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Micah G. Allen

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Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton. https://www.the-ecg.org

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 30

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health

Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 3h

words. to. live by!

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · 1d

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome often have impaired glucose metabolism. A personalized low-glycemic diet can achieve therapeutic benefits comparable to established treatments.
Schmelter et al, Gut 🩺
gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

Impaired glucose metabolism in irritable bowel syndrome: personalised low-glycaemic diet as potential therapeutic target

We read with great interest the recent study by Gilliam-Vigh et al demonstrating significant transcriptomic alterations in the intestinal mucosa of individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D), particularly...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 1d

Grant submitted! At least my turn around time is decreasing, though my success rate does too!

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Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to hear the latest science updates from @czimmerman.bsky.social on Monday, 1-2 pm CST. You can join us too—either on Zoom or in person! bit.ly/3VOJrcy

Neuroscience lecture by Dr. Chris Zimmerman on Body-Brain interactions in learning

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SINe Lab @sinelabdtu.bsky.social · 4d

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self

We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling

People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 5d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 5d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 5d

How exercise promotes the immune system vs cancer, working through a gut bacteria metabolite
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 5d

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 6d

The thing I find bizarre about (my) adhd is that it takes immense effort for me to start working, but once I am working I usually enjoy it quite a lot. It could be so much easier...

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 6d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Siawoosh Mohammadi @siawooshmr.bsky.social · 7d

And I will give a talk in the session "Quantitative MRI and its confoundings" (Friday, 10/10/25) with the title "Quantitative MRI and its confounding" - I didn't choose the title🤣

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 7d

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 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...

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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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 7d

Congratulations Rebecca!!

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 7d

woops!

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

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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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 8d

Our new paper finds that AI can overcome partisan #bias

We find that AI sources are preferred over ingroup and outgroup sources--even when people know both are equally accurate (N = 1,600+): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Gemma Boleda @gboleda.bsky.social · 8d

New paper! 🚨 I argue that LLMs represent a synthesis between distributed and symbolic approaches to language, because, when exposed to language, they develop highly symbolic representations and processing mechanisms in addition to distributed ones.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856

Sigmoid function. Non-linearities in neural network allow it to behave in distributed and near-symbolic fashions.

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 8d

Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building
dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...

He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 9d

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png.

There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful.

Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies.

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 8d

A phase 3 trial with over 800 people published in Nature Medicine shows that the cannabis extract VER-01 reduces chronic low back pain, without serious side effects or signs of addiction. go.nature.com/46JrUb4 #medsky 🧪

This is figure 3, which shows the effect of VER-01 on NRS pain and NPSI scores as compared with Placebo.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8d

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jul 5

“More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump [regime] dismantling USAID… Around 4.5 million would be among children under 5… 88 deaths per hour.”

“It’s not left-wing rhetoric to feed the hungry, heal the sick. If this isn’t murder, I don’t know what is.” Bono

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