Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Massive congratulations to Dr. Karen Tian who successfully defended her PhD Thesis on Friday! Can’t wait to see what she gets up to next!

Want to work on a belief-updating Bayesian framework to understand how tests for consciousness can be applied to artificial systems?

Do you want a stipend to go along with that work? And opportunities to meet like-minded peers and do all sorts of fun workshops?

Yeah you do.

Come join me 😀

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉

building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

A Domain Adaptation Framework for Identifying Higher-Order Reality Representations YouTube video by Empirical Tests of Higher Order Theories

@aliekhlasi.bsky.social presented his work on ETHOS at UCI's department of cognitive sciences colloquium. Watch it on ETHOS' brand new YouTube Channel.
youtu.be/KS-9FPzxAMM

Welcome! <3

I have news! After 4 fabulous years at Northeastern, this July I will be moving to Duke—with tenure! It’s hard to convey how grateful I am to everyone who has made this possible: from old professors in Mexico and mentors in the US to students, colleagues, and, of course, my amazing wife and family.

Zoltan Dienes has co-authored an encyclopaedia chapter titled Hypnosis and Suggestion. Read it here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Or the full document is also on our website:
www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

See Rachel talk about Experiment 1's ongoing work here:

Frontiers | The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness Integrative neuroscience increasingly recognizes that the brain evolved primarily as a biological system for generating movement. Viewed as a complex oscilla...

The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and
consciousness. A new paper from Guy Cheron and Ana Maria Cebolla.
Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
or get the PDF from our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery Abstract. Visual imagery and external perception rely on similar representations. However, whether the same processes underpin the subjective appraisal of

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. A new paper by @benjyb.bsky.social @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social
Read it here: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
or on the ETHOS website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

OPPORTUNITY: The 2026 Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition is now taking applications. This year we're focusing on new innovations in the field and one attendee can win a £2500 prize. It's July 8th-10th in London. Find out more and apply here: metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness YouTube video by onemorebrown

One of our advisory board members, @onemorebrown.bsky.social has given a talk "Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness". Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZc...

Happy New Year from the ETHOS team! Why not celebrate by reading some preprints from @peterlush.bsky.social and @zoltandienes.bsky.social at Sussex which lay the groundwork for Experiment 3?
To access the preprints, please see the links on our outputs page:
www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

And the pup! <3

In case you missed @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster at SfN this year, you can see it here! It's also available, along with ETHOS' other outputs on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025 We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.

Massive congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social on being one of The Transmitter's rising stars of neuroscience 2025! Among her many accomplishments, she's leading ETHOS Experiment 2B. www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Meet the Team: Seth Schallies
Seth is at Northeastern University’s Subjectivity Lab with @jorge-morales.bsky.social and working on research relating to mental imagery and perception. Read more on our website:
www.arc-ethos.org/news

Thanks for the plug Megan! :)

#SfN Poster 6 of 6
TODAY! Wednesday 11/19 1-5p
@aliekhlasi.bsky.social
PSTR469.12 / NN8 Reproducible and open-source fMRI decoding pipelines for arbitrating theories of consciousness, with
@jorge-morales.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....

Meet the Team: @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social is a PhD student at UCI. He's interested in how statistical signal processing methods can be applied in consciousness science and how different theories of consciousness intersect and differentiate. See www.arc-ethos.org/news, ogulyurdakul.github.io for more.

Going to @sfn.org this year? Check out @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster. November 19th from 4-5pm.
See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...

📣 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!

I climbed for a couple of years at university, it's so much fun! Although for my first few weeks I couldn't open jars because my forearms hurt so much! - Sarah

Xueyi Huang (working with
@jorge-morales.bsky.social
at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:

Meet the team: Saïd-Iraj Hashemi

Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news

🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4

The ETHOS team at a rooftop restaurant in Brussels with a beautiful view of the city and the orange sunset behind us.

ETHOS had our first in-person meeting on Friday, September 12th in Brussels. It was exciting to see all the experiments coming together! www.arc-ethos.org/news

Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. Read the abstract here:
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

A Question of Science | What is consciousness? A new podcast produced for the Crick by BBC Studios Science Unit.

I'm looking forward to "What is consciousness?" tomorrow 9/9, 2:45pm @crick.ac.uk, w/ @profbriancox.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social & Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/a-q...