Reposted by Lucy StaffordPsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nausea and disgust as aversive interoceptive signals in psychopathology.: osf.io/vsgck 012
Reposted by Lucy StaffordScott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fully funded PhD studentship investigating sleep’s role in forgetting unwanted memories at my lab at @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, starting in September 2027. Funding includes UK home fees and a 3-year tax-free stipend (~£22K per year). Please share widely www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comForgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com 01522
Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Grant rejected, but at least I could stare into the void with this as my view. 🏴🏰 180
Reposted by Lucy StaffordMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing? 3212569
Reposted by Lucy StaffordLeah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1021493
Reposted by Lucy StaffordAmerican Psychiatric Association @apapsychiatric.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The ability of the brain to receive and interpret hunger signals from the gut—known as gastrointestinal (GI) interoception—appears to be impaired among women with anorexia nervosa (AN) and might serve as a predictor of symptom relapse. ow.ly/6n6850ZfYwFow.lyBrain’s Ability to Interpret Gut Signals Impaired in Women With AnorexiaThe ability of the brain to receive and interpret hunger signals from the gut appears to be impaired among women with anorexia nervosa (AN) and might serve as a predictor of symptom relapse. 022
Reposted by Lucy StaffordCharles Verdonk @ch-verdonk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026🩺𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐬𝐚? 🧵(1/6) 🔗 Link to the article (open access): jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 132
Reposted by Lucy StaffordSahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm excited to share our new paper published today in JAMA Psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 11910
Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Masters students are looking for 4-5 more people to take part in a Mindfulness Intervention, preferably on the 18th June 11am-1:30pm, University of York campus. Eligibility: being a woman, 18+, no eating disorder, no body dysmorphia, and no food allergy. Contact me lucy.stafford@york.ac.uk. 🧘♀️ 022
Reposted by Lucy StaffordEmma James @emljames.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We would really appreciate a few more perspectives over the next week! 🙏 Please let us know what vocabulary support looks like in your classroom/school, and the kinds of challenges you encounter. #EduSky #edchat #secondaryschool tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...tinyurl.comSurvey | Supporting Vocabulary at Secondary SchoolSchools are increasingly prioritising vocabulary and spoken language. But what is actually working in classrooms? And what is left to do? We are running a short survey to understand how vocabulary is... 024
Reposted by Lucy StaffordShawn Prest @shawnprest.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I'm happy to share the new preprint of my paper "What can meditative experience tell us about affective valence? A computational perspective on the determinants of affect" bit.ly/4ekg4Jd 1123
Reposted by Lucy StaffordAlex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 02/06/2026We are launching Interoception Circle! A new seminar series on embodiment, psychophysiology & body-brain coupling 1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher) 3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome! 🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/ 33510
Reposted by Lucy StaffordJennifer O’Chan @chanjenerational.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comDopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain - NatureBrain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-depende... 513744
Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I'm close to finishing data collection for my PhD- if anyone is York based and would like to take part in an intervention or experiment, please take a look! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🧠 @alexandrapike.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.socialsites.google.comLucy Stafford - Take part in my research⬇️Take part in my research⬇️ 025
Reposted by Lucy StaffordRyan Smith @rssmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026This is a new paper testing Bayesian computational mechanisms of improvements in cardiac interoception due to a training program developed by @sarahgarf.bsky.social and colleagues. Led by a very talented grad student @chatrins.bsky.social (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)sciencedirect.comA hierarchical Bayesian model reveals increased precision weighting for afferent cardiac signals, and reduced anxiety, as a function of interoceptive trainingInteroceptive interventions offer a promising avenue for improving mental health conditions, which commonly feature bodily or interoceptive symptoms. … 12711
Reposted by Lucy StaffordElla Williamson @ellawilliamson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We’re running a short dog owner survey 🐶 examining dog social cognition & trainability - which could be used in future by assistance dog charities to help selection for breeding 🦮 £50 Amazon voucher if completed again in 1 week (eligibility UK residents only) york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 1816
Reposted by Lucy StaffordDaniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Latest preprint from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social by @teresaberther.bsky.social and @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social on cardio-respiratory modulation of arousal and excitability states in the human brain - overlap, distinctions, and implications for brain-body #neuroskyence. osf.io/preprints/ps... 02615
Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Getting to that point in the PhD where you have results to show is so rewarding- looking forward to talking on this more hopefully! 🙏 1181
Reposted by Lucy StaffordAlex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/04/2026So exciting to see @lucysta02475610.bsky.social present the results of her mammoth, multi-year project to develop a questionnaire measuring the Negative Appraisal of Gastric Sensations (NAGS): it differentiates between people with eating disorders and gastric disorders! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social 0193
Reposted by Lucy StaffordMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/04/2026GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps... 25020
Reposted by Lucy StaffordDiana Kwon @dianakwon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025My latest feature for @sciam.bsky.social explores the research connecting problems with interoception to a wide variety of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders, eating disorders, & PTSD. This work is ultimately circling in on a central message: the body & mind are inextricably intertwined.scientificamerican.comDisruptions in This Sixth Sense May Drive Mental IllnessDisruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments 46923
Reposted by Lucy StaffordGeorgie - PhD student @gburton221.bsky.social · 01/04/2026One more month of my study left to go, and 150 more responses needed! If you or someone you know is 18+ years old, is based in the UK, and identifies as neurodivergent/disabled then please consider taking part and/or sharing! tinyurl.com/29jmjxzp Every participant counts 😊 242
Reposted by Lucy StaffordLeah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... 311146
Reposted by Lucy StaffordLeah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Excited to share that our work on organ-specific interoception is now published in Communications Psychology! www.nature.com/articles/s44... @micahgallen.com @the-ecg.orgnature.comInteroceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes in a large scale psychophysical study - Communications PsychologyBayesian psychophysical modelling of cardiac and respiratory interoception (N=241) showed no cross-domain associations in sensitivity, precision, or metacognition, indicating that interoceptive perfor... 13615
Reposted by Lucy StaffordMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 23/03/20261/ New preprint led by @kellyhoogervorst.bsky.social - Introducing MetaBites, a novel task measuring metacognition in nutritional judgements. Why does nutritional knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour? Could metacognitive biases explain the gap? #psychscisky 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps... 32310
Reposted by Lucy StaffordMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19/03/2026Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪 211331
Reposted by Lucy StaffordDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 311050400
Reposted by Lucy StaffordChris Zimmerman @czimmerman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️ Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions 03317
Reposted by Lucy Staffordjuhasilvanto.bsky.social @juhasilvanto.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Interoceptive Profiling for Predicting of Mental Health: A Person-Centred Approach Rather than asking whether interoception predict mental health across a population, we examined how measures of subjective interoception naturally cluster within individuals 1/4 151
Reposted by Lucy StaffordApril Smith, PhD @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Research builds in the best ways. I presented our RISE interoception intervention 2+ years ago in CO, and Liz Atwood immediately saw the potential for youth. She ran with the idea & led this project adapting RISE for school-based health centers. Now the paper is out! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 052
Reposted by Lucy StaffordJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/02/2026Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 112352
Reposted by Lucy StaffordDeniz Yilmaz @deniz-yilmaz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026How the brain listens to the body matters. Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.orgFrom Body to Brain and Back: Multimodal Evidence for Interoceptive Alterations in Schizophrenia Spectrum DisordersWhen the brain and body misalign, emotional experience and sense of reality can be disrupted. Although such atypical experiences are central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), interoception, p... 0168
Reposted by Lucy StaffordPaul Jenkinson @paulmjenkinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Delighted to share my first paper of 2026 "Interoception and allostatic load after stroke: A scoping review". Available now, open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...doi.orgRedirecting 154
Reposted by Lucy StaffordEleanor Palser @eleanorpalser.bsky.social · 15/01/2026It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comInteroception in Autism, Pitfalls, and Promise: A Participatory Research Perspective - Eleanor R. Palser, Wenn B. Lawson, Emma Goodall, Elizabeth Pellicano, 2026Bodily autonomy is essential to Autistic well-being. Interoception supports bodily autonomy through guiding behavior in support of homeostasis. Promoting adapti... 0103
Reposted by Lucy StaffordGenaro Lopez-Martin @genarolopezmartin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Our paper on interoceptive rhythms and perception now is published in NeuroImage 🚀📄 @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social already shared a fantastic breakdown of our main findings in the thread below👇🏽 🔗Full OA article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #Interoception #Perception #Neuroscience #ActiveSensingdoi.orgRedirecting 081
Reposted by Lucy StaffordJoe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 18/12/2025New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :) 11214
Reposted by Lucy StaffordNils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Last preprint 🎶(of the year). If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 14315
Reposted by Lucy StaffordCamilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 17/12/2025It is hugely fun & we are very lucky to do science for the sake of science. But it is amazing to see work we and many others I admire have done turn into public awareness thanks to excellent science writing. (see also www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...)nytimes.comMapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside 1378
Reposted by Lucy StaffordSahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 16/12/2025New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...scientificamerican.comDisruptions in This Sixth Sense May Drive Mental IllnessDisruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments 23313
Reposted by Lucy StaffordNils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI... 17622
Reposted by Lucy StaffordKelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comModel-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression - Translational PsychiatryTranslational Psychiatry - Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression 04320
Reposted by Lucy StaffordOlivier Desmedt @olivierdesmedt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇 23214
Reposted by Lucy StaffordPaolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇 8334238
Reposted by Lucy StaffordAidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 06/10/2025It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobsaidanhorner.blogspot.comHow to get PhD funding in the UKIt is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi... 22912
Reposted by Lucy StaffordLeah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms www.psypost.org/scientists-d... Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅: x.com/OwenGregoria...psypost.orgScientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental healthEvery emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang... 02411
Reposted by Lucy StaffordSahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵 33315
Reposted by Lucy StaffordSahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Reilly, Brown & Frank link altered taste, touch, vision, and gut sensing to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, highlight knowledge gaps, and proposing neurobiologically-informed strategies for clinical translation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38730196/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govPerceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders - PubMedEating disorders (EDs) are characterized by abnormal responses to food and weight-related stimuli and are associated with significant distress, impairment, and poor outcomes. Because many of the cardi... 232
Reposted by Lucy StaffordBody Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 16/09/2025🚨Do you want to join our online seminars? Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa! Register to join, it’s free 🤓 #somatosensation #interoception #sensory #body #science #neuroscience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 094