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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These findings may help to determine optimal time windows for BCI use in ALS patients based on their spontaneous ongoing brain activity. #neurotech #BCI #ALS #neuroscience

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While healthy participants reside in a slightly subcritical regime, ALS patients may reside in a slightly supercritical regime marked by cortical hyperexcitability. This is supported by our effect size trends - however these effects did not reach not statistical significance.

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interestingly, the correlations are inverted for the two groups. Therefore, we propose that ALS patients and healthy participants approach the point of criticality - and optimal BCI performance - from different starting points.

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In this work we investigated associations between brain criticality markers from resting-state EEG and subsequent BCI performance in ALS patients and healthy participants. We show that several markers of brain criticality are associated with subsequent BCI performance for both groups.

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to present my research at a workshop of the Graz BCI Conference #GBCI2026 organized by @mconstancecorsi.bsky.social and @pierpasorre.bsky.social. 🧠 This work has now been published as a pre-print: doi.org/10.21203/rs.....

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

In this case we would expect a difference for German speaking philosophers, don't we? :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

This is an interesting thought. Just to be sure I understood you correctly: you assume that philosophers - at least in English speaking countries - do not consider themselves scientists, therefore they do not feel included in "consciousness science"?

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

That's interesting. I did not know that. Did these groups also have ideas on how to change that? :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Indeed a good question. To be fair, I think it is just what I heard the most. But I also like that it stresses that it is its own discipline that can include very different viewpoints on the same subject (e.g. not only neuroscience, psychology etc. but also philosophy and more). :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I would refer to it as consciousness science :)

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Marie-Constance Corsi @mconstancecorsi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Sonja Kleih-Dahms and @settgast.bsky.social from Würzburg University, discussed the use of brain criticality to predict BCI performance in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Thank you so much for the opportunity to present my work! It was big fun presenting and the others' work was super interesting. :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

On my final stage of the journey to the Rocky Mountains: Calgary -> Banff. Cannot wait for #BCI2025. See you soon :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

So you can find my poster more easily :) #BCI2025 #BCI

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I am so excited to meet familiar and new people and to learn everything new in BCI :) That will be fun I'm sure. See you soon! ✌️ #BCI #BCI2025

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

On my way to #BCI2025 presented by @bcisociety.bsky.social. I will present my work on resting-state brain criticality and subsequent BCI use. If you're interested step by my master class presentation on Monday (16:45-17:45, KC210), my poster on Wednesday, or the workshop W19 on Thursday :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I would like to be added if this is still possible :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh may I be added? :) I am taking in a rather practical point of view on consciousness research but the detection of neural "signs" consciousness (in forms of mental states) are the most important part of my work :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I would like to be added :) even though I am coming from a more "applied" point of view, my research is heavily influenced by basic research in neuroscience, and I like to raise its importance in my field :)

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

If possible I would like to be added too:) thanks for taking care of that!

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Although this is only an initial investigation, the neural correlates found may prove to be useful predictors of BCI use in healthy subjects in the future - an area of research that has been largely neglected for P300-based BCIs.

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

The increase in brain criticality prior to improved BCI performance is well in line with what would be expected based on theory and supports our hypothesis of its potential relevance for BCI use that we made earlier this year: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Brain Criticality and its Relation to BCI Operation | Request PDF

Request PDF | Brain Criticality and its Relation to BCI Operation | This paper reviews existing results that may link brain criticality and BCI operation in healthy subjects and those diagnosed with.....

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Paper alert: In this conference paper, we show correlations between two measures thought to reflect brain criticality, calculated from resting-state EEG measures and the subsequent BCI performance with a visual P300-based BCIs in healthy participants. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Resting-State Brain Criticality and Performance with P300-based BCIs

PDF | Here we present correlations between criticality-related measures calculated from resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) recordings and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Tbh this is a current one. More generally: where and how does "mind" emerge and how to detect that :) and many more 😁🙈

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

What/does something happen(s) to consciousness in neural disorders and how to detect that?

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Hi everyone! When any of you are attending the Graz BCI conference please come around my poster (no.32) on Thursday and talk with me about brain criticality and its potential role in BCI use. I'd be happy to discuss it! #BCI #GrazBCI

Upper part of my poster for the Graz BCI conference showing the title.

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Dem kann ich nur zustimmen. Leider fehlt es zumeist an Raum und Zeit in den Curricula der naturwissenschaftlichen Studiengänge metaphysische Annahmen zu vermitteln und zu diskutieren. Ich versuche es dann immer dann unterzubringen wo es gerade passt 😁🙈

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Ich glaube - als Naturwissenschaftler sprechend - es ist wichtig, erst einmal zu erkennen, dass viele ontologische Theorien überhaupt metaphysisch sind. Als Literatur dafür kann ich "The Blind Spot" von Frank, Gleiser & Thompson (2024) wirklich empfehlen.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 07/06/2024

BlueSky June! Many people who have a BlueSky account still prioritize posting, reading, and asking questions on Twitter. So for the rest of June, I ask you to commit to using BlueSky before the mess called X. Please retweet and tag people! 1/

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

I would like to be added to the list. Although I am rather working on BCI than HCI and more of a reader than a contributor, it could still be interesting to me :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Hey everyone! We just published a little conference paper in which we lay out a potential relationship between resting-state brain criticality and BCI use in healthy participants and patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. doi.org/10.1109/BCI6... Please get in touch if you are interested! :)

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Thanks! I am actually quite excited too :) please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

We came up with this idea seeing correlations between two proxy measures for brain criticality - Lempel-Ziv complexity and the 1/f EEG component - and BCI performance in one of our patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and conducted a little review here to underpin our idea.

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

We are working with Web of Science but we made the experience that it does not always find all of the papers of ACM (though a good amount). I remember that the export list was very thoroughly but I don't remember if citations etc. were included. Maybe still worth a shot! Best luck!

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

That'd be awesome! :) please keep us updated!

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Will there be an opportunity to join online? :)

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INCF @incforg.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

📢Request for input📢 Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) currently lack a clear & comprehensive definition that works for the academic community of scientists, engineers, & clinicians 🧠 Want to help us change that? Take a minute to fill in this survey! bit.ly/49jEY6N #neuroskyence

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Tomko Settgast @settgast.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Interesting for scientists investigating meditation in German speaking populations: We translated the meditation-related adverse effect scale - mindfulness-based program version (Britton et al., 2018) into German using a TRAPD team approach. The scale can be accessed here: osf.io/k6d9y/ . Have fun!

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