ARC ETHOS

See our website to meet the team and get an overview of what the ETHOS project is about. www.arc-ethos.org

Meet the Team: @rochellekaper.bsky.social is a PhD student in Experimental Psychology at the University College London. She is interested in applying computational cognitive neuroscience approaches to study adaptive learning, metacognition, and (meta)-representational processes.

The fall is gearing up and there is just 4 weeks until some spooky Consciousness Live! discussions. First up, October 9th, Francois Kammerer and then Oct 16 with Torin Alter! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Zoltan Dienes, one of our PIs, has been editing, authoring and reviewing Registered Reports since 2013. He has tried to put in concise form the lessons learned and what that means for how he approaches research. See his lessons learned here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Meet the Team: Jack Monday Jack finished a BA in Cognitive Science and Psychology at the University of Chicago in 2026, graduating with experience in belief and memory task analysis. Now Jack is working with the Reflexion Lab at the University College of London www.arc-ethos.org/news

Meet the Team: Dominique Ristori Dominique is a researcher at the NeuroMove Laboratory at ULB. Within ETHOS Experiment 3, she is working on the identification and anatomical characterisation of the neural generators underlying the recorded EEG responses. For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news

Congratulations to Zoltan Dienes for being elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many accomplishments, he's leading ETHOS Experiment 3. Read more here. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

Congratulations to Dr Megan Peters from UCL PALS who has been named a 2026 FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar. The honour recognises outstanding early-career neuroscience researchers for their scientific excellence, originality and leadership. 🔗Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

I'm so sad to miss ASSC this year! If you're there, please go check out @giuliacabbai.bsky.social's talk presenting our new work on the role of volitional control in perceptual reality monitoring on Friday at 5pm at session 22! And also...

Come be my colleague! Associate Professor level teaching position available at UCL in Experimental Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a... Primary role: lead development of a flexible portfolio of undergraduate modules for non-BSC/MSci Psychology students. Closes 19th July.

Congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social for winning the @theassc.bsky.social's William James Prize for her paper A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Read more here: theassc.org/james-prize/

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) studies how the brain represents & uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy. Learn more at the link below! #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is now open to applications! This TWCF-funded three-day event brings together tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders to work closely with world-class researchers. 🔗 Apply before June 10: https://bit.ly/3ZES2Rq

And @aliekhlasi.bsky.social presented this poster at VSS - catch up on the ETHOS website if you missed them at the conference! static1.squarespace.com/static/65f46...

Another VSS poster for you - @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social presented this one! static1.squarespace.com/static/65f46...

We had a few ETHOS representatives at VSS recently. Here's a poster that Xueyi Huang presented. static1.squarespace.com/static/65f46...

Exciting new preprint from @aozsu.bsky.social and company. Read it here: osf.io/preprints/ps... or on our website www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

People of Sussex! See @peterlush.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social from the ETHOS team at the implicit workshop tomorrow (May 7th) sites.google.com/view/implici...

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Massive congratulations to Dr. Karen Tian who successfully defended her PhD Thesis on Friday! Can’t wait to see what she gets up to next!

Want to work on a belief-updating Bayesian framework to understand how tests for consciousness can be applied to artificial systems? Do you want a stipend to go along with that work? And opportunities to meet like-minded peers and do all sorts of fun workshops? Yeah you do. Come join me 😀

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

@aliekhlasi.bsky.social presented his work on ETHOS at UCI's department of cognitive sciences colloquium. Watch it on ETHOS' brand new YouTube Channel. youtu.be/KS-9FPzxAMM

Zoltan Dienes has co-authored an encyclopaedia chapter titled Hypnosis and Suggestion. Read it here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Or the full document is also on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

See Rachel talk about Experiment 1's ongoing work here:

The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness. A new paper from Guy Cheron and Ana Maria Cebolla. Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... or get the PDF from our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. A new paper by @benjyb.bsky.social @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social Read it here: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... or on the ETHOS website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

OPPORTUNITY: The 2026 Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition is now taking applications. This year we're focusing on new innovations in the field and one attendee can win a £2500 prize. It's July 8th-10th in London. Find out more and apply here: metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

One of our advisory board members, @onemorebrown.bsky.social has given a talk "Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness". Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZc...

Happy New Year from the ETHOS team! Why not celebrate by reading some preprints from @peterlush.bsky.social and @zoltandienes.bsky.social at Sussex which lay the groundwork for Experiment 3? To access the preprints, please see the links on our outputs page: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

In case you missed @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster at SfN this year, you can see it here! It's also available, along with ETHOS' other outputs on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs

Massive congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social on being one of The Transmitter's rising stars of neuroscience 2025! Among her many accomplishments, she's leading ETHOS Experiment 2B. www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Meet the Team: Seth Schallies Seth is at Northeastern University’s Subjectivity Lab with @jorge-morales.bsky.social and working on research relating to mental imagery and perception. Read more on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/news

#SfN Poster 6 of 6 TODAY! Wednesday 11/19 1-5p @aliekhlasi.bsky.social PSTR469.12 / NN8 Reproducible and open-source fMRI decoding pipelines for arbitrating theories of consciousness, with @jorge-morales.bsky.social www.abstractsonline....

Meet the Team: @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social is a PhD student at UCI. He's interested in how statistical signal processing methods can be applied in consciousness science and how different theories of consciousness intersect and differentiate. See www.arc-ethos.org/news, ogulyurdakul.github.io for more.

Going to @sfn.org this year? Check out @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster. November 19th from 4-5pm. See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:

Meet the team: Saïd-Iraj Hashemi Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news

ETHOS had our first in-person meeting on Friday, September 12th in Brussels. It was exciting to see all the experiments coming together! www.arc-ethos.org/news

Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. Read the abstract here: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

I'm looking forward to "What is consciousness?" tomorrow 9/9, 2:45pm @crick.ac.uk, w/ @profbriancox.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social & Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/a-q...

.@smfleming.bsky.social @onemorebrown.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social have published a theoretical paper titled “Computational higher-order theories of consciousness” as a book chapter. See the preprint here. philarchive.org/archive/FLECHT

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our funders @templetonworld.bsky.social‬, have highlighted ETHOS on their website. See their article here: www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/how-eth...