this seems problematic for claims of increased brain activation

This is indeed bizarre - using forks is super clever. The reflections on the tynes and the handles makes it tricky to judge whether they're lying concave/convex, so the purple towel seems both closer and further away! But once I saw it, it stuck.

New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...

Using brain lesions and DNN models, this article suggests that human visual perception is modulated by language.

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions. Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

Missing my Bluesky fam! I've been on the road driving the east coast of Australia the past few days on my way to Tasmania for Christmas. I'm sitting in Lakes Entrance finishing an abstract over coffee before heading to Melbourne. More photos coming soon!

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/...

Where & how in the body do you feel political disgust? 
 What about hope? ..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?

 🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org

This shall cleanse your timeline and defrost even the most cynical of Wednesdays! 😍

Excited to share a new article of mine on menopause, drawn from my on-going research in clinical psychology. I argue it’s a major developmental transition on par with puberty, shaped by culture as much as biology. Grateful for anyone who takes a look! www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

In an excerpt from his new book, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social details how meeting @davidpoeppel.bsky.social upended his understanding of speech processing in the brain and led to them developing the theory for bilateral speech perception. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/language/wir...

Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆 First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸. Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations. Open access here: doi.org/10.1093/evol... #bioacoustics #animalcommunication

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

Out now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements". with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

What the actual?!?! I would absolutely have predicted some kind of signature but to hear it's actually detectable is next level. So exciting! 👇 #interoception 🫀🫁🗣️

#GVerse The man who shoot those two West Virginia National Guard in DC was working with the CIA. He was vetted by #Shit4Brain's administration. #Shitface is lying about everything.

If you have never listened to the Deftones (& I'm fairly certain many of you have, so you'll agree!) then please listen to this track from their latest album ❤️😭 Give me this over Ed Sheeran any day 'i think about you all the time' Private Music, #Deftones open.spotify.com/track/0M5NH2...

Oh no, Tom Stoppard has died. I discovered his plays as a teenager, skipping school to browse 2nd hand bookstores in Melbourne. I'd sit on the floor reading his plays, falling in love with his words and wit. #RIP www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀? Do they even exist...? Join @lucinauddin.bsky.social who will present, followed by discussion in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. Open to all. Date: Dec 9, 12pm EST-US Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (you need a zoom account which is free) #neuroskyence

I just fixed a broken door handle on my car. Took me ten minutes and I saved $500 Small victories 🤣

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

🧠👀 'These findings reveal high-dimensional aspects of cortical representation undetectable with conventional methods, such as RSA, & contradict previous theories suggesting that high-level visual cortex representations are low-dimensional.' #neuroskyence journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Another cool study modelling shared somatosensory and visual representations during naturalistic video watching 👇 'Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Impressive MEGA-analysis: Vulnerability to memory decline in aging revealed by a mega-analysis of structural brain change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trying to write a manuscript in McDonald's in the middle of an industrial estate while my windscreen is being repaired is one of the joys of flexible working, right?

Nature Sci Reps should be utterly embarrassed to have published this but hey ho

This study shows that human pairs adopt stable cooperative, competitive, or mixed strategies. A computational model predicts dyadic choices and links these strategies to interaction dynamics, payoffs, and cost of cooperation. @violapriesemann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Conscious cardiac awareness and interoceptive attention differentially modulate heartbeat-evoked neural dynamics 🧠🫀 #interoception www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions. w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757 1/n🧵👇

Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology has been released! I'm pleased to see that the cover is pretty close to my initial mockup. You can find the entire collection here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Thrilled to share our new paper! With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste. Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

'Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling' New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🔽

Only 13.1% funded, lowest in 14 years! This is really not the time to rein back on funding science.... 😞

Such a cool paper! Participants synchronised blinks with music, with pure rhythmic tones, & this synchronisation was functional - greater blink synching improved detection of subtle differences in pitch - all associated with ↗️ superior longitudinal fasciculus 🤩 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

"we found that psilocybin altered a fundamental computational building block of contextual processing in the human brain: divisive normalization, particularly in the form of visual surround suppression" #neuroskyence 🧠

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov). In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

** 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)

Lateralised contributions of the fusiform cortex to face detection New preprint from my PhD supervisor @jesstaubert.bsky.social Amanda K. Robinson and Jason Mattingley here at UQ #BrisBrainLab osf.io/preprints/ps...

Again, another stellar thread from @dieworkwear.bsky.social "The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century."

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was: