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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Touch is "stable," but vision is "malleable." 🧵 We’re excited to share our new preprint: "Stable Touch and Malleable Vision: Differential Priming Magnitudes in Virtual Reality." We used #VR and ultrasound mid-air haptics to challenge what we know about how we see and feel. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Is the "Sense of Reality" in the physical world actually different from the "Sense of Presence" in VR? 🧠🥽 I’m thrilled to announce my first lead-author, theoretical paper is out now in Perspectives in Psychological Science! We argue: No. Presence IS Reality. A thread 🧵👇

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Discrepancies Between Felt and Judged Presence: The Role of Touch on Presence in Virtual Reality: osf.io/v7fdc

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Does Touch make VR feel more "real" than vision? 🖐️🥽 Our new preprint investigates the "Sense of Object Presence" using mid-air haptics. We found a fascinating disconnect between "felt" presence (immediate action) and "judged" presence (reflection). 🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

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Denise Cadete @denisemcadete.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.

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The Invisible Hand

The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible pa...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Presence is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness: osf.io/7qvwu

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🚨New preprint alert🚨 Presence is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness In which we argue that 'presence' as defined and discussed in the field of computer science, is mechanistically and conceptually identical to 'reality' osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/🧵

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Carolina Villegas @carolinavm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨 doi.org/10.31219/osf... Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context? We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Just got a cold call from an energy company which was a chatbot- but a remarkably nuanced one. First time I’ve interrupted a phone conversation to say (with genuine curiosity) “excuse me are you an AI?” Reminds me of this from Dennett: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The Problem With Counterfeit People

Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act of vandalism, and should be held liable.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This makes sense. I hate comparing LLMs to the human mind, but I imagine this would be like attempting to create a human being who didn't have the capacity to hallucinate Predictive processing is foundational to how we operate, but also leaves room for unavoidable error (hallucinations)

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Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🚓Police sexual misconduct allegations soared 67% between 2023-24 in England & Wales @politicshome.bsky.social analysis reveals The number of allegations relating to sexual conduct –including assault & harassment – against police officers rose to 819 in 2024 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Police Sexual Misconduct Allegations Soar 67 Per Cent In One Year

Allegations relating to sexual conduct involving police officers have soared by more than two thirds last year, according to analysis of new govern...

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I have passed my PhD Upgrade and now head into the second year of my PhD! We have covered passive touch and behavioural measures of reality, going on to investigate active touch, utilising EEG to determine whether neural signatures signal a person's surety that objects independently exist

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Wow it's becoming more and more human-like by the day!

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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

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Carolina Villegas @carolinavm.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

➡️Parent-child half-term activity alert! This is an opportunity for children to be engaged in a science experiment AND learn about their body signals. Parents will complete a novel computer task about their own child's body signals! 🫀 Sign up here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Imagine our profession was built so that you could advance your career without moving all the time. Isn't this a huge piece of the equity and access problem? Yes, it is.

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Needing to move is a huge barrier to broadening representation in the sciences

Science will be more inclusive and equitable when we stop expecting people to uproot their lives every few years

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/12/2023

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Aaron Kaltenmaier (also @jhaarsma.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social , @peterkok.bsky.social, Fri 2-3:45 pm) asks how expectations about stimulus presence and content differently affect perceptual inference [7/9]

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Matt Joro @dungeonglitch.com · 21/08/2023

You would never do this. Warn your friends to never do this. Never ever. The best ppl warn everybody.

Once again, I DO NOT recommend students go to libgen (dot) rs and download books for their upcoming courses. I am NOT advocating for getting and sharing free pdfs of required texts. DON'T DO IT.

Avoid them as much as possible, the links go:
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pk1lib.org
ethos.bl.uk/SearchResults...
sabaq.pk
sci-hub.se
archive.org
lej4learning.com.pk
pdfdrive.com

You also definitely don't want to be installing the unpaywall.org chrome extension. After all, who needs a super handy #openaccess tool that allows you, with a click of a button, to access any closed article?

I also HATE this website archive.org, i do not recommend!! Definitely don't use email generators to "borrow books from there
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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

From now on if I ever feel bad or down about my work, I'll take comfort in the fact that at least I wasn't the utter moron who let the UAE chair a climate summit www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

How do you know what's real? How do you know that the screen you're reading this from is real, and not some advanced hallucination? Object existence is a field full of contradictions and pitfalls, but we're trying to find a way to untangle the thread. cogscicounter.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

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How Do You Know What's Real?

What is the difference between an object that exists and an object which doesn't?

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Wow it's becoming more and more human-like by the day!

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

PNAS published a paper claiming scientists are “censoring” research for moral reasons. Yet its authors include those who believe women’s brains evolved to be incapable of science, half of Africa is intellectually impaired & promote articles claiming eugenics should be used as “foreign aid” in Africa

PNAS PERSPECTIVE Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda Cory]. Clark © 1 , LeeJussim, Komi Frey, Sean T. Stevens, Musa al-Gharbi ®, Karl Aquino ®, J. Michael Bailey. , Nicole Barbaro, Roy F. Baumeister , April Bleske-Rechek ®, David Buss © , Stephen Ceci ® , Marco Del Giudice, Peter H. Ditto, Joseph P. Forgas, David C. Geary ®, Glenn Geher, Sarah Haider, Nathan Honeycutt ®, Hrishikesh Joshi, Anna I. Krylov, Elizabeth Loftus ® Glenn Loury, Louise Lu, Michael Macy. ®, Chris C. Martin, John McWhorter, Geoffrey Miller ©, Pamela Paresky. , Steven Pinker , Wilfred Reilly, Catherine Salmon D, Steve Stewart-Williams ® Philip E. Tetlock, Wendy M. Williams , Anne E. Wilson , Bo M. Winegard, George Yancey , and William von Hippel
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Quillette article: Sex and the Academy The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture? Cory Clark / Bo Winegard 8 Oct 2022

Aporia Magazine reposted Bo Winegard “Scientific and technological advances have permitted a new voluntary and moral form of "eugenics" that is too powerful to ignore. While many may find this vision of the world distasteful, we must face reality for the betterment of humanity." Embryo selection as foreign aid” Published in Aporia Magazine

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Nick Sawyer, MD, MBA, FACEP @nicksawyermd.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

everyone thinks Elon Musk is a genius until you hear him talk about a subject you know something about www.vice.com/en/article/m...

There is now an adage, which I will credit to former Twitter engineer Rod Hilton, that everyone thinks Musk is a genius until you hear him talk about a subject you know something about. As Hilton put it, "He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets."

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

This was fun, funny and quite challenging antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app

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Antidepressants or Tolkien character?

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Alkistis Saramandi @alkistis.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

1/5 Preprint 🚨 psyarxiv.com/c8mjv We used a cardiac interoception task & a novel computational approach to study metacognitive belief updating in Anorexia Nervosa (AN). 🧵 below #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup

A Reese's butter cup with scientific papers, images and data coming out of it

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Celeste Kidd @celestekidd.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

We are happy to share our new commentary on why using language inclusively for transgender people is perfectly appropriate biologically, socially, and scientifically. A 🧵 on the commentary by @andyperfors.bsky.social, @spiantado.bsky.social, & me

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/10/2023

Look I know you have a lot on your plate right now and it’s stressing you out but I’m gonna need you to abandon it all to lie still and become unconscious for about eight hours and if you can’t relax enough to do that your brain will destroy itself and everything will be so much worse. Sweet dreams!

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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 17/10/2023

Great collection of the best R packages for data visualization #rstats #dataviz ℹ️ r-graph-gallery.com/best-dataviz...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Just sent to me. Don’t know who drew it.

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Carolina Villegas @carolinavm.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

#HiSciSky ! I am a third year PhD student at Katlab - UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, currently researching interoception in the parental context. Happy to join BlueSky🩵

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

My husband is an artist who makes orreries (clockwork planetary models) out of metal and glass. When I was struggling to finish my novel, he made me a deal: if I finished the book, he'd make me an orrery based on the world of my novel. It's freaking BEAUTIFUL.

Photo of an orrery made of hand-etched brass gears, a polished wooden base, and hand-blown glass planets.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 13/10/2023

As grad prospective email season hits its peak, remember Inigo's guide to a solid email intro:

Inigo Montoya quote "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

Guide to networking success:
1. Polite greeting
2. Name
3. Relevant personal link
4. Manage expectations

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Science foundation Ireland have increased the PhD stipend by €3,000 per annum, starting in January - this will include existing PhD students. This is welcome news.

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Peter Hsu @petersyhsu.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Hello World

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Olly Singleton @oliversingleton.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

You are what you wear! Can you dress well, feel good and save the planet at the same time? Join our interactive workshop at UCL exploring how a textile circular economy can serve our well-being, while also saving the planet #CogSci #AcademicSky #PsycSky #PhDSky www.ucl.ac.uk/research/dom...

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Marina Bobou @marinabobou.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

My friend Pablo and PhD student 🧠 at Maastricht University is one of the finalists for the 2023 Mind Science grant competition, investigating brain synchrony under psychedelics. If you want to learn more and vote for him click here:https://mindscience.org/2023-competition/

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Marina Bobou @marinabobou.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

#HiSciSky ! I am a third year PhD student at Katlab - UCL, interested in interoception & eating disorders!

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

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