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Ashley Tyrer
@ashleytyrer.bsky.social
Assistant Prof with @the-ecg.bsky.social, researching noradrenaline and decision-making with a sprinkle of Dynamic Causal Modelling and Active Inference 🧠
Blog Team Lead, OHBM Communications Committee 🤓 📰
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashley-Tyrer
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1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kicking off the new year with our next installment of the OHBM Award Winner Interview Series, featuring the 2025 winner of the Mentor Award, Prof Amy Brodtmann! ⭐

Watch the interview here 👇
www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Interview with Prof. Amy Brodtmann, 2025 Winner of the OHBM Mentor Award — OHBM Communications
Author: Zaki Alasmar Editor: Simon Steinkamp, Ashley Tyrer Video Editor: Zaki Alasmar
www.ohbm-com.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Maria Herrojo Ruiz giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in decision-making and motor learning in anxiety"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.

Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.

It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 16th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Janneke Jehee giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in perceptual decision-making"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
January 12, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉

Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Our third interview in the Award Winner Interview series features the 2025 winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award: Prof Jack Van Horn! 🏆 @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social

Huge thanks for the stimulating conversation! ⭐

Read the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Interview with Prof. Jack Van Horn, 2025 Winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award — OHBM Communications
Author: Simon Steinkamp Editors: Zaki Alasmar, Ashley Tyrer
www.ohbm-com.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling"

Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks

Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠

🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi

w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!

Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social

#neuroskyence
Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle
While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very l…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Next up in our Award Winner Interview series is Dr. Meiqi Niu, the 2025 winner of the Karl Zilles Award! 🏆

We had the pleasure of speaking with Meiqi about her work in neuroimaging and her career journey so far. 💪

Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Interview with Dr. Meiqi Niu, 2025 Winner of the Karl Zilles Award — OHBM Communications
Author: Zaki Alasmar Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Simon Steinkamp
www.ohbm-com.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.

📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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he sleeps by day
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with @macshine.bsky.social as part of the OHBM Award Winner interview series; thanks for a great conversation! 🙏

Catch the interview here 👇
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org

@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop

More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Congratulations to all of this year's OHBM Award Winners! 🏆
We're thrilled to share the full list of award winners, and we’ll also be posting exclusive interviews with each of them in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more 👀
👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/o8brgzb...
OHBM Award Winners - 2025 — OHBM Communications
Authors: Ashley Tyrer Editors: Zaki Alasmar
www.ohbm-com.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The hard problem is solved - Thanks @naddenmark.bsky.social !
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Julia Masselos, host of the SciComm Spectrum podcast, about all things science communication! 🔬 🤓

We discussed my role leading the blog team for @ohbm-com.com, and also my research on decision-making 🧠

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb07...
Making Research Relatable — Why Science Belongs to All of Us
YouTube video by The SciComm Spectrum
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The OHBM Executive Office is hard at work getting ready for OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux. Preparation is well underway for an inspiring meeting in a truly historic city.
Join us June 14–18, 2026
Learn more about our visit by clicking the link in the comments.
#OHBM2026 #BrainMapping
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM