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Tahnée Engelen

@tahnee-engelen.bsky.social

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Postdoc in cognitive neuroscience 🧠 at the University of Jyväskylä 🇫🇮 . Previously Ecole Normale Superiéure 🇫🇷 & Maastricht University 🇳🇱 Interested in brain-body interactions, interoception, emotions Website: www.tahneeengelen.com

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · Sep 15

We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry.

I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 14

The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1

Interoception refers to the sensing of the internal state of the body and encompasses various bodily

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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 12h

📈🧠 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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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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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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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 5d

Mijn allereerste blog voor @inmindnl.bsky.social staat nu online!

In-Mind Nederland @inmindnl.bsky.social · 5d

Steeds meer mensen dragen in hun dagelijks leven een smartwatch, die alsmaar meer info kan geven over onze fysieke gezondheid. Maar kunnen deze zogenaamd slimme apparaatjes ook iets zeggen over hoe we ons mentaal voelen? Lees de blog van @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social: nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/ka...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6d

Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679456v1

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall has died.

She was truly a beacon of light in this world.

I had the good fortune of seeing her speak shortly before COVID arrived. She showed such warmth, compassion, integrity, and intelligence.

Jane, the animals thank you for your selfless work.

www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 11d

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social · 12d

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 15d

Come chat with us this Friday at the Researcher’s night about the brain-body research we are doing at the university!

Suvi Karjalainen @suvikarjalainen.bsky.social · 15d

Tervetuloa Tutkijoiden yöhön!

🧠 Muuttuvat aivot
🕛 26.9. 16.00-21.00
📍 Alfa, Agora, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

#TutkijoidenYö #ResearchersNight #Tiedetaivas

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 15d

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering.

There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism.

A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism

President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research

www.theguardian.com

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 15d

Germans speak better Dutch when they’ve consumed alcohol 🍺

Erasmus Magazine @erasmusmagazine.bsky.social · 16d

Researchers in Maastricht have won the Ig Nobel Prize for discovering that alcohol can help when speaking a foreign language – especially with pronunciation.

Ig Nobel Prize: Germans speak better Dutch with a drink - Erasmus Magazine

www.erasmusmagazine.nl

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Mothers in Science @mothersinsci.bsky.social · 16d

Join our team! We’re looking for volunteers to join our team & help advocate for #mothersinSTEMM. If you're passionate about our mission, can commit 2h/week & have experience with social media and/or writing & editing, get in touch!
Let us know 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#WomenInSTEM

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 16d

This is so cool 🤩

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Susanne Vogel @susannevogel.bsky.social · 16d

🧵 New study alert!
How does 🌡️ room temperature relate to how our body reacts to 😰 psychosocial stress?
We looked at everyday indoor temperature variation (17–28 °C) and measured stress markers in the body.

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In-Mind Nederland @inmindnl.bsky.social · 16d

Verwachtingen kunnen ons onderzoeksproces sturen en resultaten vervormen. Daarom moeten wetenschappers zich tegen die verwachtingen beschermen en #openscience kan daarbij helpen. In het kader van #openscienceweek schreef @liannewolsink.bsky.social hierover een blog: nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/wr...

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 16d

This narrative is so tiring and shockingly alive in 2025. Same goes for extreme nausea which in many countries is often still not treated (because it’s simply “part of it”) despite many completely safe drugs being on the market.

Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 18d

That concludes my first time doing back to back conferences and my first time conferencing while pregnant. I’d like to urge my future self to be a bit less ambitious with planning, but it was lovely seeing so many new and familiar faces. I’m now more than ready to retreat back into the woods.

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 19d

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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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 19d

It’s the infamous morning after the social event, but don’t let that stop you from joining our symposium! We are (mostly) awake and ready to deliver some great talks on brain-body interactions 🫁 🧠 #ICON2025

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 20d

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 22d

While the neuroscientists are meeting in the venue, the cats of Porto seem to be holding their own society meeting outside

Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 22d

Visiting #ICON2025 this week? Don’t miss our symposium on Friday on state-dependencies of brain-body interactions!

Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 23d

Finally, we'll have the Brain-Body States Symposium on Friday morning, featuring @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov.
Friday's poster session will also feature the lab's recent work on respiration and active sampling.

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