@katerinafoto
Neuropsychologist, psychotherapist and Professor of Psychodynamic Neuroscience at UCL. Likes all things at the interface between mind and body. Believes the social brain is the answer to most mind and body questions. www.katfotlab.com
📣Call for applications
We are recruiting the 2nd cohort of PhD students for the international research training group on women's mental health. If you care about translational pharmacoimaging work integrating hormonal states, please apply #neurojobs
jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/6598/PhD...
Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
If evolution, comparative #neuroskyence & #PainResearch are your thing, here's a great review from Terry Walters: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms — a Perspective by György Buzsáki
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Birds have a higher body temperature than humans. This may be why avian influenzas can be so deadly to humans - they can survive fever temperatures, because they evolved to tolerate heat pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41308154/
New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling"
Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks
Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠
🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi
w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social
Our group has been looking at beta bursts for the last 5 years, but we do it a little differently than most - we group into types them based on their waveforms. In this open access article we lay out why and what we think this might mean
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#neuroskyence
Rome, June 2026: 1 day left to submit your abstract and award application to THE event of the year in cognitive, affective, social and embodied neuroscience! escan2026.eu check out the cool keynotes, preconferences, social and early career programme and our travel, carer and early career awards
📣 ESCAN 2026 – Symposium deadline
Good news!
The symposium submission deadline has been extended to January 17.
The poster and single-talk deadline remains February 16.
🔗 escan2026.eu/important-da...
The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Next stop, Athens for another bridging conference between physical and mental health amd between science and practicioners
Rich and beautiful NeuroMind conference in Portugal breaching the gap between basic neuroscience and the real world. Parenting experts, parents, teachers and clinicians are interested in our new interoception tasks and have so much to teach us about parental and childhood interoception
💬 Organized by the ESCAN Junior Committee:
📢 Join our Work–Life Balance in Academia Workshop with Dr. Sara Fabbri (PhD & Founder of Minds for Science)!
ALBA @ #BrainInnovationDays 2025: today at 12 pm, join Francesca Cirulli (ALBA Past Chair) & Aikaterini Fotopoulou (ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2025 Winner) for a discussion on why representation matters in brain health & research.
An initiative by @braincouncil.eu
shorturl.at/morWM @fens.org
🎉 Excited to share our paper out in EJSP - showing that vicarious touch, i.e. observing human-pet tactile interactions, can reduce stress, in times of social touch deprivation such as the first COVID lockdown !
Co-led with @marianavonmohr.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @katerinafoto.bsky.social
I'm beyond thrilled, excited, and delighted to announce being awarded a 3-year Tiny Blue Dot Foundation grant to examine body image in adolescent girls & to develop a VR-based embodiment intervention for body image issues. Expect more info and post-doc and PhD adverts in the coming months 😀
Find out more about the Centre for Equality Research in Brain sciences here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... and the WoW mentor scheme here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
Most honored by this and could not have done it without my amazing UCL colleagues at the Faculty of Brain Sciences. We still have a long way to go but proud to belong to a scientific society and an Institution that values diversity and promotes innovative solutions regarding research culture.
🎉 Congratulations to the #DiversityPrize Winner!
🏆 At the 2025 #FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo, Norway, @network-alba.bsky.social and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (#FKNE) awarded this year's Diversity Prize to Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou. 🧠
👉 https://loom.ly/dphSwoM
#DiversityInSTEM
🎉 Congratulations to Prof. @katerinafoto.bsky.social, who has won the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize for her outstanding contributions to promoting equality and diversity in the brain sciences. @network-alba.bsky.social @kavlifoundation.org
The ESCAN Junior Committee is active and thriving! Join them and their series of workshops, to increase your skills, make new work friends and plan for the Rome conference next year. @escaneu.bsky.social it is all free and friendly.
🔁 Final call!
Join the ESCAN Science Communication Workshop w/ @elodiechabrol (Pint of Science)
🗓 July 3 | 🕓 16:00–18:00 CEST
💻 Online | 🎯 MSc, PhDs, Postdocs
⚠️ ESCAN members only
🧠 for more events, join ESCAN: escaneurosci.eu/membership-f...
#SciComm #PhDlife #ESCAN
And perhaps contrast the brain's estimate of current experience against prior beliefs...
Anyone I know or should know going to FENS in Oslo this year? Pls dm me
Wonderful stuff Alex and colleagues!!!
One of the most exciting cognitive and affective neuroscience conferences is happening next summer in Rome. Excellent science, good friends and Italian food in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get ready for the ESCAN congress, June 3-6 2026! #ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social
