axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Anyone venture a guess about what this evokes music-wise growing up in the late 70s? 000
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When did Google get so f-ing weird? (by way of @daringfireball.bsky.social ) sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/sancho.bearblog.devWhen did Google get so f-ing weird?I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se... 121
Reposted by axel cleeremansJohn Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had 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 40434239
Reposted by axel cleeremansWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’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. 841965388
Reposted by axel cleeremansM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I 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. 1860694
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We’re having a recursive lab meeting #Iamastrangeloop 0191
Reposted by axel cleeremansIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026🚨 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 02913
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Writing is a technology for thinking” - Ronald T. Kellogg What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...nytimes.comWhat Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills. 040
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hunting 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! 070
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026@doctorow.pluralistic.net The enshittification has begun …https://ads.openai.comads.openai.comAdvertise in ChatGPT | OpenAI AdsReach people as they explore options, compare choices, and make decisions in ChatGPT, with relevant ads that fit naturally into the experience. 091
Reposted by axel cleeremansDavid Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026@axc.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social 034
Reposted by axel cleeremansRenzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 07/07/20261/11 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.socialdoi.orgConscious and unconscious eye contact at the limits of visionEye contact is one of the most potent social signals, but it remains unclear how little visual input is sufficient to register direct gaze, and whether such registration requires conscious awareness. ... 1277
Reposted by axel cleeremansAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I 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. 6402125
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I 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...axc.ulb.beAxel CleeremansThis is the personal website of Axel Cleeremans, a cognitive psychologist working as a research director of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where ... 0121
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026thank you jdsitt.bsky.social & co-organizers for such an auspicious assc26.bsky.social start 👍 0110
Reposted by axel cleeremansERC EXPERIENCE @erc-xp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026We 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" ⬇️ 1133
Reposted by axel cleeremansWiktoria Kozyra @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Absolutely 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 0111
Reposted by axel cleeremansEuropean Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 12/06/2026The 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 093
Reposted by axel cleeremansKeisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social · 20/05/20261/ 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...doi.orgFrontiers | Beyond the reducing valve: towards a computational neurophenomenology of altered states via deep neural networksAltered states of consciousness, including hallucinations, psychedelic experiences, and ego dissolution, differ qualitatively, yet no unified computational f... 2268
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026😃🙃 but it’s a word so it got through undetected - adds some poetry to the whole page 👌 120
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026What kind of flower do you recommend for the pancakes? @adriandoerig.bsky.social 2100
Reposted by axel cleeremansIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Meet 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.socialnature.comMeet the academics refusing to use generative AIResearchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. 26906354
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I always knew something was wrong with me, but to be a zombie and not know about it ?!?? 000
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This is apparently making the rounds on Linkedin 😵💫 1100
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Yay 😃 well done @adriendoerig.bsky.social Aaron & Michael ! 4234
Reposted by axel cleeremansAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Reasons 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 15528186
Reposted by axel cleeremansARC ETHOS @arcethos.bsky.social · 06/05/2026People 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...sites.google.comimplicit workshopThursday May 7th (preceded by socialising evening May 6th) No registration needed. Lunch and coffee provided. Venue: Meeting House, University of Sussex. The campus can be accessed via Falmer railway ... 032
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Termination Shock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termina...en.wikipedia.orgTermination Shock (novel) - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by axel cleeremansJohannes Fahrenfort @fahrenfort.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Why 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...apastyle.apa.org 022
Reposted by axel cleeremansmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The @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 🥰neuromatch.ioAI Sentience Scholars - neuromatch.ioThe program supports early-career researchers investigating questions at the intersection of AI, consciousness, and ethics. Through global collaboration and rigorous, empirically grounded inquiry, it ... 034
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Christof Koch speaking at the 15th Symposium of the BIAL foundation / www.fundacaobial.com/en-GB/sympos... 040
Reposted by axel cleeremansAudrey Mazancieux @audreymazancieux.bsky.social · 03/04/2026📢 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...sciencedirect.comFrequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perceptionSteady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) from frequency-tagging (FT) paradigms are widely used to investigate visual processing. Yet their assoc… 193
Reposted by axel cleeremansBolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days 4260572018
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026An 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! 1102
Reposted by axel cleeremansKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I 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! 😉 2224
Reposted by axel cleeremansmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 17/03/2026check out the faculty supervising *funded fellowship projects*! (yes, me included!) you won't want to miss this opportunity folks. seriously, it will be fabulous. 0116
Reposted by axel cleeremansmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 13/10/2025📣 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! 5542449
Reposted by axel cleeremansERC EXPERIENCE @erc-xp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026🎉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/escan2026.euHome - ESCAN 2026ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 0115
Reposted by axel cleeremansERC EXPERIENCE @erc-xp.bsky.social · 26/02/2026✨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 032
Reposted by axel cleeremansRazvan Jurchis @razvancj.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Out 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/npnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 1103
axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026« [AI systems] delegitimize knowledge, inhibit cognitive development, short-circuit decision making processes, and isolate humans by displacing or degrading human connection. » 022