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Jamie Moffatt
@jamoffatt.bsky.social
He/Him. Post-doc at Durham University, formerly at Royal Holloway. Interested in the crossroads between virtual reality, interoception and dissociation.
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Join us this week for our first international dissociation research conference! Free, online and featuring some fantastic keynote speakers with talks taking place across 3 time-zones! Register here: disconnected-network.com/2025-online-...
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate
Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...
www.frontiersin.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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A week of inspiring research & exciting chats with new and old friends at #IMRF2025! Presented our latest work on visuotactile crossmodal congruency effect in children 👾

Thank you @imrf.bsky.social ! Was an honour to help run microphones for such cool talks 🫡
July 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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July 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#IMRF2025 Group picture just dropped!!
Can you find yourself?

#WhereIsWaldo? #multisensorySquad
#bestResearchCommunity
#sensesUnite
July 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Really enjoyed speaking at #imrf2025 today on some of our findings showing changes to embodiment and reach kinematics after use of an extendable VR arm @imrf.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Had a lovely time in Utrecht - what a beautiful city. Thanks #BRNet2025! I look forward to carrying on some of the discussions back in Durham at IMRF in a couple of weeks time
July 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Attending the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Will be presenting my work on interoception in autism tomorrow. Come and say hi!
July 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Can #BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? If you're in Utrecht in the next few days and even if you're not coming, feel free to share and, most of all, comment!

@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

thomaschazelle.fr/en/the-carto...
Can BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? | Thomas Chazelle
thomaschazelle.fr
July 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
On my way to Utrecht for #BRnet2025! Excited to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.
July 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline 11th July. Please share!
jobs.london.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣

More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
Open positions – Dr. Marie Chancel
mariechancel.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Really pleased that this paper from my PhD has been published in Nature Scientific Reports!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We used mixed reality to explore how manipulating multisensory integration leads to dis-ownership from the body and how those experiences relate to trait dissociation
Trait dissociation is associated with dissociative experiences arising from disrupted multisensory integration - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Trait dissociation is associated with dissociative experiences arising from disrupted multisensory integration
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Oscar Sill gave an amazing talk to end our short talk session, where he discussed the development of accurate own-body maps from childhood to adulthood! @durhampsych.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Really pleased that this paper from my PhD has been published in Nature Scientific Reports!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We used mixed reality to explore how manipulating multisensory integration leads to dis-ownership from the body and how those experiences relate to trait dissociation
Trait dissociation is associated with dissociative experiences arising from disrupted multisensory integration - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Trait dissociation is associated with dissociative experiences arising from disrupted multisensory integration
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I’m advertising for a 3.5yr fully-funded PhD position at the lovely Sussex Uni.

If you're interested in combining behavioural experiments & computational modelling to study how we evaluate our inferences about others, please see here:

www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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January 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I've signed up to run the Great North Run Half Marathon in September! I'm raising money for Mind, the UK mental health charity, and if you want to donate you can do so here: ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/jamie-mof...
Jamie is Running the Great North Run!
About me I'm Jamie, a 30-year-old living in Gateshead, Newcastle. I'm running to raise money for Mind, a charity dedicated to helping everyone with their mental health. The furthest I've ever ran befo
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January 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳

🧪 👩🏻‍🔬
#CogSci
#Neuroskyence
#SciComm
Does your heartbeat shape your sense of time?
Do you ever feel like time slows down when you’re bored but flies when you’re having fun? Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova explores the ways your brain and heart shape your perception of time,...
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January 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Ok, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan.
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org

@meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀

Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡

🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera...

Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
First (chilly) day back at Durham, not a bad sight to see on the way into work
January 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Today, the #BRNet would like to introduce Valeria @pevianiv.bsky.social and Jamie @jamoffatt.bsky.social. Every third Weds of every other month, get to know two of our #ECRs. Reach out if you want to be featured in the spotlight or be put in touch with either of this month's ECRs.
December 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4
December 3, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Really excited to be heading back to Durham in January to start a post-doc with @dorothycowie.bsky.social! I'll be studying how children and adults adapt to altered bodies in virtual reality 🎉
December 2, 2024 at 2:10 PM