This last year turned out quite fruitful for my 'wider-audience articles' writing. Here's my latest essay, this time responding to an interesting call in SPAM magazine on the 'dreamification' of the internet. www.spamzine.co.uk/post/essay-s...

Kind reminder: if you accept a review for an article, review it within a reasonable timeline! Ideally, meet the deadline assigned by the editors (or 'almost'). It took me 9 months to hear back from the first round cos #reviewer2, and now I have been waiting another 5 months for the R&R🙃.

Can you be aware of nothing while you are asleep? I wrote a new piece on dreamless sleep experiences for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/can-you-be-a.... I also talk about some of the exciting findings from @tecferrer.bsky.social's research. Supported by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

Interested in dream hacking and altered states of consciousness? You can now read two short texts @adrianaalsa.bsky.social and I wrote for the audiovisual installation APARICIONES, exploring these themes! To find them, explore the interactive archive at: apariciones.net

It was so refreshing to collaborate in this artistic project on liminal states of consciousness by Paula Ábalos (installation in Leipzig, Germany). I contributed a written piece on 'Dream hacking', which you need to find by interacting with the website :) apariciones.net

We wrote some reflections about our recent workshop on Sleep, Rest, and Dreams. You can check it out here: projectsomnolence.com/blog; and a shorter version by me here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/insight...

I used to pride myself on not rejecting articles unless they were utterly bad, but after years of peer reviewing, I had realised this wasn't the best. Oftentimes, I ended up giving 'major revisions' to what was indeed a 'write a new article', and I don't think it was fair to the author(s)

Condeno firmemente el secuestro del barco Madleen, que transportaba ayuda humanitaria a Gaza. Esta violación del derecho internacional exige una respuesta clara y contundente de la UE. Toda la solidaridad con las personas voluntarias retenidas. Exigimos su liberación cuanto antes. #AllEyesOnMadleen

We still have some in-person spaces, and countless of tickets for online attendance to our workshop on sleep and rest this Thursday at IASH. Sign up here for free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/insights-o...

I'm so excited to be organising this interdisciplinary and arts practice-based workshop with my friends from the projectsomnolence.com Kevin Leomo and Maria Sledmere! Free and open to all (not just for academics!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/insights-o...

Pequeña mención mía en este artículo en el País sobre la mente en blanco elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social **Where is my mind?** A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social

First in person talk of the year - and in a very nice room at IASH

Is there anything better than staying cozy in PJ? Yes, doing it for an important cause! Today, I’m joining @esrs.bsky.social #SleepAwarnessEurope2025 Pyjama Day initiative to promote the importance of healthy sleeping habits and their impact on overall health and well-being. 💤 👕 💤 #PJDay25ESRS

The 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. The 2025 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. mpe-project.info/the-mpe-proj...

Thread: I keep coming across academic conferences with these two contradictory statements: "in-person only, no possibility for online presentations" and "free to attend, to broad participation and accessibility".

Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨ Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025 See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details. #philsky

Happy Marie Skłodowska Curie Rejection Day for those who celebrate!🤓 And for those selected, first, congrats! second, tell me your secrets 🧐

Excited to have been awarded a Fundación Ramón Areces grant to explore the connection between interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, and its manifestations in autism and schizophrenia. Teaming up with @martajorba.bsky.social @adrianaalsa.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/focus/w/...

Hi colleagues, consider sending an abstract to our workshop, Perspectives on #Agency and #Disadvantage! CFP just live. Disciplines across #philosophy, #psychology, #socialscience etc. are warmly welcome. See link for the details, and please help spread the word! sites.utu.fi/agencyprojec...

I don't think I was this distracted and unproductive since the old days of lockdown and WFH. #stormÉowyn

If you're an academic who might like to write a longform essay for @aeon.co, I'm accepting pitches! I specialise in physics/astronomy/space, earth science, environment, and technology + more. #science, #physics ⚛️, #geosciences, #paleontology #astronomy, #philtech, #histsci, #SciComm #science

Job-opening at LMU Munich: Assistant Professor in Metaphysics (fixed-term). Please help us spread the word. Further details at: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Call for abstracts: Workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”: eac-2025.sciencesconf.org 10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum #PhilMind #consciousness #consci #sentience #Ethics #CogSci

Just a reminder, the deadline for abstracts for our special collecting in Adaptive Behaviour on "Prospects for the Science of Enaction" is two weeks away! #philsky #cogsci #philmind #philsci journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Happy new year, fellow MindBrainBody researchers! Looking forward to seeing you at the MindBrainBody Symposium in a few months. By the way, the deadline for submission and/or registration: 📆 January 15, 2025 You can do so here: www.mindbrainbody.de

Costines, C., & Schmidt, T. T. (2024). Phenomenology of Psychedelic Experiences and Psychedelic-Associated Distressing Effects: Quantifying Subjective Experiences. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi.org/10.1007/7854...

Do you want to know more about "lucid sleep" and how can this state be induced and examined using neurophenomenologically-inspired research methods? Then check this out! philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

I'm doing a final BOOK GIVEAWAY for my biography of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway *share this post and tag someone in the comments*! I'll announce the winner on Monday Dec 23!

Academic guilt season starts today, winter edition. Feel guilty if working, feel guilty if not.

Great post by Mary Peterson on cancelling, sexual harassment and philosophy (discussing McGinn's case) www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-canc...

All I want for Xmas is [the overdue reviews of my paper] 🎄🎁

Our CFP is also up on Adaptive Behaviour! Deadline for abstracts is Jan 27th: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Very happy to share that my article “Psychiatry as mind-shaping” has now been published open access in Erkenntnis! Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Publication day! My latest paper is (finally) out. Here, I introduce a multidimensional framework to taxonomise different states of minimal awareness across sleep and wakefulness. And with this, all the material from my PhD is published :) philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

The 2025 Euro #Xphi conference has just been announced for July 10-12 at University of East Anglia. The subfield is very friendly and supportive, and so I highly recommend the conference, especially if you are just starting out your empirical journey x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi202... #philsky

"To what extent does daydreaming involve an experience of dreaming while awake?" I explore this question on this blogpost for The Junkyard junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/12...

Our letting agents like to send us this annual email with "Winter Weather Tips: Protect yourself and your property". I guess we could do with proper insulation at our property, but alas, LAYERING is a very good alternative too. Never thought about it

📣Calling all enactivists and critics! Russell Meyer, Marilyn Stendera and myself are guest editing a special issue for Adaptive Behaviour called "Prospects for the science of Enaction" and are looking for contributions! You can read more about our call here: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Give the DRL a follow! Great resources for teaching and diversifying the philosophy curriculum

After so many years in the UK I still find it shocking how difficult is to find any suitable place to be after 6pm other than a pub. I had two hours to kill before my train. Options: die at the freezing cold station, noisy pub or overpriced coffee shop chain

Philosophers! Please follow & share our new account with your colleagues - we would ultimately like to move away from Twitter/X. #philosophy #philosophers #appliedphilosophy #philosophyjournal

Bases published for the 3-year postdocs Beatriu de Pinós for people having at least two years of experience outside Spain. If you would like apply with us at @upfbarcelona.bsky.social please write to me. Info about the project INACT and our interests here: www.upf.edu/web/inact/

I’m thrilled to co-chair, with Marie I. Kaiser, the PC of the 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, to be held in Groningen on August 27-30, 2025. The conference CFP is out: philsci.eu/EPSA25/CfP Deadline for submissions is January 31. Hope to see you there!

JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists" UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over... "We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Any theory of consciousness can satisfy at most three of the following but not all four: (1) first-person realism ("there are 1st-person facts"), (2) non-solipsism ("there are other conscious minds"), (3) non-fragmentation ("the world is coherent") and (4) one world ("there is one world, not many").

Pls SHARE Calling all philosophers with lived experience of mental anything and working on related topics! 2 months left for abstracts for the Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience conference at King's College London (27-28. 03. 25) #philsky tinyurl.com/karyy3k7

📣Save the date! 📌Public talk with Timothy Williamson (Oxford) 👉Title: 'Collective Imagining' 🗓️20 Nov. 2024, 18:30, Sala Verdaguer, Ateneu Barcelonès. ateneubcn.cat Co-organized by BIAP & Ateneu Barcelonès, Introduced & chaired by our Director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA, University of Barcelona)

Ok, so it's about time I (re)introduce myself to all my new followers. I'm a postdoc in philosophy at the Uni of Edinburgh (IASH) working on altered states of consciousness. To date, I have investigated minimal states of consciousness during sleep, including the so called experiences of dreamless..