Travelling down from a very chilly Newcastle for the Experimental Psychology Society meeting over the next few days - come check out my poster on VR go-go arms on Thursday!

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Paywalled, but the gist is that teenagers (and younger children) using VR more and more - driven by black Friday sales, headsets seen as a good Christmas gift, and lots of social free-to-play apps like Gorilla Tag, UG, VRchat www.theverge.com/column/84235...

#embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Join us this week for our first international dissociation research conference! Free, online and featuring some fantastic keynote speakers with talks taking place across 3 time-zones! Register here: disconnected-network.com/2025-online-...

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]

A week of inspiring research & exciting chats with new and old friends at #IMRF2025! Presented our latest work on visuotactile crossmodal congruency effect in children 👾 Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡

#IMRF2025 An amazing week hosting @imrf.bsky.social here at @durham-university.bsky.social

#IMRF2025 Group picture just dropped!! Can you find yourself? #WhereIsWaldo? #multisensorySquad #bestResearchCommunity #sensesUnite

Really enjoyed speaking at #imrf2025 today on some of our findings showing changes to embodiment and reach kinematics after use of an extendable VR arm @imrf.bsky.social

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

Had a lovely time in Utrecht - what a beautiful city. Thanks #BRNet2025! I look forward to carrying on some of the discussions back in Durham at IMRF in a couple of weeks time

Attending the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Will be presenting my work on interoception in autism tomorrow. Come and say hi!

Can #BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? If you're in Utrecht in the next few days and even if you're not coming, feel free to share and, most of all, comment! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social thomaschazelle.fr/en/the-carto...

On my way to Utrecht for #BRnet2025! Excited to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!

📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣 More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !

Really pleased that this paper from my PhD has been published in Nature Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We used mixed reality to explore how manipulating multisensory integration leads to dis-ownership from the body and how those experiences relate to trait dissociation

Oscar Sill gave an amazing talk to end our short talk session, where he discussed the development of accurate own-body maps from childhood to adulthood! @durhampsych.bsky.social

Really pleased that this paper from my PhD has been published in Nature Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We used mixed reality to explore how manipulating multisensory integration leads to dis-ownership from the body and how those experiences relate to trait dissociation

I’m advertising for a 3.5yr fully-funded PhD position at the lovely Sussex Uni. If you're interested in combining behavioural experiments & computational modelling to study how we evaluate our inferences about others, please see here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... [1/2]

I've signed up to run the Great North Run Half Marathon in September! I'm raising money for Mind, the UK mental health charity, and if you want to donate you can do so here: ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/jamie-mof...

My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳ 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 #CogSci #Neuroskyence #SciComm

Ok, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan. imrf2025.sciencesconf.org @meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera... Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

First (chilly) day back at Durham, not a bad sight to see on the way into work

Today, the #BRNet would like to introduce Valeria @pevianiv.bsky.social and Jamie @jamoffatt.bsky.social. Every third Weds of every other month, get to know two of our #ECRs. Reach out if you want to be featured in the spotlight or be put in touch with either of this month's ECRs.

Our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4

Really excited to be heading back to Durham in January to start a post-doc with @dorothycowie.bsky.social! I'll be studying how children and adults adapt to altered bodies in virtual reality 🎉

I thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share! go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32

This week I'm starting my year-long post-doctoral fellowship funded byESRC & SeNSSDTP. It will be a deep dive into how extended reality technologies can be used to explore the sense of self - do get in touch if that sounds interesting to you!