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Ashley Tyrer
@ashleytyrer.bsky.social
Postdoc at @the-ecg.bsky.social, researching noradrenaline and decision-making with a sprinkle of Dynamic Causal Modelling and Active Inference 🧠
Blog Team Lead, OHBM Communications Committee 🤓 📰
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashley-Tyrer
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1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Congratulations to all of this year's OHBM Award Winners! 🏆
We're thrilled to share the full list of award winners, and we’ll also be posting exclusive interviews with each of them in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more 👀
👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/o8brgzb...
OHBM Award Winners - 2025 — OHBM Communications
Authors: Ashley Tyrer Editors: Zaki Alasmar
www.ohbm-com.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The hard problem is solved - Thanks @naddenmark.bsky.social !
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Julia Masselos, host of the SciComm Spectrum podcast, about all things science communication! 🔬 🤓

We discussed my role leading the blog team for @ohbm-com.com, and also my research on decision-making 🧠

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb07...
Making Research Relatable — Why Science Belongs to All of Us
YouTube video by The SciComm Spectrum
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The OHBM Executive Office is hard at work getting ready for OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux. Preparation is well underway for an inspiring meeting in a truly historic city.
Join us June 14–18, 2026
Learn more about our visit by clicking the link in the comments.
#OHBM2026 #BrainMapping
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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there is an æsthetics in all things
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Cortical Microstructural Variations Explain Individual Differences in Gamified Exploration-Exploitation Behaviours https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681181v1
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Cortical Microstructural Variations Explain Individual Differences in Gamified Exploration-Exploitation Behaviours https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681181v1
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil
October 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The harpoon was hurled.
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅:
x.com/OwenGregoria...
Scientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental health
Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang...
www.psypost.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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That’s a wrap! Thanks to the speakers @leahbanellis.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social and Anke Karabanov and co-organiser @danlikesbrains.bsky.social for a great symposium 💪
September 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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as if by magic
September 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Thanks so much to everyone who attended my DCM for Evoked Responses workshop on Saturday for #CPC2025 - it's always a pleasure to contribute 🙏🧠
#CPCZurich2025 #neuroskyence
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Excited to be taking over the @realscientists.de account for this week - nice chance to post from the road (German only, sorry) about brain-body stuff, #neuroskyence in general, and the fantastic people at Adriatica Summer School in Pescara organized by @teamlabuda.bsky.social
#scicomm
September 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Looking forward to giving my Dynamic Casual Modelling for Evoked Responses workshop this afternoon, on another beautiful day in Zurich 😍🧠 #CPC2025 #neuroskyence
September 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM