Pierre Mégevand

À l'interne d'obstétrique qui a tapé les réflexes de mon épouse avec la tranche de son natel : je t'ai vu. Je ne t'oublierai pas.

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...

Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask):
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736

With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!

#iEEG

Evaluating the temporal order of motor and auditory systems in speech production using intracranial EEG https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41062786/

Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

schematic of fetal OPM-MEG

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

Transfer learning via distributed brain recordings enables reliable speech decoding - Nature Communications Speech brain-computer interfaces face challenges scaling across individuals with different brain organization. Using minimally invasive recordings from 25 patients, the authors developed transfer learning methods that enable robust speech decoding even with incomplete brain coverage.

New Paper in Nature Communications!

We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence

Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out today!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Why I left academia and neuroscience Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.

My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Droite de régression des gouvernements français sous Macron avec un R2 de 0.83

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Eh bien ce fut bref.

Fascinating thread about the identification of one of the first genes with a clear role in human speech and language! Extra credit for those who dig in to find out why its called a "forkhead domain" 🧪

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

More NIH chaos.

NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money.

- @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

To be published in "Brian research: a journal on dyslexia studies"

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

On this grant deadline day (at least in my corner of the galaxy), and given that lotteries are becoming commonplace as a tiebreaker: "May the odds be with you!"

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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

Les résultats du jour sont tombés et autant dire qu'ils vont sans doute faire parler, chacun à sa manière! #ChVote

Endorsement of the book Speaking in Pictures: “A visually stunning tour de force that redefines what we mean by language itself — essential reading for linguists, cognitive scientists, and anyone fascinated by language and comics.” – Bodo Winter, University of Birmingham, UK, author of Sensory Linguistics

Thanks to @bodowinter.bsky.social for the wonderful endorsement of my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication! visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Science protip: don't have children whose birthday falls just before a major grant deadline.