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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.
Travelling down from a very chilly Newcastle for the Experimental Psychology Society meeting over the next few days - come check out my poster on VR go-go arms on Thursday!
January 7, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk

More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...

#cogsci #neuroskyence
PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
VR now definitely hits that sweet spot for a gimmicky, affordable but fun tech gift - think Rock Band, Guitar Hero etc.
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Paywalled, but the gist is that teenagers (and younger children) using VR more and more - driven by black Friday sales, headsets seen as a good Christmas gift, and lots of social free-to-play apps like Gorilla Tag, UG, VRchat www.theverge.com/column/84235...
Relax, grown-ups: VR is doing fine
It’s very different from what we all had imagined it to be.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We're finding that many participants don't quite get what we mean by sense of body ownership / agency and related concepts, and want to put everyone on same page before a VR body manipulation - curious if anything standardised is already out there!
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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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
This is a seriously cool effect! It strikes me that people might harm themselves trying to "straighten out" their fingers - e.g. by bending their finger back too far. Do you ever see that?
November 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Congrats! Good luck with the new role 🍾
September 12, 2025 at 12:43 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...
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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
Thanks Laura!
July 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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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
Robots, virtual reality, heartbeat detection, exoskeletons, third thumbs, body illusions, computational models - it's a pretty cool field we all study
July 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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
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July 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
And I'll also be talking about my experiences applying for funding at the early career researcher panel. Thanks for the invite @lucysta02475610.bsky.social & Lara Coelho!
July 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
On Friday I'll be presenting a poster describing some of the great research by @dorothycowie.bsky.social and Leif Johanssen investigating how children and adults adapt to an extendable arm in VR, along with our future plans to expand on that work
a cartoon character is holding a fishing rod and has the word hmm on his chest .
Alt: Inspector gadget, a cartoon character, scratching his chin in a thoughtful expression with an extendable arm from his hat
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July 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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