Advanced meditation ushers in incredible new possibilities for the science of consciousness. In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...

⏰ 📣 Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!

Now on Antoine Lutz on the phenomenology of meditation and its neural correlates in the concurrent sessions

I'll be presenting work today on a poster at @assc28.bsky.social on how deep meditative experience challenges challeges predominant computational views of affective valence. At 12:30pm, come by, booth 179! #assc28

Heading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28

Enjoying the atmosphere at @assc28.bsky.social here in Crete! It's great to be around a lot of researches focused on our actual experience. Also looking forward to Edmundo Lopez-Sola's poster coming up and @matthewsacchet.bsky.social 's talk this afternoon on advanced meditation. :) #assc28

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

FYI: free link to a publication led by Yair Dor-Ziderman in Aviva Berkovich-Ohana's lab. We provided MEG evidence supporting the hypothesis that the brains of experienced meditators exhibit reduced defensiveness toward mortality compared to those of controls. academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...

The FEEL lab is doing some of the most fascinating, groundbreaking research on emotions and emotion regulation. Do NOT miss this opportunity!! #psychjobs #AffectSci

Hello Bluesky! Our students are running a short survey on interoception, ADHD, and autism. If you’ve got a few minutes, they’d be so grateful if you could take part — and help spread the word! 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psychscisky

Save the Date #ACNS2025

The ASSC is now on bluesky! Please follow us for more information about consciousness neuroscience, and our upcoming conference ASSC 25 assc2025.gr

We are seeking participants for a free online mindfulness study together with colleagues from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social See details below, and follow this link for more information lnkd.in/gwCrne7v #research #mindfulness #meditation #psychology

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘 Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵

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Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

📣 Free online event: Join @pliknaitzky.bsky.social (Monash Clinical Psychedelic Lab), as he discusses the role of psychedelics in therapy & their potential for transforming treatment at our seminar: 🗓️ Thursday, 6 March 2025 ⏰ 12:00 – 12:50 PM AEDT 💻 Zoom 👇 Register via the link in the comments 👇

A fabulous day of M3CS PhD presentations - Lars Sandved-Smith on pure awareness, @shawnprest.bsky.social on defabrication in meditation, @bethfisher.bsky.social Fisher on optimism and gratitude. All done brilliantly with active inference and FEP modelling. #neuroskyence #philsky

Just realised Bluesky supports videos so here is our new visual illusion! Fix your gaze on the grey dot. How many red dots do you see within the green frames? Many people consistently see two, despite only ever being shown one! jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... w/ @renrutmailliw.bsky.social

Initialized a starter pack for Active Inference! Just hit me up if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/CuYTnqV

Excited to see work on the Stages of Insight out by Yang, Chowhury, Sparby & @matthewsacchet.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What brain states do jhana practitioners experience? Delighted to share our new paper in Network Neuroscience @mitpress.bsky.social entitled: “Dynamic brain states underlying advanced concentrative absorption meditation: A 7T fMRI intensive case study” 🧠🧘‍♀️🔬 🧵

Hi #Bluesky 👋 We’re the Contemplative Studies Centre at the University of Melbourne. We envision a future where empirically underpinned knowledge gained from contemplative wisdom, research, education, dialogue and practice empowers individuals and societies to thrive. Thrilled to connect! 🌟

@bethfisher.bsky.social giving a greak talk on modelling the optimism bias at @acnsau.bsky.social

Excited to be here with @bethfisher.bsky.social and Mengting Zhang from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social at ACNS mers.cventevents.com/event/ACNS20... @acnsau.bsky.social I'll be presenting active inference modelling work on meditative deconstruction and letting go.

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Happy to have the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies now on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/mona...

I've created a starter pack for the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS), to connect in advance of this year's conference in Newcastle (which is only 8 days away!) Not everyone has arrived to Bluesky yet - please reply & I'll add you! go.bsky.app/GCHufiE #Neuroskyence

Two starter packs for Consciousness Science! (A) go.bsky.app/CgkfpXZ (B) go.bsky.app/T8z9NP4

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

I'm putting together a Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack, still tiny! Drop a comment if you feel like you should be added :) go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

Hey #neuroskyence! We foster collaborations and discussion between the #Neuroscience and #AI communities within University College London #UCL, other institutes and industry. Follow to find out about upcoming events (eg our online monthly seminar), general #NeuroAI news, and other opportunities.

Second and third batch of #MoC5 talk recordings are online! 🥳 youtube.com/@models-of-c... Thanks to all speakers! We'll continue to upload more talks as soon as they are processed. #consci

A great paper on understanding Pure Awareness and MPE by Edmundo Lopez-Sola, @ruffini.bsky.social et al. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I started making this brain and mind researchers starter pack before I realised the 150 account limit. So this is the first 150 people I added to it :) go.bsky.app/PaCWjEy

"You Don't Need Words to Think," [via Gary Stix of Scientific American] 🧠🧪 "...the language regions are basically silent when people engage in these thinking activities." I am, and NOT because I think. www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-... #cognition #thinking #language #neuroscience

New theory paper out today! w/ @hohwy.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Thomas Parr, Rosalyn Moran, Ryan Smith, Jonathan Robinson, @corcorana.bsky.social 🧵below 1/10 arxiv.org/abs/2410.06633

Our Lisbon Interself conference program is now out ! Check out the exciting line up of talks. We have received over 70 registrations 😎 Thank you 🙏 Full info here : interself-cesbaa.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/program/

Happy to share our new paper: Effect of an 18-month meditation training on telomeres in older adults. A secondary analysis of the Age-Well randomized controlled trial. - Biological Psychiatry: GOS www.bpsgos.org/article/S266... @SilverSanteEU @GeraldinePoisn #meditation @ChetelatLab @Antoine_Lutz

New chapter with @cameronbuckner.bsky.social on interventionist methods for interpreting deep neural networks. We review and discuss the significance of recent developments in interpretability research on DNNs from a philosophical perspective. 1/6 philpapers.org/rec/MILIMF-2

Testing if this works... Trying to make a starter pack for researchers in #perception science Please share ! Will be adding more folks as I learn how #academicsky works ! go.bsky.app/V99fSBK

Hello Blueskyers, I'll be recruiting a fully funded PhD student in the coming year, for the study of working memory and attention. If you have any students who are interested, you can ask them to contact me at [email protected]

🚨 Exciting opportunity for trainees 🚨 Join us For the New York #ComputationalPsychiatry Workshop, a 3-day course (Oct 21-23) for learning computational psychiatry methods 🚀🧠💻 Apply by Sept 23: form.jotform.com/242484145124... More info: center-for-computational-psychiatry.github.io/course_nycpw/

I'm looking forward to attending and participating in the UQ Compassion Symposium next week psychology.uq.edu.au/event/4514/c... I'll be presenting on meditative deconstruction and compassion. @hohwy.bsky.social and @kevinberryman.bsky.social also presenting from the M3CS! @jameskirby.bsky.social

Long overdue thread on: ✨The generalised hierarchical Gaussian filter (gHGF)✨ Ever wanted to build your own HGF without deriving/implementing new equations? Ever wondered how volatility beliefs in the HGF relate to predictive coding? Check this out: arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937

Our paper "Exploring the Embodied Mind: Functional Connectome Fingerprinting of of Meditation Expertise” is now published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulation to Sébastien Czajko for his first paper from his PhD research! #ERCBrainMindfulness

accessibility tip for my fellow 🧠 scientists 🧪 consider minimizing or even eliminating abbreviations from your write-ups & presentations! maintaining these unnecessarily increases working memory load, your audience is already engaging ample cognitive effort to follow along #cogsci #neurodiversity