First paper is now out in Cortex! We find behavioral and neural evidence for non-conscious speech processing, using a new dual-task paradigm that creates repetitive occurrences of in attentional deafness without masking or degrading stimuli. @deouell.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is what Christmas Eve is all about.🎅🏻🎄🎁 #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas

I find tinsel distracting.

1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

This is friggin’ cool.

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

If you're interested in hearing, speech, and voice, give our Center (Communication Technologies Research Center, or CTRC) @ctrcenter.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social a follow!

Let us know if you are interested!

I guess on account of Thanksgiving last week, Jimmy Cliff's passing just registered. 😥 In his honor: youtu.be/cNTIluVz9Ls?...

🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de! Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster

This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

There is no rock-bottom to the cruelty. www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...

I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025... I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)

To convince people you're not the same as the other guys, you have to be about something more than just winning the next election, which (ironically?) will help you win elections and (sarcasm loading) has the tangential benefit of actually improving the lives of those you serve.

If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab. tinyurl.com/m9www9rc

If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab. tinyurl.com/m9www9rc

What is it like for a U.S. citizen to be kidnapped by CBP? What are they like, how do they talk when they speed off with you in their car? Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.

Great write-up of an interesting article that traces its roots to "A modified concept of consciousness" (Sperry, 1969): psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

The cruelty is the point.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

Very cool auditory no-report fMRI study!

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

#sensoryprocessingsensitivity #neuroskyence

How to disable: - Log in to LinkedIn. - Click on your profile picture at upper right. - Select "Settings & Privacy" from the drop down menu - Select "Data privacy" from the left-side menu - Find "Data for Generative AI Improvement" - Toggle the switch to "off"

‘But Florida has made no such provision, telling SNAP recipients in an online message, “SNAP benefits for the month of November will not be issued until federal funding is restored.”’

Millions of Floridians slated to lose food stamp benefits Saturday trib.al/93wG7Gq

Here's a glimpse at some of the people who are about to lose SNAP funding, from @msnbc.com.

Super interesting to watch Ahsan Adeel and his lab trying to develop an alternative to current LLM architectures, using pyramidal two-point neurons as their starting point

Pictures: ‘No Kings’ protest in Orlando trib.al/H9syWET

Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang Side-by-side comparison for: • Differential equations • Optimization • Automatic differentiation • Symbolic computing • More! Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices. sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...

If you want to take your M/EEG interpretations farther, I can recommend this tool!

Pretty sure Minnesota might be the only place where you can look at high-field MRI images on a jumbotron.

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

Our review on intracranial research on consciousness is now out as a preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736. I believe that intracranial recordings provide one of the most exciting avenues for research on consciousness right now! If you agree, I think you will find the review interesting 🤓

I don't think it is OK to desk reject a paper with no comments or feedback at all. If you have time to read/skim the paper and make a judgement, then you have time to write a sentence explaining why you don't want it (and that stuff is invaluable for ECRs)

This is the way. tinyurl.com/34768ed3

This paper in @cp-iscience.bsky.social led by Laura Doll and Alexander Gutschalk @uniheidelberg.bsky.social was published last year, but I'm highlighting it again b/c I think it's really cool and has all the things: M/EEG, pupillometry, awareness ratings, SDT. #consci 🧠💻 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Bravo, @mit.edu ! links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

The next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....

Gonna be in San Diego for #sfn25? Come join us for our first ever in-person event for @storiesofwin.bsky.social - registration is now OPEN!! 👇 gonna be a great time for getting inspired and building community (and stay tuned for an exciting lineup of 🤩speakers/panelists)! Help us spread the word!

"Auditory affective experiences as a window into the neural basis of consciousness"

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’! Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves! Demos in thread👇 [1/6]

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

If you’re a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by @adykstra.bsky.social including James Bonauito and @darcywaller.bsky.social !