Peter Kok
@peterkok.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the FIL, UCL, using human neuroimaging to study how our prior knowledge influences the way we perceive the world. https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/team/visual-perception-team/
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Peter Kok
@peterkok.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
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went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible
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January 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible
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Happy New Year from Imaging Neuroscience - here is the 2025 montage, from 440 papers.
Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...
Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...
January 1, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Happy New Year from Imaging Neuroscience - here is the 2025 montage, from 440 papers.
Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...
Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...
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2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published.
We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal.
Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...
We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal.
Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...
December 29, 2024 at 9:20 AM
2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published.
We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal.
Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...
We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal.
Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...
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It appears the whole Putin “Ukraine tried to kill me with 91 drones last night” was entirely made up. And of course Trump repeated it and said he was mad at Ukraine.
Nightly Russia launched drones and missiles at innocent people.
And tried to Kill Zelensky every day
Spare me the gaslight
Nightly Russia launched drones and missiles at innocent people.
And tried to Kill Zelensky every day
Spare me the gaslight
December 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It appears the whole Putin “Ukraine tried to kill me with 91 drones last night” was entirely made up. And of course Trump repeated it and said he was mad at Ukraine.
Nightly Russia launched drones and missiles at innocent people.
And tried to Kill Zelensky every day
Spare me the gaslight
Nightly Russia launched drones and missiles at innocent people.
And tried to Kill Zelensky every day
Spare me the gaslight
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The first publication of my PhD is finally here!
Super proud to share this with my supervisor @theresecollins.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1167/jov....
Super proud to share this with my supervisor @theresecollins.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1167/jov....
Attractive and repulsive history effects in categorical and continuous estimates of orientation perception | JOV | ARVO Journals
doi.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The first publication of my PhD is finally here!
Super proud to share this with my supervisor @theresecollins.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1167/jov....
Super proud to share this with my supervisor @theresecollins.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1167/jov....
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Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
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"I think this is a cover-up. We have to treat Trump's Justice Dept. the way we spoke about Soviet era quote 'Justice departments,'" Bill Kristol says. "This is not a Justice Dept. that's a little tilted, you know, a little pro-Trump, a little thumb in the scale. There is no scale."
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"I think this is a cover-up. We have to treat Trump's Justice Dept. the way we spoke about Soviet era quote 'Justice departments,'" Bill Kristol says. "This is not a Justice Dept. that's a little tilted, you know, a little pro-Trump, a little thumb in the scale. There is no scale."
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW?
Once seen, cannot be unseen.
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🔥 THIS IS HUGE!
Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger.
Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.
Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger.
Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🔥 THIS IS HUGE!
Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger.
Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.
Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger.
Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.
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The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
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this paper on why biological computation is special (& necessary for consciousness) by @jaanaru.bsky.social, is as usual, very good & maybe the best one yet on the topic
but why doesn't the argument apply to e.g. motor control too?
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0149763425005251
but why doesn't the argument apply to e.g. motor control too?
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0149763425005251
Redirecting
linkinghub.elsevier.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
this paper on why biological computation is special (& necessary for consciousness) by @jaanaru.bsky.social, is as usual, very good & maybe the best one yet on the topic
but why doesn't the argument apply to e.g. motor control too?
1/
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0149763425005251
but why doesn't the argument apply to e.g. motor control too?
1/
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0149763425005251
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ECR looking for a change in the New Year?
We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !
If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.
Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !
If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.
Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Lecturer in Psychology (2303) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ECR looking for a change in the New Year?
We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !
If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.
Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !
If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.
Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨This time we're talking Outputs, not Outcomes and England's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with Xavier Brice of the @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...
Outputs not outcomes (CWIS3) | Streets Ahead
And why we need to start treating active travel like road and rail transport
shows.acast.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨This time we're talking Outputs, not Outcomes and England's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with Xavier Brice of the @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...
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Overijverige ambtenaren lakken Trumps naam ook op Kennedy Center zwart
Overijverige ambtenaren lakken Trumps naam ook op Kennedy Center zwart
Enthousiaste federale ambtenaren hebben in de Verenigde Staten de woede van Donald Trump gewekt.
speld.nl
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Overijverige ambtenaren lakken Trumps naam ook op Kennedy Center zwart
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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The quality of #JNeurosci depends on the generous contributions of our reviewers, who lend their expertise and time to ensure we publish great science. Thank you to all the reviewers and collaborators who have supported The Journal of Neuroscience in 2025.
vist.ly/4iqu6
vist.ly/4iqu6
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The quality of #JNeurosci depends on the generous contributions of our reviewers, who lend their expertise and time to ensure we publish great science. Thank you to all the reviewers and collaborators who have supported The Journal of Neuroscience in 2025.
vist.ly/4iqu6
vist.ly/4iqu6
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🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
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fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
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I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
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🚨 New preprints out!🚨
Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance.
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Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 New preprints out!🚨
Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance.
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Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance.
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