have a look at this one 😊 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1

We are so close to validating a scale we've developed to measure this negative affect- we're seeking people with gastric disorders and eating disorders to take part: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Exciting to read this paper on the role of negative affect induced by gastric interoceptive sensations in disordered eating: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trying to wrap these up before September- so close now! 😮‍💨Looking for people based in York to take part in an interoceptive lab experiment and/or an MEG experiment. Reimbursement for both. See details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... @cejpreston.bsky.social @alexandrapike.bsky.social

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Paul Steinfath, Arno Villringer, et al: Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality Pls share our new paper & Call to Action

Has anyone got a safety protocol they implement when running studies with people with eating disorders, in particular, restrictive eating disorders? We have one for working with high-risk populations more generally, but wondering if there is an eating disorder specific one out there? Thank you!

Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic. Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them. This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives. www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...

One of my MSc students is looking for participants who are over 18 and have had challenging experiences with food/a diagnosis of an eating disorder at any point. The study is investigating trauma, agency and eating disorders: please click here to take part! york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Recruitment call for clinicians working in UK ED services (NHS or private practice) that are looking to implement the PEACE framework 📣 To find out more and to take part in the study, please see the poster below or click the following link: edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🧠 NEW REVIEW "Interoceptive Rhythms & Perceptual Experience Mechanisms, Contexts & Strategies for Real-World Research" How heart, lungs & gut shape what we see, feel & do—& how to study it in everyday life. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ex7chdr #NeuroSky #Interoception #Perception 👇 Thread 🧵