Touch is "stable," but vision is "malleable." 🧵 We’re excited to share our new preprint: "Stable Touch and Malleable Vision: Differential Priming Magnitudes in Virtual Reality." We used #VR and ultrasound mid-air haptics to challenge what we know about how we see and feel. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Is the "Sense of Reality" in the physical world actually different from the "Sense of Presence" in VR? 🧠🥽 I’m thrilled to announce my first lead-author, theoretical paper is out now in Perspectives in Psychological Science! We argue: No. Presence IS Reality. A thread 🧵👇

Discrepancies Between Felt and Judged Presence: The Role of Touch on Presence in Virtual Reality: https://osf.io/v7fdc

Does Touch make VR feel more "real" than vision? 🖐️🥽 Our new preprint investigates the "Sense of Object Presence" using mid-air haptics. We found a fascinating disconnect between "felt" presence (immediate action) and "judged" presence (reflection). 🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is what my AI colleagues should have been doing for long but instead they preferred to ride the hype wave irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/s...

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.

Presence is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness: https://osf.io/7qvwu

🚨New preprint alert🚨 Presence is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness In which we argue that 'presence' as defined and discussed in the field of computer science, is mechanistically and conceptually identical to 'reality' osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/🧵

1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨 doi.org/10.31219/osf... Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context? We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.

Just got a cold call from an energy company which was a chatbot- but a remarkably nuanced one. First time I’ve interrupted a phone conversation to say (with genuine curiosity) “excuse me are you an AI?” Reminds me of this from Dennett: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

This makes sense. I hate comparing LLMs to the human mind, but I imagine this would be like attempting to create a human being who didn't have the capacity to hallucinate Predictive processing is foundational to how we operate, but also leaves room for unavoidable error (hallucinations)

🚓Police sexual misconduct allegations soared 67% between 2023-24 in England & Wales @politicshome.bsky.social analysis reveals The number of allegations relating to sexual conduct –including assault & harassment – against police officers rose to 819 in 2024 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

I have passed my PhD Upgrade and now head into the second year of my PhD! We have covered passive touch and behavioural measures of reality, going on to investigate active touch, utilising EEG to determine whether neural signatures signal a person's surety that objects independently exist

What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wow it's becoming more and more human-like by the day!

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

➡️Parent-child half-term activity alert! This is an opportunity for children to be engaged in a science experiment AND learn about their body signals. Parents will complete a novel computer task about their own child's body signals! 🫀 Sign up here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Imagine our profession was built so that you could advance your career without moving all the time. Isn't this a huge piece of the equity and access problem? Yes, it is.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Aaron Kaltenmaier (also @jhaarsma.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social , @peterkok.bsky.social, Fri 2-3:45 pm) asks how expectations about stimulus presence and content differently affect perceptual inference [7/9]

You would never do this. Warn your friends to never do this. Never ever. The best ppl warn everybody.

From now on if I ever feel bad or down about my work, I'll take comfort in the fact that at least I wasn't the utter moron who let the UAE chair a climate summit www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How do you know what's real? How do you know that the screen you're reading this from is real, and not some advanced hallucination? Object existence is a field full of contradictions and pitfalls, but we're trying to find a way to untangle the thread. cogscicounter.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

Wow it's becoming more and more human-like by the day!

PNAS published a paper claiming scientists are “censoring” research for moral reasons. Yet its authors include those who believe women’s brains evolved to be incapable of science, half of Africa is intellectually impaired & promote articles claiming eugenics should be used as “foreign aid” in Africa

everyone thinks Elon Musk is a genius until you hear him talk about a subject you know something about www.vice.com/en/article/m...

This was fun, funny and quite challenging antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app

1/5 Preprint 🚨 psyarxiv.com/c8mjv We used a cardiac interoception task & a novel computational approach to study metacognitive belief updating in Anorexia Nervosa (AN). 🧵 below #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup

We are happy to share our new commentary on why using language inclusively for transgender people is perfectly appropriate biologically, socially, and scientifically. A 🧵 on the commentary by @andyperfors.bsky.social, @spiantado.bsky.social, & me

Look I know you have a lot on your plate right now and it’s stressing you out but I’m gonna need you to abandon it all to lie still and become unconscious for about eight hours and if you can’t relax enough to do that your brain will destroy itself and everything will be so much worse. Sweet dreams!

Great collection of the best R packages for data visualization #rstats #dataviz ℹ️ r-graph-gallery.com/best-dataviz...

Just sent to me. Don’t know who drew it.

#HiSciSky ! I am a third year PhD student at Katlab - UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, currently researching interoception in the parental context. Happy to join BlueSky🩵

My husband is an artist who makes orreries (clockwork planetary models) out of metal and glass. When I was struggling to finish my novel, he made me a deal: if I finished the book, he'd make me an orrery based on the world of my novel. It's freaking BEAUTIFUL.

As grad prospective email season hits its peak, remember Inigo's guide to a solid email intro:

Science foundation Ireland have increased the PhD stipend by €3,000 per annum, starting in January - this will include existing PhD students. This is welcome news.

Hello World

You are what you wear! Can you dress well, feel good and save the planet at the same time? Join our interactive workshop at UCL exploring how a textile circular economy can serve our well-being, while also saving the planet #CogSci #AcademicSky #PsycSky #PhDSky www.ucl.ac.uk/research/dom...

My friend Pablo and PhD student 🧠 at Maastricht University is one of the finalists for the 2023 Mind Science grant competition, investigating brain synchrony under psychedelics. If you want to learn more and vote for him click here:https://mindscience.org/2023-competition/

#HiSciSky ! I am a third year PhD student at Katlab - UCL, interested in interoception & eating disorders!

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.