🙌 Could you help make our conference more accessible? We’re looking for Sighted Guide Volunteers for the Sight Loss Councils Conference in Leeds, 5–7 June. No experience needed & full training provided. Apply by 20 May. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4uGC72q #MakeADifference #Volunteer #SightedGuides

A review of 18 studies found no consistently reproducible subtypes of schizophrenia, suggesting that differences in brain structure across patients may reflect a spectrum rather than discrete biological categories.

🏰 New preprint! 🏰 (w/ the excellent @neuronomist.bsky.social & Prof. Jason Mattingley) For my PhD I've been using EEG, psychophysics and modelling to explore how the brain uses uncertainty to balance sensory information against expectations about what's out there. 🧵1/n

This week I am visiting IMT Lucca, invited by the amazing Giada Lettieri. Today I gave a seminar "Building and rebuilding models of self and world: From sensory plasticity to psychosis resilience", bringing together my work so far and the research program growing from it. So grateful to be here!!!

What does it mean for cognition to be Bayesian? The view that cognition is Bayesian inference is often intended at Marr's computational level. In a new paper in Nat Rev Psych, @kaixue98.bsky.social and I formulate the "explicit-Bayes" hypothesis that lives at the algorithmic level. rdcu.be/ff1XA

Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]

I am presenting our work this week at #NCMKobe26 @ncmsociety.bsky.social Our poster is during the Thursday/Friday session: **P2-G-182** - _A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements_ Dimitris Voudouris @dominikstrb.bsky.social Katja Fiehler @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

Just in time for #NCMKobe26, our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Attaching an exoskeleton leads to rapid perceptual integration; ~20 min of training makes it feel even lighter. See supplement for model details! w/ Arina Schippers @mattlongo.bsky.social @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social 🦾🧠

Excited to be in Kobe for the Neural Control of Movement conference! 🇯🇵🧠 #NCMKobe26 @ncmsociety.bsky.social I will be presenting Friday at 10:30 on how finger-extending exoskeletons are integrated into the human sensorimotor system. Very grateful to be here as an NCM scholarship awardee!

How to assess the roles of vision and language to reading? We studied how purely visual computational models for word and letter recognition processed visual Braille (⠉⠑⠗⠏⠑) and found that they don't replicate human behavioural / neural results, showing the need of language processing in reading

When words fall short, symbols speak. The traditional Ukrainian Pysanky represent our shared hope that cannot be broken. As we prepare for the upcoming high-level meeting for the return of Ukrainian children, we remain committed to #StandWithUkraine for as long as it takes.

Neuro colleagues - I will be attending #OHBM2026 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social this year, first time in person! I signed up for the educational day hoping for a session on #fNIRS - but I see there are none! 🤨 How do the #fNIRS folks get together? Any chance to discuss methods and best practices?

If childhood adversity is harmful, are its cognitive consequences always and only negative? Maybe we need to question deficit models. Greater childhood adversity was linked to faster implicit learning in our new study. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... #neuroskyence

Fave things, one title #interoception 🫁🧠❤️

Journal Club - Breath, Belief, and Brain: A Tripartite Map of Respiratory Interoception www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...

If breathing has separable components, do they have separable brain bases? Evidence from qMRI suggests yes: insula & ACC for sensitivity, somatosensory cortex for affect, and midline & PAG for confidence. More in our Journal Club on Nikolova et al. (2025) 👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...

Breathing seems to break down into separable parts: sensing, interpreting, and feeling, each linked to different brain systems. In our Journal Club on Nikolova et al. (2025), we explore how this helps explain why the same breath can feel so different across people. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...

I have an article that could not be published open access, but I would still like to make it accessible somehow. Does anyone know of legitimate workarounds? Are there any "grey zone" options that are commonly used or at least generally tolerated? Would really appreciate any advice or experiences!

Job ad: Postdoc to work with me & @rogierk.bsky.social at the Donders on lifespan development questions from Sept onward! Profile: independent, good quant skills, interested in theory-driven work Please share widely www.careersatradboudumc.com/vacancies/po... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Great time at the Donders Institute Open Day – De Brein Show! 🧠✨ We brought our Exoskeleton demo, where visitors experienced extending the body with extra long fingers. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and our team: Floris van Wettum, Eleni Manias, Thomas Kooiman, and Chris Vajdík 🦾

Check out our new study published in Nature Communication where we show that hMT+/V5—alongside a fronto-parietal network—encodes visual and tactile motion directions using a shared external frame of reference, independent of body posture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big congrats to @pevianiv.bsky.social for leading this amazing work! 🎉 And a special shoutout to our fantastic former master's student, Siebe Geurts, on publishing his second paper this year from his time in the lab 👏

New paper led by @pevianiv.bsky.social! We show maps of a hand-held tool can be built with accuracy comparable to arm. Tool use did not change accuracy but affected precision. This suggests the sensorimotor system can extend body-like representations to tools. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many of us notice inappropriate behaviour at work, but do not always know how to respond. This session offers practical tools to act. Join Dr Pauline Gagnon for an Advanced Active Bystander Training. 📅 9 April, 14:00–18:00 📍 Huize Heyendael, Radboud University Register 👉 www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

So happy to be invited to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Many thanks to @knaw-nl.bsky.social for nomination. Looking forward to meeting fellow young scientists and hearing from people whose work I've admired for years. And yes, even crossing Germany with Deutsche Bahn for it 🙃 #LINO26 #LINO75

LAST CALL! Applications for paid, virtual Teaching Assistants are closing! Time to submit that application now! 🤓 All TAs should have a strong background in #Python & the specific course topic they are applying to. ➡️ Learn more here: neuromatch.io/become-a-tea... Apply before 15 March

Curious how YOUR brain adapts to body augmentations? 🧠 On 21 March we will be at the Donders Institute Open Day (De Brein Show) in Nijmegen. Our lab @bbt-lab.bsky.social will be part of the demos, where you can try our finger-extending exoskeleton 🦾 More info 👉 www.ru.nl/donders-inst...

Registrations for the escape rooms at the Brein Show (21st March) are now open! www.ru.nl/donders-inst...

🧠 Donders Institute Open Dag: De Brein Show 🧠 Op zaterdag 21 maart organiseert het Donders Institute een bijzondere open dag: De Brein Show. Een middag vol verwondering, illusies, experimenten en ontdekkingen voor jong én oud. 👉 www.ru.nl/donders-inst...

Today is the day. Looking forward to my Special Talk at the #MindBrainBody Symposium introducing the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)… for now, I’m having breakfast with my BBSIG-themed mug ☕️ 🗓️ March 11, 13:00-14:00 #MBBS2026

You are invited to our roundtable: “Navigating Freedom, Sustainability & Gender Justice in Academia”. We will reflect and share experiences on urgent issues shaping the daily lives of women+ in academia. Info & registration: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)

Positive news is that progress in gender equality is real. But as someone looking back on years of single parenting (and the sneaking cumulative effects that has on a CV) this strongly resonates: “Women are … 4.5 times more likely to miss opportunities due to care responsibilities”.

On 10 March, we invite you to the "Shiny Failure" workshop with Stéfanie André. Academic careers are not straight paths. Rejections, temporary contracts, care work: it is a balancing act. Let's talk openly about failure, solidarity, and self-kindness. More info 👉 www.ru.nl/en/research/...

13 more days to apply to this fantastic summer school! 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 and 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐞 (all the students have to pay for are their travel expenses) 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟓! See you in Eresfjord 🧠💻🇳🇴 @kavlintnu.bsky.social

I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.). I’d like to crowdsource recommendations. Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers?

I’m currently redesigning my Body–Brain–Emotion seminar for our General Psychology MSc students. Last year, we covered the spectrum from basic sensory processes to perception (e.g., cardiac effects), as well as breathing and sleep, gut-brain interaction.

As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time. My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇

The human body is remarkably adaptable, capable of integrating artificial enhancements from tools to prosthetic limbs. Researchers have used finger extensions to test how the brain updates its expectations over time. 🔗 buff.ly/HxxCzTz

New work from the lab led by @fatatai.bsky.social together with Dimitris Voudouris, @dominikstrb.bsky.social, Katja Fiehler as part of 'The Adaptive Mind' cluster

Why are tactile sensations suppressed during movements? In our new preprint, we explain this as optimal integration of sensory signals with an internal model. Work led by @fatatai.bsky.social with Dimitris Voudouris, Katja Fiehler and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.

▶️ Heike Stein from Sorbonne Université will be the 4th keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026! ▶️ NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org

🦾/💪 Interested in the physiology of motor control? In robotics? In neuroprosthetics? ▶️ Join us in NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! ▶️ Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org

How does the brain adapt to artificial body extensions over time? With a wearable finger-extension device, we reveal distinct phases of proprioceptive plasticity: during wear, after active use, and even after removal. Now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

We’re hiring a Group Leader! Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience. Find out more and apply ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...

This is your sign to go for the run go.nature.com/4avd21B

IBRO Collaborative Research #Grants are now open for applications, supporting collaboration costs between two research groups, including: 👉 Travel & accommodation 👉 Subsistence 👉 Research expenses 🗓 Deadline: 15 Mar 2026 🔗 Discover eligibility & apply: https://ow.ly/bXJ750YcGXk#Grants