Psychology professor who also makes music. See link below:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4zrxJCawAG85dzMxug7HNM?si=nsT7_QR_R-ahMs0MHFgVIA
Jonny Smallwood
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Hi world - its been a hard year with #cancer meaning I missed out lots of fun things. It would mean a lot if you checked out my new album of tracks. Out on all platforms including #Soundcloud (free). Let me know which tracks you like and a special prize if you work out the two levels to the project
the scenario we all feared
Congrats @josephsalvo.bsky.social and @rementurus.bsky.social !
New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social
It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model
Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings
Congrats @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com et al! This looks great.
Jonny Smallwood
Almost missed that this is out! Former postdoc Liz Necka led this long overdue FMRI study formally comparing two types of pain modulation: Placebo analgesia & predictive cues. TLDR: these are NOT the same! Placebo analgesia reduced cue effects, & brain mechanisms were nearly all dissociable. 1/4
When I started my PhD (and until my 1st fac appt) I believed advances in large-scale neuro would come from more powerful modeling. There’s still a place for that oc, but we’re still in imaging infancy, and the best value per $ in terms of new insight comes from well designed common sense experiments
🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!
I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!
Jonny Smallwood
Grian Chattenooga Choo Choo
Ania Holubecki
Jenny Allen
Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now.
If you would like to help:
Stream it a few times
Post reply mentioning a track you like by name.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/hot...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...
Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...
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I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joseph J. Salvo, Rodrigo M. Braga, et al:
Intrinsic functional connectivity delineates transmodal language functions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Rick Betzel
Lauren Atlas
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
New in #JNeurosci from Necka et al: External cues and treatments shape expectations about pain in different ways, and their mechanisms distinctly influence how people experience pain. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0050-25.2025
Rick Betzel
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667730v1
