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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 5d

The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.

My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · 8d

@cloxdale.bsky.social told me bread only had 4G. Please help me solve this discrepancy. I want to feed ducks.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 9d

We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 14d

Really enjoyed my weekend read on 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: local recurrence amplifies natural input patterns and suppresses stray activity. This review beautifully argues that sensory cortex itself is a site of memory and prediction. Food for thought on hallucinations!

#neuroskyence #neuroscience

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15d

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Active Filtering: A Predictive Function of Recurrent Circuits of Sensory Cortex | Annual Reviews

Our brains encode many features of the sensory world into memories: We can sing along with songs we have heard before, interpret spoken and written language composed of words we have learned, and reco...

www.annualreviews.org

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Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · 10d

Falls in later life can be devastating—but mindset matters.

Dr @tobyellmers.bsky.social from @imperialbrains.bsky.social explores how older adults’ beliefs about ageing significantly influence recovery after a fall.

#InternationalOlderPersonsDay

blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med...

What helps older adults bounce back after a fall? Their mindset might be key - Imperial Medicine Blog

Dr Toby Ellmers from the Department of Brain Sciences explores how older adults’ beliefs about ageing significantly influence recovery after a fall.

blogs.imperial.ac.uk

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 18d

Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · 24d

Amazing collection of work. Huge congrats pulling this all together. Excited to dive in!

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · 25d

Beautiful work Sam!

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 26d

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

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Vivensa Foundation @vivensa.bsky.social · Sep 11

🏆Nominations are now open for the third round of the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards. Three awards of £120k will be made to Academy members. Deadline is 31 October 2025, 5pm. More here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/now-ope...
#FundingForAgeingWell #VivensaAcademy #ExcellenceAwards

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

New preprint from the lab! 🧠
Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou

Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum.

Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · Sep 4

Definitely their loss; your lectures were always my highlights as an UG at Reading. Shame this stuff apparently counts a lot less than grants aka $$$ to line the coffers.

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Vivensa Foundation @vivensa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our Director of Research, Sanjay Thakrar, has pulled together 10 practical tips for writing stronger grant applications: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/10-tips...
#FundingForAgeingWell #GrantTips #ResearchFunding

10 tips for writing a stronger research funding application - Vivensa Foundation

Our top ten tips of what we want to see (and not!) in your research funding application. We hope this advice will be useful.

vivensafoundation.org.uk

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

www.medrxiv.org

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Lorenz Assländer @cybal.bsky.social · Aug 25

Is it me, or the train moving?
We use vision to maintain balance. Just close your eyes while standing on one leg and you typically feel less stable. But if we use vision, how come we do not fall when looking at a moving visual reference, e.g. a train?
📈🧠🧪
#sensorimotor #balance #BiomechSky

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

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Vivensa Foundation @vivensa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Vivensa Academy is a growing membership (500+) of researchers, clinicians and community organisations, all dedicated to improving later life. Discover why you should apply to join, and the fantastic members-only exclusives you can access from day one: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/three-g...

Three great reasons to join Vivensa Academy today - Vivensa Foundation

Read on to discover why you should apply to join Vivensa Academy, and the fantastic members-only exclusives you can access from day one.

vivensafoundation.org.uk

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · Jul 31

Awesome paper!

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Xavier Job @xavierjob.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 New preprint 📣

The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation

Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology

actcompthink.org

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Jonathan Tsay @tsay.bsky.social · Jul 24

New preprint with Sritej, rezashadmehr.bsky.social, and Roberta Klatzky now on biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!

Motor adaptation—our ability to correct errors using feedback—is attenuated in a Bayes-optimal manner when goals are uncertain.

Welcome any and all feedback!

tinyurl.com/y9kjcfzj

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · Jul 24

Heads straight to the top of my to read pile. Looks awesome!

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · Jul 23

This new link works! Thanks Nadine

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sounds great... but the pre print link doesn't seem to work :-(

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Vivensa Foundation @vivensa.bsky.social · Jul 22

🌟 Read our feature on our 2025 Rising Star Excellence Award holder @tobyellmers.bsky.social. He talks about his research, shares advice for Early Career Researchers and tells us his plans for the award funding: vivensafoundation.org.uk/news/the-imp...

#FundingForAgeingWell #ExcellenceAwards

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