Valentina Jelincic

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!

100% agreed, so important to understand what e.g. slow breathing is actually doing before widely implementing these interventions. Currently a couple of projects in the pipeline looking into the mechanisms of SB beyond HRV and mindfulness, hopefully the funding comes through! 🤞

Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #twinpeaksday to all that celebrate

Great initiative, I would love to be added! :)

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!

Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.

Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .

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Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

Gender imbalance in citations most pronounced in high-impact neuroscience journals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.638905v1

Calling all #breathing and #psychophysiology enthusiasts! Join us at this year's edition of ISARP on July 10-11 in Reykjavik, to present your research and discuss all things respiratory psychophysiology. Bucket list trip if ever there was one 🤩
More info on our website: www.isarp.net/meeting-2025

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Similar changes in pupil dilation in the phasic and tonic conditions, shown relative to a 10 s baseline before stimulation onset

Both tonic and phasic taVNS protocols induce rapid and transient pupil responses.

Surprising how similar the responses actually are in light of previous studies. Great work by Skora, Marzecova, & Jocham (not on bsky yet). #neuroscience #psychology 🩺

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...