Alex Pike

Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!

"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility “Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kelly presenting a slide with reasons for taking science beyond the lab.

Enjoying hearing more about @kellydonegan.bsky.social’s argument that psychological studies need to move beyond the lab (and into apps) - courtesy of the Centre for Decision Science Summer School @royalholloway.bsky.social and @nurasidarus.bsky.social

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Hello hivemind! I haven't seen one of these in a while but I know that back-in-the-day they were all the rage: does anyone have a funky spreadsheet of MH/psych/neuro-relevant grants/fellowships for ECRs that they wouldn't mind me sharing with my lab?

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

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📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

For anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…

I only found out about this by accident when I couldn't access my preprint. I would like to strongly suggest 1) Notifying users about the switch (preferably in advance) 2) Explaining the switch on a preprint's webpage

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

I am happy to announce that I am nearly caught up on all the work I had from Spring semester and boy am I ready for summer vacation

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Fashionably so.

@jonroiser.bsky.social only joined later?

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research ⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️

I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

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Congratulations!!

At the very least visit and partake in the duck trail…

Come work with us! The department is full of very talented and clever people, who are also great fun to chat science with. PLUS imaging facilities, great students, and a growing mental health institute led by the fab @sacairney.bsky.social. Aidan is alright too, I guess.

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Give it all up and come obsess over ducks in York! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Boi

I didn’t get a chance to see this (my poster was at the same time) but would love to hear more about it!

Really enjoyed the poster - thanks!! (She says after opening Bluesky)

Congrats! Pretty good timing for this too - you can use your own conference hiring board 😜

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Fun quick poster spotlight talk at #CPC2025 - come see me later at poster 2.19 if you want more info on what we did or to discuss our results! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (picture cred to @kellydonegan.bsky.social who took this despite her own talk being about 5 mins later!)

Exceptional advice. Will go wild in WH Smiths at airport. (Pre-baby: go wild in Wetherspoons).

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Preparation for a flight to a conference pre-baby: passport, pants, poster. Preparation post-baby - paying £4 a pop to download videos of dancing fruit to my phone (IYKYK); trying to find toys that are quiet, small, and non-liquid; trying to ram a shirt or two into the suitcase full of bibs.

This student is still looking for a few more responses! If anyone has had a challenging relationship with food at any point we could really use your insights. The study shouldn't take very long - there are some open text boxes and then a quick questionnaire. #EatingDisorderResearch

Thanks Vanessa! Sad not to catch up though - next time

Yes, we cite this!! (Actually, I cited the preprint version because clearly I read this the second it came out - will be corrected in the next version).

*sobbing in png*