Micah G. Allen
Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
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- Can the guy from the Outdoor Boys please adopt me?
- No feeling quite in the world like when a trainee/mentee suprises you by surpassing all expectations. Makes it all feel worth it to help someone grow like that.
- What is going on lately with Frontiers special issues, have turned down like 5 requests in the past two months. I do not publish or otherwise work with Frontiers, a policy I have had for over a decade and will not be soon changing!
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenThe Health Psychology Group @univie.ac.at is hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team from 1 May 2026. Full-time position for 3 years and 8 months. Applications close 10 February 2026. More information: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... #HealthPsych #BehSci #SciComm
- Reposted by Micah G. Allen1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
- Kinda feels like Nature has learned about engagement baiting...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenOur latest preprint. More evidence that diabetic neuropathy is a neuro degenerative disease. Very proud of @ish1789.bsky.social and our whole PRECISION group who made this work possible. #HEALinitiative funded
- Progressive neurodegeneration in human dorsal root ganglion from diabetes to painful neuropathy biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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- Reposted by Micah G. AllenThis paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
- Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Micah G. AllenHere’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
- Reposted by Micah G. Allen"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenI hate that this is all just easy to piece together from this guy's poorly-spelled emails
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- Reposted by Micah G. AllenNew paper just out: performing a motor action enhances associative learning, even in the absence of choice: doi.org/10.1016/j.nl...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenNew preprint 🥳 The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?> (work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)
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- Reposted by Micah G. AllenOne month left for our ML competition to predict depression onset, in a massive dataset we collected over 5 years, including EMA and passive sensing data. We have nearly 200 signups already, very excited to share our data and see who can fit the best models! www.codabench.org/competitions...
- After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenNew paper by PD student Bob Kapteijns (not on bsky) How do reading, math, and various cognitive skills "grow together" in early childhood? 🧠📚 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenAt #PuG2026 in Heidelberg you can look forward to 3 keynote lectures by Simone Shamay-Tsoory („Inter-brain coupling during empathic interactions“), @mschoenauer.bsky.social („The role of reactivation in forming long-term memories“) and @micahgallen.com („Toward Causality in Interoception Research“)!
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenHe discussed autism/vaccines with Jay Bhattacharya on his show in June saying “If the data are robust that vaccines don’t cause autism, then run a proper trial” (those studies have been done) and discounted the idea that the rise in autism diagnoses can be explained by changes in testing/criteria.
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenIn his episode on “How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu”, he describes why he doesn’t typically get the annual shot while stating “the flu shot is completely ineffective at combatting any other forms of the flu virus”—that’s false as even in cases of mismatch, the vax protects against hosp/death.
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenIn response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
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- Reposted by Micah G. AllenReward as drive reduction, the return! This opinion piece on the explanatory and unifying power of the homeostatic reinforcement learning framework is amazingly accessible, despite its technical nature, and extremely insightful 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenThe Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.
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- #icanhazpdf I can feel it in my bones: Experienced intensity of emotion predicts in-the-moment awareness of body sensations. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... thnx!!
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenGee. Shocker. #Krasnov leaks critical info to his Daddy, Putin. I'm so shocked. 🤦♀️
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenCheck below, this year Perception x Body (intero, propio) studies are also very wellcome! join us in Majorca in May; best month to visit the islands ;)
- 📑 Abstract submission for the 11th Iberian Congress of Perception (CIP2026) is now open! ➡️ www.cip2026.com
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenHow does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection? go.nature.com/4sMZuqW
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenI started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
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- Reposted by Micah G. AllenThe murder of Renee Good by ICE is an atrocity that must face justice. Thankfully, accurate and clear video footage shows that this was a cold-blooded murder. This iteration of the print pays homage to that.
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenPreprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenA hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-... osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenJust accepted 🎉 An integrative review on interoception and perception: Cardiac, gastric, and respiratory brain–body axes; perceptual, emotional, and decisional modulation; neural markers (HEPs); + active sensing and ecological validity of current studies 🔗 shorturl.at/mtEVM
- Our paper on interoceptive rhythms and perception now is published in NeuroImage 🚀📄 @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social already shared a fantastic breakdown of our main findings in the thread below👇🏽 🔗Full OA article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #Interoception #Perception #Neuroscience #ActiveSensing
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenJob alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...
- 1. Create new rule 2. "recieved before 1/1/2026" 3. "mark as read" 4. "archive" Zero inbox achieved! #chaosmode
- Pleased to have finally ported our lab website to a github powered Jekyll site! With great thanks to @kordinglab.bsky.social whose template was quite easy to convert. www.the-ecg.org (some texts still WIP)
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenNew preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- ahaha, I am almost done with my finance admin. for 2025. Oh wait...
- The nefarious urge to opt out of applying for grants and just use my permanent position to do solo research for a few years....
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenExtremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenHow likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
- Happy new years to all!
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenNow published in Biological Reviews! Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Damn I went and spoke my mind. Hello anxiety. Time to drive 15 hours.
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenBottom line is that this is all reverse inference of intrinsic functional connectivity. No task. No behavior. The take-home headline inferences (behavioral, cognitive, and psychological) are misaligned with the approach. You don't need imaging at all for drawing strong psych inferences.
- Reposted by Micah G. AllenFrom sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry doi.org/10.1126/scia... #neuroscience
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