Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry

Chat-GPTea

nice piece by @laurenshirreff.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social this week (inc interview with me) on why neuroscientists believe depression isn't just one thing and implications for treatment - glad this idea is finally cutting through! www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/eaa4187... (no paywall)

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

hilarious - in the darkest possible sense

they had nowhere to go - apart from a house they owned in France

🚨 New paper out in JAMAPsych: 🦣 project led by the brilliant @anahitm.bsky.social & @docqhuys.bsky.social ’ group. Our meta-analysis found that #dopamine & #serotonin have distinct effects on reinforcement learning. A step toward biomarker guided treatment? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Academic life, and sometimes life in general, can feel chock-full of disappointments. But not today, satan! 😈

🚨 We’re LIVE! 🚨 Our RELMED study is now open for Expressions of Interest! 🌟 Visit www.relmed.ac.uk to learn more about the study and fill out the Expression of Interest form.

Excellent luck. I had to read through like 20 papers on p-hacking to find the one I wanted.

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you @clairelavalley.bsky.social and @rssmith.bsky.social. Striking to see aversive pruning altered in people with methamphetamine use, particularly given the results in depression (dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003...).

Our R01 was part of yesterday's "mass termination" at Harvard; 1 of ~1000 NIH grants in Trump's "fight". The irony of how many Jewish (& non-Jewish) researchers/scientists/physicians/patients/students will be harmed in the name of "fighting antisemitism" is sickening.deliberately cruel. #AcademicSky

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social are spotlighting #UCLMentalHealth funded projects. In this video, we find out more about Prof @jonroiser.bsky.social and Dr Luca Bernardi's research into how political stressors impact an individual's wellbeing.

important analysis of Israel's escalation in Gaza which lays out the motivations very clearly - as ever, it's all about land

My colleague Dan Bush (not on BSky) at UCL is looking for a post-doc. Focus on intracranial EEG and single cell recordings from epilepsy patients + MEG recordings from healthy volunteers during spatial and episodic memory tasks. Apply here tinyurl.com/n6nkty8e

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

correct

Exercise can be a powerful tool for mental health. But what happens in the brain during a workout? 🏋️ Dr @jonroiser.bsky.social shares insights from his team's pilot study on brain activity during exercise on @wellcometrust.bsky.social’s When Science Finds a Way podcast.

Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

He doesn't mean it this way, but it's fucking ghoulish to attend the funeral of a boy who you helped kill.

When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/

You know what's more disturbing than starting a trade war with penguins? The very real likelihood that the penguins are going to win.

Despite having been research active in the fMRI field for 20 years and as an editor handling many papers featuring Reho for 10 years, I still don't know what it means (or indeed, is supposed to mean)! The way it's calculated makes it seem like smoothness, but surely that can't be right?

new blog from our group (Jake Yianni and myself) on a network meta-analysis of the anti-depressant effects of physical activity (published last year in @bmj.com) www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/ex...

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?" Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!

A Land for All is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative trying to reimagine the two-state solution. Its co-founder Rula Hardal tells @aloner.bsky.social we’re running out of time to solve the conflict. www.prospectmagazine...

📣 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...

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽

1/ The Trump administration is throwing science and scientists into turmoil – how should the scientific community respond? Read the latest opinion pieces below from our new collection: ‘Science Under Threat in the US’ #StandUpForScience elifesciences.org/collections/...

Lmao 🤣 savages

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

Delighted our ( @jonroiser.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social) paper is now out in @brain1878.bsky.social ! 🎉🧠 We show that #Parkinson's #depression may stem from a reduction in reward sensitivity that is unresponsive to dopaminergic medication: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai... 🧵⬇️

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk's politics, because his identity is rooted in being an underdog fighting against the real power, but as the world's wealthiest person, who is deeply politically connected, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Hey Bluesky! I’m excited to share my new preprint with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @ruvidar.bsky.social, where we show that surface-level questionnaire filling behaviours drive correlations between mental health and metacognition (confidence ratings). osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/14]

You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it. iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...

“Every American should be chilled to the core by the overwhelming display of constitutionally protected speech we found on this deviant’s computer and phone,” Kash Patel said theonion.com/feds-un...

This is absolutely bonkers - Trump's gang cutting ALL federal funding to Columbia unless they agree to be micro-managed and do whatever they say. Mafia tactics, and presumably just the start for US universities

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

For #BrainAwarenessWeek, Luca Bernardi (University of Liverpool) and I spoke to @uclbrainscience.bsky.social about our latest research exploring the impact of politics on our mental health: buff.ly/WvCBvS8. Many thanks to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social and Liverpool for the generous support!

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

a must-read essay on the ever-rising tide of nonsense within universities

Elon Musk: All the Nazism of Wernher von Braun, without the actual talent at rocketry.

🤦‍♂️ this level of ignorance makes my head hurt

having just received what I am 99% sure is an AI peer review, I endorse this thread