What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

Touch is not all the same! #S4SN2025

Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders — a Review by Charles A. Nelson, Eileen F. Sullivan & Viviane Valdes #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

Amazing opportunity to present "Hearing the Self: Auditory Signatures in Self-Environment Interactions and Body Transformation Experiences" on behalf of @anatajadura.bsky.social, in the @imrf.bsky.social 2025 Conference. I thank @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social. @imbodylab.bsky.social , @erc.europa.eu

Great talk by @jamoffatt.bsky.social at #IMRF2025 in Durham on virtual extendable arm! Loved the reference to Inspector Gadget 🕵‍♂️

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

Symposia 1 and 2 are on now! Come and hear about the neural dynamics of temporal processing (Rohe, Senkowski) or multisensory embodied self-environment interactions (Crucianelli)

Great start to #IMRF2025 with Symposium 2 all about body representation and some amazing talks! Really enjoyed hearing about how sounds can affect it, e.g. with the auditory pinocchio illusion 🔊, something quite different than what I work on but so fun!

If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social opening Symposium 2: “Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and Embodied signatures of Self-Environment interactions” at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

Our final event was the perfect way to wrap up the season before the summer break, with lots of laughter and just the right company! We’ll be back in September with fresh energy and a new series of events. Stay tuned to our channel for other initiatives to support #WomenInAcademia! #AcademicNetwork

One of the top events in cognitive & affective neuroscience is heading to Rome! ESCAN 2026 | June 3–6 Great science, great people, and unforgettable food—in one unforgettable city. More details soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

Making research accessible and visible is key to empowering women in academia. Join us for a Public Engagement Workshop with Paul Curzon(@cs4fn.bsky.social),dedicated supporter of #WomenInSTEM. 🗓 13 June | 🕙 10:00–12:30 📍 Queen’s Building, Room 2.03 🔗 forms.gle/82zeHMyoZS8L... #SciCom #WHENetwork

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.

On Saturday, our @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social rocked at the #SoapboxScience2025 with a felt explanation of the language of touch. She captivated the crowd, showing how science can truly engage and intrigue the public, while championing the visibility of #WomenInScience! @soapboxscience.bsky.social

We had a great time at the Soapbox Science event last Saturday in London's Southbank with @antorrisi.bsky.social ! Lots of cool science done and explained by women 💪 #womeninscience #soapboxscience2025 @when-in-science.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social soapboxscience.org/soapbox-scie...

Patient priorities for interoception research, just out in Lancet eClinicalMedicine 🧠🫁🫀 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ — the first pub from our @wellcometrust.bsky.social Mental Health Award Led by the brilliant @gabmackie.bsky.social & @lydiajhickman.bsky.social

A stellar line-up at this @royalsociety.org event on the Self, 19-20 May : Garfinkel, Wykowska, Prescott, Verschure, Zavahi, Schectman, , Li, Southgate, Lanillos, Brugger, Addis,Vogeley, Preller,Tsakiris, Blanke. Join us! royalsociety.org/science-even...

🚀 Calling all undergrad & master’s women looking to break into tech! 💻✨ Join the Byte Queens Networking Event for a CV workshop, networking lunch & panel discussion! 📅 23rd April 2025 | 🏫 QMUL Sign up now: www.eventbrite.com/e/byte-queen... #ByteQueens #WomenInTech #STEMCareers #Networking

👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

80 years ago, the Royal Society finally admitted its first female fellows—Marjory Stephenson & Kathleen Lonsdale. 🔬💡. To honor their legacy, a year-long celebration kicks off with films & talks on women in science. #WomenOfTheRoyalSociety @royalsociety.org www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Here we are on a sunny London afternoon enjoying tea & great company. This is Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN)—a space to connect, support & empower women in academia. Our goal: open dialogue, collaboration & impact in STEM fields & beyond! #WHENetwork #WomenInScience 💜

HOT OFF THE PRESS! New meta-analysis by Elizabeth Quinn, Dr Emma Millard & Dr Janelle Jones published in Nature Mental Health provides evidence that group arts interventions reduce #depression and #anxiety among older adults. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.

BRAIN White matter connections within the central sulcus subserving the somato-cognitive action network academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Welcome to BlueSky, ESCAN!!! 🦋

Presence on Presence: I watched Soderbergh's new film and wrote a bit for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

📢 We are delighted to launch the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery - an international meeting, which will take place on September 10-11th 2025 at the West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge. neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

...what is the impact of lost concentration time on science — not just on the structure and process of science, but also on the content and quality of research?

reading "Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At @exppsychsoc.bsky.social London Meeting, I presented my work on the flexibility of body perception and how we can represent extra fingers in incongruent postures and implausible biomechanics. A project with @mattlongo.bsky.social, Anna Sedda & Federico Brusa. Super insightful questions⚡️

Impressive work, very happy to see this out! More evidence of the link between temperature and bodily self-awareness. Congratulations all @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @paulmjenkinson.bsky.social @katerinafoto.bsky.social et al. 👏

Please share widely: I am #recruiting for a funded #PhD studentship! Curious about what drives emotional eating in disadvantaged communities? Looking to make a real-world impact through research? Apply by February 24: www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...

✨ New year, new job ✨ I am very happy to announce that I am starting as a PI at the CRPN lab at @univ-amu.fr in the Multisense & Body's team. I'll be focusing on how different aspects of self-body perception interact with one another while feeding from common multisensory inputs 👁️👋💪

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera... Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala freed from detention in Iran

Really looking forward to the EPS London meeting this week - particularly our symposium on uncertainty w/ talks from Nick Yeung, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, Claire Sergent, Hanneke den Ouden, @philcorlett.bsky.social, @beckyneuro.bsky.social (& me) eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

We’re recruiting participants for the Em-Body study! Check your eligibility and sign up here: shorturl.at/AEelF

Brain Communications has landed in the Blue Sky!! If you don't already know about our journal, see our introductory editorial from Editor in Chief @tspiresjones.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration #Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨 Join the next #BRNet Seminar: 💭 Body and Self: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Neuroscience with @anatajadura.bsky.social & Adrian Alsmith. 📅 Jan 17, 2025 📍 Online 🎟️ Reserve your spot today: shorturl.at/nl3Ur #Body #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Research

We tested the relationship between 🫀 awareness and balance in 70 healthy individuals. We found that people with ⬆️ 🫀awareness were more stable during balance uncertainty 🤹 #interoception #balance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Biological Pcychiatry Allostatic Interoceptive Overload Across Psychiatric and Neurological Conditions www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception

Many congratulations to Nadine Lavan (from CBB) and Paraskevi Argyriou for receiving the Research & Innovation and the Student Experience & Education Excellence Awards respectively, from the Faculty of Science and Engineering last night! Well done both🎉

Great news! @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social has been awarded a Participatory Research Grant from Research England/QMUL Centre for Public Engagement (£10k) for the project: “Bridging the gap: Enhancing mental health support for neurodivergent young people by centring lived experience”. Congratulations!

Our Centre has joined Bluesky! Follow @queenmarycbb.bsky.social for the latest updates on the fantastic research being done at Queen Mary University of London 🧠 #psychology #biology #cognition #neuroscience

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences seminar next week!!!!!!! In person (1-2PM) and online (link on request). Don't miss it! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social