I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

My very first paper is finally out in @pnas.org, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard! Interoception, exteroception, the self and more, it's got it all. Also it should go open access at some point www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park & @mtsakiris.bsky.social : 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Key takeaways: 🎨 Political emotions create distinct embodied signatures ⚖️ These bodily patterns shift with ideology. 🗳️ The embodied impact of political emotions predicts participation

** 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)

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation. Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

On malleability of subjective time as read in literary works ⏳ [3] #timeperception #literature #quotes

On malleability of subjective time as read in literary works ⏳ [2] #timeperception #literature #quotes

On malleability of subjective time as read in literary works ⏳ [1] #timeperception #literature #quotes

Hey, I wrote a thing. I (and others) think that our sense of time and mental well-being are linked. Here are my thoughts on it. Thanks @psyche.co for the invite! psyche.co/guides/how-t...

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial

A Booker Prize shortlist to celebrate! 👏 We're delighted that Professor Ben Markovits, novelist and lecturer in our Department of English, has had his twelfth novel 'The Rest of Our Lives' shortlisted for the prestigious and world-renowned Booker Prize. More: ow.ly/l4Vt50X1sIR

✨ Excited to announce the Women in Psychological Sciences Lecture 2025 at Birkbeck! 🎤 Speaker: Prof. Asifa Majid (Oxford) 📅 5 Nov 2025, 17:00–20:00 📍 Birkbeck, University of London 👉 Free & open to all: link in the comments to book your place

First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities The results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict. https://go.nature.com/44nH0la

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

New registered report out in BJHP📣 How to reduce demand for antibiotics? Using Signal Detection Theory, we show that clinician explanations & CRP point-of-care results reduce antibiotic expectations and improve discernment doi.org/10.1111/bjhp... #PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨ We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond. Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐 Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Thanks to NSF and BSF, we've received a CRCNS grant!! 🎉 I'll be working with the amazing @ayeletlandau.bsky.social and Yuval Benjamini to explore and understand how our sense of time and image memorability are linked. ⌛🧠 We have 2(!) post-doc opportunities available - details coming soon!

Congratulations to Professor Ben Markovits from our Department of English, whose latest novel, The Rest of Our Lives, has been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. #RoyalHolloway #University

📢 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/...

No effect of cardiac signals on conflict resolution, but evidence for systolic enhancement of phasic alerting 🫀🧠 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... w @pollydalton.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social @biolpsychology.bsky.social 📄 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 🏡 @erc.europa.eu 💰

@assc28.bsky.social @neuroirena.bsky.social so proud of my academic bestie & collaborator & flatmate & occasional PT ❤️

What will the Trust’s major new initiative fund? From strengthening the UK’s world-leading research base to fostering innovative interdisciplinary inquiry, the Leverhulme Centenary Awards are designed to support exceptional research talent. Read more here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/100mill...

Off to @assc28.bsky.social with my partner in crime @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social 👩🏻‍🔬🧠 #ASSC28 Presenting new EEG results from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social w @mjaglinska.bsky.social and @mtsakiris.bsky.social. Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk & Bial Foundation. See slides below and get in touch!

We asked Dr @neuroirena.bsky.social , Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social, to tell us all about her research in 60 seconds ⏱ This is how it went. #RoyalHolloway #University #Research

Come study with us ! 🧠👩🏻‍🔬 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

ONE WEEK LEFT to submit abstracts for #TRF4 in Tokyo! If you're doing work related to #time, #timing, #temporal_processing (broadly defined), you should join us! Funds available to support travel, keynotes confirmed, and a free half-day tour of Tokyo 🇯🇵 sites.google.com/view/trf4tok...

This is the first time in my career that I have full ownership of my research — thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk EC fellowship and @rhulpsychology.bsky.social ! 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 It’s a lot of responsibility, but also deeply empowering. 🧠🫀⏳

📻 Lovely chatting to Manoush Zomorodi at @npr.org TED Radio Hour on the possible role of the heart in how we experience time (10-min listen): www.npr.org/2025/05/16/g...

Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to share this paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com! nature.com/articles/s41... With @spk3lly.bsky.social and @neuromurphy.bsky.social, we investigated the neural computations that allow us to make near-optimal decisions in changing environments. Here's a short summary:

Really pleased that this paper from my PhD has been published in Nature Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We used mixed reality to explore how manipulating multisensory integration leads to dis-ownership from the body and how those experiences relate to trait dissociation

I don’t dare to tell you how many years this took, but the project that I started as a MSc intern and kept working on throughout my PhD is now finally published: www.nature.com/articles/s44... [1/9]

Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.

A question that comes up in almost all of my talks is: are respiratory and cardiac interoception correlated? Aside from subjective confidence, the answer is no (see figure). Working on a new little paper with this now.

In this Insight for Brain and Neuroscience Advances, I argue that greater cultural diversity within our field will help counter researcher cognitive bias, leading to generative new theories and research directions https://buff.ly/40DWssK 🌏⚛️🏳️‍🌈

🚨New preprint 🚨 What are the neural systems of being mimicked? Do choice and motor mimicry have similar effects? And finally, where the social glue might be located in the brain? osf.io/preprints/ps...

My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳ 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 #CogSci #Neuroskyence #SciComm

Publishing in journals has become so slow, painful, and expensive that not a single day goes by when I don’t think about abandoning it altogether. We could do so much more if we just preprinted and moved on.

Great to join 🦋 And thanks to Shinya the 3rd paper from my PhD with Patrick Haggard at ICN UCL has been finally published - been a couple of years 😅 doi.org/10.1152/jn.0...