Peter Kok

Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

New layer-fMRI post doc position for methods development of high-res fMRI in the human Hippocampus.
In Tübingen with Klaus Scheffler, Jonas Bause and Svenja Brodt
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Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

#bluesky needs more baby goats... ☺️

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

Trump firing the guy responsible for economic data he doesn't like should not surprise anyone. He's currently trying to fire the Fed chair for not lowering interest rates. This is what he does.

The real mystery is why markets have continually acted as though everything is normal.

YouTube video by The Bulwark BREAKING: Trump Goes Full Banana Republic—Purges Jobs Expert

youtube.com/watch?v=ZsVB...

BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved from a federal prison in Florida to one in Texas, according to a Bureau of Prisons official.

What is happening?

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

The US government has sent innocent men to be beaten and raped in a foreign gulag

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Judges Are Ignoring the Rule of Law in Immigration Court, Greg Casar Says U.S. Rep. details what he saw in San Antonio this week

What I saw in a San Antonio immigration court was the most disturbing government proceeding I’ve ever seen in my 10 years in government.

Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.

🚨 Fresh preprint w/ @helenblank.bsky.social!

How does the brain acquire expectations about a conversational partner, and how are priors integrated w/ sensory inputs?

Current evidence diverges. Is it prediction error? Sharpening?

Spoiler: It's both.👀

🧵1/16

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

Motherfucking wind farms…

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Home This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

in just under 2 weeks, in Amsterdam, I get to be part of:

the Metacognitive Science Satellite (www.metacognitivescience.org)

a @cogcompneuro.bsky.social community event on consciousness science

@neuromatch.bsky.social mindmatching at CCN: come find your new science BFFs!

Home This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

Still time to register for our Metacognitive Science satellite at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social on 11th August!

metacognitivescience.org

We have an exciting lineup covering computational, neural and AI approaches to metacognition, plus keynotes from Uta Noppeney and @ingmarposner.bsky.social 🥳

Fascinating sounding preprint by @fabianschneider.bsky.social and @helenblank.bsky.social on the role of predictions along the speech perception processing hierarchy. #neuroskyence

just around the corner!

The horrendous government here has so little support from the people, that they are moving towards dictatorship. They know they will lose the election so are trying to prevent it. We need to stop the war now! How can anyone not be heartbroken when seeing the outcomes of this conflict.

85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity.

There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.

This is promising to be a very exciting event. If you're going to CCN or just want an excuse to come to Amsterdam, make sure to check it out.

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
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a suggestion for those cold-emailing about research positions: please don't send smarmy chatGPT-written emails! besides being obviously AI-generated, it makes it much harder to assess whether your interest is genuine!

Trump’s heading to Scotland today. The Scottish papers aren’t exactly rolling out the red carpet.

1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that.

What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward.

(D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)

Aid agencies warn of Gaza starvation as Israel urged to end blockade | CNN Humanitarian aid agencies are warning that their staff inside Gaza are starving alongside the civilians they are trying to help

Gaza is descending into famine and Trump is turning his back on this moral crisis. There is no excuse - ever - to deprive civilians of desperately needed food and water. Trump must press Israel to end this blockade.