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Ashley Tyrer
@ashleytyrer.bsky.social
Assistant Prof with @the-ecg.bsky.social, researching noradrenaline and decision-making with a sprinkle of Dynamic Causal Modelling and Active Inference 🧠
Blog Team Lead, OHBM Communications Committee 🤓 📰
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashley-Tyrer
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1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉

Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Our third interview in the Award Winner Interview series features the 2025 winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award: Prof Jack Van Horn! 🏆 @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social

Huge thanks for the stimulating conversation! ⭐

Read the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Interview with Prof. Jack Van Horn, 2025 Winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award — OHBM Communications
Author: Simon Steinkamp Editors: Zaki Alasmar, Ashley Tyrer
www.ohbm-com.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling"

Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks

Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠

🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi

w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!

Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social

#neuroskyence
Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle
While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very l…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Next up in our Award Winner Interview series is Dr. Meiqi Niu, the 2025 winner of the Karl Zilles Award! 🏆

We had the pleasure of speaking with Meiqi about her work in neuroimaging and her career journey so far. 💪

Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
Interview with Dr. Meiqi Niu, 2025 Winner of the Karl Zilles Award — OHBM Communications
Author: Zaki Alasmar Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Simon Steinkamp
www.ohbm-com.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.

📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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he sleeps by day
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with @macshine.bsky.social as part of the OHBM Award Winner interview series; thanks for a great conversation! 🙏

Catch the interview here 👇
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org

@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop

More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Congratulations to all of this year's OHBM Award Winners! 🏆
We're thrilled to share the full list of award winners, and we’ll also be posting exclusive interviews with each of them in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more 👀
👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/o8brgzb...
OHBM Award Winners - 2025 — OHBM Communications
Authors: Ashley Tyrer Editors: Zaki Alasmar
www.ohbm-com.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The hard problem is solved - Thanks @naddenmark.bsky.social !
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Julia Masselos, host of the SciComm Spectrum podcast, about all things science communication! 🔬 🤓

We discussed my role leading the blog team for @ohbm-com.com, and also my research on decision-making 🧠

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb07...
Making Research Relatable — Why Science Belongs to All of Us
YouTube video by The SciComm Spectrum
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The OHBM Executive Office is hard at work getting ready for OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux. Preparation is well underway for an inspiring meeting in a truly historic city.
Join us June 14–18, 2026
Learn more about our visit by clicking the link in the comments.
#OHBM2026 #BrainMapping
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Cortical Microstructural Variations Explain Individual Differences in Gamified Exploration-Exploitation Behaviours https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681181v1
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Cortical Microstructural Variations Explain Individual Differences in Gamified Exploration-Exploitation Behaviours https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681181v1
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM