Check below, this year Perception x Body (intero, propio) studies are also very wellcome! join us in Majorca in May; best month to visit the islands ;)

How does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection? go.nature.com/4sMZuqW

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

Finally I am looking for a motivated student assistant (HiWi, 80 hours/month) at Uni Freiburg (Neuropsychology) 🧠 Project on sleep, EEG, heart–brain dynamics & memory. MATLAB/Python a plus. 📩 deniz.kumral at psychologie.uni-freiburg.de

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/...

The murder of Renee Good by ICE is an atrocity that must face justice. Thankfully, accurate and clear video footage shows that this was a cold-blooded murder. This iteration of the print pays homage to that.

Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-... osf.io/preprints/ps...

Just accepted 🎉 An integrative review on interoception and perception: Cardiac, gastric, and respiratory brain–body axes; perceptual, emotional, and decisional modulation; neural markers (HEPs); + active sensing and ecological validity of current studies 🔗 shorturl.at/mtEVM

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...

1. Create new rule 2. "recieved before 1/1/2026" 3. "mark as read" 4. "archive" Zero inbox achieved! #chaosmode

Pleased to have finally ported our lab website to a github powered Jekyll site! With great thanks to @kordinglab.bsky.social whose template was quite easy to convert. www.the-ecg.org (some texts still WIP)

New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ahaha, I am almost done with my finance admin. for 2025. Oh wait...

The nefarious urge to opt out of applying for grants and just use my permanent position to do solo research for a few years....

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Happy new years to all!

Now published in Biological Reviews! Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Damn I went and spoke my mind. Hello anxiety. Time to drive 15 hours.

Bottom line is that this is all reverse inference of intrinsic functional connectivity. No task. No behavior. The take-home headline inferences (behavioral, cognitive, and psychological) are misaligned with the approach. You don't need imaging at all for drawing strong psych inferences.

From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry doi.org/10.1126/scia... #neuroscience

Any studies looked at cerebrovascular reactivity during or after tFUS? Perhaps a hypercapnic challenge such as breath hold assessed with ASL or BOLD? Could be an interesting, relatively simple way to assess the vascular effects of tFUS.

TFUS mechanism, redux. Recent papers show TRPC6 mechanosensitive ion channels in cultured mouse neurons (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404877121), a way tFUS might interact with the brain. And yet TRPC6 is also a major player in vascular (myogenic) tone. Ignore vessels at your peril, tFUS folks!

Breath as an internal context: Respiratory phase alignment between encoding and retrieval optimizes memory performance. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.25.696473v1

"Socioeconomic status (SES) — not IQ or psychopathology — showed the strongest associations with both resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness in the ABCD Study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The roast was amazing. Enjoyed by all. Melt in your mouth delicious. Buon natale per tutti! Now to bed with a belly full of joy, grappa, and fiorintina. Viva Della veneto!

Stage one is complete. 5.9kg bone in beef florentine. Roasted to internal 42c, resting 1h, then finished with oven sear. Christmas Eve dinner for 15 is on track!

Merry Christmas from Italy!

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026

"Some people do believe that they are able to perform relatively well on tasks even when there is little reason for that confidence. Our results support the claim that overconfidence might be a trait." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41401360/

What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Delighted to delivering a keynote on computational and causal approaches to interoception!

I have an early Christmas present for you! 🎅 Happy to announce that we have three excellent keynote speakers at Psychology and Brain 2026 in Heidleberg! Professors Shamay-Tsoory, Schönauer and Allen will cover topics from empathy over memory to interoception! pug2026.org

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...)

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260

Infra-slow (<0.1 Hz) modulation of human brain pulsations in awake and sleep states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.692942v1

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

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...

🧠New preprint! What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization? We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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 🧵:

The brain’s energy landscape as a potential window into brain health www.nature.com/articles/d41... (study led by Martin Picard and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten)

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

Just skimmed the paper and this looks super useful!

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/ #rstats #brms #EEG

🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding. How is this massive network organized? Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...