Coming soon! I'm quite excited about this so I am going to plug it shamelessly. You can preorder it here: wwnorton.com/books/978132... or at Amazon if you prefer: www.amazon.com/dp/1324075163

I know it's a bit early, but this stocking filler will be coming to a good bookstore near you on August 4th, 2026 😀

Many thanks for all the kind words about my post yesterday. The issue has now been resolved and the lab is back up and running. I will not be providing any more details.

One in four comatose (behaviourally non-responsive) patients in the ICU following a serious brain injury show us they are aware using fNIRS - published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Why treadmills soothe our minds and joysticks sharpen our wits: fab to see the peer-reviewed results of our online mass experiment for the Manchester Science Festival with @comadork.bsky.social and his team from @westernu.ca in @plosone.org! blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/why-treadmil...

It will be 20 years next year, yet our 2006 article continues to be the paper that keeps on giving. What a wild ride it’s been! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very proud of this one. If you want a complete primer on the history of functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, then this is for you. With @karnig-kazazian.bsky.social and Martin Monti. owenlab.org/uploads/pdfF...

Brilliant straight talking from the brilliant @adamrutherford.bsky.social A must read for everyone. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

My new book, provisionally titled “Thinking On Your Feet” will be published soon by #norton. But maybe I should retitling it “The Rise and Fall of the American Frontal Lobe”? Everyone seems to have stopped thinking for themselves. Did some cosmic event turn off an entire nation’s frontal lobes?

It took them a while to catch on, but they’re finally waking up. If you wait to be told what to do, it will be too late to do anything about it. apple.news/AvPEO57t0TSS...

Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter

One boss passes the baton to another. Incredible performances all round. I’ve seem them both many times and this shows they are more than the sum of their parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_...

Then he’ll sort Alzheimer’s disease by Christmas, cancer early in the new year, and eradicate heart disease by the summer. It’s shocking that thousands of scientists have spent decades failing to solve problems that one man with no relevant qualifications is going to fix in less than a year.

In my ongoing quest to publish as many academic papers with Arnold Schwazenegger movies as part of the title, I give you…..Total Recall….out today and free to read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Post you from a different era. One side done. 1980.

*BREAKING* World’s largest baby throws second tantrum in as many days…

New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Oh, it’s Friday. They’re back on. No, they’re off. Or is on the new off? 250%? Did he make that number up? Does he think that’s the same as 25%? Who knows? He certainly doesn’t. It’s a beautiful number. What number? Any number! What did I just say? #internationallaughingstock

Grass roots revolution starting at my local liquor store….

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

I’m off to get the week’s all non-American groceries. I’ll stop by the liquor store to buy some non-American wine to celebrate. We’re having our kitchen renovated so I’ll put in that order for a non-American fridge, freezer, stove, oven, and microwave. Then I’ll settle down to watch the BBC news.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 as he meets Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 This is how World Leaders show respect and dignity. So proud of our Prime Mimister! #cdnpoli #peipoli

Everyone Like And Repost 💯

UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street. This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer walks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to his motorcade after their meeting in Number 10

Today, I am proud to have been born in Britain. This afternoon’s behaviour by @kierstarmerpm.bsky towards the President of Ukraine makes yesterday’s performance by @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social and his moronic sidekick look like Mr Blobby on a Waltzer. #respect

Who would have guessed that WWIII was going to be the USA versus everybody else? I’m not putting my money on America right now.

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

The scandal that derailed #Alzheimer’s research www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

On the importance of catching #Alzheimer’s early www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new...

What’s next for dementia screening? www.theflowspace.com/mental-healt...

Hey mickpuck.bsky.social I’m trying to contact you about a forthcoming feature film. You and the boys are written into it, but we want you to play yourselves. DM me? I promise I won’t waste your time. PS we met and chatted randomly at Ottawa airport a few years back.

New post by Adrian M. Owen @comadork.bsky.social: "The Stakes Are High: Scientific Responsibility in the Age of Digital Diagnostics". doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Fortunately, not buying anything made in ‘merica has been made very easy for all of us. Every offending item has MADE IN THE USA stamped on it in big letters. Now, you can even shop without your reading glasses folks!

It’s surprisingly fun going around the grocery store checking that everything I buy is Canadian. Today, I’ve managed to NOT buy American-made OJ, hash browns, AND cat food and it’s not even 9am. It’s like a live action video game where you constantly have to avoid oncoming American products.