Ashley Tyrer

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...

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

We, the Natural Decision Making Group and the Embodied Decision Making Group, are joining forces to establish the CMC Unit, a joint research unit to uncover computational, biological, and ecological principles underlying adaptive decision-making. You can read more about us here: cmc-unit.org

Link to ads: Postdoc position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... PhD position: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... We’re also both at @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social and happy to chat!

Tomorrow 4th seminar of The Interoception Circle: 🫀 Marta Gerosa Cardiorespiratory and Vascular Dynamics in Voluntary Action, Sense of Agency and Active Sampling 📅 7 Oct, 12:00 CEST 💻 Online, everyone welcome here: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3768311... More info: ace2lab.com/2581-2/

Some months ago, I wrote a skeptical reply to a commentary on bots in online studies in PNAS, arguing that no evidence yet exists for such bots. Together with the authors of the original commentary, we now show that bots can pass (almost?) all online cognitive studies with human-like performance 1/n

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

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Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

Brilliat new paper : The brain is two separate organs that develop in parallel One organ is for controlling breathing, temperature, heart function, and the other organ is for thinking. They form separately and then join together during development 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

when ai leaves u behind

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

The @ohbm-com.com is looking for new members: We provide an opportunity to hone your science communication skills, showcase exciting things happening in OHBM, and be part of a supportive community of peers from around the world. Nominations close September 29, 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🌍🧠 OHBM 2029 is headed to Rotterdam! Mark your calendars for June 24–28, 2029 Discover the story behind OHBM 2029, from the meeting logo to why Rotterdam is the perfect host city. 👉 Read the blog: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/ohbm-20...

Nothing quite like finding a perfect home for work close to your heart. Out now in @plos.org CompBiol is our #open-source toolbox for circular permutation testing in #brain-body #neuroskyence. 🫂 @teresaberther.bsky.social & @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social 🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧵🔽

In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @dlevenstein.bsky.social explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding our brains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com. Psychedelics don’t simply disorder the brain. We found hidden, context-sensitive organisation beneath the apparent chaos -- strongest in people reporting more positive, profound experiences and a reduced sense of separation from the world. 🧵👇

3-day intensive #fMRI course *live online* Sept 9-11, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

How are you deciding to decide? A much overlooked part of decision making is determining when one should stop gathering information. In our new fMRI preprint, we show that distinct brain networks track decision-critical variables, congregation in dmPFC. For more details, see our thread 👇🏼

New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Nora Czekalla et al. from the Social Neuroscience Lab in Lübeck 💫 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We all know the experience: Something goes better than expected, someone gives us positive feedback - and yet somehow, we don’t really believe it. TL;DR👇

Not sure how to visualise your connectome data? Check our latest led by @m-gajwani.bsky.social & C Adamson on NeuroMarvl: an open source web-based platform for visualising and sharing connectomes! Paper: tinyurl.com/2t7ftu9d Software: tinyurl.com/yrv3xja3 @nsb-lab.bsky.social

💡Alzheimer’s disease does not unfold on a single clock. 👉Our new study is out today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

Out today in @natneuro.nature.com is (a highly evolved version of) the second chapter of my dissertation (with @eblissmoreau.bsky.social) assessing the comparative anatomy of the insula across 🐁mice, 🐀rats, 🐒monkeys, and 🚶humans! rdcu.be/fyd7T

A few recent noteworthy papers on human respiratory #interoception showing: 1) exhalation's impacts on risky decision making. Kudos to the team led by Soyoung Park! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Check out our latest work! Multimodal brain imaging meets gamified computational psychiatry! Great work from Ashley and the team.

I've been doing a lot of this lately and it's been Great

Fascinating and important. Including the provocative finding “What we believe about our bodily sensing may have little to do with how we actually sense it.” A place where subject report diverges (read the thread). Congrats to this team!!

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New preprint out now. 🎭 What makes an acted emotion feel believable? We tested whether believability depends on what observers see from the outside, facial movement, and what happens inside the actor’s body, cardiac dynamics during performance. doi.org/10.64898/202...

The 2nd seminar of the Interoception Circle is next Wed. 12-13:00 (CET) "Interoceptive plasticity: Alterations to breath-hold sensations and affective afforndaces in freediving" Link and abstract here: ace2lab.com/2581-2/

After an incredible OHBM 2026, we can't wait to welcome the global neuroimaging community to Toronto for #OHBM2027! 🍁 📅 June 26–30, 2027 📍 Metro Toronto Convention Centre Save the date and join us for another year of discovery, collaboration, and innovation.

I'm excited to share our new paper published today in JAMA Psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...