How should we handle safety and risks for all the different kinds of mindfulness programs? Should informed consent be required? Our new paper navigates toward sensible answers to these important questions. Led by @kevinberryman.bsky.social and Linda Barclay link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mindfulness and Informed Consent: Navigating Ethical Complexity Across Contexts - Mindfulness

Recent concerns about meditation-related adverse effects (MRAEs) have led to calls for more rigorous informed consent in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). This paper examines whether consent pro...

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An exciting MEG+pupillometry study by @quiringehmacher.bsky.social demonstrating coordination between mechanisms mediating perception and learning. Sensory cortex tracks prediction error continuously in a graded manner, while the brainstem only responds once crossing a threshold. Excellent summary👇

Quirin Gehmacher@quiringehmacher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint w/ @akalt.bsky.social, Juliane Schubert, Nathan Weisz, & @clarepress.bsky.social 🎉 Predictive-brain accounts treat "prediction error" as one signal. We find it's two jobs, in two dissociable systems. And one of them you can watch in the pupil, as people listen to a story. 🧵 (1/9)

Check out this cool computational model of meditative deconstruction and letting go from M3CS's @shawnprest.bsky.social (Open Access)

Shawn Prest@shawnprest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My paper modelling and simulating meditative deconstruction via letting go is now out open access in Neural Computation at @mitpress.bsky.social 🧠 I show how the phenomenology of experiential deconstruction (defabrication) naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. 🧵

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Want to know about cognitive effort? Check out this new paper from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social PhD candidate @mengtingzhang.bsky.social! Brings information theory to psychology of effort, includes new ideas about ego depletion, and more. (Open Access).

Mengting@mengtingzhang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My first paper is now out! This theoretical work explores how understanding cognitive effort within the active inference framework can help address several ongoing debates in the field. I am deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this project. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

philevents.org/event/show/1... Philosophers of mind/cognitive science: please consider submitting your abstract to the 4th online conference of the @ispsm.bsky.social 👇 • Great line-up of keynote speakers • Deadline: 31 July 2026 • Online conference: 4-6 November 2026

The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

Call for Abstracts   The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to...

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This was fun and super interesting. Thanks to @ispsm.bsky.social for organising. Contrasting these two perspectives seems very fruitful. I strongly recommend @kathrynnave.eurosky.social’s book - an amazing read. (And open access, as is mine)

ispsm@ispsm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thanks to @kathrynnave.eurosky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social and everyone else who joined us for this wonderful double-header today! ✨

Thanks to @kathrynnave.eurosky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social and everyone else who joined us for this wonderful double-header today! ✨

Niccolo Negro@niccolonegro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This event will happen tomorrow. Should be fun.

Niccolo Negro@niccolonegro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 New paper out. What is our shared understanding of dignity in community settings? Can ethics and philosophy benefit from evidence about this? This paper relates our recent empirical work to philosophical theory. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dignity is distinctively concerned with non-humiliation and social equality: integrating philosophical theory with the empirical evidence

Appeals to the value of treating people with dignity are commonplace in certain community settings, especially in health, disability, and aged care. In contrast, dignity has been relatively neglect...

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Just a reminder that you can still register to this ISPSM event with Jakob Hohwy and Kathryn Nave

Niccolo Negro@niccolonegro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Both books are free to download from @mitpress.bsky.social ! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing

How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

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Niccolo Negro@niccolonegro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm excited to share our preprint: "Selfing without a self: The missing dimension of identification in computational accounts of selfhood" The puzzle: How can meditators claim persistent selfless experience without dysfunction when computational accounts claim it's maladaptive? 🧵 t.ly/vDv4n

Our MOSAIC paper is out in @nconsc! Turning first-person reports into interpretable phenomenological clusters using topic modelling and LLMs.

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness@nconsc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @romybeaute.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports... Congrats to Nicolas Decat!

Looking forward to this event with @kathrynnave.eurosky.social

Niccolo Negro@niccolonegro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

@mitpress.bsky.social is set up and ready to go #CNS2026

The recording from my conversation with Craig Hassed chaired by @hohwy.bsky.social about my #research on #meditation #dose as part of the the @monash-m3cs.bsky.social Seminar Series is now available to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn5z... Let me know your thoughts/questions! #mindfulness

Meditation dose with Dr. Sarah Strohmaier | M3CS Seminar Series

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Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience

Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

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Can you observe someone else's mindfulness in the way they act? We need proper tools to investigate this critical second-person perspective on mindfulness. Masterfully led by Larissa Bartlett, this OA study validates the Observed Mindful Behaviours Scale. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Refining the Observed Mindfulness Measure to Create and Validate the Observed Mindful Behaviours Scale - Mindfulness

Objectives To offer another lens to study how mindfulness influences behaviours and social relationships, this paper reports the creation of the Observed Mindful Behaviours (OMB) scale. The OMB respon...

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Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Delighted to share our new paper on schizophrenia-related stigma. We argue that explanatory models grounded in predictive processing may offer advantages over classical neurobiological illness models in understanding psychosis — and may even help reduce stigma. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurobiological illness models of schizophrenia and stigma reduction: has that ship sailed? - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Neurobiological illness models of schizophrenia and stigma reduction: has that ship sailed?

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On the invitation for a commentary on Mazviita Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted, I had the pleasure of writing on equating the brain with computation. The Ontological Reversal of Computation and the Brain in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences. Below see what I agree & disagree with in the book. 🧵 1/n

Ida Momennejad, The Ontological Reversal of Computation and the Brain - PhilArchive

The Brain Abstracted (2025) critiques treating abstractions in neuroscience as complete explanations of the brain, for their oversimplification and control-orientation. Chirimuuta argues that neurosci...

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Monash University’s Clinical Psychedelic Lab is recruiting adults in Victoria (Aus) for a clinical trial for Major Depressive Disorder. If your depression isn’t improving with current treatment, you may be eligible. No cost. Travel/time reimbursed. Email for info or to apply: cybin.trial@monash.edu

I am very proud of the special issue on „Structuralism in the Science of Consciousness“ that @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I edited for @phimisci.bsky.social. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.

"A masterful examination of what it means to be an ‘agent’ ... Essential reading for anyone interested why they are the way they are." — @anilseth.bsky.social "The Self-Evidencing Agent" by Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social is available in paperback & #OpenAccess editions: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to my conversation on the @monash-m3cs.bsky.social online seminary series about my #dose #research in #mindfulness #meditation on Feb 12, 12pm AEST. Sign up below (it's free)! events.humanitix.com/meditation-d...

Meditation dose: how much is enough and can you have too much of a good thing? with Dr. Sarah Strohmaier

Join Sarah Strohmeir as she discusses how much meditation is enough and if you can have too much of a good thing.

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