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singhal.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SCCS, University of Sussex| Cognitive science, time and consciousness
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Alison Gopnik describes AI as "Stone Soup" and anytime you can reference a vaguely socialist folktale from Eastern Europe and apply it to Silicon Valley technology I am here for it. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-is-ston...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 33 days ago • 147 comments

We're hiring 2 Postdoctoral Fellows at IIT Gandhinagar's INT Lab! Join us to advance research in NeuroAI or Precision Imaging. Apply by May 30, 2025. Details: tiny.cc/NeuroAI | tiny.cc/PrecisionIma... Apply: tiny.cc/pdf-2

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

With nervous excitement, my most ambitious project yet: Dynamics of mental imagery. We got over 800 people to recreate the contents of their mental imagery with a focus on distinct phenomenological properties. Temporal grain, smoothness, stability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... a 🧵1/n

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

submitted 66 days ago • 68 comments

Why aren’t ghosts blind? open.substack.com/pub/petemand...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Abstract submission for #TRF4 is now open!! @timingresforum.bsky.social Symposium Proposals : March 15 - April 20 Oral and poster presentations : March 15 - May 31
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submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in neural timescales? Join @shiyanliang.bsky.social and I at the first poster session @cosynemeeting.bsky.social to learn about a new organizational principle of neural timescales beyond the hierarchy, across the whole mouse brain! #cosyne2025

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

submitted 74 days ago • 52 comments

Can't wait! Catch me discussing the last five years of my work on time-consciousness tomorrow.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Out now! Different aspects of visual awareness evolve over distinct timescales. Evidence from manipulations of the flicker rate in a continuos flash suppression (CFS) paradigms. A 🧵 1/n academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 93 days ago • 61 comments

Watch this video. Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why? In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Hello, Could you recommend funding sources or grant opportunities for PhD students specializing in consciousness studies, embodied cognition, or embodiment? If you know of any relevant foundations or other resources, I would greatly appreciate your insights. Thank you! #Consci #AcademicSky #PhDSky

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

submitted 114 days ago • 3 comments

osf.io/preprints/ps... nice article, on why we may be totally wrong about aphantasia = imagery blindsight but i'm not sure i agree that for imagery representations to be perception-like, they need to be cross-decodable w/ normal perception. the brain can multiplex two sets of iconic signals 🧠📈

submitted 137 days ago • 2 comments