Can we feel our mitochondria? We feel pain (nociception), internal sensations (interoception), and even our immune system (immunoception) How does the brain monitor our energy status? In this preprint, we propose that the brain feels the balance of energy demand (burn rate)

Titanic& super important work from ⁦Michael Levin⁩ Lab Reed Bender, Karina Kofman & Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social)  "What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life I’m on the dynamic and relational process side close to self-sustaining dynamic patterns 😎👇🏼

🎉 Big news! 🎉 The inaugural #BRNet Early Career Researcher Award goes to Dr. Jean-Paul Noel Jean-Paul Noel. 🧠Learn more about his work here: noel-lab.org 🎤 Catch his award lecture this July in #Utrecht!

Online now: Locus coeruleus activation “resets” hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories dlvr.it/TLCV0d

We're pleased to release a video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in New York City on June 23, 2023. youtube.com/watch?v=M6DHCQ…

the long-awaited video for the "25 years of consciousness" event at the 2023 ASSC conference has now been posted at youtube.com/watch?v=M6DHCQ…. this event was framed as a resolution of a 1998 bet between christof koch and me about whether we'd know the neural correlate of

Languages are shaped more by communication constraints than by learning constraints sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

five excellent talks from the NYU workshop on functions of consciousness last month. speakers: dylan ludwig (who also organized), joshua shepherd (Conscious Action), Matthias Michel, marisa carrasco (The Carrasco Lab), and Axel Cleeremans. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Here is the call for papers for a special issue on Infant Consciousness that I am co-editing with Sascha Fink and Joel Frohlich to be published in the journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. Submissions are due by October 15th 2025. ≠PhiMiSci philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phim…

Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan by JSPS. For outstanding postdoctoral researchers to conduct collaborative research with leading research groups at universities and research institutions in Japan. at jsps.go.jp/english/e-fell… Apply by August 29, 2025, 5 p.m. (JST)

Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Abolish the value function.

"writing is not only about reporting results; it also provides a tool to uncover new thoughts and ideas. Writing compels us to think"

"Inferring Consciousness in Phylogenetically Distant Organisms" - This paper took a while to get its open-access status, but now it has it. The most recent discussion of non-human consciousness I've published. Octopuses, flies, others.. Link below. 1/

𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy This promises to be a must read doi.org/10.1016/j.cobe…

“Goals rather than predictions determine the sense of agency” This 2025 study came out too late for my Prediction Illusion article, but it adds to the accumulating evidence that the nervous system specifies goals rather than predicts outcomes of action. cell.com/iscience/fullt…

We are deeply saddened to share that Dr. Paul Ekman has passed away. His groundbreaking research transformed our understanding of emotion, facial expression, deception and compassion. We are creating a memorial page if you would like to share a reflection: ow.ly/vvX650XtSyi

Dance styles engage the brain in different ways depending on the movements, aesthetics, and emotions associated with the dance, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4oe1cOA

Most scientists don't understand how effect sizes work and are therefore far too quick to dismiss "small" effects. This paper explains how even small effects can have a large and meaningful impact, especially if they are repeated (like medicine or social media exposure, for

Understanding language requires exporting information from the language system to other brain regions that compute perceptual and motor representations, construct mental models, and store our world knowledge and autobiographical memories arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19757