axel cleeremans

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Brain, minds, & consciousness. Also interested in design, visual arts, biology, space, typography, and anticipation. Also know as « Axel from Belgium »

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This evening's #ISS pass over The Hague. 31 x 0.3 ms unfiltered mono in Celestron 8" at f/10.

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Of to ASSC#27 with the @erc-xp.bsky.social team and @axc.bsky.social Here’s the schedule of everything we have planned! erc-xp.ulb.be/2024/06/25/e... #consciousness

ERC XP @ ASSC#27 – EXPERIENCEerc-xp.ulb.be

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Florida is indeed pushing the envelope ... and taking the position that faculty speech in the classroom at a public university is under the control of the state government: leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/06...

The end of academic freedom in Florida? The courts will decideleiterreports.typepad.com As I feared, Florida is indeed pushing the envelope on Garcetti and taking the position that faculty speech in the classroom at a public university is under the control of the state government: Last F...

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"No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect." www.wired.com/story/car-fr...

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Our N=273 MRI study on visual imagery is up on BioRxiv. Employing graph theory analyses, we investigate structural and functional connectomes and find that vivid imagery is supported by networks optimized for localized information transfer. #skuldnet

Why can some people conjure images in their mind's eye with stunning clarity, while others experience a blank mind? 🧠✨ Our preprint provides a look at the brain's network dynamics and how they influence visual imagery vividness. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Neuroscience #VisualImagery

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Just hours after Aleksei Navalny was reported dead, his wife, Yulia, denounced Vladimir Putin at a gathering of world leaders in Munich. She vowed in a surprise address that the president of Russia and his circle “will be brought to justice.”

Navalny’s Wife Makes Dramatic Appearance After Reports of His Deathwww.nytimes.com In a surprise address in Munich, Yulia Navalnaya said that if her husband, Aleksei A. Navalny, was dead, those responsible “will be brought to justice.”

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Love this story: Air Canada's chatbot gives false advice on booking a bereavement ticket, guy gets screwed, then Air Canada then argues its chatbot is a SEPARATE LEGAL ENTITY FROM THEM THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS OWN ACTIONS. lol wut anyway they lost the case hardcore www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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We are so glad to host Dr. Grégory Hammad next Wednesday (7th Feb) at 12:15 🎉 here you can find the abstract of his talk and the link to join us online: bit.ly/48XylqE

In 1986, my (deceased) father created this 50x70cm composition about the work I was carrying out at Carnegie Mellon, where I was studying recurrent networks, including the “Jordan sequential network” featured here. I didn’t know about this until I stumbled upon the piece cleaning up his workshop.

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1/3 Many papers I'm handling as editor will have been rejected elsewhere. It is such a massive waste of time (mine, prior reviews, future reviews). If you are submitting a previously rejected manuscript to me, feel free to add prior reviews and tell me how you addressed them.

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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...

In a copy of the little red book owned by my father 📕:

Now out: “A construct-first approach to consciousness science”, with Peter Fazekas & Morten Overgaard www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Congratulations to the new ERC grantees! erc.europa.eu/news-events/... It’s a good time to consider joining us at aerg.eu 😊 @ercgrantees.bsky.social After the celebrations for the fantastic achievement news, get in touch with us (me!) to discuss our mission and how you can help and support us! 😎

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paper mill papers will increasingly make up "knowledge" in LLMs, especially as LLMs increasingly write those papers themselves and in less obviously predatory places (including preprint servers). so humans will be needed to label these as "not trustworthy". we still need human experts!

How large is science's fake-paper problem? Massive, finds a new ML text-analysis by Adam Day (Clear Skies). It suggests paper mills rise to 1.5-2% of all papers; 3% in biomed. That's 70,000 papers last year alone, >400,000 overall. As a 'conservative estimate'. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New work from Hans Stuyck together with @axc.bsky.social on similarities and differences in HRV (RMSSD) between insight and non-insight problem solving. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Great news. I can't imagine a higher ROI investment to advance scientific research. Kudos to the NSF and the Simons Foundation for seeing the enormous value of what the arXiv provides us all.

Research repository arXiv receives $10M for upgrades | Cornell Chroniclenews.cornell.edu Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution serv...

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So happy to see this as a preprint 🔥 It was a pleasure to work with and learn from @matthiasmichel.bsky.social Stephan Goerttler @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social

New paper: we're getting close to showing unconscious perception with a non-biased (2IFC) visibility task, using both metacontrast masking and super fast presentations (980 micro(!!)-seconds) using a modern-day tachistoscope (shown here). Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I'm pretty much giving up on the app formerly known as Twitter. It has really been degraded as a way to keep up with informed discourse, and I don't want to be an unpaid content provide for Musk. Will start posting wonkery here, maybe also on Threads

“Where have you been?”, 2023 (decaying artichokes, picknick table, iPhone)

I spent the afternoon in Charleroi (aka “Brussels South”) and have seen many more strange people in 30m than in a whole year - all with incredible kindness and warmth.

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Upgrade your Bluesky experience with this one simple move

Folks, this is a usability game-changer. Turn it on! In your settings -> Thread Preferences. Turns the threading of post replies into a reddit-like structure instead of twitter-like. *SO* much easier to navigate and read without having to backtrack and re-click replies to unlock threads.

Just a week ago my Ph.D. advisor, A.I. pioneer & friend Jay McClelland came to visit us in Brussels (thx again Nath Carl & FARI) and I had this terrific lunch with him and @krysdolega.bsky.social — three generations of cognitive scientists in a radiant snapshot!

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Even if you are familiar with story, this piece adds some color and introduces some of the minor players. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?www.newyorker.com Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

Wondering why we are conscious? Come help us attack the Hard Problem empirically by joining our ERC-funded EXPERIENCE team. We are looking for a nerdy postdoc who knows fMRI / RSA and for a highly motivated Ph.D student Post-doc 🧠 erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/p... Ph.D. ⚡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/p...

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Nicholas Humphrey considers whether certain animals are conscious, using these five questions as a guide. youtu.be/9QWaZp_2I1k?...