Fascinating how we often talk about the number of neurons or the universe of synapses but rarely the length of singular axons (and never in the brain stem!) If this scales in humans then axons in your locus coeruleus could be several metres long #neuroskyence

This is our latest work, validating initial observations we made with multiscale entropy and EEG and extending them with a larger sample size to show sex-dependent differences across age. Thanks to @camcan-2010.bsky.social for access to the data. cc @rhens.bsky.social

"fluid output, fine-tuned overconfidence, & interactive design of llms means that a deep understanding of processes of human interaction & sense-making will be a foundational resource for the growing arsenal of methods in critical AI literacy." @dingemansemark.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1945...

Watching that tiny capsule hurtling towards the ocean before the parachutes deployed was insane... those astronauts are so freaking brave 🔥 #Artemis

Watching the final blackout period with every fibre of my being wishing them a safe landing #Artemis

🚨Preprint Alert🚨and Thread 🧵 The Visual Imagery Visually Anchored Scale (VIVAS) reveals dissociable perceptual dimensions and category-specific structure: osf.io/preprints/ps... Authors: @heidasigurdar.bsky.social, Árnason, Mäekalle, Vésteinsdóttir, @arnig.bsky.social 1/9

Super-excited to have @skhalsa.bsky.social from UCLA for our brain-body seminar series on April 28th! Join us in the link below 👇

Apparently ads have finally arrived #ChatGPT another reason to avoid using it. But seriously why would you trust their privacy policy? 🙄

Fave things, one title #interoception 🫁🧠❤️

Never imagined I'd hear the words "reducing the volume of moon email" but seems like astronauts also have out of control inboxes, and somehow I find that comforting #Artemis

I'm crying your crying Such beautiful brave humans

In most vestibular structures, sensory input is suppressed during self-generated movement. Here, postdoc Robyn Mildren shows an exception in the cerebellar nodulus/uvula, which faithfully encodes head motion in space across behavioral contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just testing the waters here- is there any appetite for a #Brisbane #meetup with other Bluesky folk? Perhaps a quiet beer and some conversation in 2-3 weeks. I’m happy to organise if a few folks are interested. Feel free to dm if you’d prefer ☺️

They’re in clouds, electric sockets and even on toast. Why do humans see faces in everyday objects? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience seminar series: Introduction to fMRI Brain networks Brain representations/decoding Multi-scale genetics and individual differences Lesion data/intracranial Free for members. #neuroskyence

Having seen Project Hail Mary last night this image really hits hard We have a stunning home. It would be amazing if we could all just laugh and get along and look after things

How is #science sky holding up? Personally I want Bluesky to thrive because I just want to share cool research but not be forced to endure ads, AI slop, self-aggrandising Claude generated jargon, or rage politics, that's not too much to ask, right?

Major Depressive Disorder is characterized by a disrupted heart-brain relationship, where cardiac dysregulation (faster heart rate, reduced HRV) is linked to reduced insula gray matter volume.

Having peeked at the hacked code this is even funnier and ridiculous than it already sounds🤣

The fact that Challenger Trauma is trending suggests Bluesky is full of Gen Xers Thrilled the launch was safe and successful but we have a history with this kind of thing 🫣

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about our recent work on nested control systems for action, in which ancient subcortical visuomotor pathways are embedded within more recently evolved cortical pathways. A real team effort with @brian-corneil.bsky.social, @davidmekhaiel.bsky.social, and others🧠

What makes a body feel like our own? The sense of body ownership is a core aspect of self-awareness, and it depends on the integration of multiple sensory signals. What role do visual predictions play in body ownership? Check out our new paper in Royal Society Open Science: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission. Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!

When you have to work at uni on Sundays and discover the Easter bunny has visited ❤️ love my PhD friends!!!

This is really cool! Having our vision and sound in close muscular proximity makes so much sense for multisensory integration during active behaviour

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

I love that this picture is part dog, part #pareidolia 🤣

Wednesday

Why is the #cerebellum (known for coordinating motor functions) also engaged in #cognition? @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @actlab.bsky.social investigate the problems that have made it so difficult to answer this question and outline strategies to make progress. 🧪 #NeuroSky

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Information transfer between the brain's hemispheres is not passive process. It is an active process under top-down influence. Interhemispheric transfer of sensory and working memory information is dictated by behavioral strategy doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

The updated YouTube livestream link for Day 2 of the UCLA Health Brain Health Summit (which is happening now) can be found here: youtube.com/live/0Quufvj...

Looking forward to kicking off tomorrow's UCLA Brain Health Summit. To get things ready, Indira Subramanian and I recorded this podcast hosted by Genein Letford: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCdd...

Pleased to share that our paper "Representation Biases: Variance is Not Always a Good Proxy for Importance" is now out as Theory/New Concepts paper in eNeuro! www.eneuro.org/content/13/3... 1/

TLDR: No it doesn't It might say a *little* more about how memories of low/high arousal interactions are stereotypically portrayed by young people, but that would have been a less exciting headline tho www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

This Friday, there will be an online conference on inner speech and conscious thinking, organized by David Vanegas of the University of Antioquia. I'll be giving a talk on inner speech, LLMs, and the authorship of conscious thought. Details and attendance link here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Narrative “twist” shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Cool work from @csavasegal.bsky.social @esfinn.bsky.social & Clare Grall! #neuroskyence

Essential thread for vision scientists 👇🧠🔥 IMO shifting away from binding assumptions is part of a broader trend towards more ecological paradigms, something faces have needed for decades: forcing categorical segregation on your stimuli ≠ as segregated features in the real world

Turns out practicing 'making memories about memories' develops a functionally different pathway focused on the striatum 👇 Wondering if a similar pathway might be active during REM sleep where previously encoded memories are paired in weird ways to form new dream memories... #neuroskyence

Excited to announce our new paper in Trends in Cognitive Science (TICS) on the importance of naturalistic body movements and mobile immersive virtual reality to the study of cognition! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10/10 We propose that colour has been fast and accurate in the past, making it a reliable, low-cost strategy for efficient coordination. Experimentally reduce salience and discriminability all you want, speakers won’t ignore their past experience. Don't buy it? Check our work: go.unimelb.edu.au/h9s2

📣 New preprint out from the lab! We introduce emotional bandwidth: how much of your emotional state space you move through daily. Wider negative emotional bandwidth predicted more depressive symptoms, even beyond standard affect metrics, and linked to loneliness via depression. Thread below👇

Something tells me a system that keeps elevating men like this might be the problem

By mapping the brains of seals and sea lions, researchers have uncovered specialized neural circuits that have evolved to support the control of complex vocal behavior and learning in the species. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4bpsJYU

"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...

This looks really cool! 👇👇

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World Jody C. Culham and Eva Deligiannis 👀🧠 #neuroskyence www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...