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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers]

@malloryjfeldman.bsky.social
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Psychologist studying how people sense and make sense of their bodies. Learn more at www.MalloryJFeldman.com. Currently on the job market!

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 New preprint with Andrea Gambarotto. Neuroscience often treats control as a hierarchy: the structures behind a behavior hold a stable rank. We argue this mistakes a configuration for an architecture. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2610.04643 #neuroskyence
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Had such a great time at SESP in Montreal! So many smart and talented people in this field. Feeling lucky to be part of it.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I messaged you!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey! send me an email (feldman.380[at]osu.edu)? If you have a gmail address I can add you to our listserv.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gaia - can you send me an email? If you have a gmail address I can add you to our listserv.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Would love to hear more. This has been a big topic of conversation between Jenn and I! Jenn and her students have some really interesting work forthcoming on this as well. Would be interested to have a big brain-meld at some point.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey #interoception folks. Jenn MacCormack and I have been hosting a weekly reading/working group on interoception for *early career scholars* for ~3 years now. We'd love to add some new members. Message for more info!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com great paper! Curious if you looked at any interactions between task-based and questionnaire-based measures? e.g., does cardiac sensitivity only matter for folks with more negative beliefs?
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing 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...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 26/03/2026
New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123
Graphical abstract showing four panels. Panel 1: a person in an MRI scanner with blue cognitive thought bubbles drifting from their head and pink body thought bubbles from their torso, with organs glowing inside. Panel 2: blue bubbles for cognitive items (Self, Words, Focus, Images, Future, Past) are larger than pink bubbles for body items (Breathing, Movement, Stomach, Heart, Skin, Bladder), with arrows showing body thoughts link to more negative and less positive emotion. Panel 3: physiological traces (EGG, ECG, respiratory) show higher arousal with body-wandering; a bar chart shows cognitive items (Past, Future, Repetitive, Vivid) correlate with more ADHD and depression symptoms while body items (Breath, Stomach, Skin, Heart) correlate with fewer.    
Panel 4: medial brain with thalamus, somatomotor cortex, and interoceptive regions highlighted, plus a chord diagram showing connectivity between these three regions.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Affective Science Lab will be well-represented at this years @affectscience.bsky.social conference!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hey everyone! I’m leading a student mentoring table at SPSP on Family Planning and Pregnancy during graduate school. I'm trying to collect some useful data: If you had kids in academia (any career stage)-- I would be grateful if you filled out this 10-question survey: forms.office.com/r/JeLL5cBk3w
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Microsoft Forms
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As an aphantasic scientist, been keeping a keen eye on this work :) very excited to see where it goes. I have a bunch of anecdotal hunches obviously haha!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Would love a clear articulation how you see this deviating from Theory of Constructed Emotion. I would also check out @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and Maria Gendron’s history of emotion paper where they bring up several similar points (e.g., about William James)
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Yay!
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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is really important. How can we counter this false narrative?
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!
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Breaking through the mind-body divide: patient priorities for interoception research
Interoception—sensation, interpretation, and prediction of bodily signals—is reliably disrupted across a wide range of mental health conditions. A gro…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/04/2025
This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
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‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community
“Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
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Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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Yuta Katsumi, PhD @yutakatsumi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r... shocked by this! Sam Sommers’ book is what made me interested in psychology, and is what made me choose to go to Tufts. Sending love to his family and colleagues.
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Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/03/2025
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
CASL is showing up for Society for Affective Science this week!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Curious about this— I would have guessed they’d reduce sensitivity if they are also lowering heart rate. What do you make of these results?
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Seconded!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Congrats Chris! Well deserved!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@adriennebonar.bsky.social
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#proud #workWife www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
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Emotion detective tracks effects of stress | UNC-Chapel Hill
Doctoral candidate Adrienne Bonar studies the many factors that shape people’s feelings.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Thrilled to see folks working on this! Especially you! Can’t wait to read all that becomes of it. Congrats!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Physio people -- when you have messy data, what's your philosophy on filtering? Under filter and discard a lot of data due to excess noise OR potentially over filter and smooth true signal? In this case i'm working with PPG. #psychophysiology #interoception
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Incredible. Thank You!
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a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
Alt: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m here for biologists making a big fucking stink but I think psychologists should get in on the action too.
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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11
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The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications
Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...
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Jolie Wormwood @jbwormwood.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢 Help spread the word! UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725 Come work with me in New Hampshire!!
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Assistant Professor of Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin fall, 2025 in the area of social psychology. ...
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Leonardo Hansa @leonardohansa.com · 20/12/2024
What is your favorite R function you've learned this 2024? Mine: I've loved understanding !! and enquo from rlang. #rstats
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
There are now nearly 5000 papers on #interoception. And the output over the last 4 years is more than the previous 59. 🤯
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When I did my first MRI training and saw an actual bore for the first time, I started crying. It was so embarrassing. But also, I mean common.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
and an acknowledgement that if we ACTUALLY want to statistically examine the effects of structural inequality or socialization we have to adequately power for analyses through inclusive sampling. 🤷‍♀️ It's not great but it puts the responsibility on us to do better instead of just reporting bad stats.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I've started (1) reporting all groups in my demo tables - per recommendations in this article and (2) either using a variable representing ASAB (with a clear discussion of the limitations) or excluding the covariate all together with a clear discussion of the limitations...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It got me thinking about the implications of including, e.g., a 3 level variable where one group is severely under-sampled. (1) when we do this, our estimates are still biased toward the majority group and (2) our estimates are not powered to actually make conclusions about the under-sampled group.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I thought this was a super provocative paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37789703/. Makes a few interesting points about modeling demographic variables where some of your groups are small:
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"We adjusted for race": now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020-2021 - PubMed
Race is a social construct, commonly used in epidemiologic research to adjust for confounding. However, adjustment of race may mask racial disparities, thereby perpetuating structural racism. We condu...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Your good! No! Never got a response on this. Would still love to know @sakierahudson.bsky.social
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
#affect #emotion #depression
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