Ashley Tyrer

I came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Interview with Prof. Amy Brodtmann, 2025 Winner of the OHBM Mentor Award — OHBM Communications Author: Zaki Alasmar Editor: Simon Steinkamp, Ashley Tyrer Video Editor: Zaki Alasmar

Kicking off the new year with our next installment of the OHBM Award Winner Interview Series, featuring the 2025 winner of the Mentor Award, Prof Amy Brodtmann! ⭐

Watch the interview here 👇
www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Maria Herrojo Ruiz giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in decision-making and motor learning in anxiety"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.

Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 16th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Janneke Jehee giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in perceptual decision-making"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉

Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.

Interview with Prof. Jack Van Horn, 2025 Winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award — OHBM Communications Author: Simon Steinkamp Editors: Zaki Alasmar, Ashley Tyrer

Our third interview in the Award Winner Interview series features the 2025 winner of the Education in Neuroimaging Award: Prof Jack Van Horn! 🏆 @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social

Huge thanks for the stimulating conversation! ⭐

Read the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling"

Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks

Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠

🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi

w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very l…

Our paper on respiratory modulation of excitability during sleep is now online!

Open access link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First of hopefully many collabs with the @tschreiner.bsky.social Lab and led by @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

Interview with Dr. Meiqi Niu, 2025 Winner of the Karl Zilles Award — OHBM Communications Author: Zaki Alasmar Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Simon Steinkamp

Next up in our Award Winner Interview series is Dr. Meiqi Niu, the 2025 winner of the Karl Zilles Award! 🏆

We had the pleasure of speaking with Meiqi about her work in neuroimaging and her career journey so far. 💪

Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.

📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...

he sleeps by day

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with @macshine.bsky.social as part of the OHBM Award Winner interview series; thanks for a great conversation! 🙏

Catch the interview here 👇

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org

@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop

More info to come soon!

Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure

Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

OHBM Award Winners - 2025 — OHBM Communications Authors: Ashley Tyrer Editors: Zaki Alasmar

Congratulations to all of this year's OHBM Award Winners! 🏆
We're thrilled to share the full list of award winners, and we’ll also be posting exclusive interviews with each of them in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more 👀
👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/o8brgzb...

The hard problem is solved - Thanks @naddenmark.bsky.social !

YouTube video by The SciComm Spectrum Making Research Relatable — Why Science Belongs to All of Us

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Julia Masselos, host of the SciComm Spectrum podcast, about all things science communication! 🔬 🤓

We discussed my role leading the blog team for @ohbm-com.com, and also my research on decision-making 🧠

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb07...

The OHBM Executive Office is hard at work getting ready for OHBM 2026 in Bordeaux. Preparation is well underway for an inspiring meeting in a truly historic city.
Join us June 14–18, 2026
Learn more about our visit by clicking the link in the comments.
#OHBM2026 #BrainMapping

Our Site Visit to Bordeaux! — OHBM Communications Authors: Emily Weber, Beth Slater Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Audrey Luo, Zaki Alasmar In preparation for the 2026 OHBM Annual Meeting, we recently had the pleasure of visiting Bordeaux, France, the…

www.ohbm-com.com/blog/our-sit...

Secondly, we successfully replicated the behavioural findings of the two previous studies mentioned, but these previous papers did not include any brain imaging data. Here, we introduce quantitative MRI to examine potential links between behaviour and brain structures. Hope this helps! :)

Hi there! Thanks for your interest in our paper :) Firstly, our study is purely correlational, in that we find correlations between brain microstructures and decision-making behaviours. We don't make any claims about causality, and further research would be needed to uncover any causal links.