Lachlan Kent
@lachkent.bsky.social
Mental gravity - psych theory - research - mental health promotion
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
Thrilled to announce my new podcast, "The Gravity Doctors," together with @brennanspiegel.bsky.social. We introduce the world of "Biogravitational Medicine"—how gravity shapes your body and mind for better or worse.
All formats here: lnkd.in/gyviV7HY
YouTube: lnkd.in/gAMB_Eq8
Hope you enjoy!
All formats here: lnkd.in/gyviV7HY
YouTube: lnkd.in/gAMB_Eq8
Hope you enjoy!
September 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Thrilled to announce my new podcast, "The Gravity Doctors," together with @brennanspiegel.bsky.social. We introduce the world of "Biogravitational Medicine"—how gravity shapes your body and mind for better or worse.
All formats here: lnkd.in/gyviV7HY
YouTube: lnkd.in/gAMB_Eq8
Hope you enjoy!
All formats here: lnkd.in/gyviV7HY
YouTube: lnkd.in/gAMB_Eq8
Hope you enjoy!
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Save the date! @publichealthaus.bsky.social and Prevention United are proud to host the 2026 Preventive Mental Health Conference in Sydney, Australia next March. Check out the conference website to find out more. www.pmhc2026.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Save the date! @publichealthaus.bsky.social and Prevention United are proud to host the 2026 Preventive Mental Health Conference in Sydney, Australia next March. Check out the conference website to find out more. www.pmhc2026.com
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Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
July 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
July 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Climate Action Tracker #Australia 🇦🇺 assessment 11 June 2025.
We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets.
climateactiontracker.org/countries/au...
We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets.
climateactiontracker.org/countries/au...
Australia
climateactiontracker.org
June 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Climate Action Tracker #Australia 🇦🇺 assessment 11 June 2025.
We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets.
climateactiontracker.org/countries/au...
We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets.
climateactiontracker.org/countries/au...
Why do you think positive emotions feel light and negative emotions feel heavy?
June 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Why do you think positive emotions feel light and negative emotions feel heavy?
Serotonin as the 'molecular mediator of gravity management' in both body and mind, hence its role in depression and anxiety according to the principles of mental gravity
neurogastrolatamreviews.com/frame_eng.ph...
neurogastrolatamreviews.com/frame_eng.ph...
Gut-derived serotonin as a molecular mediator of gravity management | Neurogastro Latam Reviews
This article advances a novel hypothesis that serotonin, especially gut-derived serotonin, acts as a gravity management substance, helping the body adapt to ...
neurogastrolatamreviews.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Serotonin as the 'molecular mediator of gravity management' in both body and mind, hence its role in depression and anxiety according to the principles of mental gravity
neurogastrolatamreviews.com/frame_eng.ph...
neurogastrolatamreviews.com/frame_eng.ph...
How can we solve the youth mental health crisis?
NEW PAPER: Let's try something new but evidence-based like mass-screening for low mental wellbeing, which is a predictor of future mental health according to the dual continua model. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
NEW PAPER: Let's try something new but evidence-based like mass-screening for low mental wellbeing, which is a predictor of future mental health according to the dual continua model. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
February 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
How can we solve the youth mental health crisis?
NEW PAPER: Let's try something new but evidence-based like mass-screening for low mental wellbeing, which is a predictor of future mental health according to the dual continua model. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
NEW PAPER: Let's try something new but evidence-based like mass-screening for low mental wellbeing, which is a predictor of future mental health according to the dual continua model. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits…
The three spirits…
December 24, 2024 at 12:33 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits…
The three spirits…
If I could train to become an interoceptologist, I would. Brain-body states are at the centre of both mental and physical health. Great piece
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com
December 24, 2024 at 12:17 PM
If I could train to become an interoceptologist, I would. Brain-body states are at the centre of both mental and physical health. Great piece
My father-in-law retired from academia in the ‘90’s. I don’t think he recognise the profession now and would be dismayed to hear how staff are struggling these days.
Extremely proud of @xuanluu.bsky.social for leading this quality qual work. Please follow him - PhD due for submission soon…
Extremely proud of @xuanluu.bsky.social for leading this quality qual work. Please follow him - PhD due for submission soon…
I have a new paper out with terrific colleagues including @lachkent.bsky.social — we analysed 857 university workers’ responses to an open-ended survey question about how the institution impacts their wellbeing.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(Unfortunately not open access…)
#AcademicSky 🦘🎓
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(Unfortunately not open access…)
#AcademicSky 🦘🎓
How university climate impacts psychosocial safety, psychosocial risk, and mental health among staff in Australian higher education: a qualitative study - Higher Education
Research has reported an epidemic of mental health concerns among staff in higher education. Universities can improve staff mental health by creating work environments that are more psychologically, s...
link.springer.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:26 AM
My father-in-law retired from academia in the ‘90’s. I don’t think he recognise the profession now and would be dismayed to hear how staff are struggling these days.
Extremely proud of @xuanluu.bsky.social for leading this quality qual work. Please follow him - PhD due for submission soon…
Extremely proud of @xuanluu.bsky.social for leading this quality qual work. Please follow him - PhD due for submission soon…
For new consciousness followers, this is my main contribution to consciousness science. CLaE is worth a follow as well for lots of good neuro links...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
Time consciousness: the missing link in theories of consciousness
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Time consciousness: the missing link in theories of consciousness
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
academic.oup.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:02 AM
For new consciousness followers, this is my main contribution to consciousness science. CLaE is worth a follow as well for lots of good neuro links...
Good vibes to you all from our salt shaker
October 17, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Good vibes to you all from our salt shaker
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In which @evanthompson.bsky.social discusses clock time and the time of the philosopher and the famous Einstein/Bergson debate: “[Einstein’s]real mistake… was his view that physical time, defined through the measurements of clocks, was more fundamental than lived time.” aeon.co/essays/who-r...
Who really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time? | Aeon Essays
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
aeon.co
October 1, 2024 at 12:44 AM
In which @evanthompson.bsky.social discusses clock time and the time of the philosopher and the famous Einstein/Bergson debate: “[Einstein’s]real mistake… was his view that physical time, defined through the measurements of clocks, was more fundamental than lived time.” aeon.co/essays/who-r...
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Postural balance is taken as a subsidiary motor task, not a homeostatic task like thermoregulation.
But balance and sensations of weight have a valenced aspect which permeates experience and emotion not unlike hot-cold sensations do.
(In)congruous?
#neuroscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But balance and sensations of weight have a valenced aspect which permeates experience and emotion not unlike hot-cold sensations do.
(In)congruous?
#neuroscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Happiness feels light and sadness feels heavy: introducing valence-related bodily sensation maps of emotions - Psychological Research
Bodily sensation mapping (BSM) is a recently developed self-report tool for the assessment of emotions in which people draw their sensations of activation in a body silhouette. Following the circumple...
link.springer.com
September 25, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Postural balance is taken as a subsidiary motor task, not a homeostatic task like thermoregulation.
But balance and sensations of weight have a valenced aspect which permeates experience and emotion not unlike hot-cold sensations do.
(In)congruous?
#neuroscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But balance and sensations of weight have a valenced aspect which permeates experience and emotion not unlike hot-cold sensations do.
(In)congruous?
#neuroscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Lachlan Kent
Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below)
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
t.co
February 26, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below)
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below)
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
t.co
February 26, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below)
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
t.co/KObVXUoSDU
I really enjoyed reading this extremely well-written and provocative piece on #interoception If I understood correctly, in contrast to most exteroception, interoception is slower, coarser, more compressed, and more integrated. Interested what the authors think about graviception as interoception
Excited to finally share this paper, nearly 5 years in the making! In it, me and co-authors share our thoughts on how (and to what extent) signals from the body map onto affective feelings. Writing this definitely brought forth more questions than answers! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieTJ4sIRv...
February 23, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I really enjoyed reading this extremely well-written and provocative piece on #interoception If I understood correctly, in contrast to most exteroception, interoception is slower, coarser, more compressed, and more integrated. Interested what the authors think about graviception as interoception
Unfortunately we’ve had to postpone the talk. New date/time to follow soon, apologies
🚨 Talk alert 🚨 Livestream with the Active Inference Institute on my theory of mental gravity. Thursday 22nd Feb at UTC 19:00. Panel includes
@annaciaunica.bsky.social and
Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
@annaciaunica.bsky.social and
Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
February 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Unfortunately we’ve had to postpone the talk. New date/time to follow soon, apologies
🚨 Talk alert 🚨 Livestream with the Active Inference Institute on my theory of mental gravity. Thursday 22nd Feb at UTC 19:00. Panel includes
@annaciaunica.bsky.social and
Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
@annaciaunica.bsky.social and
Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
February 19, 2024 at 11:34 AM
🚨 Talk alert 🚨 Livestream with the Active Inference Institute on my theory of mental gravity. Thursday 22nd Feb at UTC 19:00. Panel includes
@annaciaunica.bsky.social and
Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
@annaciaunica.bsky.social and
Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well.
Have we considered a sponsor-based peer-review system? Based on a recent experience, I think it could work well, especially for early career academics like me. It could also help more senior academics get recognition for informal mentoring and reviewing. Here’s what happened…
January 12, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Have we considered a sponsor-based peer-review system? Based on a recent experience, I think it could work well, especially for early career academics like me. It could also help more senior academics get recognition for informal mentoring and reviewing. Here’s what happened…
Great piece on growing climate hope and reducing climate anxiety while simultaneously acknowledging the crisis. Fear was needed a decade ago to kickstart action. Now that action has traction, kids especially need more of the good news
January 4, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Great piece on growing climate hope and reducing climate anxiety while simultaneously acknowledging the crisis. Fear was needed a decade ago to kickstart action. Now that action has traction, kids especially need more of the good news
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This is an amazing video produced for our kickoff ceremony of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, led by @emilyjacobs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5u...
"How Small is Small?"
The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative is driven by a radically simple idea: Progress in neuroscience will flourish when the health of men and wom...
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2023 at 9:17 PM
This is an amazing video produced for our kickoff ceremony of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, led by @emilyjacobs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5u...
Reposted by Lachlan Kent
Can cognitive #neuroscience solve the lab-dilemma by going wild? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... On #reproducibility #measurability #refutability #generalizability and going #mobile & #wearable.
Can cognitive neuroscience solve the lab-dilemma by going wild?
Reproducibility, measurability, and refutability are the foundation of the scientific method applied to empirical work. In the study of animal and hum…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2023 at 2:33 PM
Can cognitive #neuroscience solve the lab-dilemma by going wild? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... On #reproducibility #measurability #refutability #generalizability and going #mobile & #wearable.