Alex Galvez-Pol

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Now the long-awaited „special talks“ at the #MindBrainBody Symposium!

First, @antocris.bsky.social on body-brain-behavior rhythms, variability, and time (chronos != kairos).

#MBBS2026

Meanwhile in the #MBBS2026:

Victor presenting his poster in Cardiorespiratory coupling with eye movements

And Lucas with daily life experiences (as subjectively reported with text and classified by LLM)

We had a great time learning & catching up, such a fantastic meeting! 🤜🤛

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Results slides at MBBS

Super exciting to see the fresh-out-the-oven results by @ege-kingir.bsky.social, the winner of last year’s #MindBrainBody Young Scientist Award, comparing #cardiac phase effects for visual and somatosensory perception in the same participants.

#MBBS2026 #MBB

Me and Sonja are in Berlin for the Mind-Brain-Body Symposium and are presenting preliminary data from our #body - #brain - #behavioral study with #wearable techs

Strongly recommend joining this fantastic community!
And get in touch if you're interested in hearing more and/or collaborate :)

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen

Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

The ACE²Lab is presenting in the #MindBrainBody Symposium:

Victor (poster C24 - 3.20pm) on Visual search & cardiorespiratory coupling

Lucas (D35 - 4.20pm) on breathing coupled to daily life experiences

Plus, ongoing collab. with @michaelgaebler.com in B12 (today 7.45pm) with Mascha

#MBBS2026 🫁🫀

Happy birthday Micah!

A screenshot of the article title: Reframing oxytocin as a behavioral flexibility hormone

Scientific claims in biobehavioral oxytocin research are dependent on a “derivation chain”. Theoretical models are the beginning of this chain, which are dependent on a theoretical core supported by auxiliary hypotheses. Efforts to improve biobehavioral oxytocin research have tended to focus on auxiliary hypotheses related to experimental models (e.g., improving oxytocin delivery to the brain, polygenic approaches for genetics studies), and statistical auxiliary hypothesis (e.g., appropriate sample sizes for research). However, even if these issues are addressed, a poorly specified theoretical core (and associated auxiliary hypothesis) can lead to unreliable scientific claims

Oxytocin is typically described as a "social" hormone. In our new article, we propose that it should instead be viewed a hormone that modulates behavioral flexibility

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

The latest version of this preprint "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" that addresses the coupling between action, perception and interoception. Thanks @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @micahgallen.com Lucas Naranjo for a very interesting collaboration on this topic osf.io/preprints/ps...

Information theoretic measures of neural and behavioural coupling predict representational drift Author summary Activity in the brain represents information about the outside world and how we interact with it. Recent evidence shows that these representations slowly change day to day, while memori...

Out now in @plos.org CB: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Neural representations of tasks change over time, even in the absence of changes in task performance. But neurons change tuning at different rates. How does a neuron's stability relate to its interactions with the population?
#compneuro #neuroskyence

PhD Position: Keep calm and breathe through it: The effects and mechanisms of slow breathing on stress recovery Join us—your curiosity matters

📣Job alert! Research Group Health Psychology at KU Leuven is hiring a PhD student for an exciting 4-year project on slow breathing and stress recovery😮‍💨 If you (are about to) have a master degree in psychology and an interest in psychophysiology and stress research, you may be who we are looking for!

Quick question:

Do you know about any online course on lab-ethics, data handling, etc?

*for PhD & masters students.
Thanks!

GitHub - micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain: AI-curated Bluesky feed for neuroscience and cognitive science. Real-time firehose filtering with keyword prefilter + local LLM classifier + engagement ranking. AI-curated Bluesky feed for neuroscience and cognitive science. Real-time firehose filtering with keyword prefilter + local LLM classifier + engagement ranking. - micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain

NeuroBrain is now open source! Real-time AI pipeline that filters Bluesky's firehose into a curated neuroscience feed using a local LLM. Includes a step-by-step guide for building your own AI-curated feed on any topic. github.com/micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain

📢 Deadline Extended!

You now have until March 12th to submit your work.

This year, we’re are also looking for submissions on perception, including x Interoception and/or Proprioception 🧠✨

please share @culturacientifica.uib.cat @uib.cat @sepex.bsky.social #NeuroSky #Neuroscience #PsychSky

Happy to share our new Opinion now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Anthony Clément!

A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling

Full access:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1miOLbotqB...

#neuroskyence

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research!

Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Un nuevo estudio confirma lo que muchos ya sospechábamos: menos de dos meses de exposición al algoritmo de X/Twitter altera significativamente las opiniones políticas de las personas, inclinándolas hacia la derecha.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

We've updated our preprint (Action-perception coupling x Interoception).

- Minor clarity edits, refined statements, and an updated interactive Figure 3 that now runs directly in the browser ✨

🔗 Figure: galvez-pol.github.io/bodily-rhyth...
🔗 Preprint (v3): osf.io/preprints/ps...

The evidence for constrained total energy expenditure in humans and other animals Energy is a limited resource for living organisms, with trade-offs in expenditure evident among physiological tasks. The impact of physical activity o…

meanwhile:

The evidence for constrained total energy expenditure in humans and other animals (Herman Pontzer & Eric T. Trexler). Curr. Biol.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The gut-brain vagal axis governs mesolimbic dopamine dynamics and reward events Gut-brain vagal signals gate dopamine ensembles, reshaping reward and motivation beyond a brain-centric view.

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement."
Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Perceptual reaction times are coupled to the gastric electrical rhythm"

By Marie Loescher, Nicolai Wolpert, & Catherine Tallon-Baudry

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Authors can now include video explainers in their papers with eLife!

Take a look at our first example from @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social in ‘A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain’
buff.ly/LzvvVb9

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry !

Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach.

#neuroskyence

Updated now with:

📣 keynote speakers confirmed (Carlos Velasco & Elisa Raffaella Ferre). See www.cip2026.com/speakers
🗓️ Tentative program.

Check below, this year Perception x Body (intero, propio) studies are also very wellcome!

join us in Majorca in May; best month to visit the islands ;)