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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

our lab was at European Researchers’ Night last week doing some outreach; and running a pilot study to gather some data with the public. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! 🧠📊

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Lisa Feldman Barrett @lisafeldmanbarrett.com · 26/09/2026

I’m thrilled to share that we have a new paper out, led by the brilliant @katiehoemann.bsky.social and Vanessa LoBue. In this paper, we analyze - for the first time ever - the facial movements that infants see in their everyday interactions with others. 1/3

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Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How do internal states shape foraging, decisions, and adaptation in a changing world? 🧠🌍 @clairesturgill.bsky.social and I are organizing a #BernsteinConference satellite workshop bringing together lab and wild perspectives on adaptive behavior. Join us 😉

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 18/09/2026

Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for a fully-funded PhD studying how our minds and brains work? Students can join @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social via the UBEL scheme (link below). But prospective students and supervisors need to 'pre-register' their interest together by 30th October. ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-student...

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ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP

ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 14/09/2026

My 📗 is #openaccess thanks to the D2O program of @mitpress.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... This initiative for equitable access to scholarship has just opened its new funding cycle: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres... 🙏 help spread the word & if you represent a library, do consider joining!

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Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press, 2026) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The book cover appears in the center of the image and has a green gradient background. The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis).

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you are in SEPEX-BAPS'26 @sepex.bsky.social, please stop by on Friday session (10.30 - 11.30): "Cardiorespiratory modulation of active tactile sensing". Poster G16 (w/ Angelia Caparco) "Cardiac and respiratory coupling to active visual search". Poster session I1 (w/ victor Vila)

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Relevant and timely topic in Micah's blog, which links nicely to our paper "Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A fresh update to our preprint is now up, with several revisions and refinements throughout. Have a look if you’re interested! "Bodily rhythms as a scaffold for active sensing" osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Antonio Criscuolo @antocris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Join the next BodyBrainWaves: 4day summer school + 3day conference in Palermo, #Italy Focus: modulatory role of #body-#brain interactions on #cognition Stay tuned for an exciting #scientific program + #cultural (and #gastronomic) tours The call for applications are now open: waves-conference.com

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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...

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PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

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Ignacio Rebollo @brainandstomach.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy to share the first output of the Gut-Brain Interactions lab, an opinion piece titled "A two-timescale framework for gut–brain influences on arousal, motivation, and affect", now accepted on the Phil Trans Royal Soc B special issue "On the synergy of central and peripheral dynamics"

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thanks, @cos.io, for all these years of providing storage and hosting data/projects 🫡

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auboutdureve.bsky.social @auboutdureve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

¡¡ IMPORTANTE !! Ruego difundáis este artículo de @el_pais sobre el incumplimiento de la estabilización de lxs investigadorxs Ramón y Cajal. En él denuncio mi situación en @UPFBarcelona @LaiadeNadalUPF elpais.com/educacion/20... #rycenlucha

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Ingmar de Vries @ingmardevries.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

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Dafni Hadjieconomou @drosostalis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Excited to announce "The Body in Dialogue" workshop @institutducerveau.bsky.social! 4 sessions on how the brain talks to the body across the animal kingdom: My session features Ana Domingos, @karalmarshall.bsky.social, Denis Burdakov & Michael Krashes. More announcements coming soon, stay tuned!

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is an amazing work, congrats Leah and the whole team! A milestone for Interoception & mental health

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm not a big football fan, but the behaviour of the Argentine national team yesterday was disgusting. I just hope that kids who look up to those players don't grow up thinking that's how sportsmanship should look.

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Many thanks to @danlikesbrains.bsky.social for the invitation and warm welcome in Münster! It was a pleasure to share our work, discuss exciting research, and meet such a wonderful team in a beautiful setting.

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Rhythms of interaction – the timescales of social coordination and why they matter www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Fantastic opportunity in a great place with superb supervisors; check below 👇

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Marcos Nadal @mnadal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Why do we like what we see? We argue that visual liking is a context- and goal-sensitive process of sensory valuation: the brain assigns hedonic value to what we see by integrating visual features with meaning, expectations, bodily state, task demands, and reward. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New preprint out now. 🎭 What makes an acted emotion feel believable? We tested whether believability depends on what observers see from the outside, facial movement, and what happens inside the actor’s body, cardiac dynamics during performance. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Actors' Facial Movement Magnitude and Cardiac Dynamics Predict Observers' Emotion Believability Ratings

In non-verbal communication, observers infer emotions from visible facial movements, yet emotional experiences are described in internal bodily terms (e.g., "my heart skipped a beat"). This contrast h...

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From primates and birds to fish and insects, animals share visual preferences 🧠🦋 We all gravitate toward curvature, biological motion, and specific colors. These aren't just aesthetic choices, they help us find food, friends & safe spaces see below new work by Marcos Nadal

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The 2nd seminar of the Interoception Circle is next Wed. 12-13:00 (CET) "Interoceptive plasticity: Alterations to breath-hold sensations and affective afforndaces in freediving" Link and abstract here: ace2lab.com/2581-2/

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Some new work on AI & science: A reporting checklist for LLMs in behavioral science Thanks to @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social for spearheading. As LLMs become more common in research, transparency is essential. We developed a reporting checklist for reporting how LLMs were used - please share! 1/4

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A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

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Atesh Koul @ateshkoul.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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

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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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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Our 4yo intern visiting the lab and making the tough questions: How does it work? But how? And why?

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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Finally out: my review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social covering how my lab and others have been ‘Looking into working memory through micro eye movements’ over the years. What does the microsaccade bias buy us? A lot I argue. Go see for yourself at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Francesco Antonio Mallus, Thomas Wolfers, et al: From early to contemporary normative modeling: Mapping individual differences in neurophysiological signals doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In Physics of Life Reviews: Brain-body interaction has revealed a role for interoception in cognitive functioning. I propose a roadmap on how to implement this knowledge into concrete engineering design for biology-inspired AI to, ultimately, reaching near-conscious machines doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

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Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature Neuroscience

Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A paper can be technically correct, statistically significant, and reproducible and still not generalize. In life science, the hard part is knowing what to trust. QED Science CTO Meir Maor on why life science needs a validity layer: www.qedscience.com/blog/life-sc...

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The case for a validity layer in life science research

When OpenAI recently announced that one of its models had disproved a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, the scientific community took notice...

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