i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Two new studies from our team we're particularly happy about: Study 1: ai.meta.com/research/pub... Study 2: ai.meta.com/research/pub... Blog 3: ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...

Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan. But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."

Our perspective on utilising cortico-cortical (dual) TMS to advance working memory research is out now. With @nkonstantinou.bsky.social & @eester.bsky.social 🧵 1/5 www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...

A timeline of historical pandemics [From @scientificdiscovery.dev's great overview article: ourworldindata.org/historical-p...

In this new preprint @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the functions and evolution of conscious vision. This is a big project: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We'd love to get your comments!

Ψυχοθεραπεία

Proposal: Lists on @bsky.app should be called "Constellations" (Artificially connected / grouped items in the sky.) @jay.bsky.team / @why.bsky.team

And a #Skyprus starter pack created by @sexyprovataki.bsky.social to start building up the community! go.bsky.app/V2GRjJC

sorry for being the blacksheep again... #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

FYI, if you have a domain, you can use it as your @bsky.app handle! bsky.social/about/blog/4...

"non-human animals lack memory for stimulus sequences... if [they] do not remember or process information about order faithfully, then it is unlikely that [they] perform mental simulations, construct mental world models, have episodic memory... " www.cell.com/action/showP...

By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

Unmarried people may be about 80% more likely to have depressive symptoms than those who are married, suggests an analysis of more than 100,000 individuals across 7 countries, published in Nature Human Behaviour. go.nature.com/3ADr1EJ 🧪

Grant writing is hard. It’s time-consuming. It can feel isolating and can sap your motivation. For many scientists, it is their least favourite part of the job. Today in Nature, grant-writing experts offer tips to make the process more productive and enjoyable. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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