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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Andrea Serino kick-starting our interdisciplinary symposium on Body Codes in ESCAN2026! What a conference #ESCAN2026 @escaneu.bsky.social #Escan

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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Exceptional plenary lecture by @carmensandi10.bsky.social on the role of mitochondria in anxiety and depression 🤩 @escaneu.bsky.social

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scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The #ESCAN2026 pre-conference events in Rome have just wrapped up, marking the start of the 8th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. An exciting day of exchange, collaboration, and cutting-edge neuroscience research. 🧠

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you're attending #ESCAN2026, come join our symposium: From Body Representation to Self-Experience: Neural Mechanisms and Clinical Applications 📅 5 June 2026 🕔 5:00–6:30 PM 📍 Session S5-2 Hope to see you there!

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Pleased to share the acceptance of our #ESCAN2026 Symposium: Dynamic brain-body interactions in perception, selfhood, and cognition across health and disease, featuring Francesca Garbarini, Nicholas Hedger, @jellinap.bsky.social and @paulasalamone.bsky.social, see you in Rome! @escaneu.bsky.social

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scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Topics ranged from social neuroscience and its societal impact, to multisensory integration and body representation, junior researcher development, and neuroscience applications in organizations and the workplace. #ESCAN2026 #neuroscience #affectiveneuroscience #socialneuroscience

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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#ESCAN26 is officially underway with the first set of pre-conferences. I’m attending the embodiment one led by Paul Jenkinson and @katerinafoto.bsky.social . The programme looks amazing and it has a real great buzz. @escaneu.bsky.social

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

📣Call for applications We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...

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PhD Researcher (f/m/d) Women’s Mental Health

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

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Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

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Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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Eddy Rhodes @eddycurrents.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic - Nature Neuroscience

Li et al. propose a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep based on electroencephalogram data. They show that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transiti...

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Birds have a higher body temperature than humans. This may be why avian influenzas can be so deadly to humans - they can survive fever temperatures, because they evolved to tolerate heat pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41308154/

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠 🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Our group has been looking at beta bursts for the last 5 years, but we do it a little differently than most - we group into types them based on their waveforms. In this open access article we lay out why and what we think this might mean journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #neuroskyence

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Rome, June 2026: 1 day left to submit your abstract and award application to THE event of the year in cognitive, affective, social and embodied neuroscience! escan2026.eu check out the cool keynotes, preconferences, social and early career programme and our travel, carer and early career awards

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Home - ESCAN 2026

ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

📣 ESCAN 2026 – Symposium deadline Good news! The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17. The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16. 🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...

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Important dates - ESCAN 2026

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place. More news soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

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Home - ESCAN 2026

ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City. ✨ Submissions open December 1st!

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Home - ESCAN 2026

ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Rich and beautiful NeuroMind conference in Portugal breaching the gap between basic neuroscience and the real world. Parenting experts, parents, teachers and clinicians are interested in our new interoception tasks and have so much to teach us about parental and childhood interoception

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

💬 Organized by the ESCAN Junior Committee: 📢 Join our Work–Life Balance in Academia Workshop with Dr. Sara Fabbri (PhD & Founder of Minds for Science)!

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

ALBA @ #BrainInnovationDays 2025: today at 12 pm, join Francesca Cirulli (ALBA Past Chair) & Aikaterini Fotopoulou (ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2025 Winner) for a discussion on why representation matters in brain health & research. An initiative by @braincouncil.eu shorturl.at/morWM @fens.org

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Louise P Kirsch @louisepkirsch.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🎉 Excited to share our paper out in EJSP - showing that vicarious touch, i.e. observing human-pet tactile interactions, can reduce stress, in times of social touch deprivation such as the first COVID lockdown ! Co-led with @marianavonmohr.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @katerinafoto.bsky.social

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Vicarious Touch: A Potential Substitute for Social Touch During Touch Deprivation

Restricted interpersonal touch experiences, for instance due to COVID-19 social distancing measures, result in detrimental effects on anxiety, loneliness and psychological well-being. Yet, interventi...

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Paul Jenkinson @paulmjenkinson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'm beyond thrilled, excited, and delighted to announce being awarded a 3-year Tiny Blue Dot Foundation grant to examine body image in adolescent girls & to develop a VR-based embodiment intervention for body image issues. Expect more info and post-doc and PhD adverts in the coming months 😀

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Most honored by this and could not have done it without my amazing UCL colleagues at the Faculty of Brain Sciences. We still have a long way to go but proud to belong to a scientific society and an Institution that values diversity and promotes innovative solutions regarding research culture.

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 26/06/2025

🎉 Congratulations to the #DiversityPrize Winner! 🏆 At the 2025 #FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo, Norway, @network-alba.bsky.social and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (#FKNE) awarded this year's Diversity Prize to Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou. 🧠 👉 loom.ly/dphSwoM #DiversityInSTEM

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. @katerinafoto.bsky.social‬, who has won the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize for her outstanding contributions to promoting equality and diversity in the brain sciences. ‪@network-alba.bsky.social‬ @kavlifoundation.org‬

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Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou Awarded 2025 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize

Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou from UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences has been awarded the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies meeting.

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The ESCAN Junior Committee is active and thriving! Join them and their series of workshops, to increase your skills, make new work friends and plan for the Rome conference next year. @escaneu.bsky.social it is all free and friendly.

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🔁 Final call! Join the ESCAN Science Communication Workshop w/ @elodiechabrol (Pint of Science) 🗓 July 3 | 🕓 16:00–18:00 CEST 💻 Online | 🎯 MSc, PhDs, Postdocs ⚠️ ESCAN members only 🧠 for more events, join ESCAN: escaneurosci.eu/membership-f... #SciComm #PhDlife #ESCAN

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Wonderful stuff Alex and colleagues!!!

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

One of the most exciting cognitive and affective neuroscience conferences is happening next summer in Rome. Excellent science, good friends and Italian food in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get ready for the ESCAN congress, June 3-6 2026! #ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A joyful and important topic to review. The mechanisms of tickling!

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

1/3 📢 Want to make your research accessible and engaging? Join our Science Communication Workshop with Dr. Elodie Chabrol, founder of Pint of Science 🍻🧠 Learn how to talk about your science with clarity and impact.

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Yes but it is about time economists and neuroeconomists start understanding metabolic resource allocation...

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Finally a book on touch that places our experience of our senses in the context of our collective intentionality throughout history. Excellent book review here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams

The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Step 1 of Carolina's outstading PhD on parental interoceptive mentalisation. How do parents 'read' the interoceptive states of their child? How do we know our child is hungry, tired or cold? A careful validation of the 1st questionnaire on this important developmental dimension. Bien Hecho Carolina!

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Carolina Villegas @carolinavm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨 doi.org/10.31219/osf... Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context? We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Funciones Ejecutivas at the amazing National Congress of Neuropsychology in Spain. Packed with excellent speakers and hundreads of enthousiastic neuropsychologists doing both research and clinical work. We need more of them in european and international events and collaborations. Thank you #Fanpse

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Similarly, this is coming Europe's way soon and if we do not get ready now, it will be worse and it will be fast.

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Alessandra Lemma @drlemma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Great conference coming up on epistemic trust in psychotherapy at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit 22 March - 23 March 2025 Speakers include Liz Allison, Anthony Bateman, Dickon Bevington, Peter Fonagy, George Gergely, Vittorio Lingiardi, Patrick Luyten, Tobias Nolte www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

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Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade

Join us to consider the role of epistemic trust in understanding the relationship between culture, communication and psychopathology at this hybrid event

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

These get confused with one another. Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news. The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences. The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out. The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Announcing this week's Consciousness Club with Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social on "Time as a fundamental aspect of consciousness" Wednesday 12th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

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