fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

this seems problematic for claims of increased brain activation

🎊📜 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.

We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇 This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined) Applications are now open! www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century: 1. Dream engineering "For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..." www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

Join us this Thursday for an exciting talk by @sconinxphil.bsky.social! Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email. #ConSci

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...

Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

It's an honour to be speaking, in a few minutes, at the memorial symposium for the greatly missed, and the simply great, Daniel Dennett provost.tufts.edu/events/denne...

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience. mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Honored to be awarded the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in "Social Neuro-AI & Inter-Personalized Psychiatry"! Grateful to my team & colleagues at @cra-chusj.bsky.social & @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and my family for their support 🙏 Excited to keep bridging social neuroscience, AI & precision psychiatry🚀

We want the Dream Database to be a living database, so that it can grow and improve over time. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you want to use it or contribute to it! The database link: bridges.monash.edu/articles/dat...

This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯 #neuroskyence #compneurosky doi.org/10.1038/s415...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social

Incredible study by Raut et al.: by tracking a single measure (pupil size), you can model slow, large-scale dynamics in neuronal calcium, metabolism, and brain blood oxygen through a shared latent space! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪 What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering? We explore this possibility in a new review: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt! #consciousness #dreaming

Excellent visual explainer article on the flaws of David Geier's anti-vax pseudoscience. Will have my psych research methods class read this -- hammers home the real-world meaning of poorly designed controls, lax ethics, bias, replication. #metasci Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

🚨New Paper🚨 I spend a lot of time trying to control what people dream about. Usually, we are looking at dreams of recent memory. In this new paper, for the first time, we caused people to dream about a specific REMOTE memory from their distant past. #cogsci #psychscisky 🧠🟦

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni

Great to work with @franciscorr25.bsky.social and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...

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

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

Time to give this a read: The Self and its Disorders, by Shaun Gallagher www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rubber hand illusion in rodents. Nice! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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... 🧠🧪

For easy digestion you can also find a recorded talk on these data here youtu.be/8n3n19F8qcw?... (starts at 30 mins, but do scroll back to the beginning if you also want to hear me talk on our PNAS paper about the effect of criterion shifts on subjective experience doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)

🚨New preprint out! 🚨 We investigated the EEG signatures of Idiopathic Hypersomnia (IH) with long sleep time using fine-grained EEG analysis in PSG recordings. Here’s what we found 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (Illustration from nicolasdecat.com) (1/12)

Happy to introduce @arthurlecoz.bsky.social, PhD candidate in the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social, and his first PhD preprint! Arthur tirelessly investigated the mystery of idiopathic hypersomnia (IH), or why some individuals need to sleep a lot and still feel exhausted!

New episode! I talked to @smfleming.bsky.social about how he ran his lab in London from Croatia for a few years, building a lab culture, learning new techniques as a PI, applying for funding, Steve's background in music, why he became a scientist, & much more. Thanks Steve for being a guest! 1/3

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I have strong data analysis and coding skills (MATLAB & python), project management skills, and love technical and non-technical writing (evan-lhealey.medium.com). I would love to stay in the field of psychedelics, but am happy to look at a variety of options, in both academia and industry.

Yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis! 🥂 I'm now awaiting on the viva (17th June) to finalise everything, but am looking for job opportunities following this. If you could share this post far and wide, I'd really appreciate it. Below is a (very) brief about me.

🌟🧠The MESEC Winter School 2025 was a huge success!🧠🌟 A week filled with insightful talks, hands-on tutorials, and incredible discussions on consciousness. We are grateful for the tutors & participants who made it so special. Until next time!🥳 #MESEC @ibroorg.bsky.social

Hi there! I’m nearing the end of my PhD (what a journey!), and I’ve come to the terrible conclusion that we haven’t solved consciousness yet. That’s why I’m on the hunt for a postdoc! I already have a couple of very exciting options, but I’d love to broaden my horizons.

🔬 Thinking about a career in academia? For young researchers, understanding the journey is key! At the #MESEC Winter School 2025, our career panel shared real stories - challenges, lessons, and how they overcame obstacles. Inspiring insights from those who have been there! 💡✨ @ibroorg.bsky.social

The @mesec-community.bsky.social 2025 Winter School has started! With an inspiring overview of @davidchalmers.bsky.social on the science of #consciousness. Under palm trees, next to the silent vigil of pyramids and with muezzins singing in the background! Quite a set and setting!

What happens in the brain when a stimulus enters consciousness? We built a biophysical model of the cortex to zoom in to synaptic interactions and zoom out to whole-cortex neural dynamics during perception. It revealed a key mechanism for ignition🧵... www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Finally, data and code are available at our github, linked below: github.com/embodied-com...

In 1/3 of #insomnia, the #1 #sleep disorder, objective sleep recordings do not reveal abnormalities, contradicting subjective assessments. This has bugged sleep experts for decades! @rherzoga.bsky.social publishes a new study in @commsbio.bsky.social to understand this paradox: rdcu.be/edj22 1/n

Out now! Different aspects of visual awareness evolve over distinct timescales. Evidence from manipulations of the flicker rate in a continuos flash suppression (CFS) paradigms. A 🧵 1/n academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...