Very happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My latest feature for @sciam.bsky.social explores the research connecting problems with interoception to a wide variety of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders, eating disorders, & PTSD. This work is ultimately circling in on a central message: the body & mind are inextricably intertwined.
Our next interview in the OHBM Award Winner Interview Series features Dr. Elvisha Dhamala, winner of the 2025 Diversity and Inclusivity Champion Award 🏆 @elvisha.bsky.social
Watch the interview here 👇
www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.
🎉 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....
Michael Sainato: Workers who fall for ‘corporate #bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds. New study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions
#corporations
www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/cor...
⏺ Graphical abstract for the MetaBites study. Three-panel layout flowing left to right. Left panel poses the research question: why does nutritional knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour, testing caloric density versus nutritional quality (NRF 9.3). Centre panel shows the MetaBites task: a two-alternative forced-choice between two food plates with a confidence slider, measuring sensitivity, confidence, and familiarity ratings in 32 participants across 300 trials. Right panel presents key findings: a faceted bar chart showing higher sensitivity for nutritional quality judgements (d'=1.19 vs 1.10) but higher confidence for calorie judgements (68.2 vs 65.2); overlapping M-ratio distributions confirming higher metacognitive efficiency for calories (1.03) than NRF (0.80); and a familiarity bias diagram showing familiar foods are judged as more nutritious and less caloric. Conclusion states that a familiarity heuristic may partially explain why metacognitive insight for nutrition lags behind calories.
1/ New preprint led by @kellyhoogervorst.bsky.social - Introducing MetaBites, a novel task measuring metacognition in nutritional judgements. Why does nutritional knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour? Could metacognitive biases explain the gap? #psychscisky 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Graphical abstract showing three panels. Left panel, "Multiorgan Interoception Measures," depicts a translucent human body silhouette with anatomically rendered heart (red) and lungs (blue), accompanied by schematic icons for three psychophysical tasks: the Respiratory Resistance Sensitivity Task (RRST), Heart Rate Discrimination Task (HRDT), and an auditory control condition. N = 241 participants. Center panel, "Psychophysical Modelling and Individual Differences," shows a fan of overlapping sigmoid psychometric curves in blue-to-red gradient representing individual variation in perceptual threshold (α) and precision (β), a hierarchical Bayesian model diagram, and icons for metacognitive bias and M-Ratio efficiency. Right panel, "Key Finding: No Cross-Modal Relationship," displays a scatterplot of cardiac versus respiratory sensitivity with a flat regression line (r ≈ 0, BF₀₁ > 6), a compact Bayes Factor heatmap with mostly blue null-supporting cells and one orange cell indicating that subjective confidence is shared across modalities (r = 0.51***). Takeaway: interoceptive ability is modality-specific.
Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in
@commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪
Féile Pádraig sona daoibh! ☘️
Happy St Patricks day everyone! ☘️
We are pleased to announce that the SPM for MEG/EEG course hosted by University College London will take place from Monday, May 18th to Thursday, May 21st, 2026!
Registration is now open via the UCL Online Store:
I came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance.
Kicking off the new year with our next installment of the OHBM Award Winner Interview Series, featuring the 2025 winner of the Mentor Award, Prof Amy Brodtmann! ⭐
Watch the interview here 👇
www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, February 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Maria Herrojo Ruiz giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in decision-making and motor learning in anxiety"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, January 16th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Janneke Jehee giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in perceptual decision-making"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉
Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
Our third interview in the Award Winner Interview series features the 2025 winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award: Prof Jack Van Horn! 🏆 @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social
Huge thanks for the stimulating conversation! ⭐
Read the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
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
Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!
Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Next up in our Award Winner Interview series is Dr. Meiqi Niu, the 2025 winner of the Karl Zilles Award! 🏆
We had the pleasure of speaking with Meiqi about her work in neuroimaging and her career journey so far. 💪
Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.
📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...
he sleeps by day
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with @macshine.bsky.social as part of the OHBM Award Winner interview series; thanks for a great conversation! 🙏
Catch the interview here 👇
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
