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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📣 Emotion researchers! We need your input! We're designing a 2D/screen version of AffectTracker for real-time continuous ratings of affective experience, and we want the community to shape it. Got 1 minute? Fill out our short survey and help us make the right design choices 👇 🙏🙏🙏

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Your Input for AffectTracker 2D

Wanna know what your participants really feel when watching movies? Current affective science often relies on static summary ratings that miss the rich temporal dynamics of our emotions. To bridge th...

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Francesca Malandrone @fra-malandrone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#Emotion researchers! We are evolving #AffectTracker into a 2D setup for real-time, continuous subjective data collection, and we want to build it with your needs in mind. Help us shape the future of emotion tracking by sharing your expertise in this 2 minutes-survey: forms.gle/Sy9HqUpPeFHg...

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🧠 On April 14th, we will welcome Dr. Rebecca Jordan from the The University of Edinburgh! She will share her research on how the #brain learns to #predict sensory input and integrate #sensorimotor information. 🔗 No registration necessary, all info here: www.psych.mpg.de/seminars

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling' by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Reducing research waste, lowering entry barriers to peripheral physiology analysis and fostering collaboration and creativity are just a few of the shared values that motivate us in this team effort 🫂 (Inspired by work from @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social)

Slide about our BBSIG shared mission: “changing the system… one pipeline at the time”

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Francesca Malandrone @fra-malandrone.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Do you deal with emotions in your research? Then you might be interested in the tool we have developed. And if you prefer to use 2D stimuli in your experiments, even better: we need your input to adapt the AffectTracker so that it is not only available for VR!

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Social Biobehavioural Research Group @ucl-sbb.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Curious about #SocialPrescribing research? 🔎 Dr Karen Mak summarises our recent papers in a blog for @thementalelf.bsky.social 📊 Give it a read to learn about the patterns and predictors of social prescribing, and what they could mean for practice 👇 www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/co...

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From Pills to People: The Rise of Social Prescribing

Karen Mak brings you a bumper edition blog on social prescribing, finding that rates have steadily grown recently in the UK, though access remains unequal.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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Advancing consciousness science

Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...

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The surprising science of adolescent brains

Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

If you missed our great discussion with Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social on consciousness and its potential biological basis, check it out here! Very thought provoking, including nuanced discussions on AI consciousness. Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: youtu.be/wZE4_Oa3YA0

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Anil Seth discusses consciousness and its potential biological basis

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday** Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains. Join the discussion.

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Symposium 1.1, here we go! To read more about AffectTracker, check out our latest publication: doi.org/10.3389/frvi... @toninfrc.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

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Francesca Malandrone @fra-malandrone.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Back from the National SITCC Congress 2025 🔥 We presented a clinical case showing how validated personality assessment tools can be used not to classify, but to understand: to build, together with the person, a living and evolving map of the self. 🧵⬇️

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

#2 "Personality functioning as generalized correlated changes in personality traits" -- basically a large factor model over time with some common factor nuance. With @chopwood.bsky.social et al. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 29/09/2025

Our fragmentation paper is now finally out! I put some of the dumb quips that didn't make the cut in the alt texts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A fragmented field. If we conceive of the constructs and concepts studied in behavioral science as a map, we would find that it is highly fragmented and directions are hard to come by. Scientists can hardly stand on each others' shoulders if they cannot manage to meet on common ground.

Fragmentation has worsened, not decreased, as the field has grown. Partly, this happens because we have too many reverse Columbuses, who, in search of prestige, set out to find a new continent, but just end up renaming India. But partly, we face a real, solvable search problem when trying to connect our fuzzy constructs and flexible measures.

Most measures are used only once. To be clear, we do not want to prevent or reduce refinements of existing constructs and measures. Revisions, translations, and other refinements can contribute to a more coherent, organized literature and improve measurement. We are most concerned with the measures conceived with limited planning and released into the literature without much commitment or much of a life expectancy. In ontologies, these are sometimes referred to as “orphan nodes.”

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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social Thread ⬇️

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Happy to share this new article with @saskiascholten.bsky.social, providing proof-of-principle evidence for biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms using ecological momentary assessments. Part of the special issue on belief updating in BRAT. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The update of interpersonal beliefs in everyday life situations in relation to depressive symptoms and state affect – An ecological momentary assessment proof-of-principle study

Previous research has provided valuable insights into associations of belief updating with aspects of psychopathology. However, prior work was mostly …

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 25/09/2025

In general we @danlikesbrains.bsky.social think that dynamical systems provides an excellent framework for thinking about multiscale interactions between brain and body - where the body generally sets the global rhythm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics

We propose a computational framework for high-dimensional brain–body states as transient embodiments of nested internal and external dynamics governed…

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 25/09/2025

At first glance this seems rather important.

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]

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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate

Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

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An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health

Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 25/09/2025

In some way, it's trivial: The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled. Yet, we spelled it out w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below) w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club. sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

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Amanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A talk at @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's symposium on the Platonic Space. Patterns and explanatory gaps in psychotherapy (Does God play dice?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dH9...

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"Patterns and Explanatory Gaps in Psychotherapy" by Alexey Tolchinsky

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Title: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality P.361 (Session 1) @toninfrc.bsky.social In collaboration with Torino University, we developed a fun and intuitive new tool to record moment-by-moment feelings!

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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share! go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf... We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦

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