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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
Studying the stream of consciousness during sleep and wakefulness Neuroscientist at the Paris Brain Institute Chargé de Recherche Inserm Co-Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (OUP journal)
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Beyond happy and proud to share our new study about the individual determinants of morning dream recall in the general Italian population, just published on @commspsychol.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🥁 Meet our 5th tutor for the MESEC Winter School 2025: Thomas Andrillon! 🥁 @thomasandrillon.bsky.social His work explores the fluctuations of consciousness across sleep 🛌 and wakefulness, an exciting topic at the intersection of neuroscience and sleep research! @ibroorg.bsky.social

If you blinked this week, you could have missed two papers on mind blanking! A review: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And an empirical paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats @ademertzi.bsky.social and @parboulakis.bsky.social!

Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread! Check it out! 🧠🧪

Vendredi dernier, j'ai eu le très grand plaisir de donner un séminaire au Collège de France, dans la foulée du (magnifique) cours de @standehaene.bsky.social! La vidéo est ici! www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/se...

Very nice confirmation of Sophia Snipes' work on the new 'iota' REM oscillation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... It looks strikingly similar and we might have finally a new marker of REM sleep! This intracranial study adds a lot of interesting new details. Congrats to the authors!

A new journal from the American Psychological Association dedicated to consciousness!! Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice www.apa.org/pubs/journal... Check it out! 🧠🧪

Yesterday's post on our @pnas.org study of London taxi drivers. Yellow lines = imagined journeys, described street-by-street. Some were 30 streets, which if using a tree-search over 26,000 possible states would take a very very long time. Daniel McNamee's models show how they compress this problem:

On my way to the #SoniHED 2025 conference on sonification of health and environmental data. Happy to be invited speaker for the 'Sound and Sleep' symposium together with @thomasandrillon.bsky.social and @miriamakkermann.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social @musicinthebrain.bsky.social

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

... et premier séminaire demain matin vendredi 23 janvier à 11 h, sur le thème "Sommeil, Replay et Apprentissage", avec un scientifique exceptionnel: Gilles Laurent, directeur au Max-Planck, sous le titre "La place du sommeil dans l'évolution" www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/se...

Hi, I'm Jonathan, a PhD student at the University of Stuttgart, and I'm excited to share that I've become the first associated PhD of the Lullabyte Network! 🎉 I love to contribute with my ML and data science expertise to this interdisciplinary Europe-wide project on the effects of music on sleep!

New preprint from our lab, in collaboration with Jeff Duyn's group at NIH!! 🚨Bergamo et al., "Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep." Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What have in common Esther Duflo, Jean-Paul Sartre and Henri Bergson? They all won Nobel prizes, but, more importantly, they all studied at the ENS. You can be the next, link. below master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

You are looking for a Master's? Are curious about the mind and the brain? Applications are open for the Master’s program in Cognitive Science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. We welcome students from many backgrounds: biology, psychology, maths, physics, linguistics, philosophy, medicine.

Preprint out with Rasmus Buus and @silviagenovese.bsky.social 🎉 We evaluated sleep strategies in the general population and found that most people use specific behaviors for sleep. 11% use music for sleep weekly @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social #musicscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 ANNOUCEMENT: #Post-doctoral position available in Paris! Interested in #microglia and their role in stress-related brain #psychopathologies? 🧠 Contact [email protected] and francois.tronche@sorbonne-­universite.fr for more information and application! ✌

Trends in Cognitive Sciences The metabolic costs of cognition www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dream research needs more studies like this, returning to fundamental psychophysiological questions with methodological rigor. In this study for example, there was no effect of tactile stimulation on dream content when appropriate controls are used. 1/2 #SleepPeeps #Psychscisky

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

Photographs that say it all...

Fantastic article in Brain by Tom Pollak on why so many are attributing their ills to inflammation- part psychiatric stigma, part misunderstanding of emerging research & part ‘monocausotaxophilia’ (tendency to see everything through one explanatory causal narrative) t.co/wXBXzKSUhi

New paper from the lab! Like human adults and children, baboons behave as (approximate) statisticians : their ability to detect a linear trend in a scatterplot varies with the t statistic that evaluates the significance of a linear regression. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵below

📌 and @thomasandrillon.bsky.social

New article in Neuroscience of Consciousness on flow and intuitions from a system neuroscience and free energy principle perspective!

Congratulations to the selected tutorials and symposia. There were lots of excellent submissions! Too many to fit in the program actually. This is going to be a great conference. Don't miss the abstract submission deadline at the end of January!

On behalf of the #ASSC28 Scientific Program Committee, the Symposia and Tutorials are now announced 🥳 assc2025.gr/programme/sy....

I wish the government would understand that open access mandates are (on their own) invitations for profit-seeking publishers to gouge authors, universities, and funders by charging exorbitant fees. The government should directly support open access publishing, so that they can control costs.

Out now in @pnas.org "Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In 2025, our team is joining the Paris Brain Institute! Together with my neurologist colleague Vincent Navarro, I will be leading the new "Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy" team. Looking forward to new collaborations and opportunities for #epilepsy research! @institutducerveau.bsky.social

Do read this really engaging new article on our Firstview page. @chiaravara.bsky.social & Cale Hubble reflect on the state-of-play in BPP and the areas of challenge ahead. This draws on a huge amount of practical policy experience around the world👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Brief, thoughtful exploration of how to operationalize & study grief: “…if grief is a temporally extended, integrated process, then questions such as “what are the neural correlates of grief?” are poorly formulated, as such a process could potentially encompass the full range of human emotions.”

I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s... 🧪

Bonjour à vous, aussi nombreux et nombreuses que vous êtes ! On a commencé un kit de démarrage pour que vous puissiez suivre les personnes qui parlent de sciences en tout genre. On l'implémentera au fur et à mesure des arrivées ! Et c'est par là que ça se passe 👉 go.bsky.app/CFvzzJP

I will try to post the new articles published in Neuroscience of Consciousness here! Let's start with a paper on grief, which challenges neuroscience's ability to investigate affective states. **The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion** academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Our latest paper with @urihertz.bsky.social , @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and @stepalminteri.bsky.social is a great occasion to post again in here! Come see how your own experience (and the costs of deciding to act) affect your tendency to give advice to others! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Meet Nicolas Decat, our scientist-artist at @dreamteamicm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42... This beautiful interview is a tribute to Nicolas' passion for science and talent for turning it into images that tell stories! He started with nothing but his ideas. Dedication pays off!

I co-edited a special issue on dreaming and mind wandering for @phimisci.bsky.social The first papers are now online. Check them out! And don't hesitate to follow/read this amazing, free & open access journal! 🔬🧠💤💭

As part of our special issue on dreaming and mind wandering, a new article has been published #OpenAccess on #PhiMiSci: "Minimal states of awareness across sleep and wakefulness: A multidimensional framework to guide scientific research" by Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez:

A must-read for anyone thinking about using LLMs in social science research. LLM annotations (especially from closed, proprietary models) change unpredictably over time. And we don't know why. This is a huge problem for scientific reproducibility.