tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… New paper out! 🥳🥳Democratic theorists typically assume away the existence of animals. While, for some purposes, this might be a useful idealization, in this paper I discuss some trade-offs.

Grants available for investigating/educating scientific trainees about alternatives to animal testing in biomedical research

**Paid internship** opportunity at The Dog Lab!!! 5 positions available in a new project funded by ASAB, UK!!! Deadline for application: 20th August 2024 Apply now!!! 🐕🐕🐕 Scan the QR code for more details and links to apply.

I've read many books about consciousness/sentience in which the importance of the questions for policy, ethics and law is mentioned at the beginning (as motivation) but then put to one side. Four years ago I set out to write a book that would be "inside out": it would put the

Recruiting healthy participants for London-based psilocybin study! If you have 3-5 lifetime psychedelic experiences, minimal meditation experience, and can commit to a 21-day prep course with visits to UCL over a 4-week period, we want to hear from you! psychedelicunit.com/dipp-prescreen…

"Consciousness Makes Things Matter." That's an idea at the heart of my work on the ethics of consciousness—and the name of my favorite paper I've written on the topic. And I'm excited to announce the paper is now forthcoming in Philosophers' Imprint! philpapers.org/rec/LEECMT-2

New paper just out with Rivkah Hatchwell. We are against values affecting thresholds for scientific acceptance. We argue that this practice only devalues the coin of science and sets us off on a race to the fake news bottom. tinyurl.com/mvhvmphc

Thanks to Current Biology's excellent "Open Archive" policy, the multi-author editorial I put together a year ago with Joseph E. LeDoux "The Four Realms of Existence" Nicola Clayton Anil Seth Kristin Andrews megan peters 🧠 hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social and more is now available for free here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This was indeed one of our findings, but one that I challenge the respondents on! More interesting results on how welfare scientists see their aims, priorities and problems coming (hopefully) soon

Just out: “Non-invasive #EEG in awake #cats” sciencedirect.com/science/articl… — The first base is secured to move to inter-species #hyperscanning recordings! :) #DogsNext #StayTuned

Fantastic program for the corvid vocal communication conference next week! Just sent out to participants, check your inbox. There is still time to register if you would like to attend: covco2024.github.io

The scale of the famine in Sudan could become one of the worst disasters in modern history, and its entirely the result of war.

New paper out this week. Double-blind clinical trial of decoded neurofeedback for specific phobia. Coolest thing I've taken part in now in print. Was a privilege working on this with hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social, Mitsuo Kawato, Anxiety and Depression Research Center at UCLA & Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

I am *so* excited to announce that I received an ERC starting grant to set up my own lab on mental imagery and reality monitoring: imaginerealitylab.org UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology! Thanks to European Research Council (ERC) and Steve Fleming, Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social and Marcel van Gerven for their invaluable mentorship and support!

Excited to share my newly accepted paper at Analysis. Here, I briefly present a simple logical formalism for the application of foraging ideas to deductive inquiry. Check it out! philpapers.org/rec/BARRDI-3

There's an amazing opportunity to do a *FUNDED* PhD with Matthew Cole, Caroline Clarke and Samantha Calvert at the The Open University starting later this year. Applications due 7th January. Brilliant team and exciting project! oocdtp.ac.uk/birth-veganism…

We are delighted to announce the publication of 'Concepts at the Interface', a new book from Nicholas Shea, Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, University of London; and a leading author in the field of philosophy of cognitive science.