It was a pleasure publishing with CommsPsychol in the RR format. Highly recommended! 🌟

🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s442... Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition. Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.

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... 🧠🧪

My family and I will take part in the Memory Walk this year supporting those living with dementia and their current/former carers ♥️ We would appreciate any donations you can spare: www.memorywalk.com.au/fundraisers/...

Using a confidence-accuracy dissociation paradigm, the study finds that multisensory integration follows subjective confidence instead of objective accuracy. Further modeling suggests shared computations between confidence and multisensory integration. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Lovely/comprehensive review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder; a condition that demands a metacognitive interpretation: doi.org/10.1093/brai... The emerging picture aligns with findings in psychopathology more broadly—metacognitive performance is often equivalent to controls.

Having now read two dozen or so ARC Discovery Project EOIs the best advice I can give everyone preparing one is to simplify their writing a lot. You're not writing for experts, the whole College of Experts is involved, you'll have people who have no clue about your discipline assessing this

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.

now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...

finally published! Optimal metacognitive decision strategies in signal detection theory -- with the brilliant Brian Maniscalco and Lucie Charles #neuroskyence #neuroAI #metacognition #consciousness #psychology link.springer.com/article/10.3...

In this new preprint @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the functions and evolution of conscious vision. This is a big project: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We'd love to get your comments!

Hello world! Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is on bsky! #ACNSnews

ABC's Philosopher's Zone is a favourite of mine from the radio station's stable. Here's the wonderful recent episode on animal+ sentience with @birchlse.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence

Our latest work, up as a preprint to enjoy. We gave LLMs tasks adapted from experimental psychology to see how they contribute to teamwork. We found LLMs were reasonable at monitoring tasks but were poor at tasks requiring planning and strategising.

It was only a matter of time - a metacognition starter pack! Do let me know if I’ve missed people or if you’d like to be added #neuroskyence 🧪 go.bsky.app/9PSjwLF

In our latest work on curiosity, we show how autistic traits influence free exploration! Out now in PLOSCompBiol! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New preprint where @mmrobinson93.bsky.social and I jump into the literature on meta-cognition (hopefully in a useful way!): osf.io/preprints/os... We show that a simple memory model (TCC) can be straightforwardly adapted to make predictions about confidence #neuroscience #psychscisky

I think it was missing to I created a Consciousness Science Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/T8z9NP4 I can still add ~90 people so if you want to jump in, let me know! And if you don't want to be there, let me know as well of course. The boundaries of consciousness research can be hard to determine!

Welcome Mel! Great to have you on here

Hi Bluesky! ☀️ We are an open-source statistics program that is free, friendly, & flexible. Armed with an easy-to-use GUI, we enable both classical & Bayesian analyses. Over 340 universities in over 70 countries use JASP. Follow us to get notified on our latest features & stats news.

Our latest paper: "Users do not trust recommendations from a large language model more than AI-sourced snippets” www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

I don't have a substack but I do make music in my free time 🐧 It's not everyday that a synthesiser turns 40. You can check out my new EP on bandcamp: julianpalindrone.bandcamp.com/album/so-thi...

I can't support Twitter anymore. I was going to hold out until after the election, but not with shit like this. I am shifting over to here on Bluesky. You may see some personal posts sprinkled in with my photos from here on out. Thanks for being a much nicer place to be. I love y'all. 💜

New preprint by Rishi Maran, Eli Muller: "Analyzing the Brain's Dynamic Response to Targeted Stimulation using Generative Modeling" A review/perspective on why new mechanisms may be found by modeling brain stimulation dynamics 🧠⚡️ arxiv.org/abs/2407.19737

I will share our findings at #ASSC27 about the mental effort of #metacognition + its consequences for a famous metacognitive phenomenon… 1️⃣💦2️⃣ Catch it in Metacognition #1, Fukutake - Wed 03 July 5:30PM #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

Bridge Road Brewing catering to a very specific Venn diagram that I absolutely exist within

🎉 Our #RegisteredReport on report order & #metacognition accepted-in-principle Communications Psychology! Why do we collect #confidence ratings after task decisions? As a grad student, this puzzled me. We used one order in every study, but others flipped it or collected both together 🔄

AI "hallucinations": a kind of "controlled bullshit"? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Apart from metacognition, one of several other obsessions of mine is craft beer. Couldn't pass up an opportunity to visit Green Bench, the 'Burgs best hop & foeder technicians.

#VSS and #metacognition? Stop by my poster on Sunday and let's discuss the mental cost of perceptual metacognition and confidence.

Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in npj women's health! 🪞🤰 Check it out: rdcu.be/dHja6 #psysky #psychology #reprosky #🧠

hello friends in Japan (& elsewhere), there is a free conference on perceptual metacognition on July 1st in Tokyo. abstract submission deadline in two weeks. one downside is that i'll be speaking there. but the other speakers are gonna be great sites.google.com/view/asscmet... #neuroskyence

Revisions complete! This registered report has been a lot of work but an instructive process with some of the most helpful reviews I've ever received. We're not done yet but it feels like how science should work, drawing on external expertise to improve experiments at the design stage.

A few people have reached out for the materials to our cognitive effort decision making task published in Cognition. I try to upload and contextualise all of the code supporting my publications. Here's the one for cognitive effort: github.com/julian-matth...

Vision science peeps, help needed! My grad student has been trying to replicate *very basic* Posner cueing online... to no avail. We've tried several times with Prolific subjects; quadruple-checked our code, and nothing. Valid cues at variable CTOAs are still slower than invalid cues. Any clues?!

Interested in the evolution of domain-general confidence from young adults to older adults? Check our new preprint led by Lucile Meunier with Céline Souchay, @smfleming.bsky.social, Christine Bastin, Chris Moulin, Lucie Angel, and myself! osf.io/preprints/os...

I am looking for a postdoc to work with me! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/37... #neuroskyence #academicsky

Hi everyone, I’ve made the migration to bluesky. ✌️ Former academic who used to work in cognitive control, theta oscillations, curiosity and promoting inclusive colour data viz schemes. Nowadays I’m working on assessing human factors required for successful AI-human teaming. #neuroskyence

Inspiring symposium on AI for cognitive neuroscience organised by @neurocoops.bsky.social & Tijl Grootswagers absolutely wild to see the improvements in deepfake/generative technology for robust stimulus design #ACNS2023

Incredible presentation by @kperrykkad.bsky.social tracking how the sense of self changes during pregnancy. Drawing on philosophical and neuroscientific approaches to address a huge gap in #neuroskyence

Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social suggesting a reframing of some classic metacognitive effects as motivation related! #ACNS2023

Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and friends again in Sydney! Also the first time I’ve chaired a symposium 🤖😊🧠 #ACNS2023

Concise and thoughtful piece from Tim Bayne & Iwan Williams: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It's striking that due to the closed nature of the training data used by Open AI we are unable to say whether ChatGPT/etc are simply using a look-up table approach to "passing" the Turing test.

'Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration' -- out now in the latest issue of Neuron. @hohwy.bsky.social, Karl Friston & I propose a formal framework for designing & evaluating adversarial tests of competing theories.

Our review on *Local Sleep* is finally out! We cover the emerging notion that sleep can be a local brain phenomenon across wakefulness and sleep. And the consequences for cognition and consciousness. Check it out! tinyurl.com/bdh64ck3

Great read from @manurausch.bsky.social & Zehetleitner on the stats of metacog measures! Good summary of each for those wanting a recent ref. tl;dr most perform well. Take care w/ hierarchical priors, use both random intercepts & slopes for glmer doi.org/10.1007/s114... #neuroskyence #psychology

I'm really happy to share my contribution to this year's issue of Philosophical Perspectives. My (open access) paper "Mental Strength: A Theory of Experience Intensity" proposes a framework for understanding degrees of conscious experience. A short 🧵 /1 #philsky philpapers.org/rec/MORMSA-21

Interesting read from researchers documenting Brissie's early punk & goth scenes. Neither are easy subcultures to be part of in the heat of Australia's "biggest country town" and stronghold of the cultural cringe. I'd love to read one about the 90s/00s rave culture.

Depersonalization affects self-prioritization of bodily, but not abstract self-related information Our new study out in Journal of Experimental Psychology Together with Anna Ciaunica , @lukemcellin.bsky.social & @hohwy.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...