Lina Skora
Postdoc @HHU Düsseldorf, formerly MPI_CBS Leipzig & Sussex Centre for Consciousness Sci, Sussex Uni | Consciousness, adaptive behaviour, learning, brain-body interaction, taVNS
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThe EU’s “Digital Omnibus” is being sold as simplification. Analysis shows something else: major changes that tilt the rules toward Big Tech-weakening privacy, AI safeguards, and accountability. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
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- Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"
- Reposted by Lina SkoraOut now in Communications Biology 🧠 🫀We show that cardiac oscillations associated with vagal tone influence the strength of the heartbeat as sensed at brain level. We hypothesize that the heart may send information to the brain, encoded by the heartbeat strength doi.org/10.1038/s420...
- Excellent theme issue - a much needed spotlight on the functions of consciousness!
- New theme issue of #PhilTransB on the evolutionary functions of #consciousness. Read: buff.ly/blMm4eR
- Reposted by Lina SkoraSo 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
- How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
- Reposted by Lina SkoraComplete this sentence, "The brain is ...". What's your favorite answer? I'm team cluster 17/18. Taken from this delightful paper by Taylor Bolt and @lucinauddin.bsky.social; results of text in >4 million peer-reviewed articles + text analytic tools. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798046/
- Reposted by Lina SkoraAre interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
- Reposted by Lina SkoraCould the diversity of findings in heartbeat-evoked response (HER) research be due to variability in methods? In our new preprint my co-first authors, Maria Azanova and @willenjoy.bsky.social, and me systematically reviewed 132 M/EEG HER studies and found:
- Heartbeat-evoked responses in M/EEG: A systematic review of methods with suggestions for analysis and reporting biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThe first step to publishing null results is to learn about equivalence testing, so that you can design studies that statistically support the conclusion that there is no meaningful effect. lakens.github.io/statistical_.... If you are a statistics teacher, include this into 2nd year courses.
- Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr
- Reposted by Lina SkoraUndoubtedly the most massive group effort I was ever lucky to be involved in. Led by the ever-unwavering @annekeitel.bsky.social, this preprint synthesizes the status quo of what we (don't) know about neural oscillations. Grateful to be part of the @scone-neuro.bsky.social network. #neuroskyence
- Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
- Reposted by Lina SkoraNew preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social: How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :) #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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'Mental health diagnoses are not just misapplied, but invented.' Camilla Nord on the mental illness epidemic - Reposted by Lina SkoraOut in Cognitive Psychology, led by @maxmaier.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A new lottery task with choices that matter across trials; the risky option has a chance of going extinct, which ends the study. We derive optimal policies and develop a strategy-classification model.
- New preprint "Decision Making Under Extinction Risk" with Adam Harris, David Kellen, and @singmann.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraPulsed taVNS elicits pupil dilation. However, if sham feels as intense, there is not much left. Based on our comparatively large sample (94 participants, single-blind crossover), we show that a highly variable sham response explains this. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThanks I hate it. This "let's settle things in the ring once and for all" approach to science is weird as hell. There are no easy formulas, no promised answers, and science isn't to be determined by an agreement between two parties.
- Reposted by Lina SkoraMind-wandering is associated with late modulation of the heartbeat-evoked potential; mind-blanking is associated with greater decoupling of heart-brain phase coupling. New findings from our radically-revised study of spontaneous cognitive & physiological dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThe Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People. A couple of years old now, from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social A long read so get yourself a cuppa. TLDR = 8 billion+ people need an efficient food system not a rural fantasy. #food #sustainability #doughnuteconomics www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThe fun thing abt my job is sometimes I have no idea what will be plopped onto my agenda—which is to say, I got roped into writing about the new wolves. They're neither dire wolves nor "de-extincted," & they have more to do w/ enacting human fantasies than helping animals www.vox.com/future-perfe...
- Reposted by Lina Skora1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
- Reposted by Lina SkoraCan we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
- An important thread on a straggeringly irresponsible Nature(?!) piece ⬇️
- Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraWhy academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraAlmost no papers using the heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) report cardiovascular features, like blood pressure or stroke volume. When done, clear correlations appear. Another one here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bb... If not properly processed or controlled, HEPs are not measures of brain-heart interaction
- Reposted by Lina SkoraPublished now in Psychophysiology: We show that taVNS decreases HRV independent of a caloric load. This suggests that acute taVNS does not increase cardiovagal activity ("vagal tone"). #neuroskyence 🩺 Led by @kristinkaduk.bsky.social w/ @koeniglab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThe Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraDoes tVNS elicit replicable effects beyond BOLD responses in the brainstem? Yes, pulsed, but not conventional tVNS leads to robust pupil dilation in our new meta-analysis. Published in Brain Stim w/ @cecivez.bsky.social @akuehnel.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraWould you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
- Reposted by Lina SkoraOK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
- Reposted by Lina SkoraPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraFor Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Lina SkoraWelcome all ye new and bedraggled accounts from the bad place! I've made a science comics and cartoonists starter pack to get you going! #sciart go.bsky.app/KJ7rerJat://did:plc:mmdmai3otayrckpupci6j6jp/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l6uy4tvzp32v
- Reposted by Lina SkoraWe're so fucked. "Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
- Reposted by Lina SkoraPreprint time: "Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interaction". We made a comprehensive overview on the signal processing methodologies to estimate brain-heart interactions 🧠🫀 with Luca Faes, Fabrizio de Vico Fallani and Mario Chavez #neuroskyence #compneurosky doi.org/10.48550/arX... 🧵
- Reposted by Lina SkoraI 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
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- Reposted by Lina SkoraWe are published!! An SSRI changes neural responses to #interoception and its links to anxious states. This changed how I think about #serotonin, internal sensation, and #anxiety. W/ James Livermore @sarahgarf.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social, Hugo Critchley + more www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraNew blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Lina SkoraMy paper "When and How to Deviate from a Preregistration" is now in press at Collabra Psychology. I sincerely hope it will help people to 1) transparently report deviations from their preregistration, and 2) carefully evaluate the consequences of each deviation. osf.io/preprints/ps... #metascience
- Our latest result is out now: phasic and tonic taVNS at rest, under standard params, might both modulate the noradrenergic system in phasic mode only (by proxy of pupil dilation). With the great team @marzecova.bsky.social and Gerhard Jocham at @hhu.bsky.social 🙌 #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Lina SkoraNew pre-print alert! Here we show that false percepts are preceded by an increase in beta power in an occipital parietal network, after which a shared neural code emerges between false and veridical perception in a parietal frontal network. A thread! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraI'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
- Latest in our series on unconscious instrumental learning: stimulus awareness is necessary not only for instrumental learning, but also for instrumental responding to existing associations - w/ Ryan Scott & Gerhard Jocham www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #cogsci
- Reposted by Lina SkoraNew preprint: When and How to Deviate from a Preregistration osf.io/preprints/ps... I hope this helps researchers to reflect on the consequence of deviations from preregistrations by evaluating the test's severity and the validity of the inference.
- Reposted by Lina Skora📢 Join us at the 11th MindBrainBody Symposium 2024 🧠🫀 📅 11-13 March 2024 📍 Berlin & virtual 🌍 Connect with other young researchers, attend keynotes (Roelofs, Haggard, Leknes, Büchel, Brattico, Smallwood) & workshops, & present your own research. 💡 📝 Registration now open! 🔗 mindbrainbody.de 🧠🟦
- Reposted by Lina SkoraIs the vagus nerve primarily regulating 'rest & digest'? In our new TiCS review, we outline that it is time to expand our perspective on vagal signaling to include 'strive to survive' as a second survival mode. Work w/ @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroscience authors.elsevier.com/a/1iALr4sIRv...
- Reposted by Lina SkoraNew here? I’ve started a curated list of some of my favorite cognitive neuroscience, #psychology, and neuroscience accounts here: bsky.app/profile/did:... - you can use it to quickly find people to follow! 🧠🟦 🧪
- Reposted by Lina SkoraWhile it’s *deeply* unfashionable to be publishing in @elife.bsky.social right now - do humour us for advertising a study that was several years in the making (submitted way back when it was still possible for reviewers to reject us!). We’re rather proud of it.🧵👇 elifesciences.org/articles/82823
- Reposted by Lina SkoraThis is very important new study from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social and colleagues. While many have hypothesized a key link between breath-brain coupling and noradrenaline, Dan illuminates this link with pupillometry.
- Reposted by Lina SkoraSave-the-date 💾📆 *11th MindBrainBody Symposium* When? March 11-13, 2024 Where? Berlin & anywhere (virtual/hybrid) What? Talks, posters, workshops, prizes, & much more! More to follow - here & mindbrainbody.de #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging
