Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL

@daniel-bor.bsky.social

Dr. Annemieke Apergis-Schoute

Prof. Adina Michael-Titus

Excited to share some photos from ‘Mind the brain: A Dialogue Between Neuroscience and Mental Health’, a collaborative event we had today for bringing together QMUL researchers in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry. @blizardinstitute.bsky.social

Decoding Engagement: Exploring the Influence of Social Communication Cues in Human-Robot Conversational Scenarios Enhancing human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a deep understanding of engagement. This paper explores how to capture engagement within conversational HRI by examining multiple non-verbal communicat...

How do we decode engagement in human–robot conversations? Check out this exciting new interdisciplinary research from Dr Janelle Jones and colleagues from @qmuleecs.bsky.social ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...

‘I thought my PMDD was depression - How Femtech revolution is changing women’s health Tayla Kenyon thought she had “really bad depression, bad anxiety, personality disorders,” before linking the symptoms to her periods. She suffers from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). It’s a c...

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder affects up to 900,000 women in the UK, yet treatments are limited. The Independent reports that Dr Paul Faulkner’s placebo-controlled trial found Nettle (tDCS) reduced anxiety and improved wellbeing across three cycles. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/wome...

Check out this exciting new paper from ‪@elisabettaversace.bsky.social‬

New paper from @fredi15.bsky.social + colleagues showing that even in the absence of making a choice, the simple act of pressing a button enhances the learning of stimulus-reward and stimulus-punishment associations. doi.org/10.1016/j.nl...

Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social was interviewed by Emily Bates in a @natureportfolio.nature.com video on why women with ADHD tend to be diagnosed later in life.

Birds = model to study embryonic responses to environmental stimuli. check @subbaprakrit.bsky.social ' preprint, where we show "Programming of Embryonic Blood Brain Barrier and Neurovascular Transcriptome by an Anticipatory Acoustic Signal of Heat in the Zebra Finch" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oggi è la Giornata Mondiale degli Abbracci, perché fanno bene Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Oggi è la Giornata Mondiale degli Abbracci, perché fanno bene

Hugs are good for health! Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social, Lecturer in Psychology at @qmul.bsky.social @qmulsbbs.bsky.social, spoke to Sky tg24, and others about her research on warm hugs, for World Hugs Day this month.

tg24.sky.it/salute-e-ben...

A blog about the Planet & People conference at which I spoke recently in Newcastle: planetandpeople.online/join-the-dot...

Why procrastination isn’t laziness – it’s rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn Why we procrastinate has less to do with willpower than with how flexibly our brains handle stress and discomfort - and the good news is, flexibility is trainable.

Read a recent piece by Dr Annemieke Apergis-Schoute on @theconversation.com: Why procrastination isn’t laziness – it’s rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn theconversation.com/why-procrast...

New paper: habituation to threatening stimuli in bumblebees is far from simple! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

My first presentation of 2026 will be in Pristina/Kosovo for Albanian-language beekeepers and I just have to say I love this totally unique language!

Here's what our researcher on positive psychology @rosiedavis.bsky.social has to say about working with dancers for her Positive Balance project!

Lars Chittka speaks to BeeCraft about his new film and ongoing work YouTube video by Bee Craft Magazine

Fun to do this podcast with Stephen Fleming and Richard Rickitt of the journal BeeCraft about my role as a mad scientist in the film The Last Bee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpPG...

The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI - Our Narratives A new study published in Biology Letters has revealed that bumblebees, with brains smaller than a cubic millimeter, are capable of perceiving and processing

“The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI” features our work on #time processing across species
ournarratives.net/the-stopwatc... (the front image is not accurate but there are other images in the article) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Awards 2025: QMUL Faculty of Science and Engineering - Research QMUL Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Centres

Congratulations to @marghmalanchini.bsky.social on receiving the Research & Innovation Excellence Award for her world leading research investigating how diverse developmental pathways influence learning, mental health and life outcomes @qmulsbbs.bsky.social
www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/facultyaward...

Humans Share a Superpower With Shorebirds If you’ve always wanted some kind of Jedi-like superpower, you’ve had one all along—and you share it with shorebirds like sandpipers.

Some coverage on our work on Remote touch
"Humans Share a Superpower With Shorebirds www.vice.com/en/article/h... "
Original paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
Youtube video youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...

another very interesting paper by Salvato & @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Alex Davidson in front of his poster at #ASABwinter2025 conference. Poster title "Time processing in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris"

don't miss @alexdqm.bsky.social's poster [11] at #ASABwinter2025 to discover more about time processing in insects "Time processing in the bumblebee Bombus terretris"

and now you have your chance to speak to @robynroachneuro.bsky.social today at #ASABwinter2025 while she presents her poster on early motion detection in chicks!

Last ASAB conference of my PhD journey! 🐣
Presenting my poster “Vocal Echo: a closed-loop system for real-time vocal analysis of domestic chicks” at #ASABWinter2025
Come by the poster session to chat and check out the demo via the link below!
@elisabettaversace.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social

Full room for yesterday's talk by @summerfieldlab.bsky.social
as part of the @qmulsbbs.bsky.social seminars. We enjoyed learning everything about “How to be both rich and lazy”. Thank you, Christopher!

Last gig of the year, tomorrow!

Warmth and Hugging Strengthen the Feeling of Being You - Neuroscience News Changes in skin temperature play a key role in how strongly we experience our bodies as our own.

We discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...

Super excited that Osseily Hanna's "The Last Bee" won the Best Fiction Film Trophy at the Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental in Mexico this week. The film will be released in 2026 - stay tuned!

Congratulations @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social and @gerardosalvato.bsky.social!

At HAIR (Healthcare Applications of Interactive Robotics) workshop hair-robotics.github.io/workshop2025... @elisabettaversace.bsky.social has presented our work on #remoteTouch See here all speakers of this inspiring event organised by #IldarFarkhatdinov and #JoshuaBrown

Fue un reto interesante interpretar a un científico loco en la película del director Mexicano Osse Hanna Gomez, La Última Abeja, also starring Michelle Maldonado! Aquí esta una primera reseña de la película: periodistasunidos.com.mx/nacional/cul...

Prepared Minds Lab at the launch of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Psychology

Our smart bees in Shaastra, a science and technology magazine published by the Indian Institute of Technology