Laura Crucianelli

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences achieves prestigious gender equality award

Our School @qmulsbbs.bsky.social successfully renewed its Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising its commitment to gender equality! Special thanks to @nadinelavan.bsky.social, Guifen Chen, and all the EDI committee for being the driving forces behind the application 👏

www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/news/it...

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Cortical somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled bionic hands Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering - Somatosensory feedback is an essential feature of neural prostheses that aim to restore natural hand dexterity after neurological injuries. This Comment...

Interested in the current challenges of cortical #somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled #bionic hands 🧠 🦾?
Comment on @NatureReviews Electrical Engineering

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@springernature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com #NeuralBionicsLab #Chalmers

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

Thank you, @nataliepeluso.com! :)

Touch is not all the same! #S4SN2025

Congratulations, Dennis 🎉 And all the best for this new adventure!

Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Adverse experiences in early life affect brain development across species. In this Review, Nelson, Sullivan and Valdes discuss neuroimaging evidence for how these adversity-induced changes to human br...

Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders — a Review by Charles A. Nelson, Eileen F. Sullivan & Viviane Valdes

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

Amazing opportunity to present "Hearing the Self: Auditory Signatures in Self-Environment Interactions and Body Transformation Experiences" on behalf of @anatajadura.bsky.social, in the @imrf.bsky.social 2025 Conference. I thank @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social.
@imbodylab.bsky.social , @erc.europa.eu

Great talk by @jamoffatt.bsky.social at #IMRF2025 in Durham on virtual extendable arm! Loved the reference to Inspector Gadget 🕵‍♂️

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

Symposia 1 and 2 are on now! Come and hear about the neural dynamics of temporal processing (Rohe, Senkowski) or multisensory embodied self-environment interactions (Crucianelli)

Great start to #IMRF2025 with Symposium 2 all about body representation and some amazing talks! Really enjoyed hearing about how sounds can affect it, e.g. with the auditory pinocchio illusion 🔊, something quite different than what I work on but so fun!

If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social opening Symposium 2: “Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and Embodied signatures of Self-Environment interactions” at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

Our final event was the perfect way to wrap up the season before the summer break, with lots of laughter and just the right company!
We’ll be back in September with fresh energy and a new series of events.
Stay tuned to our channel for other initiatives to support #WomenInAcademia! #AcademicNetwork

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One of the top events in cognitive & affective neuroscience is heading to Rome!

ESCAN 2026 | June 3–6
Great science, great people, and unforgettable food—in one unforgettable city.
More details soon.

#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

Making research accessible and visible is key to empowering women in academia.
Join us for a Public Engagement Workshop with Paul Curzon(@cs4fn.bsky.social),dedicated supporter of #WomenInSTEM.

🗓 13 June | 🕙 10:00–12:30
📍 Queen’s Building, Room 2.03
🔗 forms.gle/82zeHMyoZS8L...

#SciCom #WHENetwork

The Invisible Hand The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible pa...

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.

On Saturday, our @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social rocked at the #SoapboxScience2025 with a felt explanation of the language of touch. She captivated the crowd, showing how science can truly engage and intrigue the public, while championing the visibility of #WomenInScience!
@soapboxscience.bsky.social

We had a great time at the Soapbox Science event last Saturday in London's Southbank with @antorrisi.bsky.social ! Lots of cool science done and explained by women 💪 #womeninscience #soapboxscience2025
@when-in-science.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

soapboxscience.org/soapbox-scie...

Patient priorities for interoception research, just out in Lancet eClinicalMedicine 🧠🫁🫀

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— the first pub from our @wellcometrust.bsky.social Mental Health Award

Led by the brilliant @gabmackie.bsky.social & @lydiajhickman.bsky.social

From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self | Royal Society Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

A stellar line-up at this @royalsociety.org event on the Self, 19-20 May : Garfinkel, Wykowska, Prescott, Verschure, Zavahi, Schectman, , Li, Southgate, Lanillos, Brugger, Addis,Vogeley, Preller,Tsakiris, Blanke. Join us! royalsociety.org/science-even...

🚀 Calling all undergrad & master’s women looking to break into tech! 💻✨

Join the Byte Queens Networking Event for a CV workshop, networking lunch & panel discussion!

📅 23rd April 2025 | 🏫 QMUL

Sign up now: www.eventbrite.com/e/byte-queen...

#ByteQueens #WomenInTech #STEMCareers #Networking

Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa

👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

Royal Society honours pioneering scientists who were first female members A year-long series of events marks 80 years since admission of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale in 1945

80 years ago, the Royal Society finally admitted its first female fellows—Marjory Stephenson & Kathleen Lonsdale. 🔬💡.

To honor their legacy, a year-long celebration kicks off with films & talks on women in science. #WomenOfTheRoyalSociety @royalsociety.org

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Here we are on a sunny London afternoon enjoying tea & great company. This is Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN)—a space to connect, support & empower women in academia. Our goal: open dialogue, collaboration & impact in STEM fields & beyond!
#WHENetwork #WomenInScience 💜

Group arts interventions for depression and anxiety among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health In this systematic review and meta-analysis of group arts interventions for older adults, the authors found that participation in shared artistic experience was associated with lower levels of depress...

HOT OFF THE PRESS! New meta-analysis by Elizabeth Quinn, Dr Emma Millard & Dr Janelle Jones published in Nature Mental Health provides evidence that group arts interventions reduce #depression and #anxiety among older adults. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans @gwenbrekel.bsky.social and Sevasti Foka.