Thank you so much to @newscientist.com Live for the opportunty to talk about AI consciousness (& how we really, really don't have a good way of testing for it)! Headlines & scientists saying "OMG it might be conscious, 5% chance" are sensationalism BS. Based on what? Vibes? Not good enough for me.

If your AI were conscious, how would you know?

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Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

I am able to take on new doctoral students through this amazing initiative! If you are interested please reach out to me by email to discuss.

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 6d ago

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

What is the minimal exposure required to process facial features? In our reply to Mamassian & Wexler in Nat Comm, we address important questions about the limits of this approach and explain why manipulating exposure duration can offer advantages over other common visibility manipulations.

REPLY TO “The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception” - Nature Communications

Nature Communications - REPLY TO “The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception”

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1/11 New preprint! Can we register eye contact before we consciously see gaze direction? We flashed faces for just 1–5 ms and found that direct gaze facilitates face detection before explicit gaze awareness. 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... Work with: @axc.bsky.social & @arvidguterstam.bsky.social

Conscious and unconscious eye contact at the limits of vision

Eye contact is one of the most potent social signals, but it remains unclear how little visual input is sufficient to register direct gaze, and whether such registration requires conscious awareness. ...

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My first article has just been published for Affective Science's special issue "The Nature of Valence: Pluses, Minuses, Progress" with @springernature.com! Thank you to my supervisor @axc.bsky.social and my team mates from the @erc-xp.bsky.social project 🧠✨ Read it here: rdcu.be/fq9sV

We are really happy to be able to share a lot of our team work in #ASSC29! 4 talks and 2 posters... details below! 1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure" ⬇️

axel cleeremans@axc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

assc26.bsky.social #ASSC29

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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Two questions: (1) How not to MISS an outlier? (2) Can you tell if a poster was made by AI or by a human? (1) 🤯 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲? MAD? IQR? SD? And with which threshold: 1.5 or 2 IQR? 2 or 3 SD?🤯 Check our new🔗 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩: osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 Excited to share our new paper in Cortex! "Frequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perception" with @axc.bsky.social & Adélaïde de Heering www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Frequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perception

Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) from frequency-tagging (FT) paradigms are widely used to investigate visual processing. Yet their assoc…

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So glad to see this work published! Congrats to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for leading this exciting multisite project!!

Alicia Franco-Martínez (λ)@aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report

Abstract. Although in recent years some studies have found evidence suggesting that working memory (WM) may operate on unconscious perceptual contents, dec

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Super proud of @pietroamerio.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis on « vision at very short durations » today. Congrats!

Coming out of social media hibernation to announce that earlier this month I became Doctor Pietro 🎉 huge thanks to @axc.bsky.social for the amazing mentoring along the way, and to the CO3 lab and @crcnulb.bsky.social for making these years so memorable ❤

1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself. 👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... ⬇️ Summary below:

The value of consciousness: experiences worth having | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: ‘How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?’. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organi...

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Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: A multisite preregistered study: https://osf.io/sj7fz

📝 Preprint alert 📝 Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception. Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

If you are up for a nice academic battle, consider responding to our BBS paper "Studying unconscious processing: contention and consensus". The deadline is October 15th. Link below!

François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · last yr.

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Absolutely incredible work led by @patxelos.bsky.social and @dsotob.bsky.social - such a compelling case of unconscious perception! Privileged to have been a little part of this 🧠

Patxi Elosegi@patxelos.bsky.social · last yr.

1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.

BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So excited to see this work published! It was a truly inspiring collaboration - thanks to @maorschreiber.bsky.social, @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social and @nfaivre.bsky.social for their incredibile efforts in making this happen 🚀

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Super grateful to the WM team for such an exciting project 🥹🗺️🤍 You can check the slides of the @assc28.bsky.social presentation at| www.researchgate.net/publication/...

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Looking forward to this week's Consciousness Club with Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social on "Becoming aware of the world and ourselves" Wednesday 26th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

🚨ALERT🚨 Do not miss the deadline for abstract submission, on the 26th of February! Looking forward to meet you at our event in Brussels 🧠

ERC EXPERIENCE@erc-xp.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are excited to announce our 2nd workshop, “Value, Valence, and Consciousness”! 📌 Where? Brussels, Belgium 📆 When? April 7–8, 2025 📢Call for abstracts? until Feb. 26 💸 Registration? Free but mandatory, until Mar. 12 More infos ⬇️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2025/01/20/t... Looking forward to see you there! 🤩

Next Wednesday, we are happy to host @nfaivre.bsky.social ! 🤩 He will talk about the relationship between phenomenal, access and perceptual consciousness 👀 More information & abstract on the following link: bit.ly/4ipD2y7 👈 Join us (on site only), @crcnulb.bsky.social in Brussels!

Thrilled to have had the privilege of interacting with this outstanding group of young consciousness lovers at the CIFAR winter school! Huge thanks to the great organizers, Chris Krupenye, Catherine Duclos and Guillaume Dumas. And to TWCF! In the comment, a less dignified photo