The UCL Centre for Conscious Research (@uccr.bsky.social) is investigating how psychedelics and meditation influence visual imagery and aphantasia. If you have relevant experience, please contribute to their research at: tinyurl.com/vinos-study

New work led by @thelablab.bsky.social out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. "Inner Speech and the Neurobiology of Psychosis". Highlights below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

check out the inaugural cohort of @neuromatch.bsky.social AI Sentience Scholars! this is a seriously impressive bunch!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 Introducing the 2026 Neuromatch AI Sentience Scholars cohort! Learn more about them, the projects they will be working on, and their mentors! ⬇️ neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... We're just kicking off this 6 month program and already incredibly proud! #AISentience #AIResearch #ConsciousnessStudies

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @daniellametti.com

Please help if you've taken a psychedelic, its anonymous! tinyurl.com/pfs-study 👽 🍄

@freddiejp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Researchers at UCL & Monash University are studying the lasting psychological effects of psychedelic experiences. If you've taken LSD, psilocybin, DMT, Ayahuasca or 5-MeO-DMT, we'd love your help. 10 mins, fully anonymous 🍄 tinyurl.com/pfs-study — please share!

New paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology led by UCL PhD student @joannakuc.bsky.social and the @thelablab.bsky.social "Speech markers of psychological change following a psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT retreat". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With @daniellametti.com and David Green

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1

Preprint time: “Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness” osf.io/preprints/ps... On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age

Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flick…

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A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️ direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr... ☎️ DM me for more details.

Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today 📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science 💶 They take time and money to collect ⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A multimodal transformer-based tool for automatic generation of concreteness ratings across languages - Communications Psychology

This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages.

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The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age

Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flicker (Ganzflicker) and sensory deprivation (Ganzfeld...

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Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649217v1

You feel closer to AI when it exhibits psychological traits similar to your own. 👏🥂

Dan Lametti@daniellametti.com · last yr.

We have a new preprint on human-LLM social interaction: "Affiliation in human-AI interactions based on shared psychological traits". TLDR: People feel more similar to and understood by an LLM when it mimics aspects of their own psychology, such as anxiety and extroversion. osf.io/preprints/ps...

“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan... #philsky #langsky #consky

Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper

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The neurobiology of language is an altered state of consciousness. 🗣️🧠🍄👾 iai.tv/articles/lan...

Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper

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Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

Goodbye T. Robbins, you transformed me. 🐐👍 A cherished moment was receiving this message after I wrote you the absurd: '...that I mostly wear only bejeweled pink flip-flops can be tied by some tendril back to your writing. Your characters have often served as my role models...' 💎 Namo Amitabha 🪷

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: Tom Robbins, whose comic novels drew a cult following by blending pop philosophy and absurdist comedy, has died at 92.

👋 We show that #wellbeing, like other high-level constructs, e.g., ‘language’, is fundamentally a dynamic, whole brain process, with big-ol' individual differences, supported by distinct networks. 🧠 🗣️ 🫀 Amazing work from the formidable @yumengma.bsky.social. 🥂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ Do you have experience with #psychedelics 🍄 or #meditation 🪷? ⭐ 🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies. 🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment. 🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb

A psychedelic drug, DMT, is being tested as a novel way to reduce problematic alcohol consumption, in an ongoing study led by Prof Ravi Das and Prof Jeremy Skipper @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social. Article by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse

Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake

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Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction

Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction

Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake A powerful psychedelic that is used in healing ceremonies by Indigenous groups in the Amazon is being trialled as a pioneering approach to reduce…

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