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Warm recommendations for the MESEC events !

Same for me - keeping the suspense high !

Something to think about! I can imagine that there could be similar logical structures for quite a few neural correlated targets. Cool work :)

Maybe a first step would be to make a small how-to blogpost or something, just describing the algorithm/math that the analysis would implement (without how it was developed for example) - that would make it accessible for someone to test out themselves !

In general, I suppose there arguably will always be some physical or neural process deciding whether a conscious state is entered - won't there in principle always be a confounder?
This might of course be a stupid point with an obvious answer that I happen to not have run into.

I suppose since the stimulus is identical, something else must then be different neurally and cognitively which makes the difference between it being experienced or not (e.g., the strength of the prior or expectation). This then becomes a confound instead, right ?

Also, do you suppose that the same method would work for other neural correlated questions (say, neural correlated of decision-making, attention or belief updates)? Because then this method would be useful far beyond consciousness science, where contrastive methods are still standard

I guess what we'd need is a good software tool so we can try out these methods on simulated and real data !
Any intentions on making something like that? Or at least on doing a simulation study?

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It turns out my piece made it all the way to the Top 10 of 2025, despite an admittedly late start to the game in... November. You should follow the crowd on this one and read it!

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Guillaume, a friend, is hiring a PhD student in Dublin, for studying network approaches to fostering collaboration :)

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Lilian is a wonderful friend and researcher, and I am not in doubt she will be a great supervisor and PI. Warm recommendations - and do reach out if I can be helpful somehow :)

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This is interesting! But in none of these cases do the LLMs propose models - they generate the outcome of calculations, it looks like.
If LLMs can create cognitive models, they should also be able to create other kinds of models, so I'd wonder if that is happening

I wonder if anyone uses LLM's to produce computational models in other fields, such as physics or engineering. Do you know if that's the case ?

Also: congratulations!

Excited to share that I’ll give a talk at this year’s Lindy Hop Festival in Aarhus on September 27! The talks are open to the public. aarhuslindyhoppers.dk/daytime-acti...

Been part of this work on bridging consciousness theories by distilling common features - led by awesome @zefanzheng.bsky.social @robertchisciure.bsky.social and Abhilash Dwarakanath, conceived at @mesec-community.bsky.social
Hope it's of interest!

Lilian is amazing, anyone'd be happy to work with her :)
Congratulations !

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I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since?

I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
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Add me too perhaps, Katharina? :)

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Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵

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