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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 25/09/2026

Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4hpgZsl @mrccbu.bsky.social

A large brick building with two stories and a conservatory is surrounded by greenery. Text reads, "Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain institute."

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Ignacio Rebollo @brainandstomach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please share! I will soon advertise a postdoctoral position in my Gut–Brain Interactions Lab at DIfE (Berlin–Potsdam), starting March–June 2027. I’m looking for candidates with expertise in human electrophysiology, ideally multimodal EEG–fMRI. Feel free to contact me informally if interested!

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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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Hugo Fleming @hugofleming.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New paper alert! 📣📣 In this work, we investigated the origins of somatic symptoms – a common and debilitating feature of anxiety and depression. 'Anxiety is associated with the persistence of conditioned somatic sensations over time'

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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 24/07/2026

Does problematic social media use involve the same dopamine-related reward mechanisms as addiction? That’s the question motivating the research I presented at the @bapsych.bsky.social Summer Meeting, involving a dopaminergic manipulation to probe the involved mechanisms. #BAP2026

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Gabriel Mackie @gabmackie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Honoured to receive a Poster Prize at #BAP2026 for my project investigating the Effects of Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) on Interoceptive Attention. I'm grateful to everyone who worked on this project, @camillanord.bsky.social and Veronica Forslund, who were at the conference, and...

Me with my award with my collaborators Veronica (left) and Camilla (right)

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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

For National Women’s Health Week UK (10–16 May), we’re highlighting women’s health conditions that are too often overlooked and underfunded. Women’s health deserves visibility, research, and action. 💜 #NationalWomensHealthWeek #WomensHealth #WomenInNeuroscienceUK

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Sara Mehrhof @saramehrhof.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Excited to share our new paper asking a simple question: Why do mental and metabolic health so often go hand in hand? We (@camillanord.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social) tested whether shared neurocognitive signatures play a role in this relationship www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/04/2026

GastroPy 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...

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Ewan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The prize winners are @lydiajhickman.bsky.social & Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg, giving overviews of their research

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Leah 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....

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19/03/2026

Is 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 🧪

Graphical abstract showing three panels. Left panel, "Multiorgan Interoception Measures," depicts a translucent human body
silhouette with anatomically rendered heart (red) and lungs (blue), accompanied by schematic icons for three
psychophysical tasks: the Respiratory Resistance Sensitivity Task (RRST), Heart Rate Discrimination Task (HRDT), and an
auditory control condition. N = 241 participants. Center panel, "Psychophysical Modelling and Individual Differences,"
shows a fan of overlapping sigmoid psychometric curves in blue-to-red gradient representing individual variation in
perceptual threshold (α) and precision (β), a hierarchical Bayesian model diagram, and icons for metacognitive bias and
M-Ratio efficiency. Right panel, "Key Finding: No Cross-Modal Relationship," displays a scatterplot of cardiac versus
respiratory sensitivity with a flat regression line (r ≈ 0, BF₀₁ > 6), a compact Bayes Factor heatmap with mostly blue
null-supporting cells and one orange cell indicating that subjective confidence is shared across modalities (r = 0.51***).
Takeaway: interoceptive ability is modality-specific.

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Lydia Hickman @lydiajhickman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Had a great time presenting at #MBBS2026 in Berlin - thank you so much to the organisers for a wonderful conference

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 11/03/2026

Now, @martager.bsky.social presents our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) to facilitate and harmonise the processing and analysis of cardiac and respiratory data. Try it yourself! 🔗www.bbsig.de #MindBrainBody #MBBS2026

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 09/03/2026

So many inspiring talks (here by @saramehrhof.bsky.social, Sameer Alladin, @studenova.bsky.social) and discussions on the first day of the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026! #MBB2026

Slides of the talk with samples and the task

Slide with the results across the 4 samples

Slide with discussions about the brain gut results

Slide with results about pre and post-stimulus oscillations

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Autistics (N=17) on ageing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... e.g. an autistic aged 46 on Parkinson's: "I have traits in common with Parkinson’s already... But it also might be that they don’t really have Parkinson’s, it’s just what autistic people look like when they get old. I’d like to know"

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed writing a commentary on a great paper by @hugofleming.bsky.social et al for @biologicalpsych.bsky.social:GOS, focusing on how to further explore metabolic contributions to learning and feeling using real-time data and interventional designs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Metabolic Contributions to Learning and Feeling: Why They Matter and How to Make the Most of Them

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Lydia Hickman @lydiajhickman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Our new paper “An assessment of autistic and parkinsonian movement profiles to inform selective classification algorithms” is now published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: rdcu.be/e2ItP with Jen Cook @dagmarfraser.bsky.social @galeaj.bsky.social @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social 🧵1/n

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An assessment of autistic and parkinsonian movement profiles to inform selective classification algorithms

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Hugo Fleming @hugofleming.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

How does metabolic learning shape human behaviour? In our recent study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we found that it shapes flavour preferences but, surprisingly, not action. Thread 🧵

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260

Image illustrating sensor placement. The reference sensor is placed on the xiphoid process (just under the sternum), the ground is placed on the left costal margin (just under the bottom rib), and sensors one through four are place over where the stomach would be. Sensor 3 is midway through the umbilicus (navel) and the reference sensor. Sensor 4 is roughly three centimetres from sensor 3 to participant-right. Sensors 2 is also roughly three centimetres away from sensor 3, but along a 45 degree angle upwards and to participant-left. Sensor 1 lies 3 centimetres further from sensor 2, along the same 45 degree line.

Two-panel image showing a processed electrogastrogram. The left panel shows five minutes of raw data from four different leads (measured from the four sensors in the previous image and their common reference). The right panel shows the same signal in frequency space, illustrating the typical normogastric peak at 3 cycles per minute.

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New writeup on interoception in Scientific American focusing on its role in mental health: www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...

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Disruptions in This Sixth Sense May Drive Mental Illness

Disruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments

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Ido Shalev @idoshal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New preprint 🎉 Psych constructs are complex. Symptoms overlap, people rarely fit neat categories, and patterns are non-linear. Most methods compromise this richness. Self-Organising Maps don't. We provide a step-by-step tutorial with annotated R code to make them accessible. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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British Neuroscience Association @britishneuro.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Celebrating brilliance in UK neuroscience! The 2025 BNA Awards highlight the talent and dedication of our members @andrulyte.bsky.social @lng.org.uk and Jaya Sharma. 🏅 Read more: www.bna.org.uk/resource/202...

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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Congratulations to MRC CBU’s PhD student Annalise Whines, who won the runner-up prize at the MRC Max Perutz Science Communication Awards in the video category. ‘Does motivation change across the menstrual cycle?’ www.ukri.org/publications/mrc-max-p…

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Charlotte Reese Marshall @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Passionate about women's mental health? Interested in brain stimulation? Excited by cutting edge neurotech? Come do a PhD with me! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (thread)

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a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign

ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

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Tim Sandhu @timsandhu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I updated a blog which I wrote a few years ago about PhD applications. There's a mix of reflections and practical tips which should be useful for anyone thinking about applying for a PhD (at predominantly UK institutions). Please share if it could be helpful! timothysandhu.github.io/blog/phd_blog/

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how to apply for PhD's | Timothy R. Sandhu

a rough guide to PhD apps

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Connor Keating @connortkeating.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Very happy to see this published! Registered report led by the fantastic Sophie Sowden-Carvalho (and with @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @brainapps.bsky.social) looking at effort-based prosocial decision-making in autistic and non-autistic adults. tinyurl.com/3upvukt2 See thread below for more info⭐️

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Autistic and non-autistic prosocial decision-making: The impact of recipient neurotype

A body of research suggests cross-neurotype interpersonal interactions may be more challenging, and non-autistic individuals show less interest in int…

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alicia-rybicki.bsky.social @alicia-rybicki.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook - @thechbh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social MIBTP-funded PhD, using behavioural, computational and pharmacological approaches. Get in touch and please share!

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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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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Does what you eat really shape your brain, and mental health? Or is it the other way around? Come discover how metabolism links body, brain, and mood with @camillanord.bsky.social at the Arches London Bridge for a SeedTalk on 30 September www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metabolism...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

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Dr. Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A good reminder that THE BRAIN 👏🏼 IS CONNECTED 👏🏼 TO THE BODY 👏🏼 100% OF THE TIME 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 (please repeat loudly for the people in the back) #medsky #neuroskyence 🧠🧪

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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏

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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research

⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Periods at work: not just a nuisance, but a neurological and emotional storm. Grab a cuppa, then read Rebecca’s @beccasue99.bsky.social brilliant take. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-go-with...

Promotional graphic for a guest blog titled “Go with the Flo: Periods at Work” by Rebecca Williams, PhD student at the University of Cambridge. The image has a pink background with an illustration of a woman holding her stomach in discomfort, and includes Rebecca's photo in the top right corner.

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 11/07/2025

Making Sense of Sensation: A model of Interoceptive Attribution and Appraisal with Clinical applications New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social #interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Finally, the amazing Professor Camilla Nord presents on interoception - including some cool lived experience work on body sensations, and work on disgust and gastric rhythms, alongside work on energy conservation. #BAP2025

Camilla presenting on all of the exciting implications of her interoception work!

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Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org · 20/06/2025

Ever get distracted by your own body? We call this "body-wandering." 🧠🫀 Our latest study uncovers its neural fingerprint and the link to ADHD & depression symptoms. Awesome write-up by our own @leahbanellis.bsky.social, in Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... #neuroscience #research #ADHD

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How much you ‘body-wander’ could affect your mental health | Psyche Ideas

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

On autism, movement & Parkinson's disease (PD), important, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "If it is the case that older autistic individuals are sometimes falsely diagnosed with PD on the basis of outward appearances... the PD diagnosis procedure must be overhauled to guard against this"

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High rates of Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis in the autistic population: true co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?

Older autistic adult literature is sparse, and little is known about the aging autistic population. However, recent evidence suggests an increased pre…

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Women In Neuroscience Repository @winrepo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

For Nature, women make up around 16% of corresponding authors who submit manuscripts — a percentage unchanged from 2018. Women comprise some 18% of corresponding authors who submit papers to Nature Communications and the Nature-branded research journals. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone

A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

What Louise Thompson’s Lucky reveals about the mind-body connection… @lydiajhickman.bsky.social reviews Louise Thompson's book, 'Lucky: Learning to Live Again'. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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What Louise Thompson’s Lucky reveals about the mind-body connection | BPS

Dr Lydia Hickman reviews Louise Thompson's book, 'Lucky: Learning to Live Again'.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Job claxon! Our fantastic colleague Hélio Cuve is looking for a postdoc with expertise in social or affective neuroscience. His lab does cool work on the role of bodily signals in emotions. Apply now! For more info and/or to apply, see: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Lydia Hickman @lydiajhickman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Such a wonderful #BNA2025 conference in sunny Liverpool! Really enjoyed everything on offer for ECRs and the particularly amazing conference dinner location. Thanks so much to the organisers!

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