Feldman & Finlay, 2025. Welcome to academic Bluesky Rylan. We only come for the good vibes.

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

This is really important. How can we counter this false narrative?

So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!

This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!

What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.

Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:

If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social

now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r... shocked by this! Sam Sommers’ book is what made me interested in psychology, and is what made me choose to go to Tufts. Sending love to his family and colleagues.

"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

CASL is showing up for Society for Affective Science this week!

#proud #workWife www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...

Physio people -- when you have messy data, what's your philosophy on filtering? Under filter and discard a lot of data due to excess noise OR potentially over filter and smooth true signal? In this case i'm working with PPG. #psychophysiology #interoception

Incredible. Thank You!

I’m here for biologists making a big fucking stink but I think psychologists should get in on the action too.

I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11

📢 Help spread the word! UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725 Come work with me in New Hampshire!!

What is your favorite R function you've learned this 2024? Mine: I've loved understanding !! and enquo from rlang. #rstats

There are now nearly 5000 papers on #interoception. And the output over the last 4 years is more than the previous 59. 🤯

This collaboration was so fun! We found evidence that emotional attention & clarity were higher in social v nonsocial contexts and when interacting with close v nonclose others. Participants with MDD showed enhanced emotional clarity in social v nonsocial settings.

This one has been long in the making! We find preliminary evidence that teens with more similar vmPFC representations of positive affect (in particular) are more like to be friends/be in the same friend group. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39412190/

Check out our new chapter on Interoception's role in Social and Emotional Cognition. We begin by exploring WHY you might expect interoception to predict socioemotional cognition in the first place... Let us know what you think!

Does anyone know whether this is a precedent for using factor scores instead of average scores on SDO questionnaires? @sakierahudson.bsky.social

Adding to this list the ineffable Dr. Sam Brosso, Dr. Aslihan Imamoglu, Dr. Kylie Chandler, Dr. Connor O' Fallon, Dr. Nate Fields, and, as of today, Dr. Matt Coleman! So proud of my friends!

We are published!! An SSRI changes neural responses to #interoception and its links to anxious states. This changed how I think about #serotonin, internal sensation, and #anxiety. W/ James Livermore @sarahgarf.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social, Hugo Critchley + more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ok #psychology and #affectsci bsky- can you please help me find the best up-to-date methodological reviews on measuring interpersonal synchrony (physio/motor/affective)?

Just your friendly local aphantasic sharing a great new review paper on Aphantasia by Adam Zeman.

Celebrating my friends Dr. Sam Abrams, Dr. Manuel Galvan, and Dr. Taylor West who all defended dissertations in the past few days!

Excited to share a new paper led by the ineffable Dr. Tatum Jolink further illustrating how even acute inflammation serves to organize social cognition and behavior: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioaq15hUd...

In Cambridge, London, and then Brighton this week for APS! Would love to meet people while I’m here! If you’re in the area, shoot me a DM.

Thrilled to be attending the 11th MindBrainBody Symposium by Max Planck Institute virtually!

For those going to SAS- @affectscience.bsky.social (#affectsci) -- check out some of the awesome work being done by folks in our lab:

Excited to finally share this paper, nearly 5 years in the making! In it, me and co-authors share our thoughts on how (and to what extent) signals from the body map onto affective feelings. Writing this definitely brought forth more questions than answers! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieTJ4sIRv...

New paper at Nature Communications from me & @dianatamir.bsky.social! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Late to the game on this- but so grateful to papers like these for continuing to evolve my thinking on #interoception.

Really excited to announce that our paper introducing an expanded framework and measure of advantaged identity management has been accepted @ PSPB! You can check out the thread below for more details and find an updated preprint here: tinyurl.com/2uvem5nh