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James Kilner
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Professor of Neuroscience at UCL, London. My research is focussed on Interoception, Predictive coding, Social Cognition and social interactions and Movement Disorders
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sarahgarf.bsky.social
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jameskilner.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to see Radiohead in concert at the weekend. Absolutely amazing - hopefully someday I will get to study these types of social situations.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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plosbiology.org
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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jtheriault.bsky.social
Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
jameskilner.bsky.social
I did a small thing for the BBC on the remarkable increase in people listening to ambient music.

Here

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

and here

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Why modern life has us turning to ambient music - BBC Sounds
Dani Thomas explores the genre's surge in popularity
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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sinelabdtu.bsky.social
🫁❤️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...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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drrickadams.bsky.social
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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September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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martinasaltafossi.bsky.social
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
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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sansmeeting.bsky.social
Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...
Symposia Guidelines - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
socialaffectiveneuro.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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jungheelee.bsky.social
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Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …
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September 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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olejensen.bsky.social
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
jameskilner.bsky.social
Using SPM to show that people's faces change colour with their heartbeat.- The centre face is aligned to the R-peak and the red colour shows areas of the face where there is an increase in the green colour in the image and blue a decrease. #neuroscience #social #interoception #heartbeats
September 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
3 (!) open PhD positions at @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on brain and bodily oscillations and their role in cognition: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD Candidates - Flexible Oscillatory Workspace (FLOW)
PhD Candidates - Flexible Oscillatory Workspace (FLOW)
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
August 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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peterkok.bsky.social
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

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
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍

We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes.

👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc

🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!
Breathing Through Your Day: A Brief Reflection Survey
You move, interact, speak, listen, think, and feel. Life unfolds through a rich variety of experiences and tasks.
test.uib.es
July 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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nataliepeluso.com
Making Sense of Sensation: A model of Interoceptive Attribution and Appraisal with Clinical applications

New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social

#interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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July 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠

We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.

In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn

1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!
July 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
jameskilner.bsky.social
Tim Key poem MRI
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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dickretired.bsky.social
The Royal Society is offering £4 million per researcher for scientists in the USA who want to move to the UK. The money offered is £30 million in all for all the Fellowships. These Faraday Fellowships are for 5 to 10 years.
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
🧠 NEW REVIEW

"Interoceptive Rhythms & Perceptual Experience
Mechanisms, Contexts & Strategies for Real-World Research"

How heart, lungs & gut shape what we see, feel & do—& how to study it in everyday life.

🔗 tinyurl.com/4ex7chdr
#NeuroSky #Interoception #Perception

👇 Thread 🧵
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May 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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zacndr.bsky.social
🚨 Early-bird deadline approaching! ⏳

Only 3 days left to early-bird registration for Adriatica2025 🫀🫁🧠

📍 Pescara, Italy | 8–12 September 2025

Secure your spot by May 15th to benefit from reduced rates!

www.dnisc.unich.it/pagina-adria...

@fraferri.bsky.social @lauramrz.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
Don't miss our upcoming #SPM course for #EEG & #MEG online from 19-22 May 2025! 🧠

We'll cover preprocessing, source reconstruction, DCM & OPM analyses. Practicals will include SPM-Python!

Programme: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/docs/cou...

Register by May 11th 👇 onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Course schedule - SPM Documentation
Documentation of the SPM Software for neuroimaging
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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alexgalvezpol.bsky.social
Preprint updated. One of the edits: including a set of recommendations under the acronym HEARTS 👇
March 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
jameskilner.bsky.social
In July 2026 my wife is taking part in an artist and scientific residency to the Arctic Circle. She is raising funds for part of this trip. If you are in a position to be able to help in any way please see the links below. Thank you

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#arctic #climatechange
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March 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
jameskilner.bsky.social
Looking for any papers that report a significant increase in any effect (not motor) in systole compared with diastole. I think I have an exhaustive list but just checking that I have not missed any. If you know of any please let me know. Thanks #interoception #cardiac
February 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM