How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Amazing 1st lecture by Katalin Karikó, who gave candid insights into her life in science & deeply non-linear path towards her Nobel Prize in 2023. Favourite quote: "When things go wrong, don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself" What a way to kick off #LINO75 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462526...

knock knock, it's the 90s. What software should I use for a simple listserv, ideally avoiding Big Tech?

Meet the Program Committee behind this year's Models of Consciousness conference: @joannaszczotka.bsky.social , @ksks.bsky.social , & Robert Prentner! Their expert curation bridges mathematics, neuroscience, & philosophy to advance rigorous consciousness science at hashtag #MoC7

Big news: I got an FNRS Chargée de recherches fellowship to join UCLouvain, hosted by @olicolli.bsky.social 🥳 My project asks how congenital blindness shapes perceptual inference, and why people born blind seem resistant to schizophrenia. Very lucky, very grateful, and very excited!!!

Lovely to see our eLife study in BPS Research Digest @bpsofficial.bsky.social @researchdigest.bsky.social! We studied how the brain adapts to finger extensions, finding three rapid phases of sensorimotor plasticity as users integrated them into body representation. www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Our publishing model emphasises peer reviews, eliminating accept/reject decisions in favour of high-quality, public eLife assessments. Find out exactly what this new process entails in our process page: buff.ly/mtSeGuS

New in The Lancet Neurology 🧠 — Michela Bassolino & international colleagues make the case for somatosensory hand prostheses: restoring touch, reducing phantom pain & improving life after amputation. Cover article! https://f.mtr.cool/wvgcdronuj

VISUAL EXPERIENCE SHAPES ARM POSITION SENSE IN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REFERENCE FRAMES AND ASSOCIATED CORTICAL LOAD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730866v1

Floris van Wettum @florisvanwettum.bsky.social presenting his poster "Bayesian computations underlying perception of exoskeletons":

Hüseyin Orkun Elmas presenting his poster "A Probabilistic Kinematic Account of Tactile Spatial Localization":

Throwback to the poster session at #BRNet2026, where our PhD students presented their fantastic work! Each poster deserves its own spotlight; we will be sharing them in the thread below 👇

Biggest congrats to the one and only Valeria Peviani, so well deserved! Excellent work and a fantastic presentation!

Huge congratulations to Valeria Peviani on winning the Early Career Researcher Award from @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social! 🎉 It is wonderful to see her creativity, brilliance, and impact recognized by the community. We are so proud! Congratulations, @pevianiv.bsky.social!

Happy to have presented at #ESCAN2026 in the symposium “When bodily signals are missing” chaired by Arianna Schiano and Sara Costa. I shared my work on cardiac interoception and occipital cortex plasticity in blindness, and on what blindness teaches us about links between the body and brain 👁️🫀🧠

Academic work is full of “invisible” tasks: committees, coordination, care, service. Too often, women take on these tasks. Join The No Club workshop at Radboud to learn how to say no strategically and refocus on career-supporting work. 📍 Huize Heyendael 🗓 16 June 2026, 14:00 Trainer: Fieke Harinck

What needs fixing in academia? Read the open-access book "Fixing Academia" here for free: doi.org/10.66742/VPY...

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Speaking at #ESCAN2026 🇮🇹 this Friday! S4-2: When bodily signals are missing June 5, 10:30–12:00, Room 8A I will present work on cardiac interoception and occipital cortex plasticity in blindness, alongside talks on limb absence, Bell’s palsy, and interoception. Come by! 🫀👁️

We are launching Interoception Circle! A new seminar series on embodiment, psychophysiology & body-brain coupling 1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher) 3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome! 🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/

✨ 👉 Up next in our speaker series, Dr. Inês Pereira will be presenting on June 22nd at 11am! RSVP here for more details: forms.gle/wfr2j3B62hqG...

Failure in academia is an abstract concept less spoken about. We interviewed Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago to discuss their book, “Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia”. In this collection they explore understanding failure and how to repurpose it. tinyurl.com/mv56xjtf

I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.

I'm close to finishing data collection for my PhD- if anyone is York based and would like to take part in an intervention or experiment, please take a look! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🧠 @alexandrapike.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social

🙌 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