ARC ETHOS
@arcethos.bsky.social
Accelerating Research on Consciousness:
Empirical Tests of Higher-Order theories of consciousnesS
https://www.arc-ethos.org/
Empirical Tests of Higher-Order theories of consciousnesS
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@arcethos.bsky.social
· Oct 10
ETHOS - Empirical Tests of Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
www.arc-ethos.org
See our website to meet the team and get an overview of what the ETHOS project is about. www.arc-ethos.org
Meet the Team: @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social is a PhD student at UCI. He's interested in how statistical signal processing methods can be applied in consciousness science and how different theories of consciousness intersect and differentiate. See www.arc-ethos.org/news, ogulyurdakul.github.io for more.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Meet the Team: @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social is a PhD student at UCI. He's interested in how statistical signal processing methods can be applied in consciousness science and how different theories of consciousness intersect and differentiate. See www.arc-ethos.org/news, ogulyurdakul.github.io for more.
Going to @sfn.org this year? Check out @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster. November 19th from 4-5pm.
See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...
See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Going to @sfn.org this year? Check out @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster. November 19th from 4-5pm.
See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...
See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...
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📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
Xueyi Huang (working with
@jorge-morales.bsky.social
at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:
@jorge-morales.bsky.social
at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:
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October 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Xueyi Huang (working with
@jorge-morales.bsky.social
at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:
@jorge-morales.bsky.social
at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:
Meet the team: Saïd-Iraj Hashemi
Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news
Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Meet the team: Saïd-Iraj Hashemi
Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news
Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news
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🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4
Laboratory Technician
About the Opportunity SUMMARY The Subjectivity Lab, directed by Jorge Morales, and housed in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University is excited to invite applications for a full-time L...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4
ETHOS had our first in-person meeting on Friday, September 12th in Brussels. It was exciting to see all the experiments coming together! www.arc-ethos.org/news
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
ETHOS had our first in-person meeting on Friday, September 12th in Brussels. It was exciting to see all the experiments coming together! www.arc-ethos.org/news
Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. Read the abstract here:
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
What Makes Mental Images Vivid? Sharpness as the Key Visual Dimension | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. Read the abstract here:
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
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I'm looking forward to "What is consciousness?" tomorrow 9/9, 2:45pm @crick.ac.uk, w/ @profbriancox.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social & Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/a-q...
A Question of Science | What is consciousness?
A new podcast produced for the Crick by BBC Studios Science Unit.
www.crick.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm looking forward to "What is consciousness?" tomorrow 9/9, 2:45pm @crick.ac.uk, w/ @profbriancox.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social & Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/a-q...
[email protected] @onemorebrown.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social have published a theoretical paper titled “Computational higher-order theories of consciousness” as a book chapter. See the preprint here. philarchive.org/archive/FLECHT
philarchive.org
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
[email protected] @onemorebrown.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social have published a theoretical paper titled “Computational higher-order theories of consciousness” as a book chapter. See the preprint here. philarchive.org/archive/FLECHT
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📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Our funders @templetonworld.bsky.social, have highlighted ETHOS on their website. See their article here: www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/how-eth...
How ETHOS: Empirical Tests of Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness is Accelerating Research on…
Led by Stephen Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and Axel Cleeremans, the ETHOS project aims to compare the…
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August 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our funders @templetonworld.bsky.social, have highlighted ETHOS on their website. See their article here: www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/how-eth...
Meet the Team - Ataol Burak Ozsu
Ataol recently joined @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab as a research assistant. He will study higher-order representations of imagined, perceived, and unconscious stimuli using MEG.
See the ETHOS website for more: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Ataol recently joined @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab as a research assistant. He will study higher-order representations of imagined, perceived, and unconscious stimuli using MEG.
See the ETHOS website for more: www.arc-ethos.org/news
May 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Meet the Team - Ataol Burak Ozsu
Ataol recently joined @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab as a research assistant. He will study higher-order representations of imagined, perceived, and unconscious stimuli using MEG.
See the ETHOS website for more: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Ataol recently joined @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab as a research assistant. He will study higher-order representations of imagined, perceived, and unconscious stimuli using MEG.
See the ETHOS website for more: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Meet the Team - Michaela Klímová
Michaela is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern working on Experiment 2. She is interested in how the visual system transforms the basic building blocks of vision into complex representations.
For more information see: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Michaela is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern working on Experiment 2. She is interested in how the visual system transforms the basic building blocks of vision into complex representations.
For more information see: www.arc-ethos.org/news
April 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Meet the Team - Michaela Klímová
Michaela is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern working on Experiment 2. She is interested in how the visual system transforms the basic building blocks of vision into complex representations.
For more information see: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Michaela is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern working on Experiment 2. She is interested in how the visual system transforms the basic building blocks of vision into complex representations.
For more information see: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Meet the Team - @angelashen.bsky.social
Angela is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She's broadly interested in investigating the behavioral and neural relationships among visual perception, metacognition, and visual attention.
For more info: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Angela is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She's broadly interested in investigating the behavioral and neural relationships among visual perception, metacognition, and visual attention.
For more info: www.arc-ethos.org/news
About 5 — ETHOS - Empirical Tests of Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
www.arc-ethos.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Meet the Team - @angelashen.bsky.social
Angela is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She's broadly interested in investigating the behavioral and neural relationships among visual perception, metacognition, and visual attention.
For more info: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Angela is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She's broadly interested in investigating the behavioral and neural relationships among visual perception, metacognition, and visual attention.
For more info: www.arc-ethos.org/news
Meet the Team: Karen Tian
Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics.
For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com
Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics.
For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Meet the Team: Karen Tian
Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics.
For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com
Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics.
For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com
Meet the team: @aliekhlasi.bsky.social is a post-doc working on Experiment 2 at UCI. His current research focuses on applying machine learning to evaluate theories of consciousness using fMRI data.
For more, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or his website aliekhlasi.com
For more, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or his website aliekhlasi.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Meet the team: @aliekhlasi.bsky.social is a post-doc working on Experiment 2 at UCI. His current research focuses on applying machine learning to evaluate theories of consciousness using fMRI data.
For more, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or his website aliekhlasi.com
For more, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or his website aliekhlasi.com
Meet the Team: Peter Lush
Peter is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sussex, where he is testing imaginative suggestion for changes in visual experience with Zoltan Dienes for ETHOS Experiment 3.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
Peter is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sussex, where he is testing imaginative suggestion for changes in visual experience with Zoltan Dienes for ETHOS Experiment 3.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
March 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meet the Team: Peter Lush
Peter is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sussex, where he is testing imaginative suggestion for changes in visual experience with Zoltan Dienes for ETHOS Experiment 3.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
Peter is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sussex, where he is testing imaginative suggestion for changes in visual experience with Zoltan Dienes for ETHOS Experiment 3.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
Meet the Team - Xueyi Huang
Xueyi is a PhD student at Northeastern. Her research focuses on visual mental imagery, perception, and the shared mechanisms between them. She is currently working on ETHOS Experiment 2 and investigating the visual properties of mental images.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
Xueyi is a PhD student at Northeastern. Her research focuses on visual mental imagery, perception, and the shared mechanisms between them. She is currently working on ETHOS Experiment 2 and investigating the visual properties of mental images.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Meet the Team - Xueyi Huang
Xueyi is a PhD student at Northeastern. Her research focuses on visual mental imagery, perception, and the shared mechanisms between them. She is currently working on ETHOS Experiment 2 and investigating the visual properties of mental images.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
Xueyi is a PhD student at Northeastern. Her research focuses on visual mental imagery, perception, and the shared mechanisms between them. She is currently working on ETHOS Experiment 2 and investigating the visual properties of mental images.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
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Applications close Friday 28th!!
Announcing the 4th UCL-PSL Consciousness & Metacognition Summer School, 14th-16th July 2025
Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation
Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon!
metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation
Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon!
metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
February 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Applications close Friday 28th!!
Meet the Team - Kiarra Garcia
Kiarra joined ETHOS in July 2024 as a research assistant. She is pursuing her B.S. in Cognitive Science at the UCI. She is currently working on behavioral and fMRI studies that decode vividness in imagery and perception.
www.arc-ethos.org/our-team
Kiarra joined ETHOS in July 2024 as a research assistant. She is pursuing her B.S. in Cognitive Science at the UCI. She is currently working on behavioral and fMRI studies that decode vividness in imagery and perception.
www.arc-ethos.org/our-team
February 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Meet the Team - Kiarra Garcia
Kiarra joined ETHOS in July 2024 as a research assistant. She is pursuing her B.S. in Cognitive Science at the UCI. She is currently working on behavioral and fMRI studies that decode vividness in imagery and perception.
www.arc-ethos.org/our-team
Kiarra joined ETHOS in July 2024 as a research assistant. She is pursuing her B.S. in Cognitive Science at the UCI. She is currently working on behavioral and fMRI studies that decode vividness in imagery and perception.
www.arc-ethos.org/our-team
Meet the Team:
@benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG.
See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
@benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG.
See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Meet the Team:
@benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG.
See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
@benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG.
See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
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Announcing the 4th UCL-PSL Consciousness & Metacognition Summer School, 14th-16th July 2025
Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation
Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon!
metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation
Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon!
metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
February 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Announcing the 4th UCL-PSL Consciousness & Metacognition Summer School, 14th-16th July 2025
Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation
Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon!
metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation
Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon!
metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
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JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...