📣 Please submit to this year's conference in Montréal!🧠 We would love to include all kinds of measures that can inform our understanding of the social brain, including physiological and neuro measures, computational models, theory pieces, and behavioral data!

SANS@sansmeeting.bsky.social · 4w ago

Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2027! Submissions must be made through the online submission portal by 23:59 (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. More details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-sub...

Recently ran a prolific study asking ppts to describe images in <20 words. With 50 captions per person, we were able to pass each participant’s full text into Pangram. It detected 2 out of 200 with high confidence as fully AI, and about 6/7 others as borderline AI/human. FWIW :)

Two Research Assistant Positions in the Consciousness Group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Application deadline: 8 October 2026

I’m very grateful to @smfleming.bsky.social for his supervision and @kevingoneill.github.io for a great collaboration. We show that the PE bias in confidence judgments can be a Bayes-optimal consequence of inference in high-dimensional spaces, and in CNNs, the bias also increases with dimensionality

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our paper “Confidence is detection-like in high-dimensional spaces” is now published in Open Mind, led by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social and @kevingoneill.github.io direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

The Psychology & Neuroscience Department at Duke is looking to hire a Full Professor in clinical psychology (Distinguished Chair, endowed). Specific research area is open, but preference will be given to applicants employing human neuroscience to advance and improve mental health. Deadline Nov. 15.

An important new paper from the lab : in a few years, vision models have progressed to such an extent that they almost match human perception in the domain of geometry (but may still fall short of having a genuine language of shapes).

Maxence Pajot@maxencepajot.bsky.social · 3w ago

New AI models now show incredible math skill, solving problems that had stumped mathematicians for years. But what about basic geometric abilities? In our new paper in PLOS Computational Biology, we investigate this in vision models: doi.org/10.1371/jour... 1/8

What if consciousness isn't real? By @timbayne.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social "we should ask whether bees, babies or bots are conscious. But in asking that question, we should be alive to the possibility that the question itself might need replacing." www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

What if ‘consciousness’ isn’t real?

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

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5/ My response "The stuff matters: consciousness, computation, and biology" was published just now, and is here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xZqFCN05NT...

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition — a Review by Stephen M. Fleming #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The capacity to self-evaluate and control one’s own cognitive performance, known as metacognition, underpins adaptive learning, social behaviours and self-belief. Stephen Fleming outlines our current ...

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📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

delighted to have been able to chip in on this newly published paper by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social on how confidence “biases” arise from normative Bayesian models!

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our paper “Confidence is detection-like in high-dimensional spaces” is now published in Open Mind, led by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social and @kevingoneill.github.io direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Hey our psychology department is recruiting an assistant professor in developmental psychology - please check it out universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

University & College Vacancies

Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education

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How much information about a stimulus is available to a perceptual system, and how much of that information becomes consciously accessible? In this new Perspective, “Perceptual awareness as an information-distribution problem,” I propose an information-theoretic framework. 🧵Preprint: osf.io/zmf5h

Our paper “Confidence is detection-like in high-dimensional spaces” is now published in Open Mind, led by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social and @kevingoneill.github.io direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Confidence Is Detection-Like in High-Dimensional Spaces

Abstract. Confidence estimates are often “detection-like”—driven by positive evidence in favour of a decision. This empirical observation has been interpreted as showing that human metacognition is li...

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There are 17 different methods to measure whether confidence tracks accuracy, and these do not include Bayesian or Information Theory based measurements. We present MetaSignal with @makwana.bsky.social @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social to have common platform to access them.

Glad to be part of this elegant study that is reshaping the way I think about metacognition. Confidence is strikingly goal-sensitive, with supposedly sensory biases such as PEB being readily flipped through instruction. Led by Prady Sepulveda and Benedetto De Martino www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Goals shape human confidence

Confidence guides our decisions: it determines when we commit to a choice, gather more information, or change our minds. Prominent models treat confidence as a readout of the evidence in support of a ...

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This is a very cool new book! Read it! Teach it!

Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com · 3w ago

I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

!! Well done Mesec :)

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 3w ago

Online Now: Science from the bottom up

Lots of cool stuff in the current issue of @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social - commentaries and discussion on the phenomenal / access consciousness distinction, origins of geometric thought, homogenising effects of AI on thinking... multiple papers being printed! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The @mesec-community.bsky.social is one of the most beautiful things I've had the chance to witness in science! We often talk, in despair, about the absurdities of academia. This time, let's marvel at the human adventures academia also nurtures!

Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science@mesec-community.bsky.social · 3w ago

How can students and postdocs shape their field of research? We're excited to share our TiCS piece, showcasing MESEC as a case study for exactly this question! So grateful for our wonderful community of MESECeers 🤗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... *Free access* link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1njPQ4sIRv...

Greetings from Carcassonne! We have head wonderful talks from our mentors @meganakpeters.bsky.social @adriendoerig.bsky.social, Jitka Annen, and from our scientific chair @smfleming.bsky.social! 🧠🧠🧠 #consciousness #consci #academicsky

Wow, quite stunning if true

Enny van Beest@ennyvb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net

An excellent week exploring the application of computational models in consciousness science in Carcassonne - also with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @adriendoerig.bsky.social Jitka Annen Hugely impressed by the @mesec-community.bsky.social organisers!

Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science@mesec-community.bsky.social · 3w ago

What a week! We had inspiring talks and discussions with our fantastic speakers @jolienfrancken.bsky.social, @neurograce.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social, @naotsuchiya.bsky.social 🧠🧠🧠 #consciousness #consci #academicsky

What a week! We had inspiring talks and discussions with our fantastic speakers @jolienfrancken.bsky.social, @neurograce.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social, @naotsuchiya.bsky.social 🧠🧠🧠 #consciousness #consci #academicsky

Wow! 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brainwide representation of navigation

Tracking your position in the environment during navigation requires integrating multiple signals into a spatial representation. This process is thought to occur primarily in the hippocampal formation...

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🎈 Happy to announce that I was awarded the ERC StG for my project CHASM-Meta which will aim to close the chasm (👀) between our understanding of neurocognitive and clinical metacognition, and its role in mental health. Lots to look forward to in this space 🚀

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 3w ago

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

Nice to be profiled in this piece for @psychscience.bsky.social In which I talk a bit about our research so far, what can make our kind of career challenging - and why we should all strive to be 'fish scales' 🐟 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Daniel Yon’s Search for a Distinctive Patch in the Research Landscape

Image above: Yon discusses his book, A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality.Daniel Yon is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and the director of the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, Un...

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The MESEC workshop has officially begun! We’re opening with @smfleming.bsky.social, introducing computational modelling in consciousness science and setting the stage for the week ahead. 🧠

new paper out: *~*~*~*~ "Revisiting the 5- to 7-Y ear Shift: The Age of Metacognitive Control?" (by Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social , McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social , Ullman) *~*~*~*~ sharable paper link: bit.ly/5to7_2026 free pdf draft: www.tomerullman.org/papers/5to7s...

Revisiting the 5- to 7-year shift: The age of metacognitive control?

Abstract. The term 5- to 7-year shift refers to the marked changes in behavior observed as children transition from preschool age to school age. In 1996, a

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