Very proud of @agnewblais.bsky.social and of her fascinating work on the relationship between menstrual cycle and ADHD symptoms! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

ADHD and periods: Are my hormones making my symptoms worse?

A first-of-its-kind study by UK researchers is looking at the link between menstrual cycles and ADHD.

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New work from @ranimo.bsky.social & colleagues! Can simple model-free reinforcement learning explain decisions based on evidence accumulation (e.g., as in the drift diffusion model)? 🤔Check out the paper exploring this fascinating theoretical framework: direct.mit.edu/neco/article...

A Model-Free Reinforcement Learning Implementation of Decision Making Under Uncertainty by Sequential Sampling

Abstract. Although evidence integration to the boundary model has successfully explained a wide range of behavioral and neural data in decision making under uncertainty, how animals learn and optimize...

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Check out this new work from @ranimo.bsky.social and colleagues, who used reinforcement learning to study the cognitive biases that affect us when forming beliefs based on non-credible information. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Disinformation elicits learning biases

Learning from potential disinformation introduces specific cognitive biases, causing individuals to systematically deviate from an idealized Bayesian updating strategy.

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Check out new thought-provoking work about neurodevelopmental conditions from the @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social lab

Dr Giorgia Michelini@giorgiamichelini.bsky.social · last mo.

✨ New paper from our lab challenging the way we think about neurodevelopmental conditions is out in Molecular Psychiatry! ✨ The study is based on longitudinal data from early childhood to adolescence in more than 10,000 children in the UK from the TEDS study. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1)

Check out this fascinating work by @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and colleagues about social interactions of tortoises!

Elisabetta Versace@elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our new work on the vulnerable tortoises species Testudo hermanni “Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni) is now available link.springer.com/article/10.1... Collaboration with @silviadamini.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher 🐢🩵

Exciting new research from @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social proposing the first neurobiological model for how emotionally meaningful touch stays in our memory and influences our connections with others. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Memories that touch deeply: Toward a neurobiological model of affective tactile memory

Affective touch has long been recognised as fundamental to bonding, emotional regulation, and social development, yet its role as a distinct form of m…

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Exciting new research from our @keijiota.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social connecting mentalizing and volition, showing that understanding how others think helps us act more autonomously royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Freedom through understanding: instructed knowledge shapes voluntary action choices

Abstract. The capacity for voluntary action is a distinctive feature of human minds. However, experimental studies of volition struggled to capture the def

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Our new fluffy preprint: "A Soft Robotic Interface for Chick-Robot Affective Interactions" arxiv.org/abs/2604.08443 with work led by @juechen.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social #ARQ @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Check out this exciting PhD opportunity in our centre!

@ranimo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⭐️PhD Cognitive/Computational Psychology ⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning + computational modelling to study how we form beliefs in the face of unreliable information (with me +Tali Sharot). Full funding for those eligible for UK home fees. Deadline 18/5. Please share! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Excited to share some photos from ‘Mind the brain: A Dialogue Between Neuroscience and Mental Health’, a collaborative event we had today for bringing together QMUL researchers in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry. @blizardinstitute.bsky.social

How do we decode engagement in human–robot conversations? Check out this exciting new interdisciplinary research from Dr Janelle Jones and colleagues from @qmuleecs.bsky.social ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...

Decoding Engagement: Exploring the Influence of Social Communication Cues in Human-Robot Conversational Scenarios

Enhancing human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a deep understanding of engagement. This paper explores how to capture engagement within conversational HRI by examining multiple non-verbal communicat...

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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder affects up to 900,000 women in the UK, yet treatments are limited. The Independent reports that Dr Paul Faulkner’s placebo-controlled trial found Nettle (tDCS) reduced anxiety and improved wellbeing across three cycles. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/wome...

‘I thought my PMDD was depression - How Femtech revolution is changing women’s health

Tayla Kenyon thought she had “really bad depression, bad anxiety, personality disorders,” before linking the symptoms to her periods. She suffers from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). It’s a c...

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Check out this exciting new paper from ‪@elisabettaversace.bsky.social‬

Elisabetta Versace@elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper: Reflecting on the multiple biases and predispositions observed in young animals with no previous experience, we modelled a new idea on the strategic role of biases to guide adaptive choice and reduce errors: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... Fantastic collaboration with @debivort.bsky.social

New paper from @fredi15.bsky.social + colleagues showing that even in the absence of making a choice, the simple act of pressing a button enhances the learning of stimulus-reward and stimulus-punishment associations. doi.org/10.1016/j.nl...

Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social was interviewed by Emily Bates in a @natureportfolio.nature.com video on why women with ADHD tend to be diagnosed later in life.

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 6mo ago

Emily Bates was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 34. She explores in a Nature Outlook video how the condition presents in women and why so many are diagnosed later in life. go.nature.com/4bXGaB2 go.nature.com/4qbhxV3

Birds = model to study embryonic responses to environmental stimuli. check @subbaprakrit.bsky.social ' preprint, where we show "Programming of Embryonic Blood Brain Barrier and Neurovascular Transcriptome by an Anticipatory Acoustic Signal of Heat in the Zebra Finch" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hugs are good for health! Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social, Lecturer in Psychology at @qmul.bsky.social @qmulsbbs.bsky.social, spoke to Sky tg24, and others about her research on warm hugs, for World Hugs Day this month. tg24.sky.it/salute-e-ben...

Oggi è la Giornata Mondiale degli Abbracci, perché fanno bene

Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Oggi è la Giornata Mondiale degli Abbracci, perché fanno bene

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A blog about the Planet & People conference at which I spoke recently in Newcastle: planetandpeople.online/join-the-dot...

Read a recent piece by Dr Annemieke Apergis-Schoute on @theconversation.com: Why procrastination isn’t laziness – it’s rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn theconversation.com/why-procrast...

Why procrastination isn’t laziness – it’s rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn

Why we procrastinate has less to do with willpower than with how flexibly our brains handle stress and discomfort - and the good news is, flexibility is trainable.

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New paper: habituation to threatening stimuli in bumblebees is far from simple! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

My first presentation of 2026 will be in Pristina/Kosovo for Albanian-language beekeepers and I just have to say I love this totally unique language!

Here's what our researcher on positive psychology @rosiedavis.bsky.social has to say about working with dancers for her Positive Balance project!

Fun to do this podcast with Stephen Fleming and Richard Rickitt of the journal BeeCraft about my role as a mad scientist in the film The Last Bee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpPG...

Lars Chittka speaks to BeeCraft about his new film and ongoing work

YouTube video by Bee Craft Magazine

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“The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI” features our work on #time processing across species ournarratives.net/the-stopwatc... (the front image is not accurate but there are other images in the article) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI - Our Narratives

A new study published in Biology Letters has revealed that bumblebees, with brains smaller than a cubic millimeter, are capable of perceiving and processing

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Congratulations to @marghmalanchini.bsky.social on receiving the Research & Innovation Excellence Award for her world leading research investigating how diverse developmental pathways influence learning, mental health and life outcomes @qmulsbbs.bsky.social www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/facultyaward...

Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Awards 2025: QMUL Faculty of Science and Engineering - Research

QMUL Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Centres

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Some coverage on our work on Remote touch "Humans Share a Superpower With Shorebirds www.vice.com/en/article/h... " Original paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... Youtube video youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...

Humans Share a Superpower With Shorebirds

If you’ve always wanted some kind of Jedi-like superpower, you’ve had one all along—and you share it with shorebirds like sandpipers.

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another very interesting paper by Salvato & @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

don't miss @alexdqm.bsky.social's poster [11] at #ASABwinter2025 to discover more about time processing in insects "Time processing in the bumblebee Bombus terretris"

and now you have your chance to speak to @robynroachneuro.bsky.social today at #ASABwinter2025 while she presents her poster on early motion detection in chicks!