Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Researchers at Federation University are seeking adult participants to help improve our understanding of emotional experience. If you are 18 years or older, live in Australia, are able to read/understand English, and wish to take part, scan QR or go to federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/.../SV_a2xgw... 020
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Last night, Mental Gravity was born, surrounded by family and friends. With a heady mixture of pride and humility, I can’t thank all these wonderful people enough for being part of what I hope is a long, lustrous journey through inner space. www.mentalgravity.com.aumentalgravity.com.auMental Gravity | Helping People Find Their Centre of GravityDiscover Mental Gravity: a new app and coaching framework grounded in biogravitational science to help you build mental fitness and find your footing 100
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 03/05/2026@iandunt.bsky.social I wish your prediction about Australia being immune to far-right populism thanks to compulsory and preferential voting held true. Sadly, the centre has hollowed out here as well… 030
Reposted by Lachlan KentDr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 10/12/2025New paper out on @openmindjournal.bsky.social * I propose balance is a core biophysical self-regulatory function, organisationally akin to thermo-regulation. Might seem radical off the bat, but by the end of the paper I hope you'll agree it seems pretty obvious. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...doi.orgWhat is Balance? A Vital Mechano-Regulation ParadigmAbstract. Within minutes of birth a newborn gnu or giraffe works to stand and walk, asserting postural balance and organised animate behaviour in an apparently goal-directed manner. In contrast, robot... 5279
Reposted by Lachlan KentJakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...mitpress.mit.eduThe Self-Evidencing AgentWhat is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&... 1110842
Reposted by Lachlan KentAnna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 02/02/2026New preprint on AI, consciousness and embodiment with the brilliant @erikjbekkers.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016 We introduce a new metaphysical view - Biological Idealism 😎 0245
Reposted by Lachlan KentBen Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Check out our commentary on a recent paper arguing that neural activity in the (lateral) entorhinal cortex intrinsically drifts over a month-long period in humans. With @virginievanw.bsky.social @vigano.bsky.social and Raphaël Bordas. www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...eneuro.orgA Passage of Time Signal in the Human BrainIn a dense-sampling resting–state functional magnetic resonance imaging study, Wang et al. (2025) recorded two individuals’ functional connectivity patterns over 30 consecutive days to find a marker o... 1206
Reposted by Lachlan KentAlexander Berezkin @birchalexander.bsky.social · 12/01/2026New paper by Thomas Fuchs, The Experiential Basis of Concepts, is about how concepts “scale up” from embodied experience to abstract thought. Concepts are rooted in bodily action and intersubjective practice. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #EmbodiedCognition #Enactivism #4EA #PhilosophyOfMindfrontiersin.orgFrontiers | The experiential basis of concepts: integrating embodied and enactive accountsThe paper argues for an embodied and enactive view of linguistic concepts as a solution to the “scaling up” problem, namely the transition from embodied expe... 163
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 05/12/2025"Music as a weighted blanket": We are inviting participants in Australia for a brief online survey about the interaction between gravity, music, emotion and sensory sensitivity. Please click the link or follow the QR. Thanks! federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 020
Reposted by Lachlan KentMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article. 3331136
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Thrilled to announce my new podcast, "The Gravity Doctors," together with @brennanspiegel.bsky.social. We introduce the world of "Biogravitational Medicine"—how gravity shapes your body and mind for better or worse. All formats here: lnkd.in/gyviV7HY YouTube: lnkd.in/gAMB_Eq8 Hope you enjoy! 051
Reposted by Lachlan Kentstecar32.bsky.social @stecar32.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Save the date! @publichealthaus.bsky.social and Prevention United are proud to host the 2026 Preventive Mental Health Conference in Sydney, Australia next March. Check out the conference website to find out more. www.pmhc2026.com 021
Reposted by Lachlan KentLachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏 federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 121
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏 federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 121
Reposted by Lachlan KentJohn Englart / Indiana Jones & Juliet @takvera.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Climate Action Tracker #Australia 🇦🇺 assessment 11 June 2025. We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets. climateactiontracker.org/countries/au...climateactiontracker.orgAustralia 15325
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Why do you think positive emotions feel light and negative emotions feel heavy? 000
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Serotonin as the 'molecular mediator of gravity management' in both body and mind, hence its role in depression and anxiety according to the principles of mental gravity neurogastrolatamreviews.com/frame_eng.ph...neurogastrolatamreviews.comGut-derived serotonin as a molecular mediator of gravity management | Neurogastro Latam ReviewsThis article advances a novel hypothesis that serotonin, especially gut-derived serotonin, acts as a gravity management substance, helping the body adapt to ... 010
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 03/02/2025How can we solve the youth mental health crisis? NEW PAPER: Let's try something new but evidence-based like mass-screening for low mental wellbeing, which is a predictor of future mental health according to the dual continua model. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... 020
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 24/12/2024“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits… 050
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 24/12/2024If I could train to become an interoceptologist, I would. Brain-body states are at the centre of both mental and physical health. Great piece 020
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 15/12/2024My father-in-law retired from academia in the ‘90’s. I don’t think he recognise the profession now and would be dismayed to hear how staff are struggling these days. Extremely proud of @xuanluu.bsky.social for leading this quality qual work. Please follow him - PhD due for submission soon… 140
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 09/12/2024For new consciousness followers, this is my main contribution to consciousness science. CLaE is worth a follow as well for lots of good neuro links... 071
Reposted by Lachlan KentBeck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 01/10/2024In which @evanthompson.bsky.social discusses clock time and the time of the philosopher and the famous Einstein/Bergson debate: “[Einstein’s]real mistake… was his view that physical time, defined through the measurements of clocks, was more fundamental than lived time.” aeon.co/essays/who-r...aeon.coWho really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time? | Aeon EssaysHenri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right? 042
Reposted by Lachlan KentDr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 25/09/2024Postural balance is taken as a subsidiary motor task, not a homeostatic task like thermoregulation. But balance and sensations of weight have a valenced aspect which permeates experience and emotion not unlike hot-cold sensations do. (In)congruous? #neuroscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comHappiness feels light and sadness feels heavy: introducing valence-related bodily sensation maps of emotions - Psychological ResearchBodily sensation mapping (BSM) is a recently developed self-report tool for the assessment of emotions in which people draw their sensations of activation in a body silhouette. Following the circumple... 2111
Reposted by Lachlan KentLachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 26/02/2024Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below) t.co/KObVXUoSDUt.coQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 101
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 26/02/2024Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below) t.co/KObVXUoSDUt.coQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 101
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 23/02/2024I really enjoyed reading this extremely well-written and provocative piece on #interoception If I understood correctly, in contrast to most exteroception, interoception is slower, coarser, more compressed, and more integrated. Interested what the authors think about graviception as interoception 140
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 22/02/2024Unfortunately we’ve had to postpone the talk. New date/time to follow soon, apologies 000
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 19/02/2024🚨 Talk alert 🚨 Livestream with the Active Inference Institute on my theory of mental gravity. Thursday 22nd Feb at UTC 19:00. Panel includes @annaciaunica.bsky.social and Georg Northoff but will include an open Q&A as well. 032
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 12/01/2024Have we considered a sponsor-based peer-review system? Based on a recent experience, I think it could work well, especially for early career academics like me. It could also help more senior academics get recognition for informal mentoring and reviewing. Here’s what happened… 110
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Great piece on growing climate hope and reducing climate anxiety while simultaneously acknowledging the crisis. Fear was needed a decade ago to kickstart action. Now that action has traction, kids especially need more of the good news 011
Reposted by Lachlan KentRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 18/11/2023This is an amazing video produced for our kickoff ceremony of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, led by @emilyjacobs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5u...youtube.com"How Small is Small?"The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative is driven by a radically simple idea: Progress in neuroscience will flourish when the health of men and wom... 03826
Reposted by Lachlan KentThe vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 17/11/2023Can cognitive #neuroscience solve the lab-dilemma by going wild? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... On #reproducibility #measurability #refutability #generalizability and going #mobile & #wearable.sciencedirect.comCan cognitive neuroscience solve the lab-dilemma by going wild?Reproducibility, measurability, and refutability are the foundation of the scientific method applied to empirical work. In the study of animal and hum… 0107
Reposted by Lachlan Kentdan mentos @danmentos.com · 11/10/2023lol my boss just called me into her office and told me I've been spending too much time on bluesky. Hold on she's saying something else now 121231184
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 10/10/2023Gravity and graviception are understudied across all mind and health sciences, I think. It’s so fundamental and affects so many higher-order functions, including selfhood. Even depression and anxiety are implicated. Dizziness is just the tip of the iceberg 010
Reposted by Lachlan KentSander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review. With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comInsight in the Conspiracist’s Mind - Sander Van de Cruys, Jo Bervoets, Stephen Gadsby, David Gijbe...Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist, “Do your own research,” may seem ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical de... 1157
Reposted by Lachlan KentIshan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · 20/09/2023Our latest work asks how is time represented? Do mental representations have time as an intrinsic property? We test this hypothesis by looking for a temporal correspondence between timing of a perceptual process and its temporal experience link.springer.com/article/10.3... #consciousness #cogsci 🧵link.springer.comTemporal correspondence in perceptual organization: Reciprocal interactions between temporal sensiti...How do visual representations account for time? Is it the case that they represent time by themselves possessing temporal properties (temporal mirroring) or by atemporal markers/tags (temporal tagging... 4145
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 27/09/2023I’m working on a “mental gravity” hypothesis to explain how graviception shapes higher-order cognition. Today I stumbled on the idea of “cognitive tropism” (link below). Tropism in biology is when organisms grow or move in a particular direction - towards light, water, nutrients, heat etc. 1/ 120
Reposted by Lachlan KentKaitlyn M. Werner, PhD @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Hello fellow emotion researchers! I just made a feed for all things related to Affective Science. Check it out! Current tag is #AffectSci bsky.app/profile/did:... @markrubin.bsky.social 24814
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 26/09/2023It’s been a good few weeks. Had a paper published. My charity landed a big grant that may have bought us long-term viability. My contract was renewed. The sun’s out in Melbourne. My kids are well. My partner’s happy. I’m running most days. Singing/playing a lot. Next paper’s nearly done. Happy days 070
Reposted by Lachlan Kentmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 21/09/2023y'all -- sky follower bridge is the sh*t. makes migration over here so much easier. starting to feel like this really could be a viable alternative and hopeful i won't lose my online community. thank you thank you to the developers. github.com/kawamataryo/...github.comGitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter...Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follower on Bluesky. - GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follower on Bl... 77548
Reposted by Lachlan KentMungbean o Aotearoa🌱 @mungkiwi.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Stolen from Mastadon: 329676
Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 22/09/2023I'm a psych researcher interested in theory and multidisciplinary approaches to mental health and wellbeing, perception, consciousness and affect. Working on mental gravity hypothesis #consciousness #CogSci #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Psychiatry #PsychSciSky #Psychology #PsychSci #conssky 0122
