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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17

9/ Check out the actual study for many more analyses, e.g., phenotypic variation, scan parameters, signal to noise ratio, etc! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Thank you to the editor @meharpist.bsky.social and anonymous reviewers for the many helpful suggestions, which greatly improved the study.

Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies - Nature

Although the number of participants is important for phenotypic prediction accuracy in brain-wide association studies using functional MRI, scanning for at least 30 min offers the greatest cost effect...

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Jul 11

What mental health issues matter most to South Asian youth? Our new paper dives into their priorities for future research, led by a brilliant global team of Usman Hamdani and Amy Finlay Jones and others @wellcometrust.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Involving young people with lived experience in advancing mental health science: an exploratory qualitative study from Pakistan and India - BMC Psychiatry

Background Meaningful involvement of young People with Lived Experience (PWLE) in co-designing youth mental health interventions has been much emphasized globally. However, there is a scarcity of evid...

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Jun 27

A treat to hear the brilliant Isabel Dziobek speak about psychotherapy and social robotics - starting off the second day at Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Jun 26

Prof Ioannis Patras starts the final talk of the day, on multimodal AI for emotion recognition in context #ReadEmo25

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Jun 26

It's finally here! Looking forward to two days of immersion in facial expressions research from around the world at Reading Emotions 2025 sites.google.com/site/reading...
#ReadEmo25

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · May 15

There are a few misconceptions about autism and empathy in the public discourse. It was great to be part of this podcast in trying to dispel some of these notions - alongwith colleagues across the world. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Autism, empathy and psychopaths

Why society must rethink the damaging stereotypes about autistic people and low empathy.

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Mar 25

A job bonanza for #psychology and #neuroscience academics- to join our thriving department! We are looking to recruit one Professor and up to 3 Assistant Professors in Psychology/Neuroscience - please spread the word!
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK

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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · Mar 1

Register now for the 14th annual Reading Emotions on 26-27 June with a stellar interdisciplinary line-up of speakers to discuss “Facial expressions of emotion”. Submit abstracts for short talks and apply for travel grants sites.google.com/site/reading.... We look forward to seeing you at #ReadEmo25

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Feb 17

For Bangla speakers amongst us, here's a recent freewheeling chat on Autism, Empathy, and India - with The Coffee House Experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIfx...

CHE#57 | Bangla Podcast | Autism in India - From Denial to Empathy | Bhismadev Chakrabarti

YouTube video by The Coffee House Experience

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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · Jan 26

Spread the news

ISRE - International Society for Research on Emotion @isreorg.bsky.social · Jan 26

Welcome to ISRE's Bluesky account!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 28

During the first 2 years of the Covid pandemic, I offered multiple, online epidemiology courses for health & science journalists

You can watch videos and download slides 👇🏽

www.teachepi.org/courses/epid...

My Forbes piece is on my big take-aways: www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 22

Welcome back, Dean!

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 21

Interesting, look forward to reading it. Particularly interested to see the component of the similarities that can not be accounted for by similarities in diet within a community.

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looking forward to being back in my old lab, to talk about what we've been up to. If you're around in Cambridge, do pop by! talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

talks.cam : Social reward response as a lens to examine autism in and outside the lab

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Nov 18

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.

GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio

discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Sep 15

List of psychology-related starter packs!
#Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵

Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology
by @drboothroyd.bsky.social

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi Fiona, good to see you here!

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · Nov 16

Everything is everywhere all at once.

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Behavior can be decoded across the cortex when individual differences are considered

Abstract. Group-level analyses have typically linked behavioral signatures to a constrained set of brain areas. Here, we show that two behavioral metrics—reaction time (RT) and confidence—can be decod...

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 14

More recently, we have been looking at the interrelationship of empathy and emotion regulation. Key papers: psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-... link.springer.com/article/10.1... (5/5)

Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 14

A longstanding area of our interest is empathy. One strand has examined the role of reward in shaping empathy related processes, and implications for autism. Key papers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... (4/5)

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 14

The GutBrain project examines gut microbiota in relation to behaviour and brain function, with a focus on GABA. This project owes its origin to a lunchtime chat about bacteria producing GABA in the gut.. (and we found one in an in-vitro study too) academic.oup.com/jambio/artic... (3/5)

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 14

STREAM is a digital platform made of observation and game based assessments to measure aspects of social behaviour, cognition, motor function, and sensory interests. The platform has been used in studying ~4000 children in India and Malawi bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/6... (2/5)

Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol

Introduction Early childhood development forms the foundations for functioning later in life. Thus, accurate monitoring of developmental trajectories is critical. However, such monitoring often relies...

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 14

Since we're starting over, it might be a good idea to introduce some of the stuff we've been working on. We have a mix of lab-based projects (in UK) and community based projects (India, Malawi) - looking at measuring individual differences related to autism. (1/5)

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 12

I would love to be added to this list - thanks!

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Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social · Nov 12

Thanks for starting this - would love to join this list!

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