#hiring Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness! 18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France. ⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness

Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...

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How does the brain adapt to artificial body extensions over time? With a wearable finger-extension device, we reveal distinct phases of proprioceptive plasticity: during wear, after active use, and even after removal. Now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

How does the brain make the self feel grounded? In new work with Mariano D’Angelo, @brainself.bsky.social & @mariechancel.bsky.social, we show alpha oscillations set the time window for binding vision & touch, providing causal evidence for how body ownership emerges. Out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧠

New results! Faster parietal alpha frequency tightens, and slower alpha widens, the temporal window for vision–touch integration for the sense of one’s own body. Causal and computational evidence. Nature Communications news.ki.se/how-brain-wa...

How brain waves shape our sense of self

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world...

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Online Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research has also started to uncover the role of these thermosensory signals in cognition. Such signals may contribute to the construction of our bodily self-awareness, and specifically the sense of body ownership, which is defined as the feeling that the body and its parts belong to us. This review examines how thermosensory signals travel from the skin to the brain and their impact on body ownership in both healthy and clinical populations. Furthermore, we propose mechanisms that may underlie this interaction and highlight potential clinical and societal applications.

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Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS

Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...

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** 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)

⏰ 📣 Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!

Marie Chancel@mariechancel.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣 More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !

Many interesting discussions ahead at #IMRF2025! I'm very happy to attend ✨

If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾

Hello ppl at #ASSC2025, we'd love your fb on our work!! 🪧Pauline Laurent's poster (26; doubt in OCD; Mon 12:30) 🪧Shiva Mahdian's poster (210; intracranial NCCs; Tue 4:30) 🪧 @azizac.bsky.social's poster (342; priors & false-alarms; Wed 4:30) 📣My talk on comp. model and intracranial NCCs (Wed 16:10)

Marie Chancel @mariechancel.bsky.social opened the final day of #BRNet2025 with a brilliant keynote: "Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership". Beautiful science and a real step forward for the entire field!

So much fun doing this ! Thank you @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Body Representation Network – BRNet@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025 🗣️Presenting Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University) #body #bodyrepresentation #computationalneurosciences

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...

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Attending the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Will be presenting my work on interoception in autism tomorrow. Come and say hi!

And now the second part on model fitting! @pevianiv.bsky.social

Welcome everyone to the first day of the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht! 🇳🇱 We have just finished the first part of the computational modelling workshop, led by @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pevianiv.bsky.social @kkilteni.bsky.social. A lot of important knowledge, great questions and discussions!

On my way to #BRNet2025 !!! So many great research to learn more about 🤩 (And very happy to be able to go there by train 🛤️)

🌟 Were you planning to join us in #Utrecht but thought you missed the deadline? Good news, you’ve got extra time! 🕺🎉 Registration is now open until May 7th. We can’t wait to see you there! 💥 #BRNet

Last day tomorrow (15 April) to register at the early-bird rate for the next #IASAT #affective #touch conference on 9-11 June in Jena, Germany. There's already a great program, including keynotes from Patrick Haggard, Uta Sailer, Zhou-Feng Chen & Yoel Fink iasat2025.uni-jena.de/registration/

🚨 New preprint! How do we know what is real? so... "Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological & Computational Model of the Sense of Reality" is out! The result of 4 years of incredible teamwork👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological, and Computational Model of the Sense of Reality

An intriguing aspect of the human mind is our knowledge that our perceptions may be false. Our frequent exposure to non-veridical perceptions such as those found in dreams, illusions and hallucination...

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📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣 More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !

📢 #PhD available Are you passionate about #robotics, neural control of movement and #dyspraxia / #DCD? Apply now to this funded position at the University of Surrey. Co-supervised by me! www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Leaky evidence accumulation accounts for perceptual confidence and subjective duration

Perceptual consciousness is defined as the subjective experience associated with the processing of sensory cues from the environment. Subjective experience unfolds over time and is accompanied by a se...

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I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

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At the Palais Longchamp in Marseille 💪

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2y ago

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera... Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

I could not find a body representation starter pack so I made one! Please message if you want to join. I know I missed excellent scientists, philosophers and clinicians out there go.bsky.app/EAmckAo

✨ New year, new job ✨ I am very happy to announce that I am starting as a PI at the CRPN lab at @univ-amu.fr in the Multisense & Body's team. I'll be focusing on how different aspects of self-body perception interact with one another while feeding from common multisensory inputs 👁️👋💪

With Henrik Ehrsson @brainself.bsky.social , Sucharit Katyal, August Hägerdal, and Xiaole Luan, we have used state-of-the-art psychophysics and computational modelling to investigate how body ownership perception arises in conscious awareness. Thread below 🧵👇!