Awesome work @wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social with this years (15th!!) edition. Stay tuned for the next #ReadEmo mtg; @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social , LinkedIn or follow us on www.facebook.com/share/1Bm3FK...

The afternoon keynotes at #ReadEmo26 covered AI/computational approaches: Jan Vollert rightfully points out issues with AI in pain research, incl bias. @gvg-neuro.bsky.social hit it out of the park summarising multimodal predictions of chronic pain in biobank data.

Fantastic short talks #ReadEmo26: imagining spinal cord? @liviasimela.bsky.social has it sorted! Lydia Tidmarsh presenting work in progress on long COVID, pain and neuroinflammation, and @eval80.bsky.social highlighting that EEG pain signatures are perhaps not what they may seem to some

Day 2 of #ReadEmo26 started well with Jon Brooks highlighting intricacies of brain-periphery interactions in fibromyalgia

Day 1 of #ReadEmo26 is coming to an end with a lively panel discussion led by Fiona Talkington of BBC Radio 3 fame and our own @richharrison.bsky.social . Stay tuned for a brain-heavy Day 2! @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social

We continue the health/applied angle on pain research with 3 keynotes by Whitney Scott on stigma and discrimination in chronic pain, our own @ameliahollywood.bsky.social presenting her work on pain assessments in emergency dept, and Katy Vincent on endometriosis-linked pain #ReadEmo26

3 amazing short talks on applied aspects of pain research: Susanne Cromme on hysteroscopy; @kirrraliseh.bsky.social on incorporating PPI in menstrual pain and autism research; Jenna Gillett on compassion flows in chronic pain #ReadEmo26

Sigrid Elsenbruch is our first keynote speaker at #ReadEmo26, presenting her work on extinction learning, interoception and gut-brain perspectives in pain

#ReadEmo26 is go! Wiebke (@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social) and Rich opening this years event @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social

📢 We’re hiring! If you’re enthusiastic about computation, MRI analysis, multimodal methods, and you like supporting human neuroscience research, join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2s4fsx9n for details. Pls share. #neuroskyence #neurojobs #ECR

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

#ESCAN26 is officially underway with the first set of pre-conferences. I’m attending the embodiment one led by Paul Jenkinson and @katerinafoto.bsky.social . The programme looks amazing and it has a real great buzz. @escaneu.bsky.social

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

Deadline for abstracts for poster/talk at #ReadEmo26 is approaching (22 May). Please share and join us. Thanks!

10 days left until the closing date (29 May) 👇. Join us!

📢 #ReadEmo26 is on! Join us on 23–24 June at @uniofreading.bsky.social “From Receptors to Perceptions: The Multiple Approaches to Understanding Pain” For details, registration, and abstract submission visit: sites.google.com/site/reading... #ReadEmo2026 #PainResearch #ECR

📣 Job alert: We are recruiting a Prof in Neuroscience with MRI expertise to join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social and @unirdg-psych.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2kdjph8v for details. Contact me for info/chat. Please spread the word #neuroskyence #neurojobs

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

Fantastic work by @nickhedger.bsky.social and colleagues - many congrats, folks! Cc @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social #Neuroskyence

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

A full obituary for Dr. Ekman will appear in the December issue of Affective Science, and we'll keep the community informed of opportunities to honor Dr. Ekman's legacy. www.paulekman.com/blog/the-pas...

A true legend has left us. Paul Ekman’s impact on #affectivescience cannot be overstated. I was so lucky to have met him several times and he was always so supportive, even when I flunked my talk as a first year PhD student. #restinpeace

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!