"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @anikokusztor.bsky.social @qualiastructure.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵

We're hiring a Program Manager to join the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to be in the thick of our efforts. You would work closely with us to drive our current projects forward.... ⤵️

Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration & Philosophy and Neuroscience Mentorship Program applications are due 2.28.26. Visit our website for more information.

For anyone interested in the mechanisms behind "letting go" in meditation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ndy... This was a really fun conversation to have, thanks Josh! (www.linkedin.com/in/joshricha/)

A lovely Christmas present: this paper led by Henrik Röhr is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YCJX8T... In this paper, we predict on a single-trial level whether someone is practising a self-boundary dissolution meditation practice on the basis of their EEG data

I'm biased, but I think Neuromatch has done a lot of good in helping make computational science education accessible. Please consider donating to help us continue!

Very excited to announce that our new paper “Are Dreams Narrative Experiences? How Assumptions About Fictional Narratives Shape Debates on Dream Experiences” is officially published in Topoi. I am truly honoured to have collaborated with my supervisor, Jennifer Windt, on this work. rdcu.be/eSXvP

Hey all, Thomas Metzinger has a new book out, have a look: www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0FZ... @metzinger.bsky.social

Excited for the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP) 2025 Conference next week in Melbourne 24-25 Nov. I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference. sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25! Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇 #philosophy #neuroskyence sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

Consider participating in this study by if you're starting to meditate (<4 months) and from Australia, New Zealand, UK, or USA! psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/CSC/research...

In Boston, happy to be visiting the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School meditation.mgh.harvard.edu @matthewsacchet.bsky.social #contemplativescience

How can lived experience be mathematically formalized, and what might computational models reveal about the depths of consciousness during advanced meditation? As research on advanced meditation enters a new era, a powerful question emerges: Can we mathematically model meditative experience ...

If you weren't aware and are interested in active inference and predictive processing, check out the Active Inference Symposium @actinfinstitute.bsky.social (just started). It's free, online, and has lots of great talks lined up, as well as workshops on modelling: coda.io/d/Applied-Ac...

Looking forward to visiting the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia on Monday and having great conversations there! @mclsheehy.bsky.social @monash-m3cs.bsky.social csc.virginia.edu

Today is poster day #2 at @iscr.bsky.social here in Chapel Hill. I'll be sharing work on how deep meditative experience challenges existing computational accounts of affective valence. Come by and pepper me with questions, 4:30-6pm :) #ISCR2025

If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow. I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.

I'll be at the International Society for Contemplative Research 2025 Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina next week. Looking forward to it and will be on a great panel on Tuesday at 1:30pm with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Nicco Reggente, Winson Yang and David Zarka. @iscr.bsky.social #ISCR

👇 have a look at the program of this year's ISPSM conference, it's online and free. #philmind #philsci #consci

I'm presenting my work on affective valence, meditative experience and active inference this Sunday 9:30am GMT at the 3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... Come by!

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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