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Niia Nikolova
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👩🏾‍🔬cognitive 🧠-scientist. #maker #artist #parent. PostDoc @visceral_mind
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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵‍💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1
Mariposas En El Estomago GIF
ALT: Mariposas En El Estomago GIF
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June 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
🎉 Excited to share our latest preprint! 🫁 Using interoceptive psychophysics and quantitative MRI in 200+ people, we find that individual differences in respiroceptive sensitivity & precision correlate with distinct patterns of cortical microstructure.
April 17, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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Stunning new preprint from @francescafardo.bsky.social and her lab - they developed & validated a 2D adaptive model to estimate the thermal grill illusion - it reliably finds combinations of non-painful cold & warm stimuli that together elicit heat pain! #neuro #psych www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Want hands on experience in learning about brain-body interactions? Come join us in Salerno, Italy for the Waves Summer School in September! 🧠🫁🫀🏖️
There is still time to register for our body-brain (late) summer school plus symposium in beautiful Italy later this year. ECRs in particular are encouraged to bring their own data, ideas, and questions!
#neuroskyence #psychsky
Body-Brain Waves 4-day Summer School and 2-day Symposium on body-brain interactions in Salerno, Italy in Sep 2024. Learn how to start, setup and conduct your body-brain project. Exciting line-up of early-career research experts as tutors waves-conference.com #EEG #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
February 5, 2024 at 7:50 AM
New preprint from the lab!
New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 1, 2024 at 8:35 AM
No Facebook, I'm not going to buy crochet paw chair socks
November 10, 2023 at 7:00 PM
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Excited that our scoping protocol is now LIVE🫁"Breathing exercises for the management of gastrointestinal conditions: protocol for a scoping review" with 3 awesome teams at KU Leuven @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social #breathing #neuroskyence #psycsci

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Breathing exercises for the management of gastrointestinal conditions: protocol for a scoping review
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
www.medrxiv.org
November 10, 2023 at 5:08 AM
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Please welcome our stellar PhD candidate @kellyhighfrost.bsky.social to blue sky! Kelly is an expert on metacognition, self-beliefs, and gender differences.
November 10, 2023 at 7:17 AM
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A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals:
1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.
August 29, 2023 at 2:23 AM
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"Facial coloration conveys affective information to observers and contributes to biases in how emotion expressions are perceived and remembered."

The influence of facial blushing and paling on emotion perception and memory

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#neuroscience #psycsci
The influence of facial blushing and paling on emotion perception and memory
rdcu.be
November 5, 2023 at 4:01 AM
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Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology
November 2, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵
November 2, 2023 at 5:29 AM
This year's pumpkin is 'creepy cute'
October 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, employees at the company were informed it is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop
X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it
A steep drop from Musk’s $44 billion purchase price.
www.theverge.com
October 30, 2023 at 6:50 PM
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A study in Nature Communications finds that a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies. go.nature.com/3Mhj4aT
October 25, 2023 at 6:24 PM
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Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical. 

Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.

#neuroskyence #brain

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 27, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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Are you a neuroscientist who recently joined Blue Sky? Don't forget to like and pin #neuroskyence, the largest channel for all things brain-science related! You can post with #neuroskyence or 🧠🟦 ! #psychscisky 🧪 #academicsky bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 25, 2023 at 7:49 AM
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We are hiring a postdoc! We're looking for someone interested in perception, imagination & consciousness, and with experience in neuroimaging (the focus is fMRI but MEG/EEG is ok). Vision science, machine learning and philosophy nerds please apply! subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu/research/hot...
The Subjectivity Lab
Interdisciplinary lab in Northeastern's Psychology Department researching perception, consciousness and introspection.
subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu
October 24, 2023 at 9:06 PM
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An editorial for Cortex anniversary issue in which I bemoan the state of mental imagery research & how we seem to be missing the diversity with which people seem to experience imagined sensations: #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #NeuroScience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What is the true range of mental imagery?
www.sciencedirect.com
October 19, 2023 at 2:22 AM
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
High-resolution maps of biological annotations in the brain are increasingly generated and shared. In this Review, Bazinet and colleagues discuss how brain connectomes can be enriched with biological ...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2023 at 1:22 AM
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I really love this structure to writing code documentation.

(From documentation.divio.com via Benedikt Ehinger at the SimTech Research Software Engineering Summer School)
October 11, 2023 at 7:28 AM
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#HiSciSky #neuroskyence #PsySciSky Hi all! I'm a professor in cognitive science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. My group studies visual perception using psychophysics and computational modelling. You can learn more about our research here: www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception/h....
Perception
Perception – Somehow, our minds make sense of sensory data in a way that eludes current machine vision systems. We study visual perception in humans using psychophysics and computational models. A s...
www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de
October 3, 2023 at 10:41 AM
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317 codes donated and 317 people moved from psych twitter to #psychscisky

send more codes so we can make it thru the wait-list 👍
Over 230 codes given out to help migrate psych twitter. We've currently got a waitlist so donations are appreciated ❤️ Thanks to all whom have donated to help recreate and build the community.
we have added 59 members of psych twitter to #psychscisky in 24 hours and have run out of invite codes

donate if you have extras! we are keeping a waiting list of requesters

DM to me or @lkfazio.bsky.social on twitter (@samuelmehr or @lkfazio), or email us. nope, we haven't automated anything lol
September 29, 2023 at 2:54 AM