Dr. Angelica Lim
@petitegeek.bsky.social
Computing Science prof in multimodal embodied AI, emotion, interaction at SFU in Vancouver 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Director of the Rosie Lab www.rosielab.ca Robotics nerd. Previously at SoftBank Robotics 🤖 FR/JP
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Dr. Angelica Lim
@petitegeek.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Hi all!👋 This year, my sabbatical will focus on learning more about the brain, esp. neural mechanisms behind social theory of mind & affect. This includes its breakdowns, e.g. psychosis, hallucinations and delusions related to ToM. I'll be posting what I learn along the way. Thanks for connecting! ☺️
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
Fascinating weekend read by @aldersonday.bsky.social on the phenomenon of felt presence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Fascinating weekend read by @aldersonday.bsky.social on the phenomenon of felt presence.
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
What should the field prioritize over the next 10 years? I agree with all 4 of these!!
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
What should the field prioritize over the next 10 years? I agree with all 4 of these!!
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
An absolutely fascinating talk by Iris Zhou at Hiroshima University following 3 individuals who fell in love with AI, ending with a discussion on whether algorithmic love constitutes "real love" (from 31:40) youtu.be/RWPX-S7B1pw?...
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An absolutely fascinating talk by Iris Zhou at Hiroshima University following 3 individuals who fell in love with AI, ending with a discussion on whether algorithmic love constitutes "real love" (from 31:40) youtu.be/RWPX-S7B1pw?...
Is anyone following me an expert on love? I find the possible link between infatuation and psychosis compelling:
"Professionals working with patients who have experienced psychosis know that love often triggers the first psychotic episode (and in some cases also subsequent ones)." shorturl.at/R2H9D
"Professionals working with patients who have experienced psychosis know that love often triggers the first psychotic episode (and in some cases also subsequent ones)." shorturl.at/R2H9D
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Is anyone following me an expert on love? I find the possible link between infatuation and psychosis compelling:
"Professionals working with patients who have experienced psychosis know that love often triggers the first psychotic episode (and in some cases also subsequent ones)." shorturl.at/R2H9D
"Professionals working with patients who have experienced psychosis know that love often triggers the first psychotic episode (and in some cases also subsequent ones)." shorturl.at/R2H9D
560 000 ChatGPT users are showing signs of psychosis or mania per week. About twice as many are showing signs of heightened emotional attachment.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
openai.com/index/streng...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
openai.com/index/streng...
ChatGPT: More than a million users show signs of mental health distress and mania each week, internal data suggest
Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates.1
The finding, released as part of an update to the AI technology to...
www.bmj.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
560 000 ChatGPT users are showing signs of psychosis or mania per week. About twice as many are showing signs of heightened emotional attachment.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
openai.com/index/streng...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
openai.com/index/streng...
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Implicit Narratives in Comic Strip?
Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song, Longyu Guan, Qingxiu Dong, Rui Li, Yixin Yang, Yifan Pu, Weiyao Luo, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Wenjie Li, Zhifang Sui. Findings of the Association for Computatio...
aclanthology.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
"NEO might not fold my shirt perfectly, but if an arm is kind of half hanging out of the shirt, it's OK, it's robotic slop" 🤣 Not sure what to think about this. Ideally, the housekeepers wouldn't need to leave their families in their home country and could work at the same wages. Realistically...
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"NEO might not fold my shirt perfectly, but if an arm is kind of half hanging out of the shirt, it's OK, it's robotic slop" 🤣 Not sure what to think about this. Ideally, the housekeepers wouldn't need to leave their families in their home country and could work at the same wages. Realistically...
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
Amazing opportunity! Please reach out if you are excited to work on the neuroscience of mood/happiness and want to apply. We have so much going on in this space @upenn.edu and it’s “all hands on deck” to meet society’s needs. Here at Penn we’re eager to support & launch the next gen in this space.
Seeking applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline, for our MindCORE Fellowship.
MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior.
Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...
MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior.
Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Amazing opportunity! Please reach out if you are excited to work on the neuroscience of mood/happiness and want to apply. We have so much going on in this space @upenn.edu and it’s “all hands on deck” to meet society’s needs. Here at Penn we’re eager to support & launch the next gen in this space.
This week I'm learning about circadian clocks. Interestingly, our bodies have separate clocks entrained by light and food. The light-dark (LD) cycle synchronizing the SCN in the hypothalamus, and food-entrainable oscillators (FEO) throughout the body.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32047614/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32047614/
Food as circadian time cue for appetitive behavior - PubMed
Feeding schedules entrain circadian clocks in multiple brain regions and most peripheral organs and tissues, thereby synchronizing daily rhythms of foraging behavior and physiology with times of day w...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This week I'm learning about circadian clocks. Interestingly, our bodies have separate clocks entrained by light and food. The light-dark (LD) cycle synchronizing the SCN in the hypothalamus, and food-entrainable oscillators (FEO) throughout the body.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32047614/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32047614/
Doing final checks on my Intro to Programming book and I'm really psyched about it. It takes an approach to learning programming that reflects my journey in learning French and Japanese. If you can learn a second language, you can learn Python! Out in Spring! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Python Practice Lab
A guide to learning basic programming by writing fun, working programs that gradually become more complex
press.princeton.edu
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Doing final checks on my Intro to Programming book and I'm really psyched about it. It takes an approach to learning programming that reflects my journey in learning French and Japanese. If you can learn a second language, you can learn Python! Out in Spring! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Illusions are so fascinating. Apparently we perceive words as taller if we know them (as opposed to pseudo-words) and perceive words as *louder* if we know them, too. journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
Listening to Foreign Languages: Pump Up the Volume! | Journal of Cognition
journalofcognition.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Illusions are so fascinating. Apparently we perceive words as taller if we know them (as opposed to pseudo-words) and perceive words as *louder* if we know them, too. journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start?
🎮 Choose your character
👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin
🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social
🎮 Choose your character
👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin
🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social
In some way, it's trivial:
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'
by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
September 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Interested in brain-body interactions but unsure where to start?
🎮 Choose your character
👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin
🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social
🎮 Choose your character
👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬 Current scientists: a new review by @michaelgaebler.com A. Villringer & V. Nikulin
🧒🏼👧🏾 Future scientists (and people of all ages): our scicomm article with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & @el-rei.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
September 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
As an engineer, it's fascinating to take a translational neuroscience course from @sfuneuro.bsky.social. This term, the goal is start to fill in the blanks - how do we go from molecules to behaviour? www.sfu.ca/neuro-instit... Super compelling!
www.sfu.ca
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
As an engineer, it's fascinating to take a translational neuroscience course from @sfuneuro.bsky.social. This term, the goal is start to fill in the blanks - how do we go from molecules to behaviour? www.sfu.ca/neuro-instit... Super compelling!
This week, I'm reading Strong Imagination by @danielnettle.bsky.social, recommended to me by a biology colleague working on schizophrenia. It's fascinating to read research spanning biological evidence to social science.
September 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This week, I'm reading Strong Imagination by @danielnettle.bsky.social, recommended to me by a biology colleague working on schizophrenia. It's fascinating to read research spanning biological evidence to social science.
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review.
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
March 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review.
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Week 1 of a molecular neuroscience course - I don't know what I don't know. Also, it seems I don't know a lot ☺️
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Week 1 of a molecular neuroscience course - I don't know what I don't know. Also, it seems I don't know a lot ☺️
Next up on my sabbatical journey is this book by Stephanie Cacioppo. It's simultaneously intellectually invigorating and heart wrenching.
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Next up on my sabbatical journey is this book by Stephanie Cacioppo. It's simultaneously intellectually invigorating and heart wrenching.
Fascinating study by Agnieszka Wykowska's group that shows that resting state EEG can predict whether an individual treats a robot as intentional agents or mechanistic artifacts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The human brain reveals resting state activity patterns that are predictive of biases in attitudes toward robots
Biases toward treating robots as intentional agents or mechanical artifacts show a distinct neural activation pattern at rest.
www.science.org
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Fascinating study by Agnieszka Wykowska's group that shows that resting state EEG can predict whether an individual treats a robot as intentional agents or mechanistic artifacts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
Paper from OpenAI says hallucinations are less a problem with LLMs themselves & more an issue with training on tests that only reward right answers. That encourages guessing rather than saying “I don’t know”
If true, there is a straightforward path for more reliable AI through better training.
If true, there is a straightforward path for more reliable AI through better training.
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Paper from OpenAI says hallucinations are less a problem with LLMs themselves & more an issue with training on tests that only reward right answers. That encourages guessing rather than saying “I don’t know”
If true, there is a straightforward path for more reliable AI through better training.
If true, there is a straightforward path for more reliable AI through better training.
Reposted by Dr. Angelica Lim
Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TIL about asymbolia for pain due to insula lesions. Asymbolics can perceive stimuli as painful and estimate pain intensity, but not have emotional reactions. Makes me wonder if pain mapping is a continuous ability? Can it be trained/learned?
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
TIL about asymbolia for pain due to insula lesions. Asymbolics can perceive stimuli as painful and estimate pain intensity, but not have emotional reactions. Makes me wonder if pain mapping is a continuous ability? Can it be trained/learned?
Feels satisfying!
September 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Feels satisfying!