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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 1h

!! Congrats !!

Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 1d

Also check out Laura's companion fMRI paper in @jocn.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

A Role of Pupil-linked Arousal, Cingulo-insular Cortex, and Intralaminar Thalamus for Auditory Near-threshold Perception

Abstract. The perception of near-threshold tones varies strongly across trials, likely because of fluctuations in sustained attention or arousal. We used parallel fMRI and pupillometry to study the ro...

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 1d

This paper in @cp-iscience.bsky.social led by Laura Doll and Alexander Gutschalk @uniheidelberg.bsky.social was published last year, but I'm highlighting it again b/c I think it's really cool and has all the things: M/EEG, pupillometry, awareness ratings, SDT.
#consci 🧠💻
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Perceptual awareness of near-threshold tones scales gradually with auditory cortex activity and pupil dilation

Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 3d

Bravo, @mit.edu !

links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

Regarding the Compact

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 3d

The next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....

MIT Consciousness Club

The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

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Megan Kirchgessner, PhD @megkirch.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna be in San Diego for #sfn25? Come join us for our first ever in-person event for @storiesofwin.bsky.social - registration is now OPEN!! 👇 gonna be a great time for getting inspired and building community (and stay tuned for an exciting lineup of 🤩speakers/panelists)! Help us spread the word!

Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 4d

🚨REGISTRATION IS OPEN!🚨

We're so excited to host our first-ever, in-person event! Join us for panel discussions, a keynote address, and the opportunity to meet many amazing women in Neuroscience💜

Please register to attend by November 1st:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We can't wait!

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 13d

"Auditory affective experiences as a window into the neural basis of consciousness"

Joel Snyder @auditoryjoel.bsky.social · 13d

Look what I did this summer! I had the pleasure of writing a review paper on three kinds of multisensory-emotional experience, with Hirohito Kondo and Erin Hannon.

This is submitted to a special issue of @nconsc.bsky.social on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness.

🧵:

OSF

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 10d

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 6d

Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 11d

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 11d

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... UT Austin is one of the 9 schools offered a deal: accede to White House demands and get funding priority

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage

An initial round of nine schools is being asked to sign a wide-ranging accord.

www.wsj.com

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NPR @npr.org · 12d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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lonikefaes.bsky.social @lonikefaes.bsky.social · 13d

If you’re a
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by
@adykstra.bsky.social
including James Bonauito and
@darcywaller.bsky.social
!

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Darcy Waller @darcywaller.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by @adykstra.bsky.social including James Bonauito and @lonikefaes.bsky.social!

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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 14d

I'm co-organising a #CNS2026 symposium with @adykstra.bsky.social - "Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition", including @darcywaller.bsky.social and @lonikefaes.bsky.social. If you're a member, please vote for it and help us make this happen!

Darcy Waller @darcywaller.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by @adykstra.bsky.social including James Bonauito and @lonikefaes.bsky.social!

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Joel Snyder @auditoryjoel.bsky.social · 13d

Look what I did this summer! I had the pleasure of writing a review paper on three kinds of multisensory-emotional experience, with Hirohito Kondo and Erin Hannon.

This is submitted to a special issue of @nconsc.bsky.social on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness.

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 14d

All talks will include both empirical results and biophysical modeling, with some utilizing specific open-source software tools like @hnnsolver.bsky.social from @jonescompneurolab.bsky.social.

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 14d

Featuring frontocentral mechanisms of action-stopping by @darcywaller.bsky.social, laminar MEG and motor evoked responses by @danclab.bsky.social, laminar specificity of predictive coding in auditory cortex by @lonikefaes.bsky.social, and laminar specificity of auditory conscious perception by me.

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 14d

What Darcy said! If you're a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member and want to learn at #CNS2026 how MEG and fMRI can yield circuit-level insight into perception and cognition, vote for our symposium! Co-organized by laminar MEG guru @danclab.bsky.social. Vote here! www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/

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François Stockart @francoisstock.bsky.social · 14d

Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠
Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments!
#Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 17d

Would this not suggest that the original question is moot?

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 17d

A big win for @neuromatch.bsky.social and for our students, TAs, and mentors! So proud of the hard work that went into making this happen and grateful to the NIH for their support!

Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 17d

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · 18d

Kudos to the original authors for doing the right thing.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18d

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method

Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 19d

What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators?

Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!)

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness

Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou

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Pierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · Apr 9

The intracranial EEG research feed is up and running (at least I think so 🤓)! Use the #iEEG, #ECoG, #sEEG or #stereo-EEG tags to share your posts. Please let me know how (if?) it works, whether changes should be made etc.
Feed profile pic courtesy of David Groppe, thx!

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 20d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

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