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Ruofan Ma

@maruofan.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow @ UToronto 🇨🇦 & Yale 🇺🇸 | clinical Psychology | interoception | self-other representation ruofanma.github.io

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A few recent noteworthy papers on human respiratory #interoception showing: 1) exhalation's impacts on risky decision making. Kudos to the team led by Soyoung Park! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior
Huang et al. show that prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by enhancing reward sensitivity and cardiac parasympathetic activity. Individuals with greater parasympathetic upregulation exhibi...
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very delightful to see on my hunt for better ways to model interoception. @rssmith.bsky.social #CPC2026
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's Day 2 at #CPC2026. The first keynote speaker, David Redish @adredish.bsky.social, explained decisions as instinctual, deliberate, and procedural, and how trust can map onto these 3 types.
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Excited for the first day of the annual Computational Psychiatry Conference, this year held at Yale www.cpconf.org! We have a rockstar list of keynote speakers including @danisbassett.bsky.social @adredish.bsky.social and many more! #CPC2026
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Computational Psychiatry Conference
New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information
Frequently ignored bodily rhythms may be skewing neuroscience experiments
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
At NASSPD @nasspd.bsky.social in Toronto — at the opening keynote, Anthony Ruocco showed connections between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and neuropsychological/social cognitive functioning, plus how these functions can change following BPD treatments.
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Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨! We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Heartbeat-evoked responses (HER) are a widely used marker for interoception. However, our systematic review revealed considerable methodological variability and a lack of reporting standards, likely ...
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Had a great time this year at #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social showing our new results: as adults grow older, those who are low in interoceptive accuracy are more likely to make over-trusting errors.
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Check out our new paper examining how aging and loneliness together impact the allostatic-interoceptive brain system (AIS), measured using fMRI during induced social affect doi.org/10.1093/scan...
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Loneliness exacerbates age differences in the ­allostatic-interoceptive system during induced affect
Abstract. Loneliness is associated with age-related health issues through its impact on the brain and body. The brain’s allostatic-interoceptive system (AI
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Come check out our symposium on emotional concordance and clinical implications, led by @veravine.bsky.social and @emmailyaz.bsky.social #SAS2026 I will talk about interoception and trust decision-making - work with Kristen Lindquist, @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social @adriennebonar.bsky.social
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Yuritza Y Escalante @yuritzaesc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Looking forward to the interesting conversations to come at SAS 2026!
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Excited to share our latest paper in which we discuss merging theory-and data- driven computational psychiatry in a large transdiagnostic cohort study (N=2400) www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245... Christopher Pittenger, Godfrey Pearlson @annierhcheng.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social
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Threading the needle: Practical considerations for merging theory-driven computational psychiatry with data-driven analytics to enhance precision health at scale
The rapidly evolving field of computational psychiatry enables quantification of specific cognitive processes, and their underlying mechanisms, in a translational and potentially scalable manner, usin...
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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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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Delighted to be collaborating with @xiaosigu.bsky.social with support from @srndna.bsky.social 🎉
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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
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Postgraduate Associate Position in Computational Psychiatry — Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
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Max Elliott @maxwellelliott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply! I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Review & theory paper published from my doctoral comprehensive exam! On loneliness and neurophysiological self-other overlap, with discussions on its connection with borderline personality disorder. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mPdfY3M3p...
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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Ruidong Chen @ruidong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Glad to share my first paper in postdoc! This was a huge undertaking by many people over the years. I hope you read it! But the short version is this: ACC integrates evidence from self experience and observed experience, and it weighs these sources differently by aligning readout more to the self.
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Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/ #rstats #brms #EEG
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Modelling time-resolved electrophysiological data with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models
Providing utility functions for fitting Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models (BGAMMs) to time-resolved data (e.g., M/EEG, pupillometry, mouse-tracking, etc) and identifying clusters.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025
Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Taking just another small step towards trying to reduce the stigma attached to borderline personality disorder & psychiatric illnesses - at ISSPD2025.
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/
A figure of the results from our study, showing a model that looks remarkably similar to the official HiTOP model. There are also important differences like a pathological introversion domain and a combined hypomania/disinhibition dimension.
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others? New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 10/10/2025
The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.
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Scripps Research-led team receives $14.2M NIH award to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
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Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Check out our new chapter on Interoception's role in Social and Emotional Cognition. We begin by exploring WHY you might expect interoception to predict socioemotional cognition in the first place... Let us know what you think!
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The Role of Interoception in Emotion and Social Cognition
We begin this chapter by clarifying our working definition of interoception and discussing how interoception fits within the larger picture of human brain functional evolution. We focus on the role of...
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Translational Psychiatry The long-term correlates of developmental stress on whole-brain functional connectivity during emotion regulation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The long-term correlates of developmental stress on whole-brain functional connectivity during emotion regulation - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - The long-term correlates of developmental stress on whole-brain functional connectivity during emotion regulation
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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Self-Other Distinction in Personality Disorders, a special section of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment exploring the sociocognitive capacity to distinguish between one’s own and others’ mental and physical experiences. #OA intro: bit.ly/42srbda @pfonagy.bsky.social
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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#TBT Women with #Anorexia tend to feel proud before and immediately after exercise, but grow more ashamed of their eating, body, and general character as time passes. Read @maruofan.bsky.social and Allison Kelly's paper published in Eating and Weight Disorders here: t.co/pFgXCLSqRd
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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Looking forward to seeing all the @affectscience.bsky.social folks at #AffectScience2025! Come check out our cool science from Dr. Kristen Lindquist’s lab.
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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hey #abct! Want to show off your personality? The Personality/Personality Disorders (P/PD) SIG has you covered! Find me, @mattsouthward.bsky.social, @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social and/or come visit us at the SIG Expo, the P/PD meeting (Sat 10:30), or any P/PD SIG sponsored talks to get yours!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
For those going to SAS- @affectscience.bsky.social (#affectsci) -- check out some of the awesome work being done by folks in our lab:
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