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Anyone venture a guess about what this evokes music-wise growing up in the late 70s?

When did Google get so f-ing weird? (by way of @daringfireball.bsky.social ) sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

I used to love this time of year, hearing from students applying to work in my lab. No more. Every day a fresh batch of nearly identical emails with nonsensical remixes of the text on my lab website. It makes me so sad.

We’re having a recursive lab meeting #Iamastrangeloop

🚨 You can still sign 🖊️ the open letter! If you do, don't forget to confirm the email, otherwise your name won't show up. All signatures help

“Writing is a technology for thinking” - Ronald T. Kellogg What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

Hunting for old programs of conferences of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness I stumble upon the 1984 french translation of Krutch’s 1981 book about AI on small computers. I learned a lot of things going through that book!

@doctorow.pluralistic.net The enshittification has begun …https://ads.openai.com

@axc.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

1/11 New preprint! Can we register eye contact before we consciously see gaze direction? We flashed faces for just 1–5 ms and found that direct gaze facilitates face detection before explicit gaze awareness. 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... Work with: @axc.bsky.social & @arvidguterstam.bsky.social

I get angry when people talk about "declining trust in science" as though there weren't a coordinated effort by billionaire criminals to smear science as a way to decrease regulations, spread propaganda, and enrich themselves. Scientists are being scapegoated and we should not play along.

I think this time I am the only attendee of assc26.bsky.social who also attended ASSC1. In 2016 in Buenos Aires I made a presentation of the history of ASSC, you can download it from here: axc.ulb.be/posts/20-yea...

thank you jdsitt.bsky.social & co-organizers for such an auspicious assc26.bsky.social start 👍

We are really happy to be able to share a lot of our team work in #ASSC29! 4 talks and 2 posters... details below! 1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure" ⬇️

assc26.bsky.social #ASSC29

Congrats Lena - it’s a great first paper!

Absolutely honoured and excited to join the first-ever AI Sentience Scholars! ❤️ Thank you @neuromatch.bsky.social! 😍Looking forward to working with @axc.bsky.social on reinforcement learning and subjective experience of pleasure! #neuroAI #aisentience

and we’re off ! @assc26.bsky.social #ASSC29

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The ERC's 2025 Annual Report is out. Inside: ERC in figures, emerging research trends, policy impact, outstanding publications, Choose Europe for Science, and much more. Read it here: buff.ly/39it7zD

1/ New paper out today in Frontiers in Psychology 🧠 "Beyond the reducing valve: a computational neurophenomenology of altered states via deep neural networks" A unified framework for hallucinations, psychedelic experience & ego dissolution 🧵 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

What kind of flower do you recommend for the pancakes? @adriandoerig.bsky.social

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

This is apparently making the rounds on Linkedin 😵‍💫

Yay 😃 well done @adriendoerig.bsky.social Aaron & Michael !

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

People of Sussex! See @peterlush.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social from the ETHOS team at the implicit workshop tomorrow (May 7th) sites.google.com/view/implici...

Termination Shock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termina...

Why on earth would the @apastyle.bsky.social allow citing LLMs if there is no way to find out where the LLM got its information from and/or whether the information is factual? We don't cite Google searches either, we cite actual sources 🙄 pfff halfwhits apastyle.apa.org/blog/cite-ge...

The @neuromatch.bsky.social #AISentience Scholars program applications close in 6 days, 28 April 11:59pm anywhere on Earth! Head to neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... for application instructions and project descriptions! We can't wait to read all your brilliant applications 🥰

Christof Koch speaking at the 15th Symposium of the BIAL foundation / www.fundacaobial.com/en-GB/sympos...

📢 Excited to share our new paper in Cortex! "Frequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perception" with @axc.bsky.social & Adélaïde de Heering www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An amazing opportunity - I am proposing a project dedicated to the thorny question of synthetic pleasure, but I am competing with stellar colleagues with equally fascinating topics!

I really enjoyed the #COSYNE2026 (comp neuro) meeting - amazing talks and fantastic poster sessions! 👏 Still surprised how little mention there was of either evolution or development, though. It's worth keeping in mind that things are the way they are because they got that way! 😉

check out the faculty supervising *funded fellowship projects*! (yes, me included!) you won't want to miss this opportunity folks. seriously, it will be fabulous.

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

🎉The XP team is so glad to present a symposium at #ESCAN2026 in Roma on the need to consider affect to understand the function of consciousness! Inès Mentec and Gabriel Brandolini will be joined by @ashenhav.bsky.social and Benedetto De Martino. 😁See you there!😁https://escan2026.eu/

Very happy to see this come out 😃

🤦‍♂️ #GenAI #Academia

✨What is the relationship between aesthetic preferences and consciousness?✨ We are so very excited to welcome Richard Prum to discuss this question with us in Brussels. Do not miss this event! 📅 18 of March, 2026 🕒 16h-18h 📍 Brussels, ULB campus Solbosch, Solvay

Out in PNAS: Repetitions trigger illusory awareness in implicit statistical learning www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that the presence of repetitions in sequences that follow a hidden, complex regularity makes participants think they consciously figured out the real regularity... 1/n

« [AI systems] delegitimize knowledge, inhibit cognitive development, short-circuit decision making processes, and isolate humans by displacing or degrading human connection. »

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

I laughed out loud when I saw “AI use statement The author used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 for research purposes and for editorial feedback after the drafting process.” #neuroskyence

Consider this: You ask chatGPT to compose the eulogy for a deceased friend. After you speak at the funeral, someone tells you how moved she was. Do you reveal chatGPT wrote the speech? If you don’t, you are cheating. But if you do, the words lose their meaning and you are a fraud. What would you do?