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Bhisma Chakrabarti

@bhisma.bsky.social
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Autism researcher interested in individual differences in human behaviour and brain function. University professor by day. UK, India [@bhismadev on (e)X] www.bhismalab.org

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thrilled to present emerging results from our gut brain project at the annual meeting of the UK GIBA network @erc.europa.eu @ukgibanetwork.bsky.social - led by Suyi Xie, Nandana Kokkot, and Andrea Monteagudo.
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UK GIBA Network+ @ukgibanetwork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚀 Great ideas need opportunities to grow. One of today's highlights at the UK GIBA Network+ Annual Meeting is our flexible funding updates session. A huge thank you to Patricia Sanz Morales, Michael FitzPatrick, Pádraig Spillane and Andrea Monteagudo-Mera 👏
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Real pleasure to be at #EPSEssex and the symposium celebrating 80 years of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social - alongside Bob Logie, Anna Franklin, @bhisma.bsky.social, @angeladebruin.bsky.social and Sophie Scott. Thank you @asifamajid.bsky.social!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Wrapping up #ReadEmo26 with a panel led by @carien.bsky.social, as it considers new directions for neuroimaging in pain research.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The fifteenth year of Reading Emotions now underway- all about pain!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If you are at #INSAR2026, come to our posters today at 1300hrs (boards 60H and 65B). We will be presenting new data on 1) relationship between sensory responsivity & executive function in a sample of autistic individuals with ID, and 2) preferential social attention for negatively valenced stimuli.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A special one! Proud to be a part of this journey.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Interested in the human gut-brain axis? Have experience with microbiota or metabolomics data? Looking for a fresh challenge in 2026? Join our research team! 🧠🦠 New position open on our @erc.europa.eu project— apply by 31 Jan 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPX709/p...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Our latest preprint on the STREAM project to measure neurodevelopment using a digital platform in ~4000 kids in low resource settings www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessment through non-specialists: Validation of the STREAM digital platform in India and Malawi
Background: Children in low-resource settings often lack access to culturally appropriate and feasible neurodevelopmental assessments. Existing tools are costly, require specialist training, and were ...
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Tomas Knapen @tknapen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
9/ Check out the actual study for many more analyses, e.g., phenotypic variation, scan parameters, signal to noise ratio, etc! doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thank you to the editor @meharpist.bsky.social and anonymous reviewers for the many helpful suggestions, which greatly improved the study.
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Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies - Nature
Although the number of participants is important for phenotypic prediction accuracy in brain-wide association studies using functional MRI, scanning for at least 30 min offers the greatest cost effect...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
What mental health issues matter most to South Asian youth? Our new paper dives into their priorities for future research, led by a brilliant global team of Usman Hamdani and Amy Finlay Jones and others @wellcometrust.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Involving young people with lived experience in advancing mental health science: an exploratory qualitative study from Pakistan and India - BMC Psychiatry
Background Meaningful involvement of young People with Lived Experience (PWLE) in co-designing youth mental health interventions has been much emphasized globally. However, there is a scarcity of evid...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A treat to hear the brilliant Isabel Dziobek speak about psychotherapy and social robotics - starting off the second day at Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Prof Ioannis Patras starts the final talk of the day, on multimodal AI for emotion recognition in context #ReadEmo25
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It's finally here! Looking forward to two days of immersion in facial expressions research from around the world at Reading Emotions 2025 sites.google.com/site/reading... #ReadEmo25
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
There are a few misconceptions about autism and empathy in the public discourse. It was great to be part of this podcast in trying to dispel some of these notions - alongwith colleagues across the world. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Autism, empathy and psychopaths
Why society must rethink the damaging stereotypes about autistic people and low empathy.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A job bonanza for #psychology and #neuroscience academics- to join our thriving department! We are looking to recruit one Professor and up to 3 Assistant Professors in Psychology/Neuroscience - please spread the word! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK
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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Register now for the 14th annual Reading Emotions on 26-27 June with a stellar interdisciplinary line-up of speakers to discuss “Facial expressions of emotion”. Submit abstracts for short talks and apply for travel grants sites.google.com/site/reading.... We look forward to seeing you at #ReadEmo25
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For Bangla speakers amongst us, here's a recent freewheeling chat on Autism, Empathy, and India - with The Coffee House Experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIfx...
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CHE#57 | Bangla Podcast | Autism in India - From Denial to Empathy | Bhismadev Chakrabarti
YouTube video by The Coffee House Experience
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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Spread the news
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
During the first 2 years of the Covid pandemic, I offered multiple, online epidemiology courses for health & science journalists You can watch videos and download slides 👇🏽 www.teachepi.org/courses/epid... My Forbes piece is on my big take-aways: www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Welcome back, Dean!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Interesting, look forward to reading it. Particularly interested to see the component of the similarities that can not be accounted for by similarities in diet within a community.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looking forward to being back in my old lab, to talk about what we've been up to. If you're around in Cambridge, do pop by! talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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talks.cam : Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 18/11/2024
Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.
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GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio
discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
List of psychology-related starter packs! #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵 Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology by @drboothroyd.bsky.social
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi Fiona, good to see you here!
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Everything is everywhere all at once. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Behavior can be decoded across the cortex when individual differences are considered
Abstract. Group-level analyses have typically linked behavioral signatures to a constrained set of brain areas. Here, we show that two behavioral metrics—reaction time (RT) and confidence—can be decod...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
More recently, we have been looking at the interrelationship of empathy and emotion regulation. Key papers: psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-... link.springer.com/article/10.1... (5/5)
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A longstanding area of our interest is empathy. One strand has examined the role of reward in shaping empathy related processes, and implications for autism. Key papers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... (4/5)
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The GutBrain project examines gut microbiota in relation to behaviour and brain function, with a focus on GABA. This project owes its origin to a lunchtime chat about bacteria producing GABA in the gut.. (and we found one in an in-vitro study too) academic.oup.com/jambio/artic... (3/5)
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
STREAM is a digital platform made of observation and game based assessments to measure aspects of social behaviour, cognition, motor function, and sensory interests. The platform has been used in studying ~4000 children in India and Malawi bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6... (2/5)
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Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol
Introduction Early childhood development forms the foundations for functioning later in life. Thus, accurate monitoring of developmental trajectories is critical. However, such monitoring often relies...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Since we're starting over, it might be a good idea to introduce some of the stuff we've been working on. We have a mix of lab-based projects (in UK) and community based projects (India, Malawi) - looking at measuring individual differences related to autism. (1/5)
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I would love to be added to this list - thanks!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thanks for starting this - would love to join this list!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Thank you for setting up this list - I would love to join!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Thanks for leading this initiative - would love to join this list!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Thanks for leading this - would love to join!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thanks for setting this up, thanks Laura! Happy to join.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Would love to join, thanks for collating this list!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Feels a bit like my early days on Twitter, now nearly 14 years ago. The world has come a long way since then, but here's hoping that science still remains exciting and friendly.
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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Very excited to be seeking our 4th postdoc CINN Research Fellow. A super-rewarding research development role, with substantial research resources, datasets, conference/training travel, tech support, training. buff.ly/3UATDWc To find out about CINN visit our website: buff.ly/3CpMMZ8
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CINN Research Fellow:Whiteknights Reading UK
The Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) is seeking a talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team as Research Fellow. The post holder will split their time between:
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Important new paper from @stijovicana.bsky.social @sebkorb.bsky.social, Giorgia Silani and others on defining social reward in humans and animals. doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
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APA PsycNet
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
welcome to the better place!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Thanks for sharing - we reported similar findings in our meta-analysis, noting a moderate but significant negative relationship between social anxiety & social cognition (incl. ToM) acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... .
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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Childhood Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is common and impairing. The recommended treatment is a disorder specific form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) that includes social skills t.....
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
We are looking for TWO permanent lecturers (US equivalent: Assistant professors) in Developmental/Social/Forensic Psychology. You'd join one of the oldest Psychology departments in the UK, with a thriving culture of research and coffee. Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ393/l...
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Lecturer in Developmental, Social and Forensic Psychology at University of Reading
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Developmental, Social and Forensic Psychology at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
How tragically spot on.
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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Join us this June 20th and 21st for another edition of Reading Emotions! Mechanisms of Resilience; from bench to bedside Our chair this year is Professor Nazanin Derakshan, bringing together a fantastic lineup of keynotes. Find out more on the #ReadEmo24 website: sites.google.com/site/reading...
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Reading Emotions
This year’s Reading Emotions will feature step-change developments in the theory and practice of resilience. From neuroscientific explorations to the applications of AI in building every day resilienc...
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
So true, and such a loss! I fondly remember our conversations at the Erice meeting in 2016, when he advised me about writing discipline, and pointed me to some critical observations on mimicry and reward in chimps. Rest well, Frans.
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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Delighted to share the first publication with the stellar team of Sander Begeer, Hilde Geurts, & Erik Van der Burg - led by the brilliant Bobby Jertberg. We found that perception of synchrony was not essential for multisensory integration in a McGurk task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Perception of temporal synchrony not a prerequisite for multisensory integration - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Perception of temporal synchrony not a prerequisite for multisensory integration
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