A talk I gave at NYU about what I think is the most pressing problem for the science of consciousness right now. If I am correct, a significant part of the past ~30+ years of research on consciousness might be wrong. I explain how we can try to mitigate that problem.

Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · last wk.

🎥 Matthias Michel (@matthiasmichel.bsky.social) The Magic Room Problem and the Computational Architecture of Unconscious Processing www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4_...

Hi Bluesky/Mu/etc, been putting off joining this space, since I prefer fedi, but also trying to be more visible with my work again, as I'm continuing the ruthless academic job market grind. I prefer fediscience.org/@jn for longer posts, but looking forward to interact with ppl here! Quick Intro 👇

Jonas 𝓜. Nölle (@jn@fediscience.org)

464 Posts, 205 Following, 358 Followers · Experimental cognitive scientist, evolutionary linguist and semiotician. He/They #NicolausCopernicusUni in Torun 🇵🇱. I use #ExperimentalSemiotics and #VR to s...

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Imagine two people standing in the same spot, looking at the same Goya. They inspect exactly the same parts of the painting, but in a different order. Later, they talk about what they saw. Ignoring all other differences: are the memories they formed identical?

A cautionary comment when applying frequency analyses to single-trial decoding outputs: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

Rhythms in Decoding Do Not Signal Pulsing Information

Emerging studies report that information decoded from brain activity may pulse at specific frequencies. As such inferences take root, I clarify that trial-level decoding time courses inherit backgrou...

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1/ 🚨 Just out in @natneuro.nature.com! 🧠 We profiled >6,000 features of brain dynamics across humans, macaques, marmosets, mice, fish and worms 🧑🐒🐒🐁🐟🪱 to find a shared neural endpoint of anaesthesia: spatiotemporal isolation of local activity 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02460-4

New Colab notebook for in silico neuroscience discovery: explore functional selectivity to visual images over the whole cortex through fMRI activation maximization. colab.research.google.com/drive/1kXOzb...

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I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit��� Deadline 30 Sep.

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

Can neural networks model the human perception of geometric shapes?

Author summary Recent neural networks have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of visual tasks, often rivaling or surpassing human performance. Yet, it remains unclear whether these system...

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How does the brain track an object even when it is occluded and in constrained, non-linear motion? 👁️🧠 In a new preprint, we use EEG+behavior to study how we mentally track motion (w/ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social, @luchunyeh.bsky.social, @kathadobs.bsky.social,...) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/5 🧵

Cortical alpha rhythms predictively track occluded motion trajectories

Objects in the real world frequently move along complex, non-linear trajectories shaped by their environment. As they do, they often pass temporarily out of sight, occluded by the surrounding environm...

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I have been meaning to write a post about a preprint that I'm pretty excited about: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In neuroscience we often assume that we can learn something general about “the brain” using different species. But is this true? Do monkeys even see the world the way we do?

PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Excited to share our preprint! w/ @martinhebart.bsky.social To understand how primates visually process objects in the world, we rely on both research in human and macaque IT. But what representations of object space are actually shared between them? biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Quick thread 🧵

Shared and Distinct High-Dimensional Object Spaces in Human and Macaque Inferotemporal Cortex

Human and macaque studies of inferotemporal cortex (IT) have shaped our understanding of object vision, yet the extent of their representational alignment and the precise nature of this correspondence...

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Excited to be at #CCN2026 in New York to present brand-new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social 🥳 By testing hundreds of categories, we found striking differences in functional specialization between visual cortex and DNNs 🧠 Come find me at poster F81 on Thursday 1:45-3:30 p.m. Happy to chat!

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

I'm at #CCN2026 in NYC with the following work: "System identification from raw EEG during clinical propofol sedation with an interpretable latent SDE model" 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=m... Poster Session A, A12, Tuesday/August 4, 9:30 - 11:15 am.

My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :)

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The postdoc position is advertised here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 20 July. 2/3

Excited to see our work (Kolibius, Josselyn & Hanslmayr, TICS 2025) was cited in the most recent Kurzgesagt video on “How Is a Memory Stored Inside Your Brain”. It’s a fantastic video and I recommend watching it! Video: youtube.com/watch?v=Pqtg... Paper: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

How Is a Memory Stored Inside Your Squishy Brain?

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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🧠 New preprint! How well can current algorithms *actually* detect neural "replay" in the human brain under absolutely optimal conditions? We built FASTIMAGES: A combined MEG + fMRI benchmark with KNOWN neural sequences, so replay-detection methods can finally be validated against a ground truth.

FASTIMAGES: Validating replay detection methods in human neuroimaging

A combined MEG + fMRI benchmark dataset with known neural sequences to validate replay detection methods (TDLM and SODA).

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Can’t wait to see everyone at #VSS2026! We hope you can make it to our lab’s presentations! (see below) Come and visit us at the talks and posters, and make sure you come to our workshop about the community replication initiative re:vision. Low bar for entry! Details on the day of each presentation!

Kaiser Lab is at @vssmtg.bsky.social with 6 posters and 3 talks! 👁️🏖️☀️ Come check out our works!

It's #VSS2026 time! We're super excited to be back and presenting some exciting, ongoing projects in the lab. Come by and say hi! 🤗

Are you attending #VSS2026? Come check out my talk on cross-species alignment for finding shared and distinct representational geometries in primate IT. Saturday, May 16, 2026, 3.30pm, Talk Room 1

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

If you're looking for a PhD position, I recommend this. Benedikt is great to work with!

Benedikt Zoefel@benediktzoefel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢**PhD position #NeuroJobs ** I'm looking for a PhD candidate to work on infraslow rhythms in neurophysiological data. Application deadline: 20th May. Please see here for details: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results. we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/108...

TDLM-Resting-State Simulation

How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?

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📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging Deadline March 20 Please RT 🙏 👇 mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

Original is from 2021. Still relevant 🧠🟦 🧪 I wonder how many kinds of templates would be needed to capture most “canned” cog/neuro science out there…

Federico Adolfi@fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

[Cognitive capacity nobody understands] is very important. However, the underlying neural mechanisms remain enigmatic. Here we show that [stimuli somehow related to the capacity] can be decoded from [spatiotemporal description]. Our results show that we can do what we did.

🧨 Preprint alert Is it easier to find a ball than a shoe? The answer lies in how variable we think these objects are in the real-world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ the amazing @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & @luchunyeh.bsky.social 🦄 🧵1/8

New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.