Sarah Garfinkel
@sarahgarf.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
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Sarah Garfinkel
@sarahgarf.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I'm excited to be co-leading a course on Interoception and Brain disorders with Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social on the beautiful academic island of San Servolo, Venice, in May 2025 www.neurosas.org/advanced-cou...
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Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Respiration has been shown to impact memory retrieval, yet the neural dynamics underlying this effect remain unclear. Here, we investigated how respiration shapes both behavioral and neural expression...
www.jneurosci.org
February 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
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I understand UKRI's need to restructure, but MRC reducing awards for applications already under review feels like a retrospective rule change. Applicants invested serious time based on expected success rates. Changing the deal after submission breaks a social contract.
February 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I understand UKRI's need to restructure, but MRC reducing awards for applications already under review feels like a retrospective rule change. Applicants invested serious time based on expected success rates. Changing the deal after submission breaks a social contract.
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🧠 Join us for the 4th annual Philosophy of AI Conference (21–22 May 2026), focusing on Reasoning and Agency in AI. Spaces are limited—register to secure your attendance!
@sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
@sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Philosophy of AI Conference 2026 — Reasoning and Agency in AI
Please join us for the 4th annual Philosophy AI conference on 21-22 May 2026.
philosophy.sas.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
🧠 Join us for the 4th annual Philosophy of AI Conference (21–22 May 2026), focusing on Reasoning and Agency in AI. Spaces are limited—register to secure your attendance!
@sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
@sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The role of science for democratic societies has never been more important. Register for our upcoming scientific meeting on 16-17 March 2026 and explore the theoretical and practical consequences of treating science as a global public good: https://bit.ly/3Y42i4F
January 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The role of science for democratic societies has never been more important. Register for our upcoming scientific meeting on 16-17 March 2026 and explore the theoretical and practical consequences of treating science as a global public good: https://bit.ly/3Y42i4F
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✨ We are all really excited about this! So much work has already been done, but the match has only just begun. We can’t wait for what’s coming next: SCIENCE, INCLUSION, FUN, FOOD, WINE, COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS… we’re ready for it! ✨Don’t miss the chance to be part of it, apply!
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
✨ We are all really excited about this! So much work has already been done, but the match has only just begun. We can’t wait for what’s coming next: SCIENCE, INCLUSION, FUN, FOOD, WINE, COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS… we’re ready for it! ✨Don’t miss the chance to be part of it, apply!
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The ESCAN Rome 2026 website is finally live! 🎉https://escan2026.eu/
We are working to make ESCAN 2026 a 4-day event dedicated to groundbreaking and rigorous science, an inclusive space, enriched with engaging social activities, great food, all set in the stunning backdrop of the Eternal City ✨.
We are working to make ESCAN 2026 a 4-day event dedicated to groundbreaking and rigorous science, an inclusive space, enriched with engaging social activities, great food, all set in the stunning backdrop of the Eternal City ✨.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The ESCAN Rome 2026 website is finally live! 🎉https://escan2026.eu/
We are working to make ESCAN 2026 a 4-day event dedicated to groundbreaking and rigorous science, an inclusive space, enriched with engaging social activities, great food, all set in the stunning backdrop of the Eternal City ✨.
We are working to make ESCAN 2026 a 4-day event dedicated to groundbreaking and rigorous science, an inclusive space, enriched with engaging social activities, great food, all set in the stunning backdrop of the Eternal City ✨.
One of my favourite conferences! So excited for this
Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Home - ESCAN 2026
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
escan2026.eu
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One of my favourite conferences! So excited for this
ICN bake-off with my lab. Congratulations Wilson @wilsonlimph.bsky.social for all the incredible baking skills (and Sarah too!). Special appearance from Theo the dog
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
ICN bake-off with my lab. Congratulations Wilson @wilsonlimph.bsky.social for all the incredible baking skills (and Sarah too!). Special appearance from Theo the dog
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/
Bloomsbury/UCL people: Have you tried this new Lebanese Cafe - Matbakh Kitchen - located on Great Ormond Street? The food is delicious! My Mums family came from Syria and I’m so happy to find truly authentic home cooking. Do try if you’re in the area.
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Bloomsbury/UCL people: Have you tried this new Lebanese Cafe - Matbakh Kitchen - located on Great Ormond Street? The food is delicious! My Mums family came from Syria and I’m so happy to find truly authentic home cooking. Do try if you’re in the area.
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New paper by @bignardi.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @oxwell.bsky.social
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
New paper by @bignardi.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @oxwell.bsky.social
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
September 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.
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A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic
Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
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#BACN25 continued to be really exciting with a host of great talks and posters. And an excellent Mid-career prize talk by @sjblakemore.bsky.social 🤩
Lovely community & great event 👌✨️ @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jamiewardsussex.bsky.social + Ed Silson
Lovely community & great event 👌✨️ @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jamiewardsussex.bsky.social + Ed Silson
September 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BACN25 continued to be really exciting with a host of great talks and posters. And an excellent Mid-career prize talk by @sjblakemore.bsky.social 🤩
Lovely community & great event 👌✨️ @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jamiewardsussex.bsky.social + Ed Silson
Lovely community & great event 👌✨️ @sarahgarf.bsky.social, @jamiewardsussex.bsky.social + Ed Silson
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My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠
September 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠
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On the train back from Edinburgh #BACN25 with my head buzzing from all the great cognitive neuroscience. Loads of enthusiastic, supportive discussion from everyone I talked to so a really great conference!
September 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On the train back from Edinburgh #BACN25 with my head buzzing from all the great cognitive neuroscience. Loads of enthusiastic, supportive discussion from everyone I talked to so a really great conference!
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Well that was a brilliant couple of days at #BACN25. Thank you to the speakers, the organisers, the posterers (?) and everyone else who made it what it was. And particular thanks to the main character, the city of Edinburgh, for the beautiful autumn sun ☀️
September 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well that was a brilliant couple of days at #BACN25. Thank you to the speakers, the organisers, the posterers (?) and everyone else who made it what it was. And particular thanks to the main character, the city of Edinburgh, for the beautiful autumn sun ☀️
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That’s a wrap! Thoroughly enjoyed my time at @bacn.co.uk. Looking forward to next year, in Brighton 🏖️🎡 @sarahgarf.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
That’s a wrap! Thoroughly enjoyed my time at @bacn.co.uk. Looking forward to next year, in Brighton 🏖️🎡 @sarahgarf.bsky.social
Fantastic work by @tessamdekker.bsky.social investigating how “what we know” influences “what we see” across development, including both young and aging populations
September 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Fantastic work by @tessamdekker.bsky.social investigating how “what we know” influences “what we see” across development, including both young and aging populations
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Day 2: @afelsenheimer.bsky.social detailing her work on the effect of self touch on anxiety, Rania-Iman on heartbeat evoked potential analysis, and @hannahsavage.bsky.social presenting a novel test for gastric interoception.
September 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience Day 2: @afelsenheimer.bsky.social detailing her work on the effect of self touch on anxiety, Rania-Iman on heartbeat evoked potential analysis, and @hannahsavage.bsky.social presenting a novel test for gastric interoception.
Day 1 posters at #BACN25. @bethlongley.bsky.social @oliwiastecko.bsky.social @chatrins.bsky.social @wilsonlimph.bsky.social presenting a variety of work from the lab, interoceptive protocols, heart-memory, computational modelling & emotion regulation
September 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Day 1 posters at #BACN25. @bethlongley.bsky.social @oliwiastecko.bsky.social @chatrins.bsky.social @wilsonlimph.bsky.social presenting a variety of work from the lab, interoceptive protocols, heart-memory, computational modelling & emotion regulation
Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Always a pleasure to hear the exciting work in a fast presentation data blitz session. From my lab, @oliwiastecko.bsky.social detailing the unexpected journey replicating prior work on memory & the heart. Find out more in poster #4 at #BACN2025