Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

Please share! I will soon advertise a postdoctoral position in my Gut–Brain Interactions Lab at DIfE (Berlin–Potsdam), starting March–June 2027. I’m looking for candidates with expertise in human electrophysiology, ideally multimodal EEG–fMRI. Feel free to contact me informally if interested!

Uruguayan neuroscientist doing state of the art brain body interactions !🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

Uruguayan researchers Matias Cavelli and Joaquin Gonzalez are developing new tools to work with the IBL brain map. In this Q&A they share why they hope to help spark more open science initiatives in Latin America. #neuroskyence By @franciscorr25.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Uruguayan researchers Matias Cavelli and Joaquin Gonzalez are developing new tools to work with the IBL brain map. In this Q&A they share why they hope to help spark more open science initiatives in Latin America. #neuroskyence By @franciscorr25.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

The promise of open neuroscience for Latin America

Uruguayan researchers explain how their work with the International Brain Lab could spark more open science initiatives in Latin America.

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Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...

PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

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Happy to share the first output of the Gut-Brain Interactions lab, an opinion piece titled "A two-timescale framework for gut–brain influences on arousal, motivation, and affect", now accepted on the Phil Trans Royal Soc B special issue "On the synergy of central and peripheral dynamics"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Stomach-brain coupling with EEG decreases during cognitive engagment

Parabrachial Ntsr1 neurons modulate food intake and anxiety through a projection to the ventromedial hypothalamus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Testing a learning-based account of interoceptive hunger using an illusory induction People who identified a rumbling sound as coming from their stomach ate more food

Testing a learning-based account of interoceptive hunger using an illusory induction

Physiological changes cause many interoceptive cues (e.g., a rumbling stomach), and so it is often assumed they also cause their motivational conseque…

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Out today in @natneuro.nature.com is (a highly evolved version of) the second chapter of my dissertation (with @eblissmoreau.bsky.social) assessing the comparative anatomy of the insula across 🐁mice, 🐀rats, 🐒monkeys, and 🚶humans! rdcu.be/fyd7T

Comparative insights into insula structure and function

Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...

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Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Out now in @natcomms.nature.com, our latest from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social: Visual perception, oscillatory excitability markers, and network connectivity are modulated by the breathing rhythm - depending on how much you know about the stimulus. #brainbody #neuroskyence

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Zhishun Wang, Jack Grinband, et al: MEPrep: A robust pipeline for multi-echo fMRI denoising and preprocessing doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

rs-fMRI methods question for the hive mind: What’s your practical cutoff for excluding a whole resting-state run due to motion? Using FD > 0.3 mm as the threshold, at what % of contaminated frames do you usually drop the run?

🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions. Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3

matlab is fun until you have to start paying for your lab’s licenses

Congratulations Leah what an unstoppable force!!!

Leah Banellis@leahbanellis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉 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....

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 🧪

Incredibly excited to finally share this project! Most heartfelt thanks to everyone involved for their support 🫶🏻 Looking forward to much more gut-brain research to come!

Daniel S. Kluger@danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social preprint, and this is a big one for the lab: @teresaberther.bsky.social did the deepest of dives into #gut-brain coupling with MEG and HD gastrography. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief 🧵on our first trip into this corner of #brain-body #neuroskyence:

So thrilled to see this work out. the stomach rhythm modulates brain wide electro physiological rhythms in resting wakefulness. It’s been a real privilege to collaborate with brilliant @teresaberther.bsky.social and @danlikesbrains.bsky.social in this project. hopefully first of many

Daniel S. Kluger@danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social preprint, and this is a big one for the lab: @teresaberther.bsky.social did the deepest of dives into #gut-brain coupling with MEG and HD gastrography. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief 🧵on our first trip into this corner of #brain-body #neuroskyence:

New @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social preprint, and this is a big one for the lab: @teresaberther.bsky.social did the deepest of dives into #gut-brain coupling with MEG and HD gastrography. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A brief 🧵on our first trip into this corner of #brain-body #neuroskyence:

"...interoceptomimetics that stimulate gut–brain communication may counteract age-associated cognitive decline" In mice but still 😊 @brainandstomach.bsky.social My word of the day: "interoceptomimetics" #MindBrainBody

Sahib Khalsa@skhalsa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Remarkable study from Christoph Thaiss and colleagues demonstrating a lifespan impact of a microbiome-vagal-CNS pathway dysfunction of gut interoception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our new Opinion now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Anthony Clément! A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling Full access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1miOLbotqB... #neuroskyence

#MSCA success rates now below 10%, yet the work that goes into writing this application is immense. Beyond the obvious increase in funding we need to find ways to lighten the time investment as well. Thousands of researchers spend weeks if not months working on this.

José Cerca@naturalselection.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Let's look at some numbers 2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate 2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate 2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate 2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry ! Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach. #neuroskyence

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Perceptual reaction times are coupled to the gastric electrical rhythm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.18.700150v1

Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.

I'm starting to build the lab's library, and would love hear your #1 essential book recommendation in Autonomic Neuroscience / Interoception, stats for Neuro/Psy science and any other must-have lab bible

Hive mind: what resources would you recommend for students with little or no coding experience who want to learn MATLAB for cognitive neuroscience? I'm thinking (free) online courses or books

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place. More news soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

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