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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship to study consciousness? Talk to me about applying for this scholarship - we’ve had a wonderful experience with it in the past: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...
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International Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Azrieli Foundation
The Azrieli Fellows Program is an elite group of academics who cultivate a network of leading professionals in Israel and around the world.
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
HUGE congratulations, @ronyhirsch.bsky.social! Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next. One thing is certain: it will be outstanding 💪💪💪
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Check out this thread - and please RT 🙏 Shaked and Itay argue that t-test and LMMs (and their Bayesian parallels) are not adequate for testing chance performance, and suggest alternative, more powerful tests. We hope you will find this useful, especially when studying unconscious processes
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Check out this coil preprint!
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you haven’t submitted yet, this is *highly* recommended !!!
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And here is @niccolonegro.bsky.social , giving yet another excellent talk about value encroachment in consciousness science at @assc2026.bsky.social !
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Don’t miss @shaifischer.bsky.social ‘s poster now at @assc2026.bsky.social !! Super interesting study about music, expectations and unconscious processing 😎
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Great to see this out! Just in time for @assc2026.bsky.social ! I hope you all find it interesting. Thank you Francois and the team for the opportunity to join this work 🙏
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ARC-COGITATE @arc-cogitate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We are pleased to share a data descriptor paper to complement the fMRI dataset (N=118) originally released alongside our 2025 Nature adversarial collaboration paper.
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Excited to be part of the Coller Dolittle Awards 2026, hosted by the Jeremy Coller Foundation in collaboration with Tel Aviv University. Join us on 25 June to discover cutting-edge research on interspecies communication and to watch the live award announcement. zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.
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Scientific Theories of Consciousness
Cambridge Core - Neurosciences - Scientific Theories of Consciousness
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Interested in how and why people ascribe conscious to AI? Come work with @anatperry.bsky.social , Leon Deouell and me on this problem. Applications for postdoc positions are welcome!
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Models of Consciousness @moc7.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The next Models of Consciousness Conference will take place in Copenhagen! 

 We are excited to bring #MoC7 to the University of Copenhagen on October 12–16, 2026. Call for Abstracts is now open on our website (link below!)
announcement of the models of consciousness conference 2026 at the university of copenhagen
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Highly recommended!
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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New open-access paper out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science Francesco Ellia & Naotsugu Tsuchiya A thread 1/n🧵 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science
Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philo...
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Eran Tal @erantal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you or your undergrad students are interested in philosophy of mind, this excellent MSc program at U Edinburgh is open for applications until April 30. An exceptional opportunity to study with the best in the field. Please share widely! #philsci #philsky #philai study.ed.ac.uk/programmes/p...
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Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition MSc - Postgraduate taught programmes
This programme provides the intellectual foundation and practical skills required for engaging in linguistics research, either by itself, or as part of cross-disciplinary research.
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Ofer Perl @oferperl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We are recruiting! My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory. Please help me spread the word #newPI #academia #neurostuff
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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thanks @johanneskleiner.bsky.social ! @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming book chapter on C-tests. It might be useful because it surveys some of the literature on this. It's available here: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25164/
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Testing for consciousness beyond consensus cases - PhilSci-Archive
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Consciousness Commons @consc-commons.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
And applications are officially OPEN. Deadline to apply to join us is --- April 13 🔸Work with open consciousness datasets 🔸Build a preregistered research project with an interdisciplinary team 🔸Compete for $25,000 in seed funding to carry it forward consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026/
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Consciousness Commons @consc-commons.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Something is emerging in Santiago this July. A new kind of scientific gathering. Open data. Interdisciplinary teams. A shared question that's been challenging researchers for decades. Introducing Consciousness Commons: A satellite workshop for early-career researchers @assc2026.bsky.social #ASSC29
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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Happy to share our preprint mapping the structure of theories of consciousness and their predictions, with @edenelbaz.bsky.social, @shaifischer.bsky.social, @maorschreiber.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social. Accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Supplementary: osf.io/9xug8/overview
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🚨New paper alert!! 🚨 In this work by Nadav Amir, with Uri Maoz, we fail to find evidence for ambiguous objects emerging slower/faster to awareness, but do find support for more symmetrical stimuli enjoying preferential access academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
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Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness
Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
And now @shaifischer.bsky.social presents his beautiful work on consciousness and expectation violation! #ISCOP
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This should be great - would love to see you all there!
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
And don’t miss this super cool website that @ronyhirsch.bsky.social created for you to be able to explore the data yourself!
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Another beautiful work from @ronyhirsch.bsky.social , now with @niccolonegro.bsky.social : they find that contrary to may philosophical stands, public views do not consider consciousness to be neither necessary nor sufficient for moral status! Find this, and many other interesting results, below 👇
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François Stockart @francoisstock.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We delve into 37 studies that examined NCCs at the level of populations of neurons and single neurons in humans. 🤓 Most used the contrastive approach, where neural activity is compared between trials where the same stimulus is consciously perceived or not (we discuss limitations of this approach).
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
1/2 🎉🎉🎉 New paper alert!! Read this to see why we don’t think P and A are two *types* of C, but two conditions for C. And why we think this can truly advance the field and solve controversies. Open access until Feb 5th: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mHug4sIRv...
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A wonderful experience - meeting and interacting with the next generation of consciousness researchers. So many great ideas and outstanding people from all over the world. Join us next year for the #CIFARwinterschool 2026! >>
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Wonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join me, @anilseth.bsky.social, and @axc.bsky.social in this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
1/2 if you found the Butlin et al report on consciousness in AI interesting, we hope you will enjoy this TiCS paper! We explain more about the indicators approach and how it can be applied when assessing C in AI.>> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
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axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Gratitude to the @erc.europa.eu for supporting my work and that of @anilseth.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace
As AI - and the ethical debate surrounding it - accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
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axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?” www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Very proud of this great piece of multi-lab work by Kabir & Husta, et al. Want to measure attention across the visual field (without interfering with ongoing perceptual/attentional processes)? Use RIFT! Here we share our how-to-RIFT knowledge, including analysis code, quantitative comparisons, ..
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A bit overdue, but it’s still 2025 so the lab’s 10 years anniversary is on! It’s been such an amazing evening with the lab’s members and alumni, and the messages from afar. I love you all and thankful for your presence in my life and for everything I’ve learned from you over the years 🙏❤️🙏
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I was once told: "never try EEG+fMRI!" It was sound advice... but we did it anyway! Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in #EEG to patterns of hyperconnectivity in #fMRI. 🧠🧪💤
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous
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Nathan Faivre @nfaivre.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask): arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736 With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky! #iEEG
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Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...
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François Stockart @francoisstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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 👇
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Very glad to see this paper out, beautiful work by the great @francoisstock.bsky.social , @nfaivre.bsky.social , Michael Periera et al. It’s been a pleasure to play a (very small :-)) part in this project 🙏
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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!
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Interested on working with me on consciousness?… this scholarship is an excellent opportunity to do so. Contact me and let’s think about exciting projects we can do together! Please share 🙏 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
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Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@ronyhirsch.bsky.social beautifully presents her new results on tilt adaptation in the visual periphery AND outside focused attention at #iVSS (work with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) 👏👏👏
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
Crowds stream along a street at night
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Mariana Lenharo @marilenharo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
One of the biggest advances in #consciousness science is using brain scans to detect awareness in unresponsive people, researchers say. I wrote for @nature.com about these techniques and the growing efforts to test animals and AI for signs of an inner life.
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The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms
Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Looking forward to hearing what you think and receiving commentaries on this BBS paper! We are all extremely excited about it. Huge thanks to @maorschreiber.bsky.social and @francoisstock.bsky.social for leading it so well, >>
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