Beyond the Sleep Lab Webinar: Wearables, the Present and the Future of Sleep Research 14 April 2026 16:00–17:00 CEST Featuring: Dr. Yue Leng (Speaker) Dr. Kiran Ravindran (Speaker) Dr. Stijn Massar (Panelist) Moderated by Dr. Laura Stankeviciute

🔬💤 Beyond the Sleep Lab: Wearables, the Present and the Future of Sleep Research

Join the ESRS Early Career Network for an engaging webinar TOMORROW!

👉 Register now and be part of the discussion! esrs.eu/e-sleep/webi...

#SleepResearch #Wearables #DigitalHealth #EarlyCareerResearchers #ESRS

🧠💤 New paper out in @plosbiology.org! Together with Adriana Michalak (@dr-adri.bsky.social), Davide Marzoli, Francesco Pietrogiacomi et al., we show that dreaming, especially immersive dreaming, plays a key role in how deep sleep feels.

🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

@erc.europa.eu #ERC-StG #sleep

My course on consciousness is now online: six 90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too.
I speak in French (College de France oblige) but slides and subtitles are in English
tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3

Cataldi et al., "Sensory processing reallocation from external to internal signals in REM sleep"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

more information and registration at: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...

Interoceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes in a large scale psychophysical study - Communications Psychology Bayesian psychophysical modelling of cardiac and respiratory interoception (N=241) showed no cross-domain associations in sensitivity, precision, or metacognition, indicating that interoceptive perfor...

Bayesian psychophysical modelling of cardiac & respiratory interoception (N=241) showed no cross-domain associations in sensitivity, precision, or metacognition, indicating that interoceptive performance is organ-specific.
@leahbanellis.bsky.social
@micahgallen.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Now, @martager.bsky.social presents our Brain-Body Analysis Special Interest Group (BBSIG) to facilitate and harmonise the processing and analysis of cardiac and respiratory data.

Try it yourself!

🔗www.bbsig.de

#MindBrainBody #MBBS2026

Check out our new python package for interoception, breathwork, and respiratory motor control research!

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep During sleep, the human brain transitions to a ‘sentinel processing mode’, enabling the continued processing of environmental stimuli despite the absence of consciousness. We employed advanced informa...

An absolutely precision-oriented read from the wider team of @canalesjohnson.bsky.social and co. on the information processing of prediction errors--an already high feat. They go further, relating it to environmental stimuli across sleep stages.

📝 New paper: Towards Multi-Brain Decoding in #Autism

🤨 How do we scale #hyperscanning when multi-brain datasets are small?

💡Our team introduces a self-supervised learning on large single-brain EEG data to improve multi-brain decoding.

#SocialNeuroAI #Neurotech link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Joint workshop. Animal Minds: New theories and new observations. RU Bochum and London School of Economics.

I'll be talking on Tuesday about how animals experience time as part of our Bochum-LSE Animal Minds workshop - and free online attendance is possible! 🦜🐝🕷️🐒 Details here: animal-cognition.philosophy-cognition.com

Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University

Imagination in bonobos!

I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org

We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative

youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

🔔 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

🧠 Already fomo'ing the Winterschool ? At the Workshop, you can collectively explore the interplay between mental imagery and consciousness research !

May 30 - June 7
Ephesus Retreat, Turkey
850€ (bursaries)
20 participants

⏳ APPLY UNTIL February 15
mesec.co/event/worksh...

Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm In this issue of Neuron, Han et al. leverage a change-identification working memory task coupled with electrophysiological recordings in the macaque frontal eye field to show that information retrieva...

Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex, Nature Neuroscience

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”

In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.

rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:

this seems problematic for claims of increased brain activation

On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism The rapid advances in the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have galvanised public and scientific debates over whether artificial systems m…

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊

Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness?
And if so, where do we start?

I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on.

1/n

This is friggin’ cool.

We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇

This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)

Applications are now open!

www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century:

1. Dream engineering

"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

Join us this Thursday for an exciting talk by @sconinxphil.bsky.social!

Event info: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

To join via Zoom, please register here: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/kon... Meeting details will be distributed via email.

#ConSci

Advancing consciousness science Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics

1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School

Neuroscience of Dreaming

Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy

Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

Let’s Talk About (Artificial) Consciousness: A Day of Study Honoring Dan Dennett - Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President Location:  Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford/Somerville campus Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2025   "Let’s Talk About (Artificial) Consciousness: A Day of Study Honoring Dan Dennett" is a sym...

It's an honour to be speaking, in a few minutes, at the memorial symposium for the greatly missed, and the simply great, Daniel Dennett provost.tufts.edu/events/denne...

Why I left academia and neuroscience Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Congratulations @introspection.bsky.social 🎉

Honored to be awarded the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in "Social Neuro-AI & Inter-Personalized Psychiatry"!

Grateful to my team & colleagues at @cra-chusj.bsky.social & @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and my family for their support 🙏

Excited to keep bridging social neuroscience, AI & precision psychiatry🚀

We want the Dream Database to be a living database, so that it can grow and improve over time.

Don't hesitate to get in touch if you want to use it or contribute to it!

The database link:
bridges.monash.edu/articles/dat...

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

doi.org/10.1038/s415...