Meet the Team: Dominique Ristori Dominique is a researcher at the NeuroMove Laboratory at ULB. Within ETHOS Experiment 3, she is working on the identification and anatomical characterisation of the neural generators underlying the recorded EEG responses. For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news

Congratulations to Zoltan Dienes for being elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many accomplishments, he's leading ETHOS Experiment 3. Read more here. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

Zoltán Dienes FBA

Zoltán Dienes' research interests are scientific reform in publishing, and in how to obtain evidence that an effect does not exist; and consciousness science, especially how people can construct subje...

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Congratulations to Dr Megan Peters from UCL PALS who has been named a 2026 FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar. The honour recognises outstanding early-career neuroscience researchers for their scientific excellence, originality and leadership. 🔗Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

I'm so sad to miss ASSC this year! If you're there, please go check out @giuliacabbai.bsky.social's talk presenting our new work on the role of volitional control in perceptual reality monitoring on Friday at 5pm at session 22! And also...

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@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social Congrats!

Come be my colleague! Associate Professor level teaching position available at UCL in Experimental Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a... Primary role: lead development of a flexible portfolio of undergraduate modules for non-BSC/MSci Psychology students. Closes 19th July.

Associate Professor (Teaching) at UCL

Recruiting now: Associate Professor (Teaching) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social for winning the @theassc.bsky.social's William James Prize for her paper A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Read more here: theassc.org/james-prize/

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality

Dijkstra et al. show that our brain distinguishes imagination from reality by monitoring how strongly the fusiform gyrus is activated. When imagined and real images produce similar activity, people ca...

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Check out our latest profile! Dr. Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) studies how the brain represents & uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy. Learn more at the link below! #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Dr. Megan Peters — Stories of WiN

studies how the brain represents and uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy

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The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is now open to applications! This TWCF-funded three-day event brings together tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders to work closely with world-class researchers. 🔗 Apply before June 10: https://bit.ly/3ZES2Rq

CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFAR

Follow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […]

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And @aliekhlasi.bsky.social presented this poster at VSS - catch up on the ETHOS website if you missed them at the conference! static1.squarespace.com/static/65f46...

Another VSS poster for you - @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social presented this one! static1.squarespace.com/static/65f46...

We had a few ETHOS representatives at VSS recently. Here's a poster that Xueyi Huang presented. static1.squarespace.com/static/65f46...

Exciting new preprint from @aozsu.bsky.social and company. Read it here: osf.io/preprints/ps... or on our website www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

🚨🚨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!

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People of Sussex! See @peterlush.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social from the ETHOS team at the implicit workshop tomorrow (May 7th) sites.google.com/view/implici...

implicit workshop

Thursday May 7th (preceded by socialising evening May 6th) No registration needed. Lunch and coffee provided. Venue: Meeting House, University of Sussex. The campus can be accessed via Falmer railway ...

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Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain

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Massive congratulations to Dr. Karen Tian who successfully defended her PhD Thesis on Friday! Can’t wait to see what she gets up to next!

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Meet the Team: Karen Tian Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics. For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com

Want to work on a belief-updating Bayesian framework to understand how tests for consciousness can be applied to artificial systems? Do you want a stipend to go along with that work? And opportunities to meet like-minded peers and do all sorts of fun workshops? Yeah you do. Come join me 😀

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧠🤖 Explore the frontier of AI, consciousness, and society. Applications for the AI Sentience Scholars program are now open! ➡️ Learn more and review the application: neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... ➡️ Register for the webinar here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #AIResearch EthicsInAI #AISETS

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

@aliekhlasi.bsky.social presented his work on ETHOS at UCI's department of cognitive sciences colloquium. Watch it on ETHOS' brand new YouTube Channel. youtu.be/KS-9FPzxAMM

A Domain Adaptation Framework for Identifying Higher-Order Reality Representations

YouTube video by Empirical Tests of Higher Order Theories

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I have news! After 4 fabulous years at Northeastern, this July I will be moving to Duke—with tenure! It’s hard to convey how grateful I am to everyone who has made this possible: from old professors in Mexico and mentors in the US to students, colleagues, and, of course, my amazing wife and family.

Zoltan Dienes has co-authored an encyclopaedia chapter titled Hypnosis and Suggestion. Read it here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Or the full document is also on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

See Rachel talk about Experiment 1's ongoing work here:

Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The recording of Rachel Denison's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club, about the effects of attention on conscious perception, is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJvC....

The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness. A new paper from Guy Cheron and Ana Maria Cebolla. Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... or get the PDF from our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

Frontiers | The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness

Integrative neuroscience increasingly recognizes that the brain evolved primarily as a biological system for generating movement. Viewed as a complex oscilla...

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Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. A new paper by @benjyb.bsky.social @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social Read it here: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... or on the ETHOS website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery

Abstract. Visual imagery and external perception rely on similar representations. However, whether the same processes underpin the subjective appraisal of

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OPPORTUNITY: The 2026 Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition is now taking applications. This year we're focusing on new innovations in the field and one attendee can win a £2500 prize. It's July 8th-10th in London. Find out more and apply here: metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

One of our advisory board members, @onemorebrown.bsky.social has given a talk "Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness". Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZc...

Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness

YouTube video by onemorebrown

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Happy New Year from the ETHOS team! Why not celebrate by reading some preprints from @peterlush.bsky.social and @zoltandienes.bsky.social at Sussex which lay the groundwork for Experiment 3? To access the preprints, please see the links on our outputs page: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

In case you missed @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster at SfN this year, you can see it here! It's also available, along with ETHOS' other outputs on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

Massive congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social on being one of The Transmitter's rising stars of neuroscience 2025! Among her many accomplishments, she's leading ETHOS Experiment 2B. www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025

We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.

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Meet the Team: Seth Schallies Seth is at Northeastern University’s Subjectivity Lab with @jorge-morales.bsky.social and working on research relating to mental imagery and perception. Read more on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/news