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Ashley Tyrer

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Postdoc at @the-ecg.bsky.social, researching noradrenaline and decision-making with a sprinkle of Dynamic Causal Modelling and Active Inference 🧠 OHBM Communications Committee 🤓 📰 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashley-Tyrer

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Mar 10

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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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 1d

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
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Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
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Scientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental health

Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang...

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 20d

That’s a wrap! Thanks to the speakers @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov and co-organiser @danlikesbrains.bsky.social for a great symposium 💪

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29d

as if by magic

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks so much to everyone who attended my DCM for Evoked Responses workshop on Saturday for #CPC2025 - it's always a pleasure to contribute 🙏🧠
#CPCZurich2025 #neuroskyence

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 9

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to be taking over the @realscientists.de account for this week - nice chance to post from the road (German only, sorry) about brain-body stuff, #neuroskyence in general, and the fantastic people at Adriatica Summer School in Pescara organized by @teamlabuda.bsky.social
#scicomm

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looking forward to giving my Dynamic Casual Modelling for Evoked Responses workshop this afternoon, on another beautiful day in Zurich 😍🧠 #CPC2025 #neuroskyence

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Sep 3

For all at @au.dk, our Writing Cafe is back from this Friday (5th Sept)! We offer a space for distraction-free writing and welcome new faces warmly.

The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time.

End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

IMC Friday Writing Café

An open, self-organized space for doing concentrated writing

interactingminds.au.dk

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 28

The latest from our lab @the-ecg.bsky.social: interoceptive sensing at rest is *not* related to mental health symptoms 🤔 Read our study here 👇

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 ...

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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Aug 20

New preprint! 🧠

Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 18

That's a wrap for #CCN2025! Thanks again to everyone who came to my poster and discussed my research, it was great chatting to you all 😁🧠
#neuroskyence

Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks so much! 😊

Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 13

#neuroskyence

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Read the full study here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Peripheral Beta-Blockade Differentially Enhances Cardiac and Respiratory Interoception

Interoception, the perception of internal visceral states, arises from complex brain-body interactions across the central and peripheral nervous systems. Despite noradrenaline’s key role in these inte...

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Gearing up for another day at #CCN2025! Catch me this afternoon at poster B168 in E-Hall where I'll be talking about my recent study on beta blockers and interoception 🧠+🫀🫁+💊

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Only two more days until #CCN2025 in Amsterdam! Really looking forward to seeing many fellow computationalists there 🙏🧠

CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 1

Less than 2 weeks until CCN 2025 in Amsterdam! Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, August 12-15 at University of Amsterdam 🧠

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Katharina V. Wellstein @kvwellstein.bsky.social · Aug 8

I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since?

I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · Jul 30

The heartbeat evoked potential correlates with fluctuations in blood pressure: journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials reflect changes in blood pressure | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

The heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) is a growingly used electrophysiological method to study cardiac interoception; however, cardiovascular influences on these responses are not fully understood. In ...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jul 24

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

Dreams - Su Shi (trans. Arthur Waley)

Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · Jul 24

Undoubtedly the most massive group effort I was ever lucky to be involved in. Led by the ever-unwavering
@annekeitel.bsky.social, this preprint synthesizes the status quo of what we (don't) know about neural oscillations. Grateful to be part of the @scone-neuro.bsky.social network. #neuroskyence

Anne Keitel @annekeitel.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Jul 21

Last Tuesday I was delighted to present my work on noradrenaline, decision-making, and interoception at the CFIN Summer School in Neuroimaging, @au.dk, including work from my most recent preprint! 🧠 💊

Read my preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...