Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈 Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

Passed with minor corrections! Thanks to my family for their support, to @drmlfil.bsky.social and @saraslt.bsky.social for their wonderful supervision, and to all the PPI contributors. Thanks to Dr Rebecca Brewer and Dr Helge Gillmeister for a great viva conversation! #interoception #autism #sleep

Long-term ECG data have great potential to expand research into diurnal variation of heart rate variability, beyond short-term measures of resting state. Data processing, however, is labor intensive. Led by Maximilian Schmaußer, we compared the performance of open-source tool boxes 1/2

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025

This is an incredible tool for visualizing real-time activity of internal organ system dynamics in zebra fish - I trust it’s only a matter of time until we see a suite of “functional body connectivity” papers during various interoceptive perturbations… #interoception

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

👉 In this trial (RT = 458 ms), how should we count fixations and compute total fixation duration on the target image? What’s the most correct way for these three cases? Curious how others handle this in their analyses! #EyeTracking #Methods #OpenScience #Psychology

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems. I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

Facing the Wall

📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025 We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking. ✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon! 🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io #XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource

Title: "AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality" @toninfrc.bsky.social 📍 A04 📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30 Discover AffectTracker – a versatile tool for continuous real-time tracking of affective states in iVR!

Title: "Differentiation of Neuropsychological Post-COVID Symptoms using Heart Rate Variability" Mia Neubauer 📍 A25 📆 Monday, March 10th, 18:45-19:30 Can HRV offer a window into post-COVID cognitive impairment and fatigue?

Title: "Cardiorespiratory Contributions to Sense of Agency and Voluntary Action Initiation" @martager.bsky.social 📍 B23 📆 Monday, March 10th, 19:30-20:15 Does syncing with our heartbeat influence our sense of control over actions and their outcomes?

How to manage working - running experiments, writing paper and PhD applications of parallely?? Any suggestions

Interoception feed can now recognize emoji's🧠🫀 and 🧠🫁 bsky.app/profile/did:... You can use any of the these terms to make your posts appear in feed: interoception, brain body, brain heart, brain-body, brain-heart

What does Raven's SPM even measure? Would you expect any difference in SPM scores between groups with good socio-economic status v/s poor socio-economic status or with exposure to good schools? #psychology #statistics

A lack of motivational drive is common in depression. Can we use vagus nerve stimulation to boost invigoration in patients with MDD? Our new preprint shows tVNS-induced gains in Session 1 that are largely maintained. Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social #neuroscience 🩺 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

On Aphantasia, Imagery, and Embodiment: New paper out this week in Nature Reviews Psychology, with Emiko Muraki and Laura Speed: rdcu.be/dj7UQ

I need to make an interactive/ animated video explaining some concept. Does anyone know open-source tools/softwares to make TED style with videos with voiceover. Any help is appreciated :) #psychology #neuroscience open science #academic

How do you switch from external to internal worlds? Hippocampus anyone?? doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

Most underrated link to understand and teach statistics and perception. I've used this many times as a student and still come back to it for e.g. while doing visual angle computation elvers.us #CogSci Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience

The MIT Press announces the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, a paradigm shift in open access reference works #Neuroscience #Psycholinguistics #Psychology

This just blew my mind 🤯 : "The sea floor near Australia’s Casey station in Antarctica has been found to have levels of pollution comparable to those in Rio de Janeiro’s harbour." (!!) www.scientificamerican.com/article/anta... 🌍🧪

interesting mechanisms for integration of bodily rhythms and cognitive processing of interoceptive signals www.nature.com/articles/s41... #interoception

some major diff from 🐦twitter (1/n) Go to settings, set your home-feed preferences to Show All replies (default is with at least 2 likes)

welcome 👋 @mgblr.bsky.social, glad to see you here

just made interoception feed @mgallen.bsky.social @markrubin.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

Just made this 10 Step Guide to making a BlueSky Feed 👇

Every ethics committee in uni from: cookiescience.webcomic.ws/comics/693#c... #academic #neuroskyence #cognition #cogpsych #psyscisky #academicsky #stats #statsmeme

via @chelseaparlett.bsky.social #stats #statsmeme

Here's a screenshot of a #Threads repost that's a screenshot of an #Instagram post that's a screenshot of an #X post that's a repost. Couldn't be worse, welcome to social media in 2023 !!! 😰😰 #PhDSky #academic #neuroskyence #cognition #cogpsych #psyscisky #academicsky

An interactive, clickable fMRI atlas (n = 40k, ukbiobank data) for associations with hundreds of traits and diseases. fmriatlas.org/index.html #neuroskyence #psyscisky

PsyArXiv is a great service to the field! If you’re in a position to help support it financially to keep it going, please chip in. ⬇️

Come check out my poster at ESCoP, you may find my PI at the booth. Excited to present HiLex, a tool for quickly and objectively measuring lexical proficiency in Hindi !I wish I could attend, but funding issues #ESCoP #psychology #academia

This is a good diagnosis of a variety of problems in psychology. I particularly like the description of "pick a noun and study it". But the overall question remains: does any of this matter? Will anything change? What would a new psychology even look like? #PsychSciSky

Hello all--great to see so many here! I am a philosopher of science who works on causation and explanation. My work typically focuses on neuroscience, biology, and general phil sci. 🧠 🧬 🔬 📗 Supporter of interdisciplinary work, science-engaged philosophy, and science/phil communication.

Someone told me that this app may seem very empty because of this default setting that requires replies to have 2 likes or more before they show up. Indeed! I changed it so that all replies show up, and suddenly the place seems much more lively. I highly recommend changing it in your settings.

Academia

It is often more worthwhile to read the best paper written in your field in 1972 than to read the latest paper everyone on social media is talking about.

If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know www.nature.com/articles/d41... #neuroscience #AI #consciousness

Question: Postdoctoral hiring decisions are based on previous PhD topic ?? If yes, then a candidate can never change streams/ line of research !!! #PsychSki #Neuroscience #Psych #academicsky #academia

A university diversity, equity, and inclusion committee #AcademiSky