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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Jul 30

It will be 20 years next year, yet our 2006 article continues to be the paper that keeps on giving. What a wild ride it’s been! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms

Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Jul 30

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms

Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.

www.nature.com

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Jul 16

Very proud of this one. If you want a complete primer on the history of functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, then this is for you. With @karnig-kazazian.bsky.social and Martin Monti. owenlab.org/uploads/pdfF...

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ah yes, the paper that keeps on giving! We’re ramping up for some special updates on the 20th anniversary in 2026.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 20

Brilliant straight talking from the brilliant @adamrutherford.bsky.social A must read for everyone. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 18

My new book, provisionally titled “Thinking On Your Feet” will be published soon by #norton. But maybe I should retitling it “The Rise and Fall of the American Frontal Lobe”? Everyone seems to have stopped thinking for themselves. Did some cosmic event turn off an entire nation’s frontal lobes?

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 16

Moi.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 16

It took them a while to catch on, but they’re finally waking up. If you wait to be told what to do, it will be too late to do anything about it. apple.news/AvPEO57t0TSS...

Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States — The Canadian Press

The association that represents academic staff at Canadian universities is wa

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Karen Campbell 🇨🇦 @karampbell.bsky.social · Apr 15

Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 14

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Unlocking Consciousness: A Journey into the Grey Zone

Jonathan is joined by Adrian Owen, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at the University of Western Ontario, to explore his groundbreaking research on consciousness in vegetative states.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 13

One boss passes the baton to another. Incredible performances all round. I’ve seem them both many times and this shows they are more than the sum
of their parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_...

The Killers & Bruce Springsteen: Encore At The Garden

YouTube video by TheKillersMusic

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Apr 11

Then he’ll sort Alzheimer’s disease by Christmas, cancer early in the new year, and eradicate heart disease by the summer. It’s shocking that thousands of scientists have spent decades failing to solve problems that one man with no relevant qualifications is going to fix in less than a year.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 21

Look out for our forthcoming paper on the relationship between exercise and cognition. Provisional title: Running Man….

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 21

It’s part of a special issue in honour of my good friend and former colleague John Duncan (Cambridge). We’re very proud of this work. It still feels extraordinary to me that you can decode precise memories from people’s brain activity alone.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 21

In my ongoing quest to publish as many academic papers with Arnold Schwazenegger movies as part of the title, I give you…..Total Recall….out today and free to read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Total recall: Detecting autobiographical memory retrieval in the absence of behaviour

Functional neuroimaging has fundamentally changed our understanding of disorders of consciousness (DoC). While many DoC patients exhibit minimal to no…

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 17

Ditto.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 15

Post you from a different era. One side done. 1980.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 11

*BREAKING* World’s largest baby throws second tantrum in as many days…

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · Mar 10

New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience

Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 7

Oh, it’s Friday. They’re back on. No, they’re off. Or is on the new off? 250%? Did he make that number up? Does he think that’s the same as 25%? Who knows? He certainly doesn’t. It’s a beautiful number. What number? Any number! What did I just say? #internationallaughingstock

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 6

Grass roots revolution starting at my local liquor store….

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Mar 5

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem )
Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 4

Dumb and Dumber.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’m off to get the week’s all non-American groceries. I’ll stop by the liquor store to buy some non-American wine to celebrate. We’re having our kitchen renovated so I’ll put in that order for a non-American fridge, freezer, stove, oven, and microwave. Then I’ll settle down to watch the BBC news.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Mar 3

I love Jonathan Pie. He says what we’re all thinking. With more swear words.

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