axel cleeremans
@axc.bsky.social
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Brain, minds, & consciousness. Also interested in design, visual arts, biology, space, typography, and anticipation. Also known as « Axel from Belgium »
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erc.europa.eu
We’re live!

A powerful line up of speakers will delve into the topic competitiveness and frontier research - timely to take stock a year after the #DraghiReport and look ahead.

Livestream
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Programme
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axc.bsky.social
the second foundation, you fool!
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francoisstock.bsky.social
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 👇
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Amazing to be there on behalf of @ercgrantees.bsky.social !
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arcethos.bsky.social
[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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ercgrantees.bsky.social
The Symposium “ERC Funding in Quantum Science” co-organized with the ÖPG-SPG Meeting Vienna 2025 and the SFB Q-M&S is happening this week in Vienna!
AERG will a host the seminar “The Laser in Quantum Science” by the Nobel Laureate Serge Haroche
More 👉https://oepg-sps-meetingvienna2025.univie.ac.at
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tkkennedytim.bsky.social
Outstanding book.
princetonupress.bsky.social
Remarkably prescient and insightful, On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt is a small book that explains a great deal about our time.

The anniversary edition of the international and #1 New York Times bestseller is out now. Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt
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dobyrahnev.bsky.social
New lab preprint led by Medha Shekhar in collaboration with @axc.bsky.social. We investigate what drives confidence in decisions of real-world complexity (perception and memory questions about short videos). It turns out confidence is influenced by so many factors!

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maorschreiber.bsky.social
I want to thank @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, and @nfaivre.bsky.social for leading this project with me!🙏
As well as all of the amazing co-authors: @pietroamerio.bsky.social, David Carmel, @axc.bsky.social, Leon Deouell, Zoltan Dienes, Patxi Elosegi,
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axc.bsky.social
Discovering that slimy lego is a thing in the 4 years old community
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Applications will be processed until filled!
openlab.bsky.social
The deadline is approaching! We wait for your applications till Monday, July 21st!
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neurograce.bsky.social
wtf
waldo.net
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them
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axc.bsky.social
We have a whole @erc.europa.eu project @erc-xp.bsky.social about this. I think the key is in your book actually: Let’s understand agenthood; one we do, experience will fall right out of it
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
There’s a reason Peter Thiel hesitated when asked in a recent interview if he “would prefer the human race to endure”:

Within certain tech circles, pro-extinctionism is a mainstream ideology—and some are trying to realize it.

A must-read by @xriskology.bsky.social
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Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity | TechPolicy.Press
If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.
techpolicy.press
axc.bsky.social
With a relieved @ademertzi.bsky.social and her live olive tree on the way back from the incredibly successful #ASSC28 🙏
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Wow not one, but two instances of @liadmudrik.bsky.social in the scientific committee of #ASSC29 - we better be outstanding !
axc.bsky.social
What can “conservative scholarship” possibly mean?
edouardmachery.bsky.social
What an embarrassment
wsj.com
Exclusive: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.
axc.bsky.social
“Aaay was doing consciousness science way before any of you young people”
axc.bsky.social
Great post #ASSC28 INTREPID workshop featuring in-depth meta science discussions of the state of affairs in consciousness science and of the value of adversarial collaborations
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keithfrankish.com
Dave Chalmers and the best argument for dualism #ASSC28