James Kilner
@jameskilner.bsky.social
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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Excellent background to current UK R&D funding turbulence.
The way UK govt funds science is in the midst of a major transition, with creation of a much more direct link between government priorities & UKRI research funding.
My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s:
softmachines.org?p=3252
My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s:
softmachines.org?p=3252
UK science policy in transition – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
softmachines.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Excellent background to current UK R&D funding turbulence.
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What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 29, 2026 at 8:29 AM
What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
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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
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/...
Super interesting study on heart rate synchrony in a real world setting.
🫀 New preprint alert! 🌆
Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Physical proximity, social familiarity, and acoustic environment modulate heart rate synchrony in real-world social interactions
Human social behaviour unfolds in complex real-world environments shaped by social and acoustic factors, yet markers of social engagement and connection remain elusive. Interpersonal physiological syn...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Super interesting study on heart rate synchrony in a real world setting.
New theoretical paper that provides an explanation for the seemingly paradoxical modulation of perception and action with cardiac and respiratory cycles #interoception
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
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 8:50 AM
New theoretical paper that provides an explanation for the seemingly paradoxical modulation of perception and action with cardiac and respiratory cycles #interoception
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** 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
** 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)
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
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.
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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
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
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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...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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/...
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
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/...
Here
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
and here
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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🫁❤️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...
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
🫁❤️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...
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...
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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).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
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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
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
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
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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
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...
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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
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...
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
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
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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
3 (!) open PhD positions at @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on brain and bodily oscillations and their role in cognition: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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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/...
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
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/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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🚨 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!
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
🚨 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!
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!
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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...
New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social
#interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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...
New preprint from @drhannahsavage.bsky.social & @sarahgarf.bsky.social
#interoception #neuroskyence 🧠🫀🫁
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨 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!
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
🚨 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!
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!
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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
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.