You may remember the recent NatureMedicine paper where authors claim to show—as the first author says below—that psilocybin "liberates the entrenched depressed brain". This led to considerable news coverage. 3 pretty remarkable things have happened since this was published 🧵

🚨 New target paper accepted in Physics of Life Reviews 🚨 “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things,” with Karl Friston, Lancelot Da Costa, dalton, Conor Heins, Grigorios A. Pavliotis, Thomas Parr, and yours truly (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) 1/8

This one has come a long way - big congrats to Konrad Lehmann for the persistent and diligent work on An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience And thx to the fantastic collaborators Maxwell Ramstead Dimitris Bolis Leonhard Schilbach & Karl Friston doi.org/10.1177/174569…

Perspectives on Psychological Science An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Very happy to finally share this short piece in Dialectical Systems—my aim was to write a gentle introductory paper on the free energy principle for a wide multidisciplinary and philosophical readership! Hoping you find it accessible and informative 🙏

Neuroscience of Consciousness Modeling and controlling the body in maladaptive ways: an active inference perspective on non-suicidal self-injury behaviors academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…

The interpersonal computational psychiatry of social coordination in schizophrenia - The Lancet Psychiatry thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Karl Friston explains active inference, autism-relevant, free sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "living organisms must avoid surprising states...If they did not, they would not be living organisms for long"? "I am defined by the kinds of states I cannot be in. These are surprising states"?

2 more weeks to apply 👇

An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience researchgate.net/publication/37…

Our review on the role of precision in action is now published - in Karl's birthday special issue (Happy birthday, Karl!) mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/9…

Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Embracing variability in the search for biological mechanisms of psychiatric illness: Trends in Cognitive Sciences cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Article: "An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience" Coauthors: Konrad Lehmann Dimitris Bolis Leonhard Schilbach Maxwell Ramstead Philipp Kanske journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

We have an opening for a PhD Position in the project 'ContextualEYEze', addressing the role of gaze in communication. Deadline for applications is January 20th, don't hesitate to contact me with questions. Looking forward! uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/aussc…

🚨Job Alert 🚨 I am currently looking for a postdoc for 3 years that will also closely collaborate with the team of the CRC TRR 393 Trajectories of Affective Disorders please share uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebot… DGPs JuMis // ECRs Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) Psychology & Brain

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. thetransmitter.org/theoretical-ne…