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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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#icanhazpdf I can feel it in my bones: Experienced intensity of emotion predicts in-the-moment awareness of body sensations. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... thnx!!
APA PsycNet
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January 21, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
Check below, this year Perception x Body (intero, propio) studies are also very wellcome!

join us in Majorca in May; best month to visit the islands ;)
January 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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nature.com
How does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection?

go.nature.com/4sMZuqW
Ageing rewires the body’s tolerance to infection
In life-threatening sepsis, the same signalling pathway that protects young mice from succumbing to organ dysfunction exacerbates damage and lethality in older animals.
go.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?).

Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" plotted over time
January 15, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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denizkumral.bsky.social
Finally I am looking for a motivated student assistant (HiWi, 80 hours/month) at Uni Freiburg (Neuropsychology) 🧠
Project on sleep, EEG, heart–brain dynamics & memory.
MATLAB/Python a plus.
📩 deniz.kumral at psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
January 16, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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eleanorpalser.bsky.social
It took several late night/early morning meetings, but I’m very happy to see this perspective piece on #Autistic #interoception published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interoception in Autism, Pitfalls, and Promise: A Participatory Research Perspective - Eleanor R. Palser, Wenn B. Lawson, Emma Goodall, Elizabeth Pellicano, 2026
Bodily autonomy is essential to Autistic well-being. Interoception supports bodily autonomy through guiding behavior in support of homeostasis. Promoting adapti...
journals.sagepub.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
The murder of Renee Good by ICE is an atrocity that must face justice. Thankfully, accurate and clear video footage shows that this was a cold-blooded murder. This iteration of the print pays homage to that.
A shadowy figure - an ICE agent - lurks menacingly at someone off screen, as a hand holding a phone points to him, filming him. Above and behind him is a Nazi soldier in grey, being held at the point of a bayonet. It says in red text, "We Beat 'Em Once.. We'll Beat 'Em Again!"
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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fmrib-steve.bsky.social
Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi:

A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file.

pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 7, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology

by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel

authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-...

osf.io/preprints/ps...
A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology Niels van Santen, Yves Rosseel, Daniele Marinazzo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2025.102969 Highlights • Information theory and psychology have a rich history • Information theoretical measures can be disconnected from information theory • These measures complement variance-based measures of variability and association • They are more general with respect to interpretation and possible data types • There are many extensions towards the investigation of higher-order interactions. Abstract In psychology, as in other sciences, information theory can be used as a tool to complement more standard regression-based methods of data analysis. It is important to see the potential of information theoretical measures as statistical tools without implying a connection to their origins in communication theory and engineering. The use of these measures may provide us with additional insights due to their sensitivity to non-linear relationships, their flexibility to the mixing of data types, and their more straightforward generalization towards investigating higher-order interactions. We briefly reintroduce information theory and compare several measures such as mutual information and co-information with correlation and regression-based methods for the investigation of variable dependence.
January 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
Just accepted 🎉

An integrative review on interoception and perception:

Cardiac, gastric, and respiratory brain–body axes;
perceptual, emotional, and decisional modulation;
neural markers (HEPs); + active sensing and ecological validity of current studies

🔗 shorturl.at/mtEVM
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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auksz.bsky.social
Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...
PhD Candidate: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Memory and Prediction
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you fascinated by how the brain remembers and predicts information, and how it can tell apart representations of past and future? At Maastricht University, you wi...
www.academictransfer.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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1. Create new rule
2. "recieved before 1/1/2026"
3. "mark as read"
4. "archive"

Zero inbox achieved!

#chaosmode
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Pleased to have finally ported our lab website to a github powered Jekyll site! With great thanks to @kordinglab.bsky.social whose template was quite easy to convert. www.the-ecg.org (some texts still WIP)
Embodied Computation Group
The Embodied Computation Group is a multidisciplinary research lab located at Aarhus University and Cambridge Psychiatr...
www.the-ecg.org
January 6, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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laklab.bsky.social
New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Dorsal striatal dopamine integrates sensory and reward prediction errors to guide perceptual decisions
Perceptual decisions are shaped by expectations about sensory stimuli and rewards, learned through sensory and reward prediction errors. Dopamine is known to convey reward prediction errors that shape...
www.biorxiv.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
micahgallen.com
ahaha, I am almost done with my finance admin. for 2025.

Oh wait...
January 5, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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The nefarious urge to opt out of applying for grants and just use my permanent position to do solo research for a few years....
January 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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kundakoviclab.bsky.social
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇

"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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adamjkucharski.bsky.social
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Happy new years to all!
December 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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libertysevers.bsky.social
Now published in Biological Reviews!

Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms
Decision-making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision-making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the co...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
micahgallen.com
Damn I went and spoke my mind. Hello anxiety. Time to drive 15 hours.
December 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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ajshackman.bsky.social
Bottom line is that this is all reverse inference of intrinsic functional connectivity. No task. No behavior. The take-home headline inferences (behavioral, cognitive, and psychological) are misaligned with the approach. You don't need imaging at all for drawing strong psych inferences.
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
#neuroscience
From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry
The brain uses geometric twists to expand neural dimensionality, thus untangling perception from sensation.
doi.org
December 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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practicalfmri.bsky.social
Any studies looked at cerebrovascular reactivity during or after tFUS? Perhaps a hypercapnic challenge such as breath hold assessed with ASL or BOLD? Could be an interesting, relatively simple way to assess the vascular effects of tFUS.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM