Mallory J Feldman
@malloryjfeldman.bsky.social
Psychologist studying how people sense and make sense of their bodies [She/Her/Hers].
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The Role of Interoception in Emotion and Social Cognition
We begin this chapter by clarifying our working definition of interoception and discussing how interoception fits within the larger picture of human brain functional evolution. We focus on the role of...
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Check out our new chapter on Interoception's role in Social and Emotional Cognition. We begin by exploring WHY you might expect interoception to predict socioemotional cognition in the first place... Let us know what you think!
Feldman & Finlay, 2025. Welcome to academic Bluesky Rylan. We only come for the good vibes.
September 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Feldman & Finlay, 2025. Welcome to academic Bluesky Rylan. We only come for the good vibes.
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The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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June 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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🙏 We need your help 🙏
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
🙏 We need your help 🙏
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
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This is really important. How can we counter this false narrative?
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is really important. How can we counter this false narrative?
So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!
Breaking through the mind-body divide: patient priorities for interoception research
Interoception—sensation, interpretation, and prediction of bodily signals—is reliably disrupted across a wide range of mental health conditions. A gro…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!
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This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."
April 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
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What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community
“Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary
www.science.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
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Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
chuffed.org
March 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
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If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r... shocked by this! Sam Sommers’ book is what made me interested in psychology, and is what made me choose to go to Tufts. Sending love to his family and colleagues.
Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
now.tufts.edu
March 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r... shocked by this! Sam Sommers’ book is what made me interested in psychology, and is what made me choose to go to Tufts. Sending love to his family and colleagues.
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"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
www.cbc.ca
March 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
CASL is showing up for Society for Affective Science this week!
March 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
CASL is showing up for Society for Affective Science this week!
Physio people -- when you have messy data, what's your philosophy on filtering? Under filter and discard a lot of data due to excess noise OR potentially over filter and smooth true signal? In this case i'm working with PPG. #psychophysiology #interoception
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Physio people -- when you have messy data, what's your philosophy on filtering? Under filter and discard a lot of data due to excess noise OR potentially over filter and smooth true signal? In this case i'm working with PPG. #psychophysiology #interoception
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Incredible. Thank You!
February 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Incredible. Thank You!
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I’m here for biologists making a big fucking stink but I think psychologists should get in on the action too.
Sooooo if this whole "biological sex" EO is really happening, biologists are going to make as much noise about it as possible, right?
Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK
Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK
January 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m here for biologists making a big fucking stink but I think psychologists should get in on the action too.
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I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11
January 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11
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📢 Help spread the word!
UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th!
jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725
Come work with me in New Hampshire!!
UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th!
jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725
Come work with me in New Hampshire!!
Assistant Professor of Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin fall, 2025 in the area of social psychology. ...
jobs.usnh.edu
January 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
📢 Help spread the word!
UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th!
jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725
Come work with me in New Hampshire!!
UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th!
jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725
Come work with me in New Hampshire!!
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There are now nearly 5000 papers on #interoception. And the output over the last 4 years is more than the previous 59. 🤯
December 9, 2024 at 12:58 AM
There are now nearly 5000 papers on #interoception. And the output over the last 4 years is more than the previous 59. 🤯
This collaboration was so fun! We found evidence that emotional attention & clarity were higher in social v nonsocial contexts and when interacting with close v nonclose others. Participants with MDD showed enhanced emotional clarity in social v nonsocial settings.
Social contexts are associated with higher emotional awareness than nonsocial contexts: Evidence in a sample of people with and without major depressive disorder - PubMed
Growing evidence suggests that social contexts may prompt qualitatively distinct experiences of emotions than nonsocial contexts. In this study of people's naturalistic daily emotional experiences, we...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 22, 2024 at 3:49 PM
This collaboration was so fun! We found evidence that emotional attention & clarity were higher in social v nonsocial contexts and when interacting with close v nonclose others. Participants with MDD showed enhanced emotional clarity in social v nonsocial settings.
This one has been long in the making! We find preliminary evidence that teens with more similar vmPFC representations of positive affect (in particular) are more like to be friends/be in the same friend group. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39412190/
Proximity Within Adolescent Peer Networks Predicts Neural Similarity During Affective Experience - PubMed
Individuals befriend others who are similar to them. One important source of similarity in relationships is similarity in felt emotion. In the present study, we used novel methods to assess whether gr...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM
This one has been long in the making! We find preliminary evidence that teens with more similar vmPFC representations of positive affect (in particular) are more like to be friends/be in the same friend group. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39412190/