If you’re at CCN go check out Seps work investigating the role of valence, identity and sophistication on social agent attributions!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · yesterday

If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)

What makes a good life – revelatory learnings from Harvard's 75-year study of human flourishing www.themarginalian.org/2016/08/23/h...

What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness

“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.”

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We want to explore this progressively: combining VR art therapy with physical tokens participants can keep, be it a high-quality print or a 3D object. We’d love to collaborate with artists, therapists, technologists and, funders 😉interested in helping us take the next step. #getInvolved 🥽🎨

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

I don't want to spam your timeline and apologize that there is no free single-vote option, but if you want to support an *excellent* dog rescue organization and have $5 (or more) to spare, you can help spread Teddy's wonderfulness far and wide. gogo.photo/668409

Vote for Teddy in National Pyr Rescue's 2027 Happy Endings Calendar Cover Contest.

Show your support for National Great Pyrenees Rescue, Inc. by voting for Teddy in National Pyr Rescue's 2027 Happy Endings Calendar Cover Contest

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Join our friends at the National Shattering Silence Coalition on Sept. 10 at 7 PM for a webinar with Dr. David Kimhy: CBT for Psychosis: What Families and Advocates Need to Know. We hope to see you there! www.nationalshatteringsilencecoalition.org/pro-and-peer...

Pro & Peer Talks | National Shattering Silence Coalition

Join NSSC’s Quarterly Peer & Pro Talks to learn from mental health leaders and lived-experience speakers, with Q&A sessions for deeper insight.

nationalshatteringsilencecoalition.org

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

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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...

Call for papers /w @nbkroemer.bsky.social 📢 Cutting-edge work on neuromodulation of vagal afferents in humans or animals using neurostimulation or pharmacological approaches. Robust null results very welcome! Submit by 31.10.2026 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #neuroskyence #interoception

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics Call for Papers Neuromodulation of Body-Brain Interactions Via Vagal Afferent Projections

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics focuses on the central nervous system, clinical pharmacology, drug development and novel methodologies for drug evaluation.

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My university's coverage of the collaboration I did to shed light "on how political emotions (anger, anxiety, hope) create distinct bodily maps" 🧠🗳️ With @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @mtsakiris.bsky.social (thanks team!)

Universitat de les Illes Balears - UIB@uib.cat · last mo.

#RecercaUIB | 💭 Un estudi amb la participació de la #UIB mostra que les emocions polítiques no només es pensen o s’expressen, sinó que també es viuen físicament en el cos. #emBODY #PsicologiaUIB #FonsFEDER 🔗 Llegeix la notícia! diari.uib.cat/w/un-estudi-...

This paper is absolutely wild and amazing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions

Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...

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NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Now out in #JNeurosci -- we found changes in medial parietal cortex after manual exploration of everyday real-world objects doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... with Beth Rispoli, Vinai Roopchansingh & @cibaker.bsky.social

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune

“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."

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A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

A new study reveals that people physically feel political emotions differently than everyday feelings. These unique bodily sensations, like a tense chest, reliably predict whether someone will actually vote, protest, or engage in democracy.

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This Saturday at Hay Festival - I'll be chatting to @claudiahammond.bsky.social about reading and the brain for #AllInTheMind. Come along at 5.30pm! www.hayfestival.com/p-25581-bbc-...

BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind - Hay Festival

<p>Why do novels make us more human? Claudia Hammond hosts a live recording of Radio 4's <em>All in the Mind</em>.</p>

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One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

Happy to share our new review on Neural Mechanisms of Social Hierarchy across Species. We discussed different routes to achieve high social status across species, from fish to humans, and the neural circuits that support each of those strategies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural basis of social hierarchy across species

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Structured social hierarchies, in which individuals differ in their access to resources and influence over other group members, are a characteristic of many social...

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Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk @mtsakiris.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

Charts reveal where your feelings about politics are felt in the body

Most Brits are probably feeling more than their usual share of political anxiety at the moment. Now, charts reveal exactly where your feelings about the current state of affairs are felt in the body.

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Andrea Vik@andreavik.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

you can read the paper open access here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534895123

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

Political emotions are not experienced as everyday emotions. They are felt differently in the body, are embodied differently according to our ideology and predict political participation. Our latest with @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2nh9maka

Check below our fantastic collab. leading to the paper accepted now in PNAS: "Politics Embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 💫

Politics embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions | PNAS

Political emotions are widely acknowledged as key drivers of political participation and polarization. Yet while it is well established that politi...

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Manos Tsakiris@mtsakiris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Political emotions are not experienced as everyday emotions. They are felt differently in the body, are embodied differently according to our ideology and predict political participation. Our latest with @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2nh9maka

THURSDAY MAY 14 16.15 - 17:30 in person / online TOO MAD TO BE TRUE IV - CONFERENCE "Reimagining Spiritual and Religious States in Madness, Meaning, and Multiple Realities" With Cherise Rosen, Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tanya Luhrmann, Tatiana Baxter, Sohee Park

National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” Briefly priming national versus ethnic identity increases ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for ethnic out-group faces, a pattern typically reserved for self and in-group processing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” | PNAS

How the human brain flexibly adapts social perception by recategorizing out-group (them) to in-group (us) remains unclear. Using functional MRI in ...

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MRI scans in 47 preschool children find two hours of daily screen time linked to lower white matter integrity in language brain regions - JAMA Pediatrics

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]