I’m pleased with our findings reported here showing that brain networks involved in “Multiple Demand” and “Re-evaluation” support reappraisal. Let us know your thoughts! with @evalab.bsky.social @twoodward.bsky.social #neuroskyence #affectsci #fMRI-CPCA

Genius

@clarsonsbrain.bsky.social underscoring the importance of context and lived experience in trauma - make that in all our research really. Presidential Address @therealspr.bsky.social

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based. I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied... Anyone interested? My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition. Anyone?

Fear, anxiety, and the extended amygdala- Absence of evidence for strict functional segregation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673083v1

Great to be part of this effort, led by Joaquim Radua, @drhannahsavage.bsky.social and Miquel Fullana, among other www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #neurosci #affectsci

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Looking for a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with expertise in weather forecasting AND machine learning AND software engineering job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Indeed, this paper (and videos) is quite wow #affectivescience

Only 10 days left to apply for this amazing opportunity 👇

Closing remarks by our co-chair @bhisma.bsky.social (with Tan Wingenbach), wrapping up a successful #ReadEmo25! The interdisciplinary mix and extensive opportunities for interaction have been rewarding as ever!

Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25. @wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year! sites.google.com/site/reading...

Our last session at #ReadEmo25 is a first for the series, with Leanne Proops talking about facial expressions in non-human animals, presenting her work with horses! 🐎

A wonderful set of #ECR talks by Helio Clemente José Cube, Suchitra Srivastava, and Simone Mattavelli, from 2 continents, 3 countries and as many disciplines. What a treat to take us up to lunch on day 2 of #ReadEmo25!

A treat to hear the brilliant Isabel Dziobek speak about psychotherapy and social robotics - starting off the second day at Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25

Ify’s study on HRV in adolescents with varying SES in Nigeria is now in press. She measured daily affect, stress and depression symptoms. While SES was not associated with affect metrics, lower SES was coupled with lower HRV suggesting poverty-linked stress doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... w/ Michiko Sakaki

Dennis Küster and our own Tan Wingenbach smashed the early arvo talks on facial EMG in expression of emotion research #ReadEmo25

Prof Ioannis Patras starts the final talk of the day, on multimodal AI for emotion recognition in context #ReadEmo25

I finally took the time to set up an environment in #openAI Codex, this is wild ! my coding productivity is going to skyrocket, it opens PR and fix your code 'automatically' just review and accept/change as needed ; it can build unit test, etc .. wow

Ursula Hess is our first speaker at #ReadEmo25 on emotional contagion.

It's finally here! Looking forward to two days of immersion in facial expressions research from around the world at Reading Emotions 2025 sites.google.com/site/reading... #ReadEmo25

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

Schedule is up now, and you have acouple more days left to register for this amazing event. Looking forward to seeing a number of you on our campus in a fortnight! 🥳

The scheme pays for your salary (if required) and up to £200,000 for project expenses for up to 2 years. The deadline is 15 July 2025 (but the award will run annually until 2028, so if that's too soon, plan for 2026 instead).

PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise. Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.

Woohoo: ESCAN in Rome next June. Join in!

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

I’ll attend (for part of it); join on in!

Memory loss as we age is normal; everyone forgets things now and then! But what are the indicators of something worse? #Dementia researcher Samrah Ahmed's talk at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival could help you spot the warning signs. 📍Palmer G10 📆16.15, 17 May 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ

Join us and CINNergies (our ECR initiative), this June at Reading, to explore #interdisciplinarity, its challenge and promise. @unirdg-psych.bsky.social @unirdg-phd.bsky.social research.reading.ac.uk/cinn/cinnerg...

Festival is Sat 17 May from noon-5 pm, with an amazing programme incl great contributions from my colleagues 👇 (dog-friendly btw)

Nature Neuroscience Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Props to the German Foreign Office. 🙌

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social! We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Excited to announce the Madison Symposium on Memory and Control! postlab.psych.wisc.edu/msmc/: @paller.bsky.social, @karihoffman.bsky.social, Joel Voss, @charan-neuro.bsky.social , Thilo Womelsdorf, @earlkmiller.bsky.social . Best talk titles ever! (vote for your favorite here 🤗)

Great article on current research into AlzD treatments by @simonmakin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A month left to submit your abstracts for #ReadEmo25 👇

Many thanks to CINN alumnus Tim Salomons @head-like-egg.bsky.social for a thought provoking presentation at this week's research meeting #neuromethods on pain, its management, the far-reaching implications of its study, and its very nature.

4-year funded PhD in Pharmacy on improving understanding of how airborne contaminants influence immune cell function & contribute to neuroinflammation/neurodegenerative diseases. Collaboration with UK Health Security Agency. Apply now www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO948/p... #Pharmacy #PhD #PhDScholarship

Hello world! This is our first ever post on Bluesky! No, this obviously isn't an April Fools'. We may be an academic institution, but we could make a decent joke if we wanted to.

⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social Deadline: April 20. For more information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#neurojobs #psychjobs 👇

Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!

Yay #ESCAN is on BlueSky, folks! 🥳

"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Quote of the day by @jonahblank.bsky.social who said the following on BBCs The Context re 83% cut to USAID budget: “The fact that the poorest people in the world are being deprived of medicine and food by the wealthiest person on the planet is just heartbreaking”. Yup

And Emma is now Dr Tupitsa! 🥂🎓so proud! Many thanks to @maramather.bsky.social and @bhisma.bsky.social for examining Emma’s PhD research on "Feel the Beat: Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Adaptive Emotional Responding". One part already published (tinyurl.com/yckfh5cx), more to come soon

Register now for the 14th annual Reading Emotions on 26-27 June with a stellar interdisciplinary line-up of speakers to discuss “Facial expressions of emotion”. Submit abstracts for short talks and apply for travel grants sites.google.com/site/reading.... We look forward to seeing you at #ReadEmo25