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sarahgarf.bsky.social
Clinical and Affective Neuroscientist at UCL. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
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So looking forward to this - starting in 1.5 hours, the island is stunning and the sun is bright. Looking forward to meeting everyone and a week of interoception together! ♥️

Job claxon! Our fantastic colleague Hélio Cuve is looking for a postdoc with expertise in social or affective neuroscience. His lab does cool work on the role of bodily signals in emotions. Apply now! For more info and/or to apply, see: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing. But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are delighted to see this out as a target article in BBS! Call for commentaries will be issued soon Check out Matthias’ thread below for details

So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!

How is the body experienced in mental health conditions? 🧠🫀🫁 Our (@gabmackie.bsky.social) new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A stellar line-up at this @royalsociety.org event on the Self, 19-20 May : Garfinkel, Wykowska, Prescott, Verschure, Zavahi, Schectman, , Li, Southgate, Lanillos, Brugger, Addis,Vogeley, Preller,Tsakiris, Blanke. Join us! royalsociety.org/science-even...

Dear fellow scientists… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.. I am writing in the hope that someone out there – someone with the power to change any of this – can help do something" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So excited to be hosting this at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social this year! Check out our shiny new website & name, & come join us to talk ALL THINGS METACOGNITION in August in Amsterdam! FREE registration but spots are limited! Keynotes and short contributed talks! Submit your talk now on our website!

Fantastic work by @aldersonday.bsky.social on Feelings of Presence to close the conference #BNPA2025 until next year @bnpa.bsky.social

Guy Leschziner starts the day talking about how to manage sleep disorders in the clinic beyond sedation #bnpa2025

Congratulations to @alancarson15.bsky.social for the well deserved BNPA Medal Lecture #BNPA2025 A tour de force of TBI

Great opportunity to learn directly from those developing the methods! #SPM

Tom Cox discusses what community functional neurological disorder services currently look like and how they could develop #bnpa2025

Kim Hearne now talking about her lived experience of functional neurological disorder #bnpa2025

Glen Nielsen on why we need physiotherapy for functional movement disorder and the results of the Physio4FMD trial #bnpa2025

We're excited for today and tomorrow's British Neuropsychiatry Conference. Follow us here for updates. Last minute attender? You can register on the door at the conference venue: 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT maps.app.goo.gl/YiPEfrDPmC9a...

We're ready for a fascinating day #bnpa2025

BNPA President Boyd Ghosh starts the day #bnpa2025

Dr Hugh Garavan begins the programme with the JNNP lecture on 'Impulsivity and its role in psychiatric disorders' #bnpa2025

Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson's Disease. A talk from Prof Stéphane Thobois from Hospital Neurologique, Lyon #bnpa2025

Apathy and impulsivity in parkinsonian disorders - from lab to clinic. Presenting: Prof James Rowe from Cambridge University #bnpa2025

Functional imagery training: tackling impulsivity by strengthening motivation. Prof Jackie Andrade finishes the session on disorders of impulse control #bnpa2025

Our 1st Lishman Prize winner, Dr Danish Hafeez: Psychiatric outcomes of paediatric exposure to Streptococcus pyogenes in the context of respiratory infections- a retrospective cohort study #bnpa2025

Our 2nd Lishman Prize talk. Dr Mar Matarin presenting 'Predictors of Aggressive Behaviour after Acquired Brain Injury in a Large UK Sample Cohort' #bnpa2025

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

Applications close Friday 28th!!

Looking forward to this Royal Society discussion meeting in London on the self. Registration is free! royalsociety.org/science-even...

Amazing opportunity for a UCL faculty position:

*We are hiring* Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least) www.nature.com/articles/s41... (h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence

Working w/ a reporter on the consequences of the NIH/NSF freezes (e.g., training pipelines, how grants support clinical time for trials) If you've had a grant impacted, some organizational perspective (e.g., in APPIC leadership/DCT role) + are willing to share your experience please shoot me a DM

Hoping they find each other ♥️

And right next door to the FIL, which is also nice! ;) The UCL Cognitive Neuroscience community is full of wonderful people and outstanding facilities, apply now!

** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London