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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵‍💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1

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Mariposas En El Estomago GIF

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Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

🎉 Excited to share our latest preprint! 🫁 Using interoceptive psychophysics and quantitative MRI in 200+ people, we find that individual differences in respiroceptive sensitivity & precision correlate with distinct patterns of cortical microstructure.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 29/03/2024

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Figure 1: schematic showing stimulus design, psychophysics, and assignment of respiratory phase.

figure 2: figure showing overview of heirarchical drift diffusion modelling and key parameter effects.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19/03/2024

Stunning new preprint from @francescafardo.bsky.social and her lab - they developed & validated a 2D adaptive model to estimate the thermal grill illusion - it reliably finds combinations of non-painful cold & warm stimuli that together elicit heat pain! #neuro #psych www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Illustration of the two-dimensional thermal grill calibration (2D-TGC) method.
(A) The Thermal Grill Psychometric Function (TGPF) is characterized by two independent functions. (B) The first function (Ψ), depicted in black, represents an invariant psychometric function, mapping the probability of reporting a burning sensation from 0 to 1 at different cold and warm temperatures. (C) The second function (F), illustrated in purple, delineated how the perception of burning changes depending on different cold and warm temperatures.

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Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Want hands on experience in learning about brain-body interactions? Come join us in Salerno, Italy for the Waves Summer School in September! 🧠🫁🫀🏖️

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Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

No Facebook, I'm not going to buy crochet paw chair socks

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 10/11/2023

Excited that our scoping protocol is now LIVE🫁"Breathing exercises for the management of gastrointestinal conditions: protocol for a scoping review" with 3 awesome teams at KU Leuven @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social #breathing #neuroskyence #psycsci www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Breathing exercises for the management of gastrointestinal conditions: protocol for a scoping review

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/11/2023

Please welcome our stellar PhD candidate @kellyhighfrost.bsky.social to blue sky! Kelly is an expert on metacognition, self-beliefs, and gender differences.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 05/11/2023

"Facial coloration conveys affective information to observers and contributes to biases in how emotion expressions are perceived and remembered." The influence of facial blushing and paling on emotion perception and memory rdcu.be/dqilk #neuroscience #psycsci

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The influence of facial blushing and paling on emotion perception and memory

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Bradly Shelby @bradthecurator.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology

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Kelsey Perrykkad @kperrykkad.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

Illustration of the progression of pregnancy

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Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

This year's pumpkin is 'creepy cute'

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, employees at the company were informed it is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop

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X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it

A steep drop from Musk’s $44 billion purchase price.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 25/10/2023

A study in Nature Communications finds that a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies. go.nature.com/3Mhj4aT

Figure 4, which shows the lowest levelised cost of electricity by year and region. Red is solar and becomes predominant in 2027.

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical. Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis. #neuroskyence #brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 25/10/2023

Are you a neuroscientist who recently joined Blue Sky? Don't forget to like and pin #neuroskyence, the largest channel for all things brain-science related! You can post with #neuroskyence or 🧠🟦 ! #psychscisky 🧪 #academicsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 24/10/2023

We are hiring a postdoc! We're looking for someone interested in perception, imagination & consciousness, and with experience in neuroimaging (the focus is fMRI but MEG/EEG is ok). Vision science, machine learning and philosophy nerds please apply! subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu/research/hot...

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The Subjectivity Lab

Interdisciplinary lab in Northeastern's Psychology Department researching perception, consciousness and introspection.

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

An editorial for Cortex anniversary issue in which I bemoan the state of mental imagery research & how we seem to be missing the diversity with which people seem to experience imagined sensations: #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #NeuroScience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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What is the true range of mental imagery?

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I really love this structure to writing code documentation. (From documentation.divio.com via Benedikt Ehinger at the SimTech Research Software Engineering Summer School)

A 4-section grid with the left-right axis "Most useful when studying" to "Most useful when working" and the up-down axis "practical steps" to "theoretical knowledge". Tutorials are in the upper left, How-to guides in the upper right, Explanation in the lower left, and Reference in the lower right.

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

#HiSciSky #neuroskyence #PsySciSky Hi all! I'm a professor in cognitive science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. My group studies visual perception using psychophysics and computational modelling. You can learn more about our research here: www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception/h....

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Perception

Perception – Somehow, our minds make sense of sensory data in a way that eludes current machine vision systems. We study visual perception in humans using psychophysics and computational models. A s...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 29/09/2023

317 codes donated and 317 people moved from psych twitter to #psychscisky send more codes so we can make it thru the wait-list 👍

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Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Hello world of #neuroskyence I like brains and how they interact with peripheral rhythms like #respiration and #gastric activity. Looking forward to open discussions on all things #bodybrain

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that: doi.org/10.1101/2023... #neuroscience #visionscience

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A simple statistical framework for small sample studies

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Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Hi there #PsychSciSky, #Neuroskyence, #Neuroimaging! My lab studies the computational and cognitive neuroscience of pain, with some intersections with interoception and metacognition thanks to our proximity to @mgallen.bsky.social. Excited to catch up with ex-twitter friends and make new ones here 🤗

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Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Heard of the worm found in a person's 🧠 recently? Turns out it's not so rare at all, and parasitic 🪱🪱 from pork meat often cause Neurocysticercosis and about 30% of epilepsy cases worldwide 😳 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Hello bsky! 👋 I'm a cognitive &/ computational neuroscientist interested in perception, consciousness and how behaviour affects mental health 🫁🧠. I also dabble in other things, from music and art to cycling 🚴.

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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Super excited to share our new preprint, the first from my new postdoc! We attempted to unravel the phenomenon of Paradoxical Heat Sensation (PHS) using computational principles from vision science in a large-scale psychophysical study (n > 200). #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Temporal Contrast Enhancement in Thermosensation: A Framework for Understanding Paradoxical Heat Sen...

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