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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
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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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 22d

Reilly, Brown & Frank link altered taste, touch, vision, and gut sensing to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, highlight knowledge gaps, and proposing neurobiologically-informed strategies for clinical translation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38730196/

Perceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders - PubMed

Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by abnormal responses to food and weight-related stimuli and are associated with significant distress, impairment, and poor outcomes. Because many of the cardi...

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 23d

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?

Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓

#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 26d

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · Sep 9

In this @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Spotlight, I describe how a recent paper by @leahbanellis.bsky.social, @brainandstomach.bsky.social, et al. opens new avenues in interoception research, including those focussed on the subjective interpretation of internal signals: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health

In common parlance, ‘being in touch with your body’ is often used positively. However, in a recent study, Banellis, Rebollo, and colleagues show that better stomach–brain synchronisation is actually a...

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Sep 5

🧠 New publication out!
👁️‍🗨️ 🫀 In this perspective, we draw parallels with anosognosia
for hemiplegia, commonly seen in acute stroke patients, in the attempt to explain anosognosia for the illness in anorexia nervosa, based on recent
computational accounts

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Frontiers | The adamant adherence to a prior belief: the case of anosognosia in anorexia nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a complex psychiatric disorder marked by restrictive eating and distorted body image. Often, individuals with AN show a persistent d...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · Aug 28

A roller coaster of a thread for any interoceptive researchers ⬇️

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow, this is the kind of evidence we need to move ahead in the field. I'll go out on a limb here: I guess it is more about the gut than cardiac and respiratory domains. Huge effort by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com and the entire team 👏

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 27

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.25334366v1

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 28

the tldr of my thread is that, interoceptive sensing at rest has no relationship to mental health symptoms, and we think this is likely because we need to measure interoception during and after arousal, close in time to symptoms, with ecological measures.

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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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 ...

www.medrxiv.org

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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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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

This leads me to our final point. Interoceptive accuracy is not the construct for emotion or mental health. We think that interoceptive narratives and beliefs, and how interoceptive sensastions change during acute stress and arousal, is so much more important.

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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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Courtney @courtneyhwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 8

Research opportunity! Email or click the link for more info: www.canva.com/design/DAGmM...

Please share thank you!
#eatingdisorders #EDAwareness #emotions #ResearchStudy #ParticipateInResearch #PsychologyResearch #NHSresearch #UKresearch #students
@jrefox.bsky.social
‪@livuniresearch.bsky.social‬

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Una Foye @unafoye.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢New research 📢 Our new qualitative study provides the first in-depth study exploring individuals experiences and views regarding why people with eating disorders are at risk of suicide. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@saakshikakar.bsky.social @mrtzhrl.bsky.social
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‘It’s the perfect storm’: why are people with eating disorders at risk of suicide? A qualitative study - BMC Medicine

Background Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with elevated all-cause mortality, with suicide cited as the second leading cause of death among individuals with EDs. Evidence suggests that individua...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Oct 31

🚨 New preprint on the role of eating disorder symptoms in accelerating response vigor during foraging decisions 💫
w/ Sam Hall-McMaster

📜Link: t.co/C2lep57X4k

💻Code and data: t.co/C2lep57X4k

TLDR: RTs of the eating disorder group get progressively faster over the course of a block.

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Paul Steinfath @paulsteinfath.bsky.social · Aug 13

Could the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods?

In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:

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Youth Resilience Unit @qmulresilience.bsky.social · Aug 18

Join us for this free online seminar - Positive body image and prevention of #eating #disorders in a #school context, Dr Hannah Lewis, 23 September 2025, 4-5PM UK. Please share and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/positive-b...

Positive body image and prevention of eating disorders in a school context

The role of promoting a positive body image in improving young people's mental health.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Lily Smythe @lilysmythe.bsky.social · Aug 11

🧠 New study at KCL looking for volunteers with both #FND and #Autism to take part in an interview sharing your experiences!

- 15 minute survey followed by a 1 hour interview

Interested?
✉️ Please message me: [email protected]

Thanks for sharing!

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Kirralise Hansford @kirrraliseh.bsky.social · Aug 1

The final paper from my PhD has been published!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!

screenshot of the abstract of the paper - which can be found at the link in the post

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 25

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
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Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

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