I'm beyond thrilled, excited, and delighted to announce being awarded a 3-year Tiny Blue Dot Foundation grant to examine body image in adolescent girls & to develop a VR-based embodiment intervention for body image issues. Expect more info and post-doc and PhD adverts in the coming months 😀

Most honored by this and could not have done it without my amazing UCL colleagues at the Faculty of Brain Sciences. We still have a long way to go but proud to belong to a scientific society and an Institution that values diversity and promotes innovative solutions regarding research culture.

🎉 Congratulations to the #DiversityPrize Winner! 🏆 At the 2025 #FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo, Norway, @network-alba.bsky.social and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (#FKNE) awarded this year's Diversity Prize to Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou. 🧠 👉 https://loom.ly/dphSwoM#DiversityPrize#FENS#FKNE)#DiversityInSTEM

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. @katerinafoto.bsky.social‬, who has won the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize for her outstanding contributions to promoting equality and diversity in the brain sciences. ‪@network-alba.bsky.social‬ @kavlifoundation.org‬

The ESCAN Junior Committee is active and thriving! Join them and their series of workshops, to increase your skills, make new work friends and plan for the Rome conference next year. @escaneu.bsky.social it is all free and friendly.

🔁 Final call! Join the ESCAN Science Communication Workshop w/ @elodiechabrol (Pint of Science) 🗓 July 3 | 🕓 16:00–18:00 CEST 💻 Online | 🎯 MSc, PhDs, Postdocs ⚠️ ESCAN members only 🧠 for more events, join ESCAN: escaneurosci.eu/membership-f... #SciComm #PhDlife #ESCAN

Anyone I know or should know going to FENS in Oslo this year? Pls dm me

Wonderful stuff Alex and colleagues!!!

One of the most exciting cognitive and affective neuroscience conferences is happening next summer in Rome. Excellent science, good friends and Italian food in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get ready for the ESCAN congress, June 3-6 2026! #ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social

A joyful and important topic to review. The mechanisms of tickling!

One of the most exciting cognitive and affective neuroscience conferences is happening next summer in Rome. Excellent science, good friends and Italian food in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get ready for the ESCAN congress, June 3-6 2026! #ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social

1/3 📢 Want to make your research accessible and engaging? Join our Science Communication Workshop with Dr. Elodie Chabrol, founder of Pint of Science 🍻🧠 Learn how to talk about your science with clarity and impact.

Yes but it is about time economists and neuroeconomists start understanding metabolic resource allocation...

Finally a book on touch that places our experience of our senses in the context of our collective intentionality throughout history. Excellent book review here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Step 1 of Carolina's outstading PhD on parental interoceptive mentalisation. How do parents 'read' the interoceptive states of their child? How do we know our child is hungry, tired or cold? A careful validation of the 1st questionnaire on this important developmental dimension. Bien Hecho Carolina!

1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨 doi.org/10.31219/osf... Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context? We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.

Step 1 of Carolina's outstading PhD on parental interoceptive mentalisation. How do parents 'read' the interoceptive states of their child? How do we know our child is hungry, tired or cold? A careful validation of the 1st questionnaire on this important developmental dimension. Bien Hecho Carolina!

Funciones Ejecutivas at the amazing National Congress of Neuropsychology in Spain. Packed with excellent speakers and hundreads of enthousiastic neuropsychologists doing both research and clinical work. We need more of them in european and international events and collaborations. Thank you #Fanpse

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

Similarly, this is coming Europe's way soon and if we do not get ready now, it will be worse and it will be fast.

Great conference coming up on epistemic trust in psychotherapy at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit 22 March - 23 March 2025 Speakers include Liz Allison, Anthony Bateman, Dickon Bevington, Peter Fonagy, George Gergely, Vittorio Lingiardi, Patrick Luyten, Tobias Nolte www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

My chapter on touch and the bodily self is now out 🤩 🧠😍 It is a part of a book commemorating the late Bud Craig by @marcwittmann.bsky.social , Irina Strigo, and Alan Simmons link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #philsci

These get confused with one another. Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news. The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences. The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out. The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

Announcing this week's Consciousness Club with Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social on "Time as a fundamental aspect of consciousness" Wednesday 12th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

🕒 less than 24h until the doors to the 12th #MindBrainBody Symposium will open. Safe travels and very much looking forward to seeing you there! Please check out day 1 below and find all details at mindbrainbody.de

Nice work. Using lesion mapping, F. Sala, L. Cattaneo, & co. show that object geometry for hand preshaping is coded in left anterior intraparietal cortex and then shared with the right hemisphere. The motor program of hand preshaping is then executed by the PMd.🧪🧠 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.

Worth repeating. Do not edit Special Issues in Frontiers! x.com/lakens/statu...

Here it is again: the autobiographical take on symptoms: Blumenthal says he would not 'turn off' his symptoms as they are part of him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have humans lost their analogical edge? Keith Holyoak outlines a theme from his new book, ‘The Human Edge: Analogy and the Roots of Creative Intelligence’ @mitpress.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

This looks like an amazing opportunity!👇

Do lesions that cause psychosis fall into a common brain network? Exciting new work by @andrewpines.bsky.social, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social and colleagues – tweetorial below by the first author, paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What brain regions are involved in causing psychotic symptoms? Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients! 1/n🧵

The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊

Our 2025 annual conference is happening in London, March 13-14. Neuropsychiatry of sleep, FND treatment, impulsive control disorders, neuropsychiatry of TBI and much more. Sign up, it'll be great to see you there bnpa.org.uk/agm/

Integrating dimensions of interception in neuropsychiatry @katerinafoto.bsky.social at our 2022 conference More fantastic talks, debate, and networking happening at this year's conference Mar 13-14, London bnpa.org.uk/agm/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOvf...

Call for advice from expert solicitors and some academic activism. Universities tell us that Right to Work checks are required by law for all PhD examiners, irrespective of the one-off, and sometimes clearly international, nature of the job or even the individual's existing UK employment. 1/2

Call for advice from expert solicitors and some academic activism. Universities tell us that Right to Work checks are required by law for all PhD examiners, irrespective of the one-off, and sometimes clearly international, nature of the job or even the individual's existing UK employment. 1/2

🚨 SENSS PhD Studentship at University of Essex! Research emotional overeating in toddlers from disadvantaged backgrounds. Fully funded, open to UK & international students. Deadline: 12:00 GMT, Mon 24 Feb 2025. More info: www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...

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Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

Attachment Reminders Trigger Widespread Synchrony across Multiple Brains www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...

This is the most hopeful thing I have read about cities and the environment in recent years. And not just any city; big, beautiful, cosmopolitan Paris has managed to become more green and quiet. Loved the comments. Bravo!

It was only a matter of time - a metacognition starter pack! Do let me know if I’ve missed people or if you’d like to be added #neuroskyence 🧪 go.bsky.app/9PSjwLF

1/8. You might have heard that it’s a bad idea to talk about (racial) inequality and/or equity-enhancing programs and policies. Over the past few years, both scholars and pundits have argued those messages undermine support for important policies. Well, that conclusion may be a bit premature.

New preprint ! 🎉 Led by the amazing Lara Maister 😎 We looked at the link between self face perception and interoception in Depersonalisation osf.io/preprints/ps...