Gratitude to the @erc.europa.eu for supporting my work and that of @anilseth.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?” www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Very proud of this great piece of multi-lab work by Kabir & Husta, et al. Want to measure attention across the visual field (without interfering with ongoing perceptual/attentional processes)? Use RIFT! Here we share our how-to-RIFT knowledge, including analysis code, quantitative comparisons, ..

A bit overdue, but it’s still 2025 so the lab’s 10 years anniversary is on! It’s been such an amazing evening with the lab’s members and alumni, and the messages from afar. I love you all and thankful for your presence in my life and for everything I’ve learned from you over the years 🙏❤️🙏

I was once told: "never try EEG+fMRI!" It was sound advice... but we did it anyway! Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in #EEG to patterns of hyperconnectivity in #fMRI. 🧠🧪💤

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask): arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736 With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky! #iEEG

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

Very glad to see this paper out, beautiful work by the great @francoisstock.bsky.social , @nfaivre.bsky.social , Michael Periera et al. It’s been a pleasure to play a (very small :-)) part in this project 🙏

It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!

BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!

Interested on working with me on consciousness?… this scholarship is an excellent opportunity to do so. Contact me and let’s think about exciting projects we can do together! Please share 🙏 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...

@ronyhirsch.bsky.social beautifully presents her new results on tilt adaptation in the visual periphery AND outside focused attention at #iVSS (work with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) 👏👏👏

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

One of the biggest advances in #consciousness science is using brain scans to detect awareness in unresponsive people, researchers say. I wrote for @nature.com about these techniques and the growing efforts to test animals and AI for signs of an inner life.

Looking forward to hearing what you think and receiving commentaries on this BBS paper! We are all extremely excited about it. Huge thanks to @maorschreiber.bsky.social and @francoisstock.bsky.social for leading it so well, >>

Proud of the Israel Young Academy, that like many others in Israeli academia sends a clear message to our government - against which many of us have been protesting for 2 years: END THE WAR. Now

The war in Gaza must end. The humanitarian crisis is heartbreaking and tragic.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT

Once again, many members of Israeli academia send a clear message to the Israeli government. Proud to be one of them x.com/mateacademia...

@ronyhirsch.bsky.social rocking it as always on the poster session! #ASSC28

Last poster session of the #ASSC28! Come to the space below the stairs to hear about attributions of consciousness and moral status, vulcans, zombies and more 🤓 @assc28.bsky.social

@gennadiy.bsky.social is presenting his work on the @arc-cogitate.bsky.social data. And he is positioned in the shade, so it’s another motivator to come :-)))

Generally, an *excellent* symposium with @iberent.bsky.social , Clara Colombarto and @davidchalmers.bsky.social. Wonderful talks and discussions by all speakers 👏👏👏 #ASSC28

@matanmazor.bsky.social is giving now one of the best talks I’ve heard at ASSC meetings, suggesting that dualists are perceived as warmer and more ethical than physicalists, and that this might drive dualistic intuitions. Brilliant!!! #ASSC28

1/2. Last day of #ASSC28: @gennadiy.bsky.social presents his work on the @arc-cogitate.bsky.social data - predicting NCCs on no-report trials. @ronyhirsch.bsky.social presents her work with @niccolonegro.bsky.social on intuitions about consciousness >>

So fun to present my work on calibration methods at the @assc28.bsky.social! Link to the preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are happy to announce that next year's ASSC will be in Chile! Follow @assc2026.bsky.social for more information

Last but not least. Here’s @niccolonegro.bsky.social presenting the work on mapping claims of theories of consciousness #ASSC28

Experiment 2 results are now out in the wild! @assc28.bsky.social #assc2025

@maorschreiber.bsky.social and @edenelbaz.bsky.social introducing suggestions for ‘best practices’ in studying unconscious processing and a novel calibration procedure tailored for finding subliminal thresholds (respectively :-)). Now at #ASSC28

@eylonmizrai.bsky.social is already describing the experiment with @itayyaron.bsky.social on change detection. We asked if people see the changing colors in this great video despite not noticing the change. And many of them do! www.tiktok.com/@christianke...

Very excited to share the results and hear what you think!!

1/2 #ASSC28: We have four posters for you today at 4:30. On the richness of perception: cool work by @itayyaron.bsky.social and @eylonmizrai.bsky.social. On unconscious processing: our (very efficient!) calibration method by @edenelbaz.bsky.social , >>

Catherine Tallon-Baudry's keynote - how to build subjectivity #ASSC2025

What is a journal without its Reviewers? Yet, finding the right experts is sometimes difficult. #NCONSC needs your expertise! The more diverse, the better! If you are interested in reviewing for us, register here! forms.gle/GYRJWc2ZWsD9... Enjoy @assc28.bsky.social!

#ASSC28 has officially begun with the great @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social ! Thank you for everything you are doing 🙏

The tutorial super group: @niccolonegro.bsky.social , Shai Fischer, @edenelbaz.bsky.social and @maorschreiber.bsky.social Starting soon, mapping the different claims made by theories of consciousness and their relations #ASSC28

Coming to #ASSC28? Check out our stuff! Examining theories of consciousness, testing the scope of unconscious processing, exploring intuitions about consciousness - and more! Looking forward to interacting with you there, and showcasing the great work of: >>

For those joining us at the #ASSC28, mind to download the app for a comfortable navigation and easy networking with peers during the conference days. Soon!

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Thank you so much @tobiasschlicht.bsky.social for organizing this workshop about @birchlse.bsky.social 's Edge of Sentience! Had a great time presenting some exciting results from our survey of public intuitions about consciousness and moral status @niccolonegro.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Semantic priming can either increase or decrease perception of the Kanizsa illusion. This result supports cognitive penetrability, demonstrating top-down influences on illusory perceptual experience. @liadmudrik.bsky.social @amirtal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

So, is perception cognitively penetrable? Can we use semantic priming to make you see a Kanizsa shape - or not see it?… we think we can! See this great work by Nataly Davidson Litvak and @amirtal.bsky.social that just came out!

Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you coming to #ASSC_2025? If so, you might want to stick around for a couple more days for this symposium where the results of the INTERPID adversarial collaboration will be revealed! (+some meta-questions on the adversarial collaboration approach will be discussed) arc-intrepid.com/symposium/

Curious how #MEG is used to study #consciousness? In this MEGIN Masterclass, Oscar Ferrante and Ling Liu reflect on lessons from the Cogitate project, offering a bts look at design, challenges, and broader implications for the field. Register👇 marketing.megin.fi/MEGIN_Master... #OpenNeuroScience

A very long journey indeed - thank you, Shaked and Tamara for your incredible work, and @nfaivre.bsky.social for the pleasure to collaborate with you, as always. We demonstrate the limits of unconscious integration, here of two object images. Hope you will find it interesting!