John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social "WE JUST MAKE THE SIGNS . . . "
Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social Investigating brain-body 🧠👤 & brain-heart 💭❤️ interactions with psychophysiological, neuroimaging & immersive VR studies @mpicbs.bsky.social (Leipzig/Berlin)
Head: @michaelgaebler.com
Details: http://www.mind-body-emotion.de/
Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com Cognitive, brain & mind scientist @mpicbs.bsky.social & Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition (Berlin) | head of @mbe-lab.bsky.social (he/him)
brain-body coupling | emotion & stress | 3D & XR for naturalistic psychology, neuroscience, & medicine
Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
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 Cognitive science PhD candidate in perceptual organisation of naturalistic faces across the lifespan, & former award-winning operatic soprano. Curious about embodied social intelligence, self-expression, & self-experience.
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)
Embodied Computation Group @the-ecg.org We are a computational neuroscience lab co-located at Aarhus University and Cambridge Psychiatry. Our research investigates how our decisions, emotions, and conscious perception are shaped by visceral and embodied processes.
https://www.the-ecg.org/
Lina Skora @linaskora.bsky.social Postdoc @HHU Düsseldorf, formerly MPI_CBS Leipzig & Sussex Centre for Consciousness Sci, Sussex Uni | Consciousness, adaptive behaviour, learning, brain-body interaction, taVNS
Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Lundbeck Postdoc Fellow at Yale (USA), KU & AU (Denmark). Interested in brain-body interactions, interoception, consciousness, & mental health
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.
Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social Associate Professor in Neuroscience,🧠 self, body, mind 🦁 grief, neuropsychiatry, neurodiversity, psychedelics, somatosensation🫀 philosopher at heart 👩🔬PI @ BoehmeLab, Linköping, Sweden
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
Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social PhD candidate at @mps-cognition.bsky.social and @mpicbs.bsky.social/MPDCC (Berlin) in the @mbe-lab.bsky.social. Background in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience. Interested in brain-heart interactions, emotions and VR.
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.
Athena Demertzi @ademertzi.bsky.social Experimenter charmed by unconsciousness. FNRS ULiège PI leading the @physiocognition.bsky.social | Co-EiC Neuroscience of Consciousness (OUP)
Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social Psychologist studying how people sense and make sense of their bodies. Learn more at www.MalloryJFeldman.com.
Currently on the job market!
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. At @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social PI-Cognitive Scientist working on embodiment, self consciousness and social interactions in humans and artificial agents/ Responsible AI / Art & Science
In Lisbon & London
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. Books: The Emotional Mind (2018), The Aesthetic Value of the World (2021), Identity in Science Fiction (2025), Happiness for Mortals (2027)
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.
BodyBrainBehaviour Lab @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social We investigate the interplay of bodily rhythms, brain activity, and behaviour in health and disease. Located at the University of Münster. PI: Daniel Kluger.
Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social vagally-interested postdoc @ nexs.ku.dk | bunny herder | caffeine abuser | open science enthusiast | thoughts almost certainly not his 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 cognitive neuroscience @mpicbs.bsky.social w Patrick Haggard @ucl.ac.uk, (self-)touch & interoception
• psychosis, hallucinations & BPD
• language in psychiatric disorders
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.
Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social Psychologist at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg. Time perception in ordinary and altered states of consciousness. MIT Press book author: 'Felt Time' and 'Altered States of Consciousness'.
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Interested in interoception, emotion, interactions between heart and brain, biological basis of empathy & Radio 4
Francesca Fardo @francescafardo.bsky.social Neuroscientist • brain • spinal cord • pain and temperature perception
Lab website: https://body-pain-perception-lab.github.io/
Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social Experimental Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience (Donders Institute and Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University)
https://www.epanlab.nl/
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 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social We study the sense of self, body representation, and the human brain. Based at Karolinska Institutet, led by Henrik Ehrsson.
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/
Martijn Arns @martijn-arns.bsky.social Brainclinics Foundation | Applied Neuroscientist | TMS | Psychedelics | Neurofeedback/BCI | Depression | Heart-Brain Coupling | Stratified Psychiatry | ADHD | Sleep | Chronobiology | Marathon running | Guitar |
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 Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social with @mitulamehta.bsky.social, former @drbreaky.bsky.social postdoc,
PhD @ETH_Zurich.
#CompPsychiatry, #psychology, #interoception, #psychosis
Single Mom & Researcher
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.
Ignacio Rebollo @brainandstomach.bsky.social Neuroscientist | Junior Group Leader | Gut-brain interactions | German Institute of Human Nutrition | Berlin-Potsdam, Germany
ignaciorebollo.com
Dr. Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness.bsky.social Pain scientist. Asst Clinical prof @ UCSF, lecture @ Stanford. Psychologist. Disruptor. Author📚 Tell Me Where It Hurts. Neuroscience nerd 🧠 #medsky #medtwitter #SciComm #neuroskyence
www.zoffness.com
Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow at Imperial College London. Interested in balance, falls, anxiety, vestibular, healthy ageing. Board Member of ISPGR.
Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist with many interests, including why our stomachs churn when we feel disgust. I also write books on programming; teach Python, statistics, and machine learning; and develop open-source software.
https://www.dalmaijer.org
Jamie Moffatt @jamoffatt.bsky.social He/Him. Post-doc at Durham University, formerly at Royal Holloway. Interested in the crossroads between virtual reality, interoception and dissociation.
Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social Assoc Prof & Physiolab Coordinator, Institute of Health, HES-SO Valais 🇨🇭
PI of GROWN, The SENSE Center🇨🇭
Editor-in-Chief of Mind, Brain & Education journal (IMBES)🧠📖
real-world models of brain/mind & movement; ↗️ children's health & well-being: 👁️👂🧠 🦵📖
Elisa Xu @elisaxu.bsky.social Clinical Psych PhD student at Stony Brook University studying perception 👀 and interoception 🫀🧠 in psychopathology | Past: Research @ Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics @IcahnMountSinai | BA @Penn
Valentina Jelincic @valentinaj29.bsky.social Postdoc at KU Leuven (Health Psychology - OGP)
Breathing, interoception and neuroscience enthusiast
Carolina Villegas @carolinavm.bsky.social Research Fellow @KatLab_UCL | Unit of Psychoanalysis @UCL
Interoception | Prarenting
She/Her
Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ UToronto 🇨🇦 & Yale 🇺🇸 | clinical Psychology | interoception | self-other representation https://ruofanma.github.io/
Luis Cásedas @lcasedas.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at CONNECTS, @cimcyc.bsky.social, University of Granada | Psychological, meta- and contemplative research | INMINDS interview series | lcasedas.com
Rajae Talbi @rajaetalbi.bsky.social Neuroscientist interested in sex differences/sex hormones, women’s health and the neuroendocrine regulation of metabolism and fertility.
Former@Harvardmed🇺🇸 @U.Strasbourg🇫🇷 and @USMBA🇲🇦
Assistant Professor @U.Montreal - CI2B 🇨🇦
📍 Montréal
www.talbilab.com
Félix Bigand @felixbigand.bsky.social Postdoc @IITalk | Neuroscience, movement, music and dance
Neuroscience of Perception & Action Lab, Rome
Marcus Böhme @boehmemarcus.bsky.social #Microbiota-#Gut-#Brain-Axis | from Early Life to #Aging | Neuroscientist & Nutrition | Working in R&D | Musician | PhD @uniklinik_jena | formerly @Pharmabiotic #cryanlab
📄 https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=SqMBfEQAAAAJ&hl=en
Jatin Nagpal @jatinnagpal.bsky.social 💭 Neuroscience. Microbiome. Optogenetics.
📍APC Microbiome Ireland. University College Cork.
👤 Lecturer. Co-chair, UCC Race Equality Network. Director, ALBA Network. SciComm Coord., EU COST AFFECT-EVO.
📜 https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/jatin.nagpal@ucc.ie
Harri Harju @harriharju.bsky.social Clinical psychologist and doctoral researcher at University of Turku. Currently doing total-body PET studies to investigate bodily emotional responses at Turku PET Centre.
Find me at your local board game café.
Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social tactile percept/psychophysics • brainheartlungs • time+feature expectation❣️dei+metascience ̚
PhD candidate @mpicbs.bsky.social @mps-cognition.bsky.social ̚
prev. • bsms.ac.uk • mindandbrain.de • psych.mpg.de • lmu.de/psy/ ̚
www.liobaenk.com 🦋