Jamie Moffatt
He/Him. Post-doc at Durham University, formerly at Royal Holloway. Interested in the crossroads between virtual reality, interoception and dissociation.
- Does anyone have any good book recommendations on social media? Scope can be anything - historical, technical, political - just looking to understand what's out there
- Travelling down from a very chilly Newcastle for the Experimental Psychology Society meeting over the next few days - come check out my poster on VR go-go arms on Thursday!
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattI've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattDid you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
- Paywalled, but the gist is that teenagers (and younger children) using VR more and more - driven by black Friday sales, headsets seen as a good Christmas gift, and lots of social free-to-play apps like Gorilla Tag, UG, VRchat www.theverge.com/column/84235...
- #embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
- We're finding that many participants don't quite get what we mean by sense of body ownership / agency and related concepts, and want to put everyone on same page before a VR body manipulation - curious if anything standardised is already out there!
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- Reposted by Jamie Moffatt🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds: Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune! Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full [1/2]
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- Reposted by Jamie Moffatt#IMRF2025 Group picture just dropped!! Can you find yourself? #WhereIsWaldo? #multisensorySquad #bestResearchCommunity #sensesUnite
- Really enjoyed speaking at #imrf2025 today on some of our findings showing changes to embodiment and reach kinematics after use of an extendable VR arm @imrf.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattWe’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...
- Had a lovely time in Utrecht - what a beautiful city. Thanks #BRNet2025! I look forward to carrying on some of the discussions back in Durham at IMRF in a couple of weeks time
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattAttending the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Will be presenting my work on interoception in autism tomorrow. Come and say hi!
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattCan #BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? If you're in Utrecht in the next few days and even if you're not coming, feel free to share and, most of all, comment! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social thomaschazelle.fr/en/the-carto...
- On my way to Utrecht for #BRnet2025! Excited to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.
- On Friday I'll be presenting a poster describing some of the great research by @dorothycowie.bsky.social and Leif Johanssen investigating how children and adults adapt to an extendable arm in VR, along with our future plans to expand on that work

- Reposted by Jamie MoffattJob alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!
- Reposted by Jamie Moffatt📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣 More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattOscar Sill gave an amazing talk to end our short talk session, where he discussed the development of accurate own-body maps from childhood to adulthood! @durhampsych.bsky.social
- Really pleased that this paper from my PhD has been published in Nature Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We used mixed reality to explore how manipulating multisensory integration leads to dis-ownership from the body and how those experiences relate to trait dissociation
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattI’m advertising for a 3.5yr fully-funded PhD position at the lovely Sussex Uni. If you're interested in combining behavioural experiments & computational modelling to study how we evaluate our inferences about others, please see here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... [1/2]
- I've signed up to run the Great North Run Half Marathon in September! I'm raising money for Mind, the UK mental health charity, and if you want to donate you can do so here: ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/jamie-mof...
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattMy TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳ 🧪 👩🏻🔬 #CogSci #Neuroskyence #SciComm
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattOk, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan. imrf2025.sciencesconf.org @meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jamie Moffatt🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera... Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨
- First (chilly) day back at Durham, not a bad sight to see on the way into work
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattToday, the #BRNet would like to introduce Valeria @pevianiv.bsky.social and Jamie @jamoffatt.bsky.social. Every third Weds of every other month, get to know two of our #ECRs. Reach out if you want to be featured in the spotlight or be put in touch with either of this month's ECRs.
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattOur department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4at://did:plc:jojqxsm4wfumqlpv7zilwtrb/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbcp4ktmb62y
- Really excited to be heading back to Durham in January to start a post-doc with @dorothycowie.bsky.social! I'll be studying how children and adults adapt to altered bodies in virtual reality 🎉
- Reposted by Jamie MoffattI thought it could be nice to connect the community of researchers exploring body-brain interactions on bsky, so here is the Body-Brain Interactions Starter Pack! 🫀🫁👀🧠 #neuroskyence #academicsky Let me know if you would like to be added or know someone to add. Enjoy and share! go.bsky.app/Fwqeu32at://did:plc:ocrnjyhkregsz3ez46svw3yy/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l4wgy6vfb225