@ronyhirsch.bsky.social just gave a beautiful talk at the #MoC7 conference - apparently it’s even better to hear great talks by your (past) students when they have already continued to the next step! Super proud, can’t wait to see what she does next 👏👏👏

Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship to study consciousness? Talk to me about applying for this scholarship - we’ve had a wonderful experience with it in the past: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...

HUGE congratulations, @ronyhirsch.bsky.social! Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next. One thing is certain: it will be outstanding 💪💪💪

Rony@ronyhirsch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Long overdue update: - finished my PhD (officially a Dr 💃) - received a BA Postdoctoral Fellowship - started working with @anilseth.bsky.social ! Excited for what's next, and *incredibly* grateful to @liadmudrik.bsky.social who has been my supervisor for almost a decade [new city, new football team]

Check out this thread - and please RT 🙏 Shaked and Itay argue that t-test and LMMs (and their Bayesian parallels) are not adequate for testing chance performance, and suggest alternative, more powerful tests. We hope you will find this useful, especially when studying unconscious processes

@shakedlublinsky.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Can we make objective awareness tests more powerful? In our new paper (doi.org/10.1093/nc/n...; Neuroscience of Consciousness), we introduce two tests (frequentist and Bayesian) that outperform commonly used tests, based on extensive simulations and reanalyses of published datasets. (1/9)

Check out this coil preprint!

David Soto@dsotob.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We revisited awareness in Decoded Neurofeedback using meta-analysis + LLM semantic analysis of Ps reports. Ps seemed unable to identify the trained target but their strategies were aligned with it! osf.io/preprints/ps... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @mavadillo.bsky.social

If you haven’t submitted yet, this is *highly* recommended !!!

Niccolo Negro@niccolonegro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Philosophers of mind (and adjacent): There's still time (until July 31st) to submit your abstract to the 4th @ispsm.bsky.social 's online conference. Information here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philmind

And here is @niccolonegro.bsky.social , giving yet another excellent talk about value encroachment in consciousness science at @assc2026.bsky.social !

Don’t miss @shaifischer.bsky.social ‘s poster now at @assc2026.bsky.social !! Super interesting study about music, expectations and unconscious processing 😎

Great to see this out! Just in time for @assc2026.bsky.social ! I hope you all find it interesting. Thank you Francois and the team for the opportunity to join this work 🙏

François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The final version of our review on intracranial EEG and consciousness is now out in @elife.bsky.social! 🥳🧠🔌@nfaivre.bsky.social @meaperei.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social

We are pleased to share a data descriptor paper to complement the fMRI dataset (N=118) originally released alongside our 2025 Nature adversarial collaboration paper.

Excited to be part of the Coller Dolittle Awards 2026, hosted by the Jeremy Coller Foundation in collaboration with Tel Aviv University. Join us on 25 June to discover cutting-edge research on interspecies communication and to watch the live award announcement. zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.

Scientific Theories of Consciousness

Cambridge Core - Neurosciences - Scientific Theories of Consciousness

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Interested in how and why people ascribe conscious to AI? Come work with @anatperry.bsky.social , Leon Deouell and me on this problem. Applications for postdoc positions are welcome!

The next Models of Consciousness Conference will take place in Copenhagen! 

 We are excited to bring #MoC7 to the University of Copenhagen on October 12–16, 2026. Call for Abstracts is now open on our website (link below!)

Highly recommended!

Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science@mesec-community.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 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...

New open-access paper out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science Francesco Ellia & Naotsugu Tsuchiya A thread 1/n🧵 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science

Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philo...

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If you or your undergrad students are interested in philosophy of mind, this excellent MSc program at U Edinburgh is open for applications until April 30. An exceptional opportunity to study with the best in the field. Please share widely! #philsci #philsky #philai study.ed.ac.uk/programmes/p...

Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition MSc - Postgraduate taught programmes

This programme provides the intellectual foundation and practical skills required for engaging in linguistics research, either by itself, or as part of cross-disciplinary research.

study.ed.ac.uk

We are recruiting! My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory. Please help me spread the word #newPI #academia #neurostuff

Thanks @johanneskleiner.bsky.social ! @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming book chapter on C-tests. It might be useful because it surveys some of the literature on this. It's available here: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25164/

And applications are officially OPEN. Deadline to apply to join us is --- April 13 🔸Work with open consciousness datasets 🔸Build a preregistered research project with an interdisciplinary team 🔸Compete for $25,000 in seed funding to carry it forward consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026/

Something is emerging in Santiago this July. A new kind of scientific gathering. Open data. Interdisciplinary teams. A shared question that's been challenging researchers for decades. Introducing Consciousness Commons: A satellite workshop for early-career researchers @assc2026.bsky.social #ASSC29

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

🚨New paper alert!! 🚨 In this work by Nadav Amir, with Uri Maoz, we fail to find evidence for ambiguous objects emerging slower/faster to awareness, but do find support for more symmetrical stimuli enjoying preferential access academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness

Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor

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And now @shaifischer.bsky.social presents his beautiful work on consciousness and expectation violation! #ISCOP

This should be great - would love to see you all there!

Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Workshop announcement. We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser. 📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany 🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026. 1/4

And don’t miss this super cool website that @ronyhirsch.bsky.social created for you to be able to explore the data yourself!

Rony@ronyhirsch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What did we find? Enough to build a website so people can explore the data! (ronyhirsch.github.io/minds-matter) To our question: despite a clear relationship between the two, consciousness doesn't seem to be perceived as necessary for moral status. And it doesn't appear to be sufficient either. 5/n

Another beautiful work from @ronyhirsch.bsky.social , now with @niccolonegro.bsky.social : they find that contrary to may philosophical stands, public views do not consider consciousness to be neither necessary nor sufficient for moral status! Find this, and many other interesting results, below 👇

Rony@ronyhirsch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

We delve into 37 studies that examined NCCs at the level of populations of neurons and single neurons in humans. 🤓 Most used the contrastive approach, where neural activity is compared between trials where the same stimulus is consciously perceived or not (we discuss limitations of this approach).

1/2 🎉🎉🎉 New paper alert!! Read this to see why we don’t think P and A are two *types* of C, but two conditions for C. And why we think this can truly advance the field and solve controversies. Open access until Feb 5th: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mHug4sIRv...

A wonderful experience - meeting and interacting with the next generation of consciousness researchers. So many great ideas and outstanding people from all over the world. Join us next year for the #CIFARwinterschool 2026! >>

Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

.. and here's the whole group #CIFARwinterschool 2025 in Montebello. Thanks again to #CIFAR and the Templeton World Charity Foundation for their generous support.