Whoa!

Ahem. Mental imagery (& imagery-critical) researchers should read this: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

ABC is owned by Disney. If you, like me, subscribe to Disney+, consider cancelling your subscription over this. Are you happy to support Disney in leading this first amendment violation?

Fascism it is, then www.reddit.com/r/news/s/Sui...

Do you live in or around Liverpool? Recruiting now for paid research on mental imagery - you don't have to be a student to take part! Sign up to the Liverpool Imagery Database and discover your mind's eye potential! livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @livunipsyc.bsky.social

This is insane. Every ECR should watch this!

"We confronted many universities with our findings, and now it's up to them what they do." "We will look in 1-1.5 years again and see if the scientific community will be able to cure this." -2018

OMG investigative journalists actually did this in 2018 - why is this video not more well known?? A talk and documentary about the predatory publishing/conference world & its disastrous real-world consequences. Riveting watch 👀 youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...

A-freaking-men!

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our last Autism Hub event was another great success — thank you to everyone who joined us! 💙 If you missed it or want to revisit: 🎥 Watch the talks from Dr Reshanne Reader (youtu.be/J6kBAQvpRp4), Joanna Nowak (youtu.be/f4Jarp_Bzqo) & Adele Curley (youtu.be/-p2WGxPWXQA)

New preprint states "The attention model conceptualizes aphantasia as primarily a deficit in top-down attentional control": www.researchgate.net/publication/... @jianghaoliu.bsky.social is on a good role, but "attention control deficits" need to be carefully specified and here's why... 1/6

I realised I've funded my #ECVP2025 travel entirely with money earned from reviewing grants. Do I get to say it was a grant-funded trip?

"Thinking in pictures" or "blind mind's eye"? The experience of mental imagery in autism A recording of my talk for the Liverpool Autism Hub @theautismhub.bsky.social : youtu.be/J6kBAQvpRp4

Don't miss the Superlab during the week of #ECVP2025! Lot's of research being presented by the team, including Ganzflicker (Wes Nixon), illusions (Katerina Christodoulou), emotions & memory (Emma Austin), and philosophical perspectives on amodal completion (Georgie Brighouse)!

Never heard of Mahdur Mangalam until recently and now it seems he's on a roll: Against predictive processing: From flexibility to pseudoscientific vacuity: osf.io/mhw6k

LPT: I have found many a historic / out-of-print scientific text on Internet Archive: archive.org

"We have decided to disband REF to let people get on with their research" ...would be the only announcement that interested me!

And after you've seen that one, come try out the famous psychedelic simulator- Ganzflicker! What will you see in the ganzflicker? Only at Illusion & Demo Night on my birthday (26 August)! @ecvp.bsky.social #ECVP2025

Actually love it when researchers debate things on here that have nothing to do with the existence of mental imagery, it's refreshing 😆

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

" Indeed, it seems that one of the many offerings of generative AI is a kind of psychosis-as-a-service" @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @emilymbender.bsky.social

Why why why, fucking why- Is an article from 1973 still paywalled?

The more I think about it, the more I realize we would not even have this problem if we didn't depend on for-profit publishers. Science is a business for them. This is just a consequence of that! How do we fix it? Mass boycott.

Tldr: bad practices usually found in S/E Asia & Middle East are now filtering into Western science, so it's time to pay attention now 🤔 For-profit publishers don't care if science is well or poorly done. It is our responsibility as scientists worldwide to do our own checks and balances.

A new preprint showing a relationship between visual working memory (VWM) and visual mental imagery (VMI): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... As much as I like to see the rare evidence for behavioral differences between aphantasia and imagery, I have a couple of doubts about this finding... 1/4

Adding "Epistemicide" to my vocabulary! We're in the midsts of the largest organized destruction of knowledge imaginable.

I’m looking forward to our symposium at @ispsm.bsky.social on Sat at 5:30pm CEST. Zoom in to catch me, @kenaizawa.bsky.social, @gualtiero.bsky.social, and @francesegan.bsky.social talk about realism in Neuroscience! 🧠 🥳

The words that signal the collapse of human knowledge: "Would you like an AI summary of this work?"

"There's no reason why you shouldn't be getting grants" they say. "It's not unreasonable to tie promotion to grant funding" they say. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

TODAY at #CogSci2025 !!!

Such fascinating work! I also 100% recommend this paper from the same @kerblooee.bsky.social group - the first predictive model of how we distinguish internal and external percepts...explaining imagery, halllucination... great glinical implications academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

If you are at #CogSci2025 go see Seana Coulson present the poster on @chkhaidze.bsky.social's computational ganzflicker study! Friday, 1st August, poster session 2! cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/

I haven't read this book yet, but the authors (Grant & Di Tanna) know their stuff, and they provide code for every script/engine. Meta- and mega-analysis one of those places where Bayes is natural and often easier than non-Bayes. bayesian-ma.net

Fascinating study! Curious about your thoughts on agency... Strong imagers didn’t just report richer hallucinations but also deeper altered states (e.g., feeling transported). Could agency be a key factor what enables these experiences, rather than just vividness? @kerblooee.bsky.social

Honestly, good on the authors for adding "prompt injections" in their manuscripts, because how dare professional thinkers use AI for peer review? If the article is accepted because of it, it is not the authors' fault the editors/reviewers were idiots. This is not misconduct by the authors!

Thousands of people have provided written accounts of their Ganzflicker hallucinations, so @chkhaidze.bsky.social used NLP and machine learning techniques to explore the different content described by individuals across the imagery spectrum - what did she find? ... 1/5 arxiv.org/abs/2507.09011

Great discussion challenging unconscious imagery in aphantasia! But let's not forget important contributions to the debate from Johanna Bergmann @jobergmann.bsky.social: ‪https://share.google/NKF9CnOnymB6pnpbf

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Inspired by Safe Labs safelabs.info & my favorite parts from other publicly available lab handbooks, I'm happy to share the public version of the Superlab handbook: LAB HANDBOOK | Reshanne Reeder | UK share.google/yVVq0XrsLQxM...

Attending @assc28.bsky.social ? Don't miss this exciting Ganzflicker talk tomorrow @9:30 where the fabulous Wes Nixon is presenting the first* empirical evidence for the theory of divergent predictive perception! *(& certainly not last, see my talk in August @ecvp.bsky.social)

Though I didn’t get to Stage 2 in my ERC CoG, I am SO thankful to the 3/4 reviewers who not only called the project groundbreaking, but also believed me capable to deliver it & expert in the research area- a pleasant surprise! Y'all keep me going & I will keep trying until I make it ❤️

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this article is now open access from the journal!: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I would love to hear from someone with EEG oscillations expertise!

every year my lab does a re-read + edit of our Handbook, a documentation resource for how we do science this year we also updated our Public Handbook, an open-access version for folks wanting to improve their own docs it's at handbook-public.themusiclab.org and available for noncommercial re-use

What a cool preprint! From @gaenplancher.bsky.social Different subtypes of aphantasia show different performance on spatial, verbal & perceptual tasks: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

I get multiple conference speaker invitations daily addressed to "Reeder RR" from "esteemed colleagues" - but I'm getting curious... has anyone ever showed up to one of these things? Is it like Fyre Festival? Do the venues even exist?

Can aphantasia be identified with a single question?: "Visualise a place that you know very well in every possible detail (e.g., your workplace, your bedroom or your favourite bar). How vivid is the picture that comes before your mind's eye?" from Merlin Monzel &c Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

More research showing an imagery brain network that includes EVC, fusiform gyrus, precuneus, and frontal regions! from @juhasilvanto.bsky.social @timokvamme.bsky.social Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...