Believing that the world is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful (“sense of coherence”) predicts better health outcomes. But does a change in circumstance change one’s outlook? We found that for some women, pregnancy does. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42250253/ #reprosky #🧠 #mhresearch #cogsci

"If I think back 10, 20 years ago, [scientists] would never talk about funding. They're really just there to tell everyone about their work. Now, almost every single person comes in, brings up the issue of how bad the funding situation is. It is palpable." #science #auspol #WomeninSTEM

Research funding in Australia falters - ABC listen

Australia lags behind most OECD countries when it comes to percentage of GDP spent on scientific research. Belinda Smith speaks to scientists impacted with a response from science minister Tim Ayres.

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A woman's first pregnancy changes her brain, and new evidence from Straathof et al. shows that a second pregnancy does too, in distinct, but overlapping ways. What does this mean for cognition and the self? Jury is still out. @nav44s.bsky.social @sharnajamadar.bsky.social #neuroskyence #ReproSky

Transformation, again? Impact of a second pregnancy on the brain, cognition, and sense of self

Becoming a mother for the first time is a transformative experience, resulting in widespread changes in systemic physiology, neurobiology, cognition, and the sense of self. In a recent study, Straatho...

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wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

The Australian clinical guidelines (among others) recommend the EPDS to screen for depression in pregnancy. Our validation study suggests only 1:2 women screening positive will have depression, and 1:5 screening negative are missed cases. tinyurl.com/epdsaus #ReproSky #mhresearch #PsychSciSky

Most postpartum women report experiencing cognitive failures. Our new study surprisingly finds evidence for NO cognitive differences between postpartum parents and non-parents, or mothers and fathers, and no effect of baby age up to two years. tinyurl.com/mtp2eb5s #ReproSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci

While that work focused on the potential impact of visceral signals on neural development & perceptual learning, our new paper considers how the top-down regulation of such signals across multiple scales may engender agentic control, selfhood, & neurobehavioural diversity

This work follows from our earlier analysis of embodied active inference & the role of rhythmic visceral dynamics in prenatal development journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development

The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …

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So proud of our student, Nav, who successfully presented at a conference for the first time today!

Sharna Jamadar@sharnajamadar.bsky.social · 2y ago

Navyaan Siddiqui presenting our latest #ParentalBrain research @acnsau.bsky.social. This was Nav’s first conference presentation and he smashed it 🤩 - with @kperrykkad.bsky.social @trevorchong.bsky.social #MonashPsych #MonashBiomedicalImaging

Hello world! Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is on bsky! #ACNSnews

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Hunter D Phoenix 🐦‍🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@hunterdphoenix.bsky.social · 2y ago

I appreciate all of you who use the Alt-text description for the images you post. As a blind dude I feel so much more included here. For those of you who forget: Did you know there’s a reminder in Settings/Accessibility to toggle on & then it won’t let you post image without Alt-text. Thanks 🙏😎

The Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is now on Bluesky: @acnsau.bsky.social. And just in time for our annual conference in Newcastle next week! #neuroskyence

A theory for understanding the origins of basic sensorimotor agency (how we learn to interact with the world) based on heart-brain interactions in utero. With @corcorana.bsky.social @kperrykkad.bsky.social @jonnorobinson.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... + osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one! Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome. go.bsky.app/NsFhnV #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych

Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development - new preprint on the implications of rhythmic visceral dynamics for the development of self, agency, & diversity, by @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @jonnorobinson.bsky.social @kperrykkad.bsky.social osf.io/nvj45

Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in npj women's health! 🪞🤰 Check it out: rdcu.be/dHja6 #psysky #psychology #reprosky #🧠

Our new systematic review is out now! Agency In schizophrenia and autism - check it out: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Agency in schizophrenia and autism: a systematic review

Previous research suggests that altered experiences of agency are an underlying vulnerability in both schizophrenia and autism. Here, we explore agency as a potential transdiagnostic factor by conduct...

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Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach -- Lovely first paper from M3CS's Tom Darling

Synthesising boredom: a predictive processing approach - Synthese

I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional state that is adaptive an...

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Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

Depersonalization affects self-prioritization of bodily, but not abstract self-related information Our new study out in Journal of Experimental Psychology Together with Anna Ciaunica , @lukemcellin.bsky.social & @hohwy.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Reflecting on a week of talks mixing my old and new areas of interest, starting the week with a talk about infant sleep by Doug Teti, the new science of consciousness by Anil Seth, and a series of great presentations on Women’s Health at the Richie Centre Colloquium. Bring on more exciting research!

Out today: Our (post-Popperian) Bayesian approach to Adversarial Collaboration. Applies to all AC, from Eddington, over Kahneman, to multiexperiment ACs a la TWCF Cogitate. Check lead-author Andrew Corcoran's X-🧵 (+Free-print on SSRN) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Wednesday night, Prof Liad Mudrik expertly entwined philosophy and neuroscience for the first Leon Basser Lecture. Thanks to Monash M3CS and a bequest from the Basser family. Especially liked her intuitive argument against determinism as a problem for free will. My kind of evening! 🧠

#HiSciSky ! I’m Dr Kelsey Perrykkad, postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. My work and interests are very interdisciplinary spanning cognitive science, experimental psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, education and now psychiatry. #PsychSciSky #neruroskyence #🩺