New study! SDT used to dissociate body ownership sensitivity from perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion with partial visual occlusion. Disrupting visually-driven tactile predictions shifts perceptual bias but not visuotactile sensitivity. See below.
JAMA article "When Disregard for Population Health Becomes US Policy" by Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, published online March 16, 2026. Text discusses US population health, policy, and mortality rates.
💬 Perspective: Cuts to social welfare, health agencies, and data surveillance are projected to increase mortality rates and escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations.
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The work could help to explain why the risk of developing some brain conditions — such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease — differs between males and females
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As the UK prepares to lower the voting age to 16, our report on UK adolescents aged 12 to 17-years-old asks a major democratic question: how are adolescents approaching political life before they formally enter it?
Full report can be found here : www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/zhbnbo...
Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠
The front page photo on today’s Joongang Ilbo, one of the main conservative newspapers in South Korea:
Why does time speed up as we age? Now in Springer Nature's Memory & Cognition journal: A fascinating case of falsification of our strong and convincing hypothesis with lead author Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università da Roma and my team at @igpp.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
New from us:
A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham:
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Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me!
The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me.
www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...
Semantic Network of OECS articles.
Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available.
What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will.
oecs.mit.edu
You may know “a murmuration of starlings,” but did you know that a group of crows is called “a murder” and peacocks “an ostentation”? How groups of birds got their names (thanks to a forgotten medieval woman), with magnificent vintage illustrations: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/11/b...
National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝
A screenshot of a post on X by Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) quoting an earlier post of his. The main post reads: "UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See." The quoted post reads: "NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address." The bottom of the post shows it was last edited at 3:22 PM on Apr 8, 2026, and has 1.5M views.
The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.
More common hallucinations experiences to brighten up your feed!
Sleep-related hallucinations are know as Hypnogogic (falling asleep) & Hypnopompic (waking up).
There very common in the general population & don’t mean you’re experiencing a mental health problem.
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World Psychiatry ~ The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-produced and co-written by experts by experience and academics.
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Senator Kim picked up trash in the US Capitol rotunda left behind by the the rioters on January 6, 2020. He is an exceptional person.
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Interesting working paper on spill-over effect of giving women tenure.
www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
This is so important!
I put forward an alternative to the language-of-thought hypothesis for geometry, the Wanderers Hypothesis for Geometry: Human geometry may originate from the interaction between ancient, navigation-like mental processes that approximate Euclidean geometry and our human capacity for natural language.
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...
Cool! Scientists just pulled off something wild: They transplanted mitochondria into living brains—and it reversed Parkinson’s symptoms in mice.
Neuron loss ↓
Motor function ↑
Cell energy restored ⚡
“Organelle therapy”might be the next frontier in medicine.
#BlueSky #MedSky
How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence.
w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social
@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk
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Happy to share our new work:
A simple measure of motor control and fitness is very informative...
Transdiagnostic Patterns of Grip Strength in Schizophrenia, Current Depression, and Remitted Depression url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🧠 The brain doesn’t just feel the body—it already knows it.
Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard
📅 April 15th |
Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge.
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Is it a giant wooden horse
According to a senior officer aboard, in 1588 Spanish Armada sailed “in confident hope of a miracle.”
Do you have your bestest champers ready?
