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Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Today! 👇

Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun! Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Clever behavioural experiment exposing how confidence is formed in visual perception pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41138620/

Could SWC be the place where you launch your career in #neuroscience? 🧠 Don’t miss your chance! Apply to our PhD Programme before 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/... #Career #PhD #London

New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵...

My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.

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New episode of @uclbrainstories.bsky.social is out! Me & @smfleming.bsky.social chat to our cohost @caswell.bsky.social & Lucy Unwin about their new book “Inside your Brain”. Have a listen & buy the book for any budding young neuroscientists in your life! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

UCL’s Consciousness Club series resumes tomorrow Wed 22nd Oct with Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social on “Two Sides of Sleep and Memory: Conscious and Unconscious” 3pm-430pm UK time All welcome, for zoom details please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

one of the best parts about working in the MetaLab!

Philosophy-science collaborations as rare chances to adjust the normal focus of the lens- zooming in and out to examine different levels of analysis

@smfleming.bsky.social, professor of cognitive neuroscience @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social on the surprising connections between music and science. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4631

Psychologist and neuroscientist, Professor @smfleming.bsky.social, reflects on metacognition – thinking about thinking – and how outside perspectives shape human experience. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4631 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Very happy to share our latest work on metacognition with M. Rouault, A. McWilliams, F. Chartier, @kndiaye.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social where we identify contributors to self-performance estimates across memory and perception domains 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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....

Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 Is consciousness tied to biological brains? Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper! October 23, noon USA eastern #neuroskyence Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... doi.org/10.1017/S014...

@neddo.bsky.social's very nice commentary on @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social's BBS target article also arguing that conscious perception may form fast even if postdiction suggests it only "vulcanizes" slowly.

First shot across the bow from ongoing project with Jake.

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article. We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

Just accepted at BBS - a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's Sensory Horizons article: Reality monitoring decision policies and the slowness of consciousness osf.io/preprints/ps...

Great work by the unstoppable @patxelos.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @hakwan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social

New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb

Very exciting opportunity here, come join us at the ICN!

What does postdiction show about the speed of consciousness? In this forth. piece in BBS, I respond to @smfleming.bsky.social + @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's claim that postdiction shows consciousness is slow -- too slow for its purpose to be online action guidance. 1/3 philpapers.org/rec/PHIPAT-14

Very much looking forward to this!

@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are beavering away reading and responding to all the excellent commentaries on our BBS paper outlining an evolutionary account of visual consciousness. In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We need heroes. People to respect and emulate. People who inspire us to do our best and be our best. Jane Goodall was a hero, and she will remain one.

Quantifying rhythmic and arrhythmic brain activity is a hot 🥵 topic. But how independent are the two components from one another? 🤔 In my latest work with @smfleming.bsky.social & @matlandry.bsky.social, I explore the relationship between the two. (1/4)

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

some interesting discussion from Ruth Millikan and others at the @philosophyofbrains.com blog: philosophyofbrains.com/2025/09/16/r...

Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club. sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

The MIT Consciousness Club will have a Zoom option for those who would like to join online. First session Friday, Sept 19, 12pm-1:30pm. For more, see: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... You can register to the email list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

This is cool! People evaluate agents by the algorithms that drive their behavior direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Unconscious perception of ensembles, assessed with a bias-discouraging 2IFC task: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Great work by @patxelos.bsky.social, @dsotob.bsky.social et al.!

Fun write up of Imagination/perception work from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social and others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf... I was just live on Canadian Breakfast radio chatting about it. Bad pun, but this work really has captured the public imagination!

I'm looking forward to "What is consciousness?" tomorrow 9/9, 2:45pm @crick.ac.uk, w/ @profbriancox.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social & Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/a-q...

Thanks Nicole! Briefly, we used "sociocracy", which is a thing invented to make lots of people get along and make decisions. It is used by various collaborations including those at CERN. It aims to achieve "consent" if not "consensus". This might be useful: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

*Absolutely* beautiful work characterizing the neural transformations between imagery and perception! 🤩

The TiCS issue featuring our paper on "A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making" is now available online 😄 Honored to have been a part of this awesome interdisciplinary mega-collab led by Christin Schulze (UNSW Sydney) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...