Into heartbeat-evoked responses? What if we could look for them from the mother AND the fetus inside the maternal brain, via a simultaneous head & bump OPM sensor paradigm? ❤️ 🧠 Swing by poster 653, session 7, next Friday at #FENS2026 if your interest is R peaked... 🌊

I'm close to finishing data collection for my PhD- if anyone is York based and would like to take part in an intervention or experiment, please take a look! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🧠 @alexandrapike.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social

Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research

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My second study is here! 🥳 If you - or anyone you know - is able to complete or share I would be most grateful 🙏 The link is: lnkd.in/eqaps5jn

Shasha presenting her chronic pain study at EPS @bakerdh.bsky.social

Not long to go now until the submission deadline for the BRNet ECR award so get your nominations in! Link to details here: bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-... @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Fantastic new book book out in body image measure including our very own BUMPs! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Anyone else going to #MEGNord at Aarhus next week? 🇩🇰 Interested in predictive coding of touch from sound, beta & gamma dynamics, or somatosensory echoes? 🧠 Boy do I have the poster for you! Come say hi 😊

My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5 w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social

Frontiers | The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications

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Exciting BRNet webinar tomorrow! Sign up and see the fabulous @annacrossland.bsky.social from @york.ac.uk @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Body Representation Network – BRNet@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars? Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa! Register to join, it’s free 🤓 #somatosensation #interoception #sensory #body #science #neuroscience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.

Erin's talk was one of the ones I was most excited about and it didn't disappoint! Refreshing to hear a move away from negative lenses and how individuals were empowered by their disabilities. Really looking forward to more on appearance-functionality and reading this theme in more detail!

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Joshua Francis shares a new scale of social comparison in development for children. Erin Vinoski Thomas analyses the content of #DisabledAndCute posts on social media. Lastly, Fidan Turk reports meta-analytic that social comparison is robustly associated with eating disorder symptoms.

Starting Day 3 now with a talk from Emilie Mussbach on parent perspectives on body image and eating disorder services in South Asian communities in London and Katrina Holmes a Court on a systematic review of cognitive aspects of body dysmorphic disorder. #PIBI2025 #EatingDisorders #BodyImage

Now starting our session on eating disorders @ #PiBI2025 Verity Pratt shows meta-analytic evidence that perfectionism explains c. 11% of variance in orthorexia in sport samples. Tugba Turkan shows that greater frequency of past dieting attempts predicted higher ED symptom scores.

In our 'Interventions' parallel session, Madison Vani starts us off with reviews of resources for parents to support their child's body image. Not so many available, often not age specific, not a lot of theory-based resources... Much work to be done! #BodyImage #DevelopmentalPsychology

Final session of Day 2 at #PIBI2025 First Debora Blaso talks about how corrective surgery recipients feel when they first look at their body or face. Lots of strong emotions, especially when support given was low.

Now for our second plenary! The amazing Anne Becker talks to us about problematising the 'media and culture' explanation of globalising eating disorders. #Anthropology #PIBI2025 #PublicHealth #Cross-cultural #Psychology

PiBI Day 2 kicks off with an early morning session (for us!) with the Australians! Gemma Sharp gave an overview of the first 3/12 months of the CoRe-ED network; Lauren Conboy talked about the co-development of a digital body image programme; Cristian Di Gesto talked about post-partum body image;

No rest for the PhD student - this week is Perspectives in Body Image online conference! #PiBI2025 @persbodyimage.bsky.social First day was full on, including hearing the journey positive body image has been on with Tracy Tylka (very heart-warming) @persbodyimage.bsky.social

Paolo Mancin's talk just now in #PiBI2025 on the benefits of nature on body positivity and appreciation of the self has reminded me I need to organise my monthly outdoor time for September 🌳 I've found that these walks or visiting fancy houses and their grounds has done WONDERS for my mental health

Now for the second speed talk session! Rhea Milson starts with data showing that body shame is a key factor in the negative consequences of online harassment for women's eating disorder risk; Then Phoebe Gray presents amazing slides on body-talk and trust between personal trainers and clients!

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars? Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa! Register to join, it’s free 🤓 #somatosensation #interoception #sensory #body #science #neuroscience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PIBI has started! We have 90 people in our opening plenary from the amazing Tracy Tylka - talking about positive body image - what it is, what it isn't and where we go from here! Remember: 'body positivity' is NOT the same as 'positive body image'! #PIBI2025

Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!

Alex Pike@alexandrapike.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠

We have a new preprint out on mechanisms underlying ASMR!

Josephine Flockton@jflockton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Behold, the first preprint from my PhD! A novel theoretical model proposing that ASMR's neural mechanism and therapeutic potential involves predictive coding of CT-touch in peripersonal space. 🧠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

PiBI is getting closer! Don’t forget to sign up to one of our two networking events: 👇🏼 * Wednesday 17th Sept, 7pm BST - PiBI Virtual Speed Mentoring session forms.office.com/e/hUvdy27RYq * Thursday 18th Sept, 2am BST/12pm ACT - CoRE-ED Virtual Networking event forms.office.com/e/WU6jP9JJSr

💖 Anne is a medical anthropologist and psychiatrist. Her work on the sociocultural mediation of eating disorders has been truly ground breaking and across her career she has reshaped understandings of global mental health. We are honoured to have her at our conference! Click to register!

Perspectives in Body Image: An international online conference - ACE lab

Dates: 16th-18th Sept 2025 PiBI is a conference that brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and regions working on body image (broadly defined) and sociocultural appearance pressures. Th...

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🎉 MEET THE KEYNOTES - PART 2 🎉 💡 Next in our spotlight is the brilliant Anne Becker, Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...

Seeking people who self-identify as having an eating disorder, gastric disorder, or neither disorder to complete an online survey about how they experience their body from the inside. Links here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏

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The final paper from my PhD has been published! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!