How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:
merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Two questions:
(1) How not to MISS an outlier? (2) Can you tell if a poster was made by AI or by a human?
(1) 🤯 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲? MAD? IQR? SD? And with which threshold: 1.5 or 2 IQR? 2 or 3 SD?🤯
Check our new🔗 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩: osf.io/preprints/ps...
📢 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...
Woow congratulations! 🎉🎉
So glad to see this work published! Congrats to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for leading this exciting multisite project!!
So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making!
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A celebration of open and collaborative science:
📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report
Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much Megan 🎉🎉
Thank you so much Patxi!
Thank you so much Surya! It was actually so insightful to discuss with you (and with the other jury members), thank you for coming up with really thought-provoking questions! (I now look at my model with much more suspicion...)
Thanks a lot! I'm so lucky to have awesome labmates who crafted this
Thank you so much Anil!
Super proud of @pietroamerio.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis on « vision at very short durations » today. Congrats!
Thank you so much Axel for the mentoring, supervision and these really exciting years, what an adventure!
A special thank you to @leamoncoucy.bsky.social @lenalange.bsky.social and @lunaleonardy.bsky.social for crafting the crown that any Italian scholar dreams of!
Coming out of social media hibernation to announce that earlier this month I became Doctor Pietro 🎉 huge thanks to @axc.bsky.social for the amazing mentoring along the way, and to the CO3 lab and @crcnulb.bsky.social for making these years so memorable ❤
1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself.
👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
⬇️ Summary below:
Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into
the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli.
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓
Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: A multisite preregistered study: https://osf.io/sj7fz
Is this interesting for you? Stay tuned for more! We applied this protocol to other scenarios, and found very interesting behaviour 👀
Briefly, we measured contrast thresholds for performing an array of tasks on simple visual stimuli across exposure durations ranging from 150 microseconds (!) to 100 ms. Bloch's law accounted well for forced-choice detection and discrimination, as well as subjective visibility judgements!
📝 Preprint alert 📝
Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception.
Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
If you are up for a nice academic battle, consider responding to our BBS paper "Studying unconscious processing: contention and consensus". The deadline is October 15th. Link below!
The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇
Absolutely incredible work led by @patxelos.bsky.social and @dsotob.bsky.social - such a compelling case of unconscious perception! Privileged to have been a little part of this 🧠
BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!
Unfortunately it's another of these laws, Bloch's law. If you are interested, we will soon post a preprint confiming its validity with simple stimuli and an array of perceptual tasks. We are also testing it on complex realistic stimuli and results should also be ready soon
So excited to see this work published! It was a truly inspiring collaboration - thanks to @maorschreiber.bsky.social, @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social and @nfaivre.bsky.social for their incredibile efforts in making this happen 🚀
Super grateful to the WM team for such an exciting project 🥹🗺️🤍
You can check the slides of the @assc28.bsky.social presentation at| www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.
Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".
Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.
Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness
CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪