Do you sleep better when touching your partner during sleep onset? We asked this and some more questions about sleep and touch in our new Touch Test paper. Thanks to Natalie Bowling Katerina Vafeiadou 🍉 Alice Gregory Claudia Hammond Juan José Madrid Val Michael Banissy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/js…

1/2 We often experience touch in treatment settings (massage, therapeutic etc). But we know less about what contributes to different perspectives on this. We studied this with our new Touch & Health Scale: bit.ly/3AkO0RF

1/3 Happy to share my first first authorship publication 😀: doi.org/10.1177/205510… Our individual characteristics shape our attitudes to touch in everyday life. However, what about our attitudes to touch in treatment settings?

How do we feel about touch in treatment settings? To explain, here’s a beautiful infographic by Katerina Vafeiadou 🍉 based on her recent paper in Health Psychology Open

What is the best biscuit for busy NHS staff tea breaks? Find out by reading the results of the Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): bmj.com/content/379/bm… #BMJInfographic #ChristmasBMJ

Taking a minute to check your pulse⏱️(and tell your family and friends to) might just be the most important thing you do today.👇 #IsYourRhythmRegular?

Call for participants for project on Muslim women’s experiences in academia. Looking for Muslim women students (undergrads, postgrads + PhD) in London-based universities to take part in walking interviews. See attached image for details. Pls get in touch via email if interested!

Visceral Mind 2023 call for applications open! 4-8th Sept 2023 a residential week of Functional neuroanatomy, #brain lesions, dissections and patient presentations. RT

If you’re at #FestivalofTouch don’t miss Dr Maliat (Ramisa in emails) 🍉 and her brilliant work from the Touch Test - you’ll find her in the Salle des Voutes!

Here is Katerina Vafeiadou 🍉 elegantly explaining her study on touch in healthcare and treatment settings - if you missed it never fear, the paper is here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #FestivalOfTouch

Coming to the end of a wonderful conference at IASAT.org's #FestivalOfTouch. Highlights include learning about all the amazing research done on touch & infants. A true honour to be able to present my work on infant visuo-tactile temporal binding amongst such lovely researchers 🫂

Thanks BRNet - @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social for a brilliant #BRNet5 !

Exciting PhD opportunity with two brilliant supervisors 👇

Exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity at Leeds Beckett: Addictive behaviour, EEG - and you couldn't dream of a better supervisor than Éilish Duke: vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/trenprod_webre…

Our latest paper. Brain lesions strongly distort tDCS-induced E-fields, likely exacerbating inter-individual variability in E-field delivered by tDCS: rdcu.be/dqBQb @UCL Ainslie Johnstone Catharina Zich Dr. Jenny Lee ARM Lab

Curious about how babies learn about the links between their body and the space around them? Our new paper Scientific Reports looks at how and when infants start to be able to predict that an object moving towards them will touch them. A 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159… @BBabyLab School of Psychology, University of Birmingham 1/n

My UG students are looking for volunteers for their online study on #synesthesia It takes about 15 mins and you don't need to be a #synesthete to take part (just aged 18+). Here's the link: greenwichuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3l… Volunteers and RTs welcome!

Happy to see this paper finally out! Here we show increased affect sharing in mirror-sensory synaesthesia - further evidence of self-other distinction differences in MSS. Congrats to Idalmis Santiesteban, w/Michael Banissy Jamie Ward and Claire Hales tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Funded PhD opportunity working with the wonderful Sofia Stathi - details here: PhD Studentship: Racist Hate Speech: How Bystanders Become Upstanders When Witnessing Derogatory Remarks at University of Greenwich (jobs.ac.uk)

Another funded PhD opportunity, this time investigating risk communication - and better yet you’d be supervised by the excellent Dr Peter Collins - more info here jobs.ac.uk/job/DJN033/phd…