One more month of my study left to go, and 150 more responses needed! If you or someone you know is 18+ years old, is based in the UK, and identifies as neurodivergent/disabled then please consider taking part and/or sharing! tinyurl.com/29jmjxzp Every participant counts 😊

🎉 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....

Excited to share that our work on organ-specific interoception is now published in Communications Psychology! www.nature.com/articles/s44... @micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org

1/ New preprint led by @kellyhoogervorst.bsky.social - Introducing MetaBites, a novel task measuring metacognition in nutritional judgements. Why does nutritional knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour? Could metacognitive biases explain the gap? #psychscisky 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️ Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions

Interoceptive Profiling for Predicting of Mental Health: A Person-Centred Approach Rather than asking whether interoception predict mental health across a population, we examined how measures of subjective interoception naturally cluster within individuals 1/4

Research builds in the best ways. I presented our RISE interoception intervention 2+ years ago in CO, and Liz Atwood immediately saw the potential for youth. She ran with the idea & led this project adapting RISE for school-based health centers. Now the paper is out! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

How the brain listens to the body matters. Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Delighted to share my first paper of 2026 "Interoception and allostatic load after stroke: A scoping review". Available now, open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our paper on interoceptive rhythms and perception now is published in NeuroImage 🚀📄 @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social already shared a fantastic breakdown of our main findings in the thread below👇🏽 🔗Full OA article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #Interoception #Perception #Neuroscience #ActiveSensing

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)

Last preprint 🎶(of the year). If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It is hugely fun & we are very lucky to do science for the sake of science. But it is amazing to see work we and many others I admire have done turn into public awareness thanks to excellent science writing. (see also www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...)

New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...

Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...

Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 🧵👇

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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.

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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...