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Liam Satchell @liamsatchell.bsky.social · 5d

New paper! - I was wrong! We checked and checked again we were definitely wrong.

And I couldn't be happier that we are able to publish these findings at QJEP - Satchell, Hall & Jones 🧵

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 4d

Science fiction science, by the ever-thoughtful Iyad Rahwan: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The science fiction science method - Nature

The ‘science fiction science’ method simulates future technologies and collects quantitative data on the attitudes and behaviours of participants in various future scenarios, with the aim of predicting impacts of future technologies before they arrive.

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations. 🥳🎉

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SINe Lab @sinelabdtu.bsky.social · 9d

🫁❤️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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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely article in @uk.theconversation.com by Maria Ahmad who is doing her PhD research supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk in my lab on oceanic navigation in the Marshall Islands.

This is her coverage of our voyage to Aur atoll this summer:

theconversation.com/my-voyage-to...

My voyage to explore how Marshallese sailors find their way at sea without technology

Scientists have been exploring the role that neuroscience plays in ocean navigation.

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 17d

experiments with in-person social manipulations in the lab are like a miniature piece of theatre - the behaviour of the experimenter can impact on how the participant understands and performs the tasks. And Shakespeare is not the same with a bad theatre director.

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Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · 20d

Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 21d

30 years since this happened (28 since I wrote about it). I still recall that wonderful tree and the generosity of my patient in her final illness. www.bmj.com/content/315/...

Article 'The conker tree'. BMJ November 1997.

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 22d

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dalin Yang, Adam T. Eggebrecht, et al:

Mapping brain function underlying naturalistic motor observation and imitation using high-density diffuse optical tomography

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Gal Rozic @galrozic.bsky.social · 24d

Had the opportunity to present our #fNIRS hyperscanning study @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social at #ICON2025 in the Social And Embodied Language Learning Symposium. Felt small in the huge auditorium but the room was filled w/ inspiring questions!

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25d

Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review - Nature Medicine

The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you for hosting us and looking forward to seeing everyone in London

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Emily S. Cross @escross.bsky.social · 26d

What an utterly delightful, inspiring and downright ace two days it has been hosting the Zurich Neuroscience Center-sponsored Social Connection workshop at @ethz.ch‘s glorious Villa Hatt! 🤩 SO much brilliant research & discussion shared while we socially connected over great food and stellar views!

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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · 27d

I'm so excited to finally share work that’s been a couple of years in the making!
See our new paper on *social interactions in #autism*, co-authored with Isabel Dziobek, @antoniahamilton.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social 🎉
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Social Interaction Style in Autism: A Narrative Review of Social Behaviors and Outcomes in Autistic and Neurotypical Interactions | Autism in Adulthood

Social interaction difficulties are a defining feature of autism. Historically, research has concentrated on comparing the social behaviors of autistic and neurotypical individuals in cross-neurotype ...

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions!

Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response!

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

Communicating emotional intentions via emojis influences how people evaluate and mimic facial expressions during social interactions. Sending a smile emoji increased pleasantness and mimicry of happy...

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Gal Rozic @galrozic.bsky.social · Sep 6

Had a great time presenting our #fNIRS study w/ @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social @ #ESCOP2025!🧠 Grateful for the thought-provoking discussions that keep inspiring our work. A fantastic conference ending on a high note in beautiful Peak District ⛰️

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We all know: humans are very social animals

But this study helps to quantify that premise. (even things we "know" to be true need to be shown to be empirically true)

People prefer doing almost ALL activities with others (vs alone).

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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

De Felice et al 2025: relational neuroscience, insights from hyperscanning

Flux 2025 symposium - is neural synchrony a developmental mechanism?

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

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Andrea Brovelli @brovelli.bsky.social · Sep 5

⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Postdoc in computational cognitive neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

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Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar @drswijeakumar.bsky.social · Sep 4

We just published a new paper from our NeuroSync dataset in Infancy. Led by @aimeetheyer.bsky.social. We looked at brain function in caregivers and infants during joint and continued attention periods, and links to infant visual short-term/working memory.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brain‐Behavior Associations During Interactions Between Caregivers and Infants

Previous research has shown that infants' abilities to sustain attention are influenced by caregivers' attentional behaviors. Here, we inquired whether brain function in infants was linked to brain f...

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · Aug 31

New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study

The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England

Out soon. Preprint:
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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢

Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.

🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io

🚨closes September 12th!

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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 ...

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Saloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan.bsky.social · Aug 26

It’s not just what you read—it’s whether you chose to read it.

In our new paper out at QJEP 🎉 we show that:
👉 Having a choice over what you read makes reading more enjoyable
👉 …and makes people willing to pay more for books

EXPRESS: Providing choice enhances reading motivation - Amrita Bains, Carina Spaulding, Jessie Ricketts, Saloni Krishnan, 2025

Multiple literacy programmes embed choice of reading material into their programmes, as this is believed to enhance motivation for reading. Yet, this practice h...

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