ASSC28 @assc28.bsky.social You can find announcements and updates about the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness #ASSC28 | For newsletter subscription visit the www.assc2025.gr
theASSC @theassc.bsky.social The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Our next conference is: https://assc2025.gr/. Maintained by @mariandrnh.bsky.social 
Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz @juancamiload.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at @AaltoUniversity @abc_aalto
Interested in M/EEG and 2-Person Neuroscience (2PN).
CIRCE @circe-science.bsky.social CIRCE – Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Conscious Experience
https://circe-science.com/
GIGA CRC Human Imaging @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social Radiochimie, TEP & IRM 3T/7T, EEG & actigraphie, neuroscience & neurologie.
Radiochemistry, PET & 3T/7T MRI, EEG & actigraphy, neuroscience & neurology.
Find us on https://www.gigacrc.uliege.be/
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist.
Professor at College de France in Paris.
Head of the NeuroSpin brain imaging facility in Saclay.
President of the Scientific Council of the French national education ministry (CSEN)
Johannes Kleiner @johanneskleiner.bsky.social Physicist and mathematician working on consciousness. Based at Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, and University of Bamberg's Institute for Psychology. https://jkleiner.de/
Antoine Lutz @antoinelutz.bsky.social I am currently an INSERM Director of Research at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U1028 and the co-leader of the Experiential Neuroscience and Mental Training team (Eduwell)
Joel Frohlich @joelfrohlich.bsky.social Junior Group Leader, fMEG Center, University of Tuebingen
Fetal and infant development, consciousness, sleep, neural complexity
joelfrohlich.com
somethingitslike.substack.com
Rodrigo Cofre @rcofre.bsky.social INRIA at Université Côte d’Azur, CRONOS TEAM. Scientist broadly interested in consciousness, general anesthesia, sleep, disorders of consciousness, psychedelics, physics, mathematics, computer science, philosophy, aesthetics and arts
Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist and nature lover. Founding Director of Brain and Mind at Western University. https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/
Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science @mesec-community.bsky.social Grassroots association for early-career researchers in consciousness science | events & community building | join us mesec.co
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social Psychology professor who also makes music. See link below:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4zrxJCawAG85dzMxug7HNM?si=nsT7_QR_R-ahMs0MHFgVIA
Charlotte Martial @cmartial.bsky.social Neuroscientist at Coma Science Group (University (GIGA) & University Hospital of Liège)
• 🧠 • Love working on -un-consciousness
• Near-death experience (NDE)
Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social https://thomasmetzinger.com
Jacobo SITT @jdsitt.bsky.social Researcher Neuroscience of Consciousness. Directeur Recherche INSERM. Physicist, psychiatrist. 4 children juggler. @jordansGAngels parent 🇦🇷🇫🇷
Tristan B @trisbek.bsky.social Science, brains, feelings, thoughts.. and its combination.
Nir Lahav @nirlahav.bsky.social A physicist who tries to uncover reality. Focusing on consciousness research and the Relativistic Theory of Consciousness.
Part of the consciousness and cognition lab in Cambridge university, England.
Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Director Institute Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, human brain and mind, attention, predictive processing, action, consciousness, meditation
www.heleenslagter.com
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social Philosopher of Mind. Perception, attention, consciousness, and whatever else interests me.
All posts are personal and reposts =/= endorsements.
www.krantisaran.net
Mark Groeneveld @mgroeneveld.bsky.social Writing "Open MDMA: An Evidence-Based Synthesis, Theory, and Manual for MDMA Therapy Based on Predictive Processing, Complex Systems, and the Defense Cascade" https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aps5g
Minda Bohling @mindabohling.bsky.social 🇫🇮 in London, UK | MSc Psychiatric Research | looking for RA/data role in psychiatric research
Alexander Berezkin @birchalexander.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Psychology, CIIS (CA).
Research interests: micro-phenomenology · enactivism (4EA) · embodied consciousness · intersex/IVSC & migration · neuroanthropology
aleksanderberezkin.weebly.com
Intersex migrant (47,XXY Ks)· they/he ·👬🏳️🌈
Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social Associate Professor | Harvard Medical School
Co-Director | Center for Depression, Anxiety, & Stress Research
Director | Treatment & Etiology of Depression in Youth Lab | McLean Hospital | www.WebbsLab.com
McGill & UPenn alum | Canadian in Boston
Evan Lewis-Healey @evanlhealey.bsky.social Neuroscientist working on the neurophenomenology of psychedelics, breathwork & meditation | Postdoc at University of Oxford
Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social https://direct.mit.edu/imag
Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Professor of Medical Psychology at U Bonn | PI Neuroscience of Motivation, Action, & Desire Lab at U Bonn & Tübingen
aka @cornu_copiae
Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow at University of Jyväskylä 🇫🇮 . Previously Ecole Normale Superiéure 🇫🇷 & Maastricht University 🇳🇱
Interested in brain-body interactions, interoception, emotions, mental health
She/Her
Website: www.tahneeengelen.com
Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com Researcher in Face Perception, Breathing, & Embodied Social Intelligence | PhD Candidate, UQ | Award-Winning Operatic Soprano
Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social Prof for Translational Brain-Body Neuroscience at IBB Muenster (GER) | PI @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social | Here for brain rhythms, body rhythms, and predictive processing in health and disease | ERC StG: 'DYNABODY' (2025)
Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Artctic University of Norway and MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Attention; mind wandering; latent state transitions; interoception and autonomic control
https://samverschooren.github.io
Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social PhD student at @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social | IBB (University of Münster)
fascinated by body-brain coupling, interoception, neuropsychiatric disorders, M-EEG
Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social (he/they) (Neuro)physiologist at heart. Researcher at Paris Brain Institute, studying the brain-heart axis, body, movement and consciousness 🫀🧠
https://www.candia-rivera.com
Elias Reinwarth @el-rei.bsky.social PhD @ MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences I @mbe-lab.bsky.social I Brain-Body interaction I Neuromodulation
Cecilia Vezzani @cecivez.bsky.social Postdoc @LABLab in Oslo 🇳🇴
Researching opioids, reward, & overconsumption.
Alexandrina Vasilichi @avasilichi.bsky.social . PhD student @ MPI Biological Cybernetics & @ ECG lab
. Part of Max Planck School of Cognition
. Interests: Interoception, brain-body interactions, psychophysiology 🫀🔄 🧠 
Agata Patyczek 🏳️🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social PhD researcher 👩🔬
Cognitive neuroscientist 🧠
Brain-body interaction 🫀🫁🧠
Lifespan development 👵
Music cognition!!! 🎹🎵🎶
Science communicator #scicomm
Working at:
MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig
MPI for Human Development, Berlin
Paula Salamone @paulasalamone.bsky.social 🧠Affective Neuroscientist investigating on:
Brain-body dynamics, interoception and self using EEG, fMRI, 💉+
📍Linköping University
🇦🇷Made in Argentina
👩🏻⚕️Clinical Psychologist (CBT, NPS, Sports) that loves to read about Harry Potter and DBT skills.
Lucy Roe (she/her) @lucyroe.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist with a philosophy and psychology background interested in emotions, memory, decision making, and free will.
“I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.”
Aleksandra Piejka @aleksanpi.bsky.social PhD in Psychology | Visiting researcher @ Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social at MPI CBS @mpicbs.bsky.social | social determinants of health, psychophysiology, affective science (she/her)
Abhay Koushik @abhaykoushik.bsky.social Researching Breath & Life. Doctoral Candidate
Max Planck School of Cognition.
https://www.abhaykoushik.com/bio
Elio Balestrieri @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social HPC System Analyst at University of Münster
Mateo Leganes-Fonteneau @mateoleganes.bsky.social Studying body-brain interactions in addiction. Marie Curie Fellow @UvAmsterdam and FNRS Charge de Recherche @UCLouvain. Talk to me about interoception, psychopharmacology, psychophysiology, reward and emotional processing and implicit learning. 
Brain-Body Interactions @brainbodyinter.bsky.social A weekly virtual seminar series exploring the interface between neuroscience and other biological disciplines. In association with http://worldwideneuro.com
http://brainbodyinteractions.org
Francesca Ferri @fraferri.bsky.social 
Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social Psychiatrist and neuroscientist studying the role of interoception in mental health. Director of Anxiety Disorders Research, UCLA Psychiatry. Opinions my own.
Corinna Schulz @corcerebrum.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD student 🧠 | curious about gut-brain-talk, dopamine, motivation, psychiatry | University of Tübingen & Bonn
Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social Neuroscience/Psychology · NeuroAdapt MSCA fellow · Digital Mental Health · Smartphone Science · Brain Stimulation · Brain-Body Communication
Niia Nikolova @ninitronic.bsky.social 👩🏾🔬cognitive 🧠-scientist. #maker #artist #parent. PostDoc @visceral_mind
🌍🏳️🌈🇧🇬🇨🇦🇩🇰
Nicolas Legrand @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social Senior Researcher in computational cognitive science @ Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University.
Active inference - LLM - Reinforcement learning - Bayesian modelling | Creating a neural network library for predictive coding.
Mallory J Feldman @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social Psychologist studying how people sense and make sense of their bodies [She/Her/Hers].
Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social (he/him) - tofu⬆️, flying⬇️. Assistant Prof (Lecturer) in Cognitive #neuroscience at U of Dundee 🏴🇪🇺🇩🇪 Research: perception attention arousal. Methods: #EEG MEG pupillometry brain rhythms. www.keitelscience.com
Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social Fascinated by the brain, what makes it work well and how to keep it working well as we age. Noradrenaline, locus coeruleus, heart rate variability, oscillatory dynamics, parasympathetic/sympathetic changes in aging. USC professor.
Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social Neuroscientist & Experimental Psychologist from Germany, based in Brisbane, Research Officer @ QIMR Berghofer, PhD @ MPI CBS, currently researching the effects of brain stimulation in depression using EEG, MNE Python maintainer
Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social Philosopher @Flinders University in Adelaide. Author- The Emotional Mind (CUP 2018) & The Aesthetic Value of the World (OUP 2021). Lover of sci-fi & jazz piano.
https://sites.google.com/view/tomcochranephilosophy/
Tjeerd Boonstra @tjeerdwboonstra.bsky.social Neuroscientist at Maastricht University. Complex networks, brain-body interactions and motor control. Editor for Imaging Neuroscience
Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social Director of the Donders Centre for Cognition at www.ru.nl/donders
Interested, amongst others, in natural and artificial cognition, how humans and intelligent systems interact, and in theories of embodiment.
Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social Professor, LAB lab, University of Oslo 🇳🇴
Pleasure, pain, stress, reward. Opioids.
Affective Brains.
Open science.
Twin mum.
www.affectivebrains.com
Suvi Karjalainen @suvikarjalainen.bsky.social 🧠 Postdoctoral researcher | PhD | Psychologist
🏢 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
🔍 Body-brain interaction, neurodiversity, mental health
Peter Kirk @peterakirk.bsky.social Neuroscientist & Psychologist at the NIH | Anxiety & Mood Disorders, Naturalistic Neuroimaging, Subjective Experience, Physiology, Development | Disclaimer: all views/posts are my own.
James Kilner @jameskilner.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience at UCL, London. My research is focussed on Interoception, Predictive coding, Social Cognition and social interactions and Movement Disorders. For more information visit www.profjameskilner.com
Anne Petzold @neuroadept.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Emmy Noether group leader: Brain Body interactions | Innate behaviour | Gut & brain | https://eni-g.de/de/gruppen/brain-body-interactions
Anne Felsenheimer @afelsenheimer.bsky.social MD & PhD canditate @mpicbs.bsky.social & Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
former fulbright @vanderbilt
• self-touch
• interoception
• nonliteral language
• in psychosis & BPD
she/her
Adam Linson @adamlinson.bsky.social making music. research: theoretical neurobiology, psychiatry (stress/trauma) + philosophy, CogSci • 📍Edinburgh, Scotland • angeleno clandestino • Asst.Prof. Computing & Communications, Open U • http://percent-s.com • feeds: tacos🌮📷, @scotusfeed.bsky.social
Gaia Lapomarda @gaialapomarda.bsky.social PostDoc @uniinnsbruck, previously @NYUAbuDhabi - Obsessed with embodied emotions, music, and the way they color our daily life.
Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social Neuroscientist • brain • spinal cord • pain and temperature perception
Lab website: https://body-pain-perception-lab.github.io/
Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist at Univ. of the Balearic Islands @uib.cat | PI of the Active Cognition, Embodiment & Environment Lab: ACE2Lab.com
Studying how bodily rhythms shape Cognition, Active sensing x Interoception 🧠🔄🫀🫁 | Former UCL.
Markus R. Tünte @markustuente.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Vienna, Wiener Kinderstudien. Interoception and social cognition in development 🫀🫁
Dr Leo Russell @leoistdp.bsky.social Psychology for Functional Symptoms - Devon Partnership NHS Trust 🏥
Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy - Teacher & Supervisor
Researcher and Functional Symptoms Specialist. #FBPE
www.ISTDPHealth.com
Natasha Seaton @natashaseaton.bsky.social Mostly known as Tash. Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Candidate at IoPPN, King's College London.
Interested in psychoneuroimmunology, health psychology, digital interventions and cool stats.
Alum University of Cambridge
Hans Rocha IJzerman @ijzerman.bsky.social director ABSL.io | founding editor InMind Magazine | co-founder Psych Science Accelerator, CREP, and Fédération française pour les liens sociaux | author @ WW Norton | researcher Univ of Oxford | Honorary Member Institut Universitaire de France | LONELY-EU
Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Virgobit @virgobit.bsky.social Focusing on remote patient monitoring using wearable devices and smartphones!
www.virgobit.com
Omid Abbasi @omidabbasi.bsky.social Founder & CEO @ Virgobit, Neuroscientist @ IBB Muenster (GER), wearable devices, mobile EEG, Remote patient monitoring
Valentin Riedl @vavatin.bsky.social Brain scientist asking: How do we spend metabolic energy on processing information?
https://valentinriedl.de/
| Professor for multiscale neuroimaging @FAU
| NeuroEnergetics-lab @TUM
| Award-winning documentary LOST IN FACE about Carlotta and her brain
Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social Clinical psychologist and researcher
https://alexeytolchinsky.com/
CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social Neuroscience,Insular cortex
I do not reply to direct messages
Twitter @leafs_s
mastdon @leafs_s@mstdn.science
Substack substack.com/@clae3
Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social Neuropsychologist, psychotherapist and Professor of Psychodynamic Neuroscience at UCL. Likes all things at the interface between mind and body. Believes the social brain is the answer to most mind and body questions. www.katfotlab.com
Marie Martel @mariefmartel.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Surrey. 🧠 Motor control 🤏 Multisensory integration 🧒 Development - Body representations - Dyspraxia - Autism
Katharina V. Wellstein @kvwellstein.bsky.social Former postdoc @drbreaky.bsky.social
PhD @ETH_Zurich, next stop London.
Research: #CompPsychiatry, #psychology, #interoception, #psychosis
Single Mom & Researcher.
Currently investigating mechanistic underpinnings of blunted and constricted affect
Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social BRNet is an international network of researchers who investigate the psychology and neuroscience of body representation #BRNet.
https://bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/
Stefanie Brassen @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscientist @ ISNlab | Lifespan Neuroscience | Professor | PI @ the CRC289 Treatment expectation | Cat lover 🐈⬛🐈⬛
Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social PhD researcher. Interoception, body image/representation, eating disorders, computational approaches. Looking to start a post-doctoral research position form December 2026. https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lucy-stafford/about-me
Dr. Aparna Shah 🧠 👩🔬 @neuromusings.bsky.social Music, Food and Science Junkie | Grad School Survivor | Collegiate Assistant Professor @VTNeuro | She/Her (aka Neuro_musings from the site formerly known as Twitter)
Stina Börchers, PhD @stinaborchers.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher interested in the neurobiology of body weight regulation, neurodegenerative diseases and sex differences @NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research • GLP-1 • incretins • sex differences | Scicomm docent @NaWik | she/her
Caroline Menard @caromenard666.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Associate Professor 👩🔬, Research Chair on Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience, foodie, gamer & metalhead. Menard Lab is @CERVO_ULaval @universitelaval in Quebec City
🧠🐭🔬🧪
Lucas C Parra @parralab.org NeuroAI, applied neuroscience, machine learning, brain stimulation, neural signals, medical imaging - physicist by training.
parralab.org
Tiina Parviainen @tiinapa.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist, directing http://cibr.jyu.fi/en/ @JKLBrainMind, researching brain development and plasticity, body-brain interaction.
Bonnie O'Malley @braincox.bsky.social CogNeuro PhD @mpicbs.bsky.social
Post-doc @liu.se
Researching Hormones & Social Neuroscience
Trying to bring neuroscientists and alternative culture closer together through science communication <3
Kirstin Eccles @kirstineccles.bsky.social Mental Health Lead in a special school, doctoral student researching interoception curriculum/wellbeing/ regulation. Likes cats, garden, tea, bed.
Clíona Murray, PhD (neé Kelly) @clionamurray.com Cognitive Neuroscientist and avid Yorkshire Tea drinker • Co-founder and Programing Co-Director of Black In Neuro • All things VR/XR & neuroimaging research into social interaction and the maternal brain
🌻🇮🇪🇯🇲
Matt Wragg @mattwragg.bsky.social Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Health Researcher.
Fellow and Postdoc with the LEAP Digital Health Hub @ University of Bristol.
Previously HCI PhD @ University of Bath.
Baker, musician, gamer.
DJ 🐳 @djain.bsky.social HCI Assistant Professor at UMich researching accessibility, audio AI, sound interaction, XR, and health. Director, Soundability Lab. Previously, Google, Apple, Microsoft, UW, and MIT Media Lab.
https://dhruv-jain.com
@kristianhildebrand.bsky.social @kristianhildebrand.bsky.social 
Niall L. Williams @niallw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ Barnard College (computer graphics + human vision) | Prev: postdoc @ NYU, UNIZAR; CS PhD @ Uni of Maryland; Intern @ NVIDIA, Meta Reality Labs; Undergrad @ Davidson College I love computer graphics, perception, and cats https://.niall.phd
Dr. Safa @safarubaye.bsky.social Safa Rubaye, MD: published #psychiatrist, educator, innovator & surrealistic #artist.
Faculty at UIW.
Co-Founder of HealoVerse.com and Mendala PolyTrauma Clinics
I like to challenge the status quo without disqualifying it.
Eleftheria Giannouli @eleagle.bsky.social Research Group Leader @ethz.ch
Lecturer @unibas.ch
Handling Editor @Scientific Reports & @BMC Geriatrics
SciCom Manager @ EU COST Action PhysAgeNet
#cognitive-motor #aging #exergaming #fallprevention #life-space #ICTs
Simon M. Hofmann @smnhfmnn.bsky.social Research in XAI @ Max Plack Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social | in the cinema @ Berlinale Generation