Excited to announce our next speaker @introspection.bsky.social! An Assoc. Prof in Computational Psychiatry, his work cross-fertilises AI/ML, cognitive neuroscience, and digital medicine. His talk will explore uniting qualitative & quantitative methods to study subjective experience.

Thanks, Anil!! And thanks to all the people who came to the @assc2026.bsky.social tutorial and made it both fun and inspiring 😊 For those who did not fill out our survey about communities in consciousness research, it's not too late >> socialtau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wishing everyone at #ASSC29 a stellar conference!

Ever had a pain? Tell us about it and help in researching our understanding of pain. The survey takes about 15 minutes. www.soscisurvey.de/compain/

First media coverage I ever received for a paper I wrote! It was a huge surprise and honour to be interviewed by @science.org

▶️ Recordings of our Neural Correlates of Consciousness workshop now available on YouTube! If you couldn't make it to the workshop, or would like to revisit a session, you can now find the talks at the link below. -- Including 12 exciting lightning talks!

Great recognition for the R development team at UoAuckland stats dept. Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentlemen changed the world.... phys.org/news/2026-06...

You can still submit an abstract for Models of Consciousness 7 #MoC7 (12-16 October 2026) 👇

Schedule now available! – Looks like three exciting days ahead! 😊 I'm especially looking forward to our panel discussion sessions on Monday and Wednesday evening! 👇 Join us if you like! Schedule: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #ConSci

New preprint on tests for consciousness... philpapers.org/archive/KLET... Feedback very welcome!

youtu.be/vBwaWRZyIBM?... Very much recommended to anyone interested in the history of mathematics. #mathsky

www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... Don't miss this online workshop on tests for consciousness! Thanks @aidaelamrani.bsky.social and @johanneskleiner.bsky.social for this!

How do we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? The answer is: C-tests, empirically grounded methods developed for detecting consciousness in diverse target populations. Join us for an exciting workshop to ... 👇

You're still an early bird if you register for Models of Consciousness 7 until 31 May! 👇

Sneak peek of what I think will be an amazing workshop on tests for consciousness 😊, made possible by @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @aidaelamrani.bsky.social! You're cordially invited to join us! 𝗖-𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 June 8 – 10, 2026 Online (Zoom) www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

1/ New paper out today in Frontiers in Psychology 🧠 "Beyond the reducing valve: a computational neurophenomenology of altered states via deep neural networks" A unified framework for hallucinations, psychedelic experience & ego dissolution 🧵 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Philosophy's traditional model - highly selective journals, tough "reject for any reason" peer review - assumes that no area of the field is pervaded by conflicts of interest. It's clearly an unsuitable model for philosophy of AI, where industry-funded research is already starting to dominate.

The interim report of the infamous Ferguson committee contains by far the best analysis of the state of measurement of *temperature* I have read so far. It's from 1938.

Me too! Honored to be part of this awesome volume. Hearty congrats to Lucia Meloni and Umberto Olcese and the Chapter editors for pulling this together. (Like herding cats, I imagine.) Looking forward to its publication. #consciousness

OMG this is a great idea.

listen to anil!

Organizing a conference of this scale takes many motivated people! Meet the team making it happen: local organizers @cam-signorelli.bsky.social and Emanuela Yeung have worked tirelessly to bring #MoC7 to the University of Copenhagen! Stay tuned as we introduce more of the crew behind the scenes.

Terrific line-up for this year's Models of Consciousness conference, organised by Camillo Signorelli and taking place in the beautiful city of Copenhagen amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...

the ppl we thank in acknowledgement sections are "a more relevant predictor of publication success than formal collaborations (i.e., coauthorship), even after matching for gender, seniority, methodological orientation, geographical location, and institutional prestige." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A new preprint Cognitive Feelings from Healthy Experience to Psychopathology: An Integrative Review Across Phenomenology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Computation osf.io/preprints/ps...

Next, we are happy to announce that @laurennross.bsky.social will give a keynote at #MoC7! Prof. Ross uses philosophy of science to examine neuroscientific explanation and causation, sparking a wider debate on mechanistic, law-based, and mathematical models in neuroscience.

It's why I always give at least 5 out of 6 when i review grants in my field* - get the money and we might collaborate, or i will at least learn something, or our field will progress. * i've only done a few

Both books are free to download from @mitpress.bsky.social ! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Great talk by Alexander Maier last week on the use of numbers in consciousness science. Very much recommended! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQr... #ConSci

New preprint! with @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ve6c5_v1 Consciousness seems central to moral status debates, from AI to animal welfare. But is consciousness necessary for moral status? Is it sufficient? We surveyed >1000 people to find out. 🧵 1/n

Thank you @smfleming.bsky.social ! Super excited about this! ✨ Join Consciousness Club this Wednesday to talk about consciousness, moral status, zombies, pets, LLMs, and more 🖖

🚨 Applications are open! 🚨 Join MESEC’s 2026 Summer Workshop: ⭐️Computational Modelling for Consciousness Science: From Fragmentation to Integration⭐️ 📍 Carcassonne, France 📅 29 Aug–5 Sept 2026 🗓️ Deadline: 29 May 2026 More info and applications here: mesec.co/event/worksh...

I'm especially looking forward to our online panel discussion on "New Ideas in NCC Research" (Monday, 17:30 – 18:30 CET) and our online lightning talks session on "New Ideas & State of the Field" (Tuesday, 11:15 – 12:45 CET). 🤗 #consci

I'm very much looking forward to our "New Ideas in NCC Research" workshop next week, co-organised with Antje Peters, @alexlepauvre.bsky.social, and @sfink.bsky.social. It's a hybrid event — you're cordially invited to join us! 👉 Website/Schedule/Registration: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

The #MoC7 is made possible thanks to the support of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science! Special thanks to our president @lenoreblum.bsky.social, chairman @johanneskleiner.bsky.social, vice-chairman Jonathan Mason and treasurer Robin Lorenz. join mailing list: amcs-community.org

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Our next announcement is very exciting for us: Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe will give a keynote at #MoC7! O’Keefe’s groundbreaking research identified neural mechanisms for spatial navigation by discovering place and border cells in the hippocampus.

🎉 📜 NEW #PREPRINT !! 📜 🎉 Spearheaded by Adam Barrett we tried to tackle some of the challenges of IIT. We confront aspects worth delving into, with an incredible team of collaborators, inc. Pedro Mediano, @frosas.bsky.social, Daniel Bor, Lionel Barnett, and @anilseth.bsky.social.

Hello dreamers, I would like to crowdsource how we test for consciousness(?) Do you know of any papers exploring these topics. Feel free to link anything, even if you think I'm aware of the paper (i.e., Bayne et al.'s paper, etc.). #consciousness #neuroscience #sentience

The hardest part of science is posing the right question, not answering it.

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @romybeaute.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

This year #MoC7 will feature an immersive experience at the world-renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art! This excursion is designed to stimulate innovative research into subjective experience through creative exploration and to open up new spaces for discussion #consci

Awesome workshop on neural correlates of consciousness! Join, in person or online: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

After one week at the Computational Neurophenomenology Cabin Workshop, I can say it was one of the most inspiring experience of my PhD journey - both for the quality of the work & discussions, and for the amazing people I got to meet there. 🏔️ Would 100% recommend it- huge thanks to the organisers. 🤩

👇 A wonderful initiative!

We are excited that @meganakpeters.bsky.social is our next keynote speaker at the 7th Models of Consciousness Conference #MoC7! She investigates the mechanisms behind metacognition and perceptual decision-making, shedding light on their links with conscious experience and AI consciousness.

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

We are thrilled to announce that @liadmudrik.bsky.social will be one of our keynote speakers at #MoC7! Join us in Copenhagen to hear her latest insights and connect with the consciousness research community! Dates: October 12–16, 2026 Location: University of Copenhagen

Happy to share our preprint mapping the structure of theories of consciousness and their predictions, with @edenelbaz.bsky.social, @shaifischer.bsky.social, @maorschreiber.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social. Accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Supplementary: osf.io/9xug8/overview