As you can see from my face, highly excited to be spending time with this legendary crowd (though sadly without Marieke this time)! Never has embodied cognition been so fun. ;) With @desrocherslab.bsky.social @cimoore444.bsky.social and the one and only Catherine Tallon-Baudry.

Delightful work by @nelsontotah.bsky.social 's lab showing how rats monitor their own task performance - and just like in humans, it shows both in their heart rhythms and on their faces! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A metacognitive response of the face and the heart in rats

Humans make emotional facial expressions and have a cardiac response when they catch themselves in a mistake or receive feedback about task performance. We tested whether rats exhibit similar visceral...

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@hummuscience.bsky.social and his psychedelic mice rocking the house @fens.org 2026! 😊🙌

Don't forget to catch @hummuscience.bsky.social this afternoon at #FENS2026 to talk about psychedelic trips in mice, how we can track them - and what that means for psychedelics research in rodents. Curious? Find Muad's poster at PS04-08PM-362! fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...

Come see us at FENS! :) Really excited to share these three hot-off-the-press Zero-Noise projects and hear your thoughts on them!

📢 #FENS2026 giveaway! We're distributing 8 R2 system starter kits - including one with our new metal holder- for FENS attendees! Apply here: forms.gle/QFnUVZthhcfR...

So excited to be part of this! 😊

Fanny Cazettes@fannycazettes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to co-organize a #COSYNE2026 workshop with Marieke Scholvinck (@zeronoiselab.bsky.social) on March 17 in Cascais 🧠🌊 *Inferring neural latent states from behavior* Featuring fantastic speakers across experimental & computational #neuroscience (list below 👇) Hope to see many of you there! 👋

Excited to co-organize a #COSYNE2026 workshop with Marieke Scholvinck (@zeronoiselab.bsky.social) on March 17 in Cascais 🧠🌊 *Inferring neural latent states from behavior* Featuring fantastic speakers across experimental & computational #neuroscience (list below 👇) Hope to see many of you there! 👋

Are altered states of consciousness really all in your head? 🧐 Lana Porter, Valerie Bonnelle and us have been thinking about this question for quite a while, and our best guess is: Nope! The autonomic nervous system does some fascinating stuff during altered consciousness...

1/4 The effect of psychedelics on animal models has been studied the WRONG way. . Here they analyze 109 studies with psychedelics in rodents (from 2019 to 2024). In the vast majority of studies, the “set and setting” is the same as that which would be used in humans to cause a bad trip.

Absolutely love this work - and the article communicating it! 🤩🤩

Fanny Cazettes@fannycazettes.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Our new study featured in The Transmitter by @lauren-schneider.com! 🎉 Big thanks to @zeronoiselab.bsky.social and @computingnature.bsky.social for their comments on the work.

Super excited for this collab! Reusable probe implants for all! 😁✊️

Open Ephys@open-ephys.org · 11mo ago

As part of an open source community, we’re proud to work with @3dneuro.bsky.social to distribute their 𝗥𝟮 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 ⚙️🧠 This metal implantation system lets you 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 & 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀, making ephys recordings more accessible and sustainable 🌱 Source, docs and store below 👇 #OpenEphys

Check out @catrinahacker.bsky.social's #CCN2025 poster this afternoon! We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.

Catrina Hacker@catrinahacker.bsky.social · last yr.

At #ccn2025 and interested in bridging animal and human neuroscience? Stop by B121 this afternoon to see our investigation of the neural representations in spikes and field potentials and our surprising result that sometimes field potentials are better! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=t... 🧠📈

Aaaand we have our final line-up for ESI-SyNC 2025! Check it out! :) Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do to your brain! More info: esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/ Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers): survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/18...

I have the pleasure of speaking at ESI-SyNC this year about the neurophenomenology of breathwork and DMT 🧠✨ Do come if you can!

Zero-Noise Lab@zeronoiselab.bsky.social · last yr.

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

Does sensitivity to acute pain correlate with mental health? In our new paper led by @rebeccaboe.bsky.social & @francescafardo.bsky.social we analyzed thermal pain thresholds in 565 adults and found no link to mental health symptoms. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1061...

No evidence for a link between mental health symptoms and pain thresholds

Previous studies have suggested associations between pain perception and psychological factors such as mood, distress, fatigue, and quality of life. However, these factors and their relationship to...

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Delighted to be back to Ernst Strüngmann Institute to learn and present at what should be an amazing meeting on psychedelics and consciousness www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/

Zero-Noise Lab@zeronoiselab.bsky.social · last yr.

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” doi.org/10.1038/s415... Small contribution in this piece by @frosas.bsky.social and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture in neuroscience. #neuroskyence

Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making

Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…

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A study of rhesus macaques in July found that those who communicated more clearly with their facial expressions made better leaders: phys.org/news/2024-07... Couldn't help but think of how this guy must be a great leader.

As highlighted by @altmetric.com, #Bluesky keeps trending up, regularly beating #X/Twitter for research sharing, all with just 36M users compared to X's claimed 600M. Imagine achieving that without the spam and toxic mess. Honestly, what are you waiting for? #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #SocialMedia

Altmetric@altmetric.com · last yr.

The trend is still in Bluesky's favour. X is still larger but very regularly Bluesky easily eclipses it in terms of research being shared. Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.

Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior! We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

Super kick-ass talk by @anna-beyeler.bsky.social on dopamine signalling and anxiety just now at the 12th SBDM (Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making)! 😱🤯🥳

Did their own hand feel rubbery? #catchtrials #demandcharacteristics :-)

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last yr.

The "rubber hand illusion" in mice... @lucestebanez.bsky.social &co use automated videography to show that mice display quantifiable behavioral markers of the embodiment of an #ArtificialLimb, opening the door to future research into human #BodyOwnership disorders @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jHsESn

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com‬: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inferring internal states across mice and monkeys using facial features - Nature Communications

Here, the authors created a virtual reality task for monkeys and mice to explore if internal states like attention are similar across species. Their facial expressions during the task were similar, su...

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Eatsalotl and Eatsalitl

Annika Barber@annikabarber.bsky.social · last yr.

One of my axolotls will find and eat any food I give her. The other must be hand fed one morsel at a time, because she only eats things that smack her in the face at the precise moment she was pondering a lil snack anyway.

3/5) The real mechanism for credibility in science is simply the test of time: Can someone reproduce the results? Do others build on the findings? Real rigour in science comes from waiting to see whether a result holds and leads to new results. Period - that's it. It's not peer review.

Study finds that social media posts presenting scientific findings with more uncertainty are significantly less likely to be shared. This creates a challenge, since embracing uncertainty can actually boost accuracy and trust! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm

Expressions of uncertainty in online science communication hinder information diffusion

Abstract. Despite the importance of transparent communication of uncertainty surrounding scientific findings, there are concerns that communicating uncerta

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📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 📣 Our first seminar of the year by @damienfarine.bsky.social is coming up fast! 🐦 🎥 Check out this teaser! 📆 Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT 📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z... 💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!