David Soto

In contrast, the science of consciousness advances by contrasting conscious and unconscious processing, implicating various functions. Whether these require biological detail is an empirical question, not one to settle in advance www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

💭​ Alexithymia makes it hard to identify and regulate emotions, impacting mental health.  Supported by the Health Research call, @dsotob.bsky.social (@bcbl.bsky.social) studies its neural basis and develops novel neurofeedback tools to improve emotional awareness. 👇 https://tinyurl.com/466x2tke

Came back from my first ever real-time functional imaging & neurofeedback #rtfin! Happy to present our (blinded) results from upcoming #decnef study on emotional valence! Stay tuned for (hopefully, a big🤞) reveal in near future! ;) @dsotob.bsky.social P.S. forgot the poster pic, so improvised :3

We’re hiring! Join my group at BCBL in San Sebastián for a funded 4-year PhD on how the brain learns and processes an additional language. MEG · speech modelling · Python · LLMs Deadline: 8 November 2026 www.bcbl.eu/eu/phd-posit...

Delighted to have been selected for a @caixaresearch.bsky.social Health Research grant! Definitely worth applying!

1/ 📢 Ya está abierta la Convocatoria de Investigación en Salud de la Fundación ”la Caixa”. Buscamos a las mentes más brillantes de España y Portugal para redefinir cómo diagnosticamos y tratamos la enfermedad. ¿Tienes una propuesta? Sigue leyendo. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/5sdm27xu

📢 Nuestra Convocatoria de Investigación en Salud 2027 de la #FundlaCaixa ya está abierta y el próximo 7 de octubre celebraremos la sesión informativa. Apúntate y conoce todos los detalles de la convocatoria y el proceso de solicitud: ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/bdz538vn

🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT! 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS

🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT! 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS

🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 🔗 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS

🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 🔗 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS

We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain

neuromarkers.io : Browse, view, and download fMRI neuromarkers, population-level predictive brain models that can be applied to new studies and populations

I'm very excited about this recent study, led by @pieterbarkema.bsky.social. We find that stimulus representations in the deep layers of V1 can be affected by *later* information: postdiction. See Pieter's thread for more information - and of course the preprint! @jhaarsma.bsky.social #neuroskyence

New paper "DecNefSimulator: A Modular, Interpretable Framework for Decoded Neurofeedback Simulation Using Generative Models" @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @neuroaure.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

1/7 Excited to share our new @elife.bsky.social Reviewed Preprint! 🧠 How do higher-order cognitive processes like abstraction & metacognition map onto transdiagnostic mental health dimensions? We combined computational modeling of a RL task with symptom profiling 🔗 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

To apply, send an email to me with a cover letter, a CV, and names & contacts of 2-3 referees. Reviewing of applications will begin immediately until the positions are filled. We provide competitive salary (USD 70K+) & benefits (e.g., post-doc housing in NYC). Please RT. 🙏

Few days left to apply: RA position at BCBL in Spain to work on decoded neurofeedback. Apply here shorturl.at/ehOhf More positions coming v/soon too, so if you’re interested pls get your CVs in now @escop.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social @neurofeedback.bsky.social

Please talk to me or @arnig.bsky.social at #ecvp2026 if you know of an interested potential Ph.D. student -- or are that interested student ;) #ECVP #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #psychology #imagery #visualimagery #phd #cogsci

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback to study how subjective experience can be shaped. Deadline: Sept 5th. Apply here shorturl.at/ehOhf Please RT! @theassc.bsky.social

2 weeks left to apply — come and join us! Please RT! @theassc.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social More positions coming v soon too, so if you’re interested, get your CVs in now 👀

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

👉 In this new #pupillometry #preprint 👈 @veerahelmisofia.bsky.social shows that correlations between visual detection performance and pupil size may often be due more to optics than (as often assumed) arousal. #psychology #perception #neuroscience

There are 17 different methods to measure whether confidence tracks accuracy, and these do not include Bayesian or Information Theory based measurements. We present MetaSignal with @makwana.bsky.social @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social to have common platform to access them.

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback to study how subjective experience can be shaped. Deadline: Sept 5th. Apply here shorturl.at/ehOhf Please RT! @theassc.bsky.social

Check out this thread - and please RT 🙏 Shaked and Itay argue that t-test and LMMs (and their Bayesian parallels) are not adequate for testing chance performance, and suggest alternative, more powerful tests. We hope you will find this useful, especially when studying unconscious processes

ÚLTIMA HORA | Las comunidades del PP plantan al Ministerio de Universidades y paralizan la contratación de 3.500 profesores www.eldiario.es/sociedad/com...

Qué vergüenza...

The PhD position in our lab closes 31 July - apply now!

Research Assistant Position in the Consciousness Group, BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Application deadline: 5 September 2026

PREPRINT: We efficiently extract a set’s mean and variance without representing each item. Yet the neural basis remains unclear. Using fMRI-MVPA, we test whether ensemble codes are shared across features—orientation, shape, & animacy—and statistics—mean & variance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We revisited awareness in Decoded Neurofeedback using meta-analysis + LLM semantic analysis of Ps reports. Ps seemed unable to identify the trained target but their strategies were aligned with it! osf.io/preprints/ps... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @mavadillo.bsky.social

I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

@axc.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

We revisited awareness in Decoded Neurofeedback using meta-analysis + LLM semantic analysis of Ps reports. Ps seemed unable to identify the trained target but their strategies were aligned with it! osf.io/preprints/ps... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @mavadillo.bsky.social

go work with Peter!

The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :)

PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this!

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social

A few more days to apply please RT!👇

A few more days to apply please RT!👇

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social

things i have been saying for a while!

Computational Behaviour launches July 2027! 🤓 A fully remote two-week course, open to participants worldwide. ➡️ Learn more and get involved: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience #Neuromatch #ConnectedMinds @connectedminds.bsky.social

research in invertebrates may become more difficult soon. ideological abuse of science has real consequences. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper: "Introspection and Scientific Data" for the Handbook of Introspection, about the role of introspection in the production of scientific data. My view: introspection doesn't deliver a special 'subjective' kind of data and there's nothing special about studying consciousness.

Exciting news, I just gave a talk on how two heads can be better than one... even in children! 🧠👧👦 Very grateful for the kids, that are the heart of this project, the parents who believed in this research from the start, and to the teachers. Here's to the power of collaboration, at every age! 🙌

authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception