These are amazing! www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Something to think about everyday

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Cerebellum! radiolab.org/podcast/song...

Growing clinical and scientific evidence makes one thing clear: the mind and body are deeply interconnected. Our Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface MSc, a world-first, blends advanced theory with hands-on, real-world training. Learn more: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

We are deeply saddened to share that Dr. Denise C. Park, founder of CVL, passed away on Sunday, Feb 1. A pioneering cognitive neuroscientist, mentor, & leader, Dr. Park shaped the study of memory, aging, & the brain. Read the full remembrance here: cvl.utdallas.edu/in-memory-of-dr-denise-c-park/

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

They didn’t rely on surveys or self-reports. Instead, what they did was really cool: They had humans and LLMs code audio recordings of talks to measure: -Who interrupts -How often they interrupt -When interruptions occur -Whether interruptions are neutral or adversarial

❄️🎣 What ice-fishing competitions reveal about human decision-making. New paper in @science.org by researchers from @mpib-berlin.bsky.social, @scioi.bsky.social, and the University of Eastern Finland. 👉 Read more: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new... 📄 Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#JNeurosci | Findings from Jacobs et al., using male mice, suggests the BNSTa may promote the pursuit of new social situations, which could apply to conditions characterized by altered social behavior, like ASD, schizophrenia, or social anxiety. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1743-25.2026

New in #eNeuro from Dutta Gupta et al: Some older male rats prefer familiarity over new social situations, which can be reversed via transcranial magnetic stimulation without affecting hippocampus-mediated spatial memory. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0422-25.2025

"We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time. Yet we esteem ourselves wise, and have an established order on the surface." -- Henry David Thoreau www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best

#Obesity prevalence among US adults more than doubled from 19.3% in 1990 to 42.5% in 2022 and is projected to reach nearly 47% by 2035, with sharper increases among younger adults and persistent differences across states, sex, and race and ethnicity. ja.ma/4akLzAZ

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement." Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recent research indicates higher rates of neurodevelopmental disorders among children exposed to #COVID19 during pregnancy. ja.ma/4qN1XzZ

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Are Loneliness Interventions Effective for Reducing Loneliness? A Meta-Analytic Review of 280 Studies

AI-supported mammography screening results in fewer aggressive and advanced breast cancers, finds full results from first randomised controlled trial. Explore the research 👉 tinyurl.com/2cez8ykw

How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

"The most effective way to discredit liberal social policy was to starve it of resources and then point to its inevitable failure." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A different title highlighting that low-income or high-inflation moderates the relationship between economic inequality and mental health would have been nicer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Need to think about how I read www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Principles of Scientific Writing and Biomedical Publication offers expert guidance from JAMA editors on writing, peer review, ethics, and successful publication. The full text is now freely available via Oxford Academic Read it now at oxford.ly/453LvCQ! #OpenAccess #ScientificWriting

FLAP!!! (that's the name of one of the lab's studies: Factors in Learning And Plasticity -- but this FLAP deserves the name).

Efficient coding in working memory is adapted to the structure of the environment doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

The 73rd Nebraska Symposium on Motivation explores the mechanistic intersections of interoception, conditioning, and addictive behaviors. Consider submitting posters to join us in modeling the neural substrates of internal state processing. motivation.unl.edu

Who wore it better @ahmarilab.bsky.social fashions of #acnp2026 fancy glasses version @jungheelee.bsky.social , Barbara Rothbaum, Karen Neirenberg, and me

American Journal of Psychology 138.2 is a ✨ special issue ✨ honoring the life and 50-year career of Gordon D. Logan. Featuring work by @mattcrumplab.bsky.social, @polynsean.bsky.social, @patrickbissett.bsky.social, @russpoldrack.org, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/issu...

such a simple solution but big impact! www.science.org/content/arti...

New in #JNeurosci from Degni et al: People who rely more strongly on cues to make decisions may have a harder time updating their beliefs and unlearning these associations when the cues change to signal costly options. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1465-25.2025

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

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...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alice R. Thomson, Nicolaas A. Puts et al: Characterising the association between posterior parietal metabolite levels and cortical macrostructure in a cohort spanning childhood to adulthood doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

I am not sure how to think about AI-associated psychosis or chatbot-delusion crisis www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Review—"Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" 👇 spkl.io/63325Agg1T

Thermoception, bodily self-awareness and cognition www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#JNeurosci | Zhang et al. found that cognitive decline in aging brains may not be universal: Older people may have an easier time processing information about themselves than other types of information. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0487-25.2025

New preprint with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park & @mtsakiris.bsky.social : 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Key takeaways: 🎨 Political emotions create distinct embodied signatures ⚖️ These bodily patterns shift with ideology. 🗳️ The embodied impact of political emotions predicts participation

#JNeurosci | Using a neurostimulation approach, Martina and Costanza show that the right Anterior Insula supports both Interoception and the representation of the emotional and social dimensions of abstract concepts. vist.ly/4gux2

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

"It takes a bone-deep understanding of how hard it is to preserve civilization or to better human life, and of how these have nonetheless been done repeatedly in the past." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

I remember when we used to think that all neurons were specialized. Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New research has found that 3-4 cups of coffee a day is linked to longer telomeres (an indicator of slower biological ageing) among people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. 🔗Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-...

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