Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy to see our new preprint on using AI in biopsychology from an open science perspective out on OSF 📣 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Read more about why we were shortlisted for the Best Research Environment prize! 👇 Still can’t wrap my head around this amazing recognition 🙌🏻

#PuG2026 comes to an end. One of my highlights was presenting our pilot study using autogenic training to teach voluntary control over interoceptive rhythms, led by @samversc.bsky.social with @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com 🧘🫀 #interoception #neuroskyence [1/3]

The science communication prize at #PuG2026 went to @books-and-brains.bsky.social , and that blog idea really looks so cool! (booknerd here!) 📚💖✨🧠 My bookclub recently read "The other black girl" by Z.D. Harris. There is some weird brain stuff going on in there, if you need recommendations! haha

Congrats to @henrikejngblt.bsky.social for winning this year’s Science Communication Prize at #PuG2026 with the project @books-and-brains.bsky.social Looking forward to reading your reviews on the neuroscientific bases of popular novels 📚🧠 Go follow @books-and-brains.bsky.social !

This year I've volunteered with @penneamiche.bsky.social, an initiative that connects Italian scientists and schools through letter exchanges 💌 From Sep to May, I wrote to a middle school class in Verona, sharing what it's like to be a neuroscientist and to build a research career abroad. [1/3]

New conference tip to pay attention during keynote talks and deal with the scientific input overload from back-to-back symposia: bring your own crochet project 🧶 Listening to a talk on inter-brain synchrony and empathy at #PuG2026 while enjoying the benefits of rhythmic, cross-body movement 🧠

Another great #IGOR project outlining the strengths and pitfalls of using generative AI at each stage of the research cycle in biological psychology ♻️ Manuscript ready to be submitted, so stay tuned for this publication hopefully 🔜 #openscience

A massive project comprising a systematic review of over 600 ❗️studies and an empirical analysis of how data transformation practices of peripheral physiological data impact effect sizes and reliability 📈📉 We’re finishing the systematic review manuscript - hopefully stay tuned for a preprint soon!

Current updates from the IGOR Roundtable (now happening in room HS 01): mark your calendars for October 1st for our next Hackathon and panel discussion with the preliminary title “Current state of journals and research assessment for Open Science?” #PuG2026 #IGOR

First talk of our symposium about novel intervention approaches to modify #interoception by @mjdahl.bsky.social on tVNS, neuromodulatory activity and the locus coeruleus #PuG2026

Brilliant #PuG2026 keynote talk by @micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org about moving toward a causal approach in #interoception research. My notes are now full of interesting articles that I need to catch up on reading! 📖 #neuroskyence

Welcome address at #PuG2026 by @cherrydoc.bsky.social in a stunning conference hall of Heidelberg university

Today at #PuG2026 at 3:30pm, don't miss the chance to attend @aleksanpi.bsky.social's talk on a recent pilot study about loneliness, interpersonal proximity and cardiac responses! (unfortunately overlapping with my own talk, I wish I could attend myself 😔)

First day of #PuG2026 starts for me with a talk at 3:30pm in room HS 15. Come hear about how we used autogenic training to teach people how to voluntarily control interoceptive states within an ideomotor framework! 🫀🫁 #neuroskyence #interoception

Excited for the first full day of the 51st annual conference „Psychologie und Gehirn“ #pug2026 - full of groundbreaking work in biological psychology! 🧠

#PuG2026 in Heidelberg started with the ECRs meeting on the topic of power and abuse of power in German academia by Andrea Kübler. Kudos to the ECRs representatives for raising awareness on such relevant and sensitive issue!

A cool event to mark on your calendars! 👇

Very much looking forward to #PuG2026!

This Thursday at 3:30pm (📍HS 15) at #PuG2026 come hear about our six-week pilot study using autogenic training to teach people how to voluntarily control cardiac signals, based on Verschooren et al. (2026) 🫀 with @samversc.bsky.social @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com

Join @henrikejngblt.bsky.social and me as we host the #PuG2026 #Posterblitz of the bioDGPs/DGPA JuWis this Friday at 2pm! We have an exceptional lineup of short talks spanning from dance interventions and morbid curiosity to sleep EMG and pre-ejection period extraction, and much more ❗

Happy to chat about our Interest Group for Open and Reproducible Science (IGOR) at #PuG2026 if you're also attending! We have an exciting line-up of events 🪩

For people attending PuG 2026, @martager.bsky.social (@mbe-lab.bsky.social) will present our recent empirical work where we apply ideomotor theory to autogenic training this Thursday (June 4, 3:30pm - 5:00pm) www.conftool.com/pug2026/inde...

Excited to finally share that our @mbe-lab.bsky.social was shortlisted for the Best Research Environment Award 2026 🥳 proud to be part of this team! Stay tuned on June 27 for the award ceremony! 👀

🔬🧠🙌Offen, kreativ, wertschätzend! Mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de vergeben wir die Auszeichnung „Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2026“. In den nächsten Wochen stellen wir die 15 Teams der Shortlist vor. Aus diesen werden am 27. Juni 5 Teams ausgelost, die ein Preisgeld erhalten. 🔗 t1p.de/auhey

📣 Emotion researchers! We need your input! We're designing a 2D/screen version of AffectTracker for real-time continuous ratings of affective experience, and we want the community to shape it. Got 1 minute? Fill out our short survey and help us make the right design choices 👇 🙏🙏🙏

Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]

Cardio-respiratory rhythms shape when we act and how we experience the outcomes of our actions: https://osf.io/qzs6j

Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨! We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Adriatica2026 Summer School on Brain-Body Interactions & Wellbeing is back. Five days of cutting-edge research on the brain-body relationship, hosted in Pescara (Adriatic coast). More details coming soon. 🧠🌊 📅 August 31 – September 4, 2026 📍 Pescara, Italy #Adriatica2026 #Neuroscience #Wellbeing

New paper from our IGOR Sustainability project in Nature Human Behaviour: “Sustainable neuroscience through open science” ♻️🧠 As there is no research on a dead planet, neuroscience must weigh its environmental footprint alongside its societal impact. A thread 👇 [1/4]

Excited to share that our work on organ-specific interoception is now published in Communications Psychology! www.nature.com/articles/s44... @micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org

Today at @mbe-lab.bsky.social we celebrate the end of data collection for our Berlin side of the INTACT project, a collaboration with ACE2Lab @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social & Lucas 48 participants, ca. 72hr of ECG/PPG/RESP recording later🫀🫁 thanks to the amazing help of Mascha & Aileen! Data analysis 🔜

🚀 New preprint out! With @toninfrc.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com & Ł. Okruszek: "Lost in Emotional Space". We introduce emotional bandwidth, a new way to measure how people navigate their emotional landscape in daily life, and link it to depression and loneliness using experience sampling 🧵 1/5

Wondering how to go from raw peripheral physio signals (ECG, PPG, respiration) to anything meaningful? Feeling lost in the labyrinth of analysis workflows? BBSIG here is for you! 🫀🫁🧠 👉 www.bbsig.de We provide easy-to-use pipelines with recommended steps & benchmarked functions #neuroskyence

Overwhelmed by the collegial support and positive feedback received for our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) 🥹 thanks to our amazing team making this possible! Want to try out our pipelines for ECG, PPG (and soon respiration)? 🔗 www.bbsig.de #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

@martager.bsky.social widening the focus to science as a whole. BBSIG as 21st-century science 😊 „Changing the culture… one pipeline at the time“ #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026

…schematic of an example workflow

Now, @martager.bsky.social presents our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) to facilitate and harmonise the processing and analysis of cardiac and respiratory data. Try it yourself! 🔗www.bbsig.de #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026

In her special talk #MBBS2026, @martager.bsky.social @mbe-lab.bsky.social presents #BBSIG, that is #openaccess #preprocessing #functionality for #ecg #ppv #resp ! ⭐️ Wonderful collaborative efforts! 🙃 github/martager/bbsig doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #BSMB @mpicbs.bsky.social #MindBrainBody #Python

Meanwhile in the #MBBS2026: Victor presenting his poster in Cardiorespiratory coupling with eye movements And Lucas with daily life experiences (as subjectively reported with text and classified by LLM) We had a great time learning & catching up, such a fantastic meeting! 🤜🤛

Today is the day. Looking forward to my Special Talk at the #MindBrainBody Symposium introducing the Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG)… for now, I’m having breakfast with my BBSIG-themed mug ☕️ 🗓️ March 11, 13:00-14:00 #MBBS2026

Great initiative!

Two past Young Scientist Award winners are presenting today at #MindBrainBody Symposium: @ege-kingir.bsky.social on cardiac dynamics in visual and somatosensory perception & @jellinap.bsky.social on neural-cardiac processing across the menstrual cycle 🫀🧠 Consider appplying in next years! #MBBS2026

Our latest work on respiratory and non-respiratory contributions to the Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration (ACD) is out! 🫁🫀 As suspected, respiration accounts significantly to the ACD via respiratory HRV, but it seems that it does not fully explain it! [1/2] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Did you miss Mascha’s poster on how vascular signals contribute to active visual perception, using pulse transit time from ECG+PPG? Don’t worry, we have you covered! 👀🫀🧠 👉 Here is the poster PDF: www.cbs.mpg.de/2435868/b12_... #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

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

Couldn’t agree more! 👏 Listening to @marieloescher.bsky.social gave me some new insights to how important it is to include different interoceptive coupling profiles (from heart, brain and stomach) in future studies. Really nice work

@studenova.bsky.social surprised the audience of the #MindBrainBody Symposium with an “embodied presentation” in how absolute post-stimulus alpha amplitude better explains trial-by-trial perception across 5 datasets and 3 somatosensory tasks #MBBS2026