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 🧵:

In one sentence: We argue that brain function IS anatomically localized, but that organization doesn’t look much like Brodmann brain areas.

Happy to see that the Access Consciousness-Phenomenal Consciousness distinction is being reconsidered. My preferred solution is to get rid of the notion of "access consciousness" altogether but retain distinction btw "pure" and "mixed" states of PC. www.researchgate.net/publication/... #consci

2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw. Submission deadline: 20 January 2026. More info: shorturl.at/AUoye @philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

This is friggin’ cool.

Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

CfP: The Psychophysical Adventure. From Wolff to Behaviorism, eds. Chiara Russo Krauss and Giuseppe Guastamacchia www.disciplinefilosofiche.it/en/disciplin... Deadline Jan 16

This is cool and right on the money. The right question vis a vis artificial systems, esp. LLMs, is not 'Do they have phenomenal states?' but 'Can they have some sort of self-awareness even without phenomena states?'

It just occured to me that we philosophers of mind are not so good in organising ourselves. Compare: philosophers of science have dedicated associations, conferences and a number of prominent journals. What have we got?

I am told (by an expert) that the notion of unconscious inference in perception does not originally come from von Helmholtz but from .... Arthur Schopenhauer!

New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend. Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers. Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.

Oxford Hume Forum – Appropriations of Hume - two b2b workshops at our Institute this Friday and Saturday more info here: www.flu.cas.cz/en/?view=art...

A meeting with Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social this Thursday at our Institute. We will talk about the alignment of neural activity and LLM vector spaces. All welcome - on-site or online!

We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.

🔥 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

I have a PhD project open for application about "Habituation of Paramecium, the “swimming neuron”" on the DIM C-Brains programme, for a PhD in Paris. Open for students with a Master outside France. Get in touch if interested! dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... #hps #philsci

Hume in Dialogues: Alter a person’s brain ever so slightly, and you might transform a tyrant into a saint. Isn't this Phineas Gage in reverse - a full 100 years before the Gage incident? Hume new more of neuroscience than I tend to imagine he knew... #philmind #DavidHume #PhineasGage

The Attention in Contemporary Consciousness Science workshop was exactly the kind of meeting I needed to start understanding how my PhD connects with my main research topic: consciousness. My talk was warmly debated, and I had a great time in Pilsen. Thanks, Michal Polak and @tmarvan.bsky.social !

The Latin nerd in me protests that the show should have been called "Unum", not "Pluribus" - apart from that, so far it's really very good!

I'm very much looking forward to our "Mathematical Phenomenology: Synergies and Connections" workshop tomorrow! 👉 www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #consci A huge thank you to our speakers and my co-organisizer @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social in advance!

Learned recently that Gerd Gigerenzer appears in a 1974 Volkswagen Golf ad - and with a banjo, no less! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxss...

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...

Starting the last day of PSA Around the World Central and Eastern Europe with a session on scientific understanding. @henkderegt.bsky.social is the first plenary speaker on understanding by an artificial system

Tomorrow, 22 November is the final of three meetings of PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.

Very exciting news to share! Me and @davidcolaco.bsky.social published a target article in BBs on metabolism and cognition! We argue that models of cognition should incorporate metabolism - either to evaluate if existing models are biologically plausible, or to generate new models (1/3)

Today, two of our METIS members and PhD students present at the PSA @philsci.bsky.social Around the World Conference 💠 Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com): "From Causal Inference to Distributive Outcomes" 💠 Marco Portillo (@raciondeser.bsky.social): "Biology as Evidence for the A-Theory of Time"

... In a little while I’ll be giving a talk at the PSA 2025 "Philosophy of Science Around the World", presenting part of my doctoral research on the philosophy of time beyond physics ⌚🦋 Very happy and excited, it’s my first time presenting in English at a conference. Wish me luck! 😘

We start tommorrow at 3 PM CET with a panel highlighting outstanding contemporary contributions to the philosophy of science in Eastern and Central Europe.

This is tomorrow — the first day last week was excellent. Look forward to tomorrow’s programme with thanks to @eenphilsci.bsky.social for the organisation.👇

hot take: none of the major theories of consciousness (HOT, RPT, GNWT etc.) is "computational" so the current buzz around "computational functionalism" is getting progressively surreal. None of these th. claims that there is an algorith that will take you from unconscious contents to conscious ones.

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

Happy and relieved that things run smoothly! See you next week.

Looking forward to the upcoming PSA around the world, where I will be presenting joint work on trust in science and scientific understanding applied to the Ai context.

@apotochnik.bsky.social makes the important point that the Vienna Circle had also a conception of the public role of their philosophy. Some great pictures and quotes on the slides. Is this material published, Angela? I wish I was taking screenshots. Thank you for a fantastic talk!

Listening to the first panel on history of #philsci in CEE. Inspiring that so many colleagues around the world tuned in. A wonderful first talk by Marta Sznajder on Janina Hosiasson (her heartbreaking story below). Now Angela Potochnik on the role of Marie Neurath (Reidemeister) in the Vienna Circle

Starting soon and I believe registration is still possible! #philsci #philsky

The 2026 edition of the Ernst Mach workshop will tackle the topic of aesthetic attention. Confirmed keynote speakers: Paloma Atencia-Linares and Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social

🎺 EPSA27 Venue - Call for Bids *Deadline: December 10* The European Philosophy of Science Association calls for proposals for the venue of EPSA27, its 11th Biennial Conference, to be held in 2027. For details, see philsci.eu/news/13550199

Lots of citizen science is gamified: points, scores, leader boards, and even levels. But what does this do to citizen science and its participants? Tomorrow I'll be talking about this online, at the PSA Around the World conference www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...

Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.

On Thursday and Friday, November 6–7, a philosophical workshop on AI & Propaganda will take place at the Institute of Philosophy in Prague. Speakers will include Teresa Marques, Neri Marsili, and others. Everyone is warmly invited! More information here: 1url.cz/UJg5v

New paper in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism: “The incommensurability problem: A critique of phenomenal structuralism” by Miguel Á. Sebastián argues that phenomenal structuralism clarifies the relational nature of qualities but fails to explain shared aspects of qualitative experience.

Bandara et al., Computational modelling shows evidence in support of both sensory and frontal theories of consciousness (we should learn to live with the idea that you sometimes need and sometimes DON'T need PFC to perceive things consciously)

Look what I did this summer! I had the pleasure of writing a review paper on three kinds of multisensory-emotional experience, with Hirohito Kondo and Erin Hannon. This is submitted to a special issue of @nconsc.bsky.social on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness. 🧵:

Rich & compelling new paper by Will Davies on illumination as more than mere light. But an emergent, ecologically sig., structured kind - comprising fields & surfaces, shadows & sunbeams; sunlight & twilight. #philperception #philmind #philpsy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

A short piece in Techxplore on Ahsan's neurobiologically inspired transformer Co4 techxplore.com/news/2025-05...

Ask a brain anything! This is incredible work led by Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social at the Kietzmann Lab @timkietzmann.bsky.social, developing interactive and flexible brain decoding. I'm excited to see where this goes next.