One of the things I love about the world cub is that it unifies support for players across clubs. Tonight it doesn’t matter if you are Tottenham or Arsenal, we are all backing Djed Spence
Sarah Garfinkel
@sarahgarf.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
Could it be possible? People of Clacton, don’t let us down. Count Binface VS Farage www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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My current favourite football video: 3 professional Japanese footballers vs 100 primary school children. youtu.be/MYFcTWKcuQM?...
100 Kids vs 3 Professional Footballers
YouTube video by The Beautiful Game
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Very excited for my paper with @giacomonovembre.bsky.social on spontaneous emergence of #Interpersonal #Physiological #Synchrony (IPS). We show that, even without a structured task, your autonomic bodily signals synchronize with another person just by looking at them! doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵 1/6
NYAS Publications
Dyads merely looking at each other synchronize autonomic physiology, including heart rate, pupil diameter, breathing rate, and skin conductance. Synchrony in some of these measures co-occurs with syn...
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Enjoying this talk about how to inflict maximum tickle. For anyone curious: (1) Touch velocity non-linearly modulates ticklishness, (2) force monotonically increases ticklishness until the touch is perceived as painful, (3) the smallest contact size & (4) longer duration induced more tickle #ESCAN
“But the best cable is the one you have already.” My talented brother @curiousscutter.bsky.social who really loves wires and cables ♥️
Jack Garfinkel@curiousscutter.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you have a lot of cables or know someone who does? Then you may enjoy my new series of short videos - Emotional Support Cables. Episode 1 is live now! youtu.be/ejV8Sbv9ZbY?...
Abstract submission now open for this excellent conference, which will be held in Brighton on 2-3 September www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/...
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) Annual Conference 2026 : Engage in networks and events : Collaborate : University of Sussex
Book an event at Sussex – our academics regularly present their latest work on campus or find out how to attend events organised by our partners.
sussex.ac.uk
In case it's of interest to anyone, here's a regularly updated list of UK postdoctoral research fellowships - feel free to share/copy sites.google.com/site/blakemo...
Blakemore Lab - Postdoctoral Fellowships
Below is an overview of Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the United Kingdom, which was originally curated by Professor Rogier Kievit. These have a special focus on psychology, neuroscience, develo...
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Do you like tactical card placement games? My talented friend Gary (we were undergraduate psychology students together many years ago!) has a kickstarter. Please consider supporting if this is your thing www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
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Lost.Resigned.Defected.Suspended.Sacked. #NotARealParty Stop the shift to popularist extremists with no expertise or experience
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 3mo agoReform UK Gone Since the Local Elections Dr David Bull has been sacked as Chair.
This is a new paper testing Bayesian computational mechanisms of improvements in cardiac interoception due to a training program developed by @sarahgarf.bsky.social and colleagues. Led by a very talented grad student @chatrins.bsky.social (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
A hierarchical Bayesian model reveals increased precision weighting for afferent cardiac signals, and reduced anxiety, as a function of interoceptive training
Interoceptive interventions offer a promising avenue for improving mental health conditions, which commonly feature bodily or interoceptive symptoms. …
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Massive study in @nature.com, converges with our past study of 750,000 people (Sea hero quest) to show u-shape curves for the impact of sleep. We studied cognition, here its disease impact: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - Nature
A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...
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How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes
How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes
Replacing a leader is difficult, as Jeremy Corbyn proved – but MPs can apply pressure, publicly or privately
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PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Excited to share our new paper asking a simple question: Why do mental and metabolic health so often go hand in hand? We (@camillanord.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social) tested whether shared neurocognitive signatures play a role in this relationship www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide
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Looking forward to this!
Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science@mesec-community.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨Exciting news!🚨 🧠 We’re delighted to announce that the MESEC workshop Computational Modelling for Consciousness Science will be chaired by ⭐️Prof. Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social⭐️ 🏝️Join us in Carcassonne, France 📆29 Aug–5 Sept 2026. 👀Applications open until 29 May: mesec.co/event/worksh...
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]
To my American colleagues, friends & collaborators: Masud Husain is amazing, do go if you’re in DC
Masud Husain@masudhusain.bsky.social · 3mo agoCome along if you're in the Washington DC area to listen to a discussion about what people with brain disorders reveal about our selves. Politics and Prose Bookstore 1324 4th St NE
Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....
Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain
YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club
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🧠 Focused ultrasound changes emotional processing 🔊 In a new study published in Neuron today, we stimulated the human amygdala using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and show it plays a causal role in detecting and resolving emotional ambiguity.
Johannes Algermissen@johalgermissen.bsky.social · 4mo agoVery happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar
Protect Academic Life in Iran
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...
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I am pleased to announce the Embodied Minds Summit, a two-day gathering on interoception, consciousness, and the future of self-understanding in the age of artificial intelligence. May 2–3, 2026 | Los Angeles embodiedminds.ai
Major Depressive Disorder is characterized by a disrupted heart-brain relationship, where cardiac dysregulation (faster heart rate, reduced HRV) is linked to reduced insula gray matter volume.
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We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission. Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!
Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵