Shawn Prest
@shawnprest.bsky.social
Researcher at the intersection of meditation, consciousness, perception and active inference at the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (Monash University).
Web: shawnprest.com
Web: shawnprest.com
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Shawn Prest
@shawnprest.bsky.social
· Feb 26
New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
Looking forward to visiting the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia on Monday and having great conversations there! @mclsheehy.bsky.social @monash-m3cs.bsky.social csc.virginia.edu
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Looking forward to visiting the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia on Monday and having great conversations there! @mclsheehy.bsky.social @monash-m3cs.bsky.social csc.virginia.edu
Today is poster day #2 at @iscr.bsky.social
here in Chapel Hill. I'll be sharing work on how deep meditative experience challenges existing computational accounts of affective valence. Come by and pepper me with questions, 4:30-6pm :)
#ISCR2025
here in Chapel Hill. I'll be sharing work on how deep meditative experience challenges existing computational accounts of affective valence. Come by and pepper me with questions, 4:30-6pm :)
#ISCR2025
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today is poster day #2 at @iscr.bsky.social
here in Chapel Hill. I'll be sharing work on how deep meditative experience challenges existing computational accounts of affective valence. Come by and pepper me with questions, 4:30-6pm :)
#ISCR2025
here in Chapel Hill. I'll be sharing work on how deep meditative experience challenges existing computational accounts of affective valence. Come by and pepper me with questions, 4:30-6pm :)
#ISCR2025
If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
I'll be at the International Society for Contemplative Research 2025 Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina next week.
Looking forward to it and will be on a great panel on Tuesday at 1:30pm with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Nicco Reggente, Winson Yang and David Zarka.
@iscr.bsky.social
#ISCR
Looking forward to it and will be on a great panel on Tuesday at 1:30pm with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Nicco Reggente, Winson Yang and David Zarka.
@iscr.bsky.social
#ISCR
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I'll be at the International Society for Contemplative Research 2025 Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina next week.
Looking forward to it and will be on a great panel on Tuesday at 1:30pm with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Nicco Reggente, Winson Yang and David Zarka.
@iscr.bsky.social
#ISCR
Looking forward to it and will be on a great panel on Tuesday at 1:30pm with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Nicco Reggente, Winson Yang and David Zarka.
@iscr.bsky.social
#ISCR
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👇 have a look at the program of this year's ISPSM conference, it's online and free.
#philmind #philsci #consci
#philmind #philsci #consci
We are very excited to share the conference schedule and book of abstracts for this year’s ISPSM! 💫
Link to schedule: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025sch...
Link to book of abstracts: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025boo...
#philmind #philsky
Link to schedule: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025sch...
Link to book of abstracts: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025boo...
#philmind #philsky
Timetables to share
tiny.cc
August 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I'm presenting my work on affective valence, meditative experience and active inference this Sunday 9:30am GMT at the 3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...
Come by!
Come by!
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I'm presenting my work on affective valence, meditative experience and active inference this Sunday 9:30am GMT at the 3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...
Come by!
Come by!
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Advanced meditation ushers in incredible new possibilities for the science of consciousness.
In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...
In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...
September 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Advanced meditation ushers in incredible new possibilities for the science of consciousness.
In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...
In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...
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⏰ 📣
Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!
Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!
📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
Open positions – Dr. Marie Chancel
mariechancel.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
⏰ 📣
Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!
Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!
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Now on Antoine Lutz on the phenomenology of meditation and its neural correlates in the concurrent sessions
July 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Now on Antoine Lutz on the phenomenology of meditation and its neural correlates in the concurrent sessions
I'll be presenting work today on a poster at @assc28.bsky.social on how deep meditative experience challenges challeges predominant computational views of affective valence. At 12:30pm, come by, booth 179! #assc28
July 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I'll be presenting work today on a poster at @assc28.bsky.social on how deep meditative experience challenges challeges predominant computational views of affective valence. At 12:30pm, come by, booth 179! #assc28
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Heading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28
July 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Heading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28
Enjoying the atmosphere at @assc28.bsky.social here in Crete! It's great to be around a lot of researches focused on our actual experience. Also looking forward to Edmundo Lopez-Sola's poster coming up and @matthewsacchet.bsky.social 's talk this afternoon on advanced meditation. :) #assc28
July 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Enjoying the atmosphere at @assc28.bsky.social here in Crete! It's great to be around a lot of researches focused on our actual experience. Also looking forward to Edmundo Lopez-Sola's poster coming up and @matthewsacchet.bsky.social 's talk this afternoon on advanced meditation. :) #assc28
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5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...
Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness
As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.
elifesciences.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...
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FYI: free link to a publication led by Yair Dor-Ziderman in Aviva Berkovich-Ohana's lab. We provided MEG evidence supporting the hypothesis that the brains of experienced meditators exhibit reduced defensiveness toward mortality compared to those of controls.
academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...
academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...
Training the embodied self in its impermanence: meditators evidence neurophysiological markers of death acceptance
AbstractBackground. Human predictive capacity underlies its adaptive strength but also the potential for existential terror. Grounded in the predictive pro
academic.oup.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
FYI: free link to a publication led by Yair Dor-Ziderman in Aviva Berkovich-Ohana's lab. We provided MEG evidence supporting the hypothesis that the brains of experienced meditators exhibit reduced defensiveness toward mortality compared to those of controls.
academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...
academic.oup.com/nc/article-a...
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The FEEL lab is doing some of the most fascinating, groundbreaking research on emotions and emotion regulation. Do NOT miss this opportunity!! #psychjobs #AffectSci
We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...
Details : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FEEL Lab) : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
April 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The FEEL lab is doing some of the most fascinating, groundbreaking research on emotions and emotion regulation. Do NOT miss this opportunity!! #psychjobs #AffectSci
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Hello Bluesky!
Our students are running a short survey on interoception, ADHD, and autism. If you’ve got a few minutes, they’d be so grateful if you could take part — and help spread the word!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky
Our students are running a short survey on interoception, ADHD, and autism. If you’ve got a few minutes, they’d be so grateful if you could take part — and help spread the word!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky
Aarhus University Student Survey
This questionnaire will take approximately 15- 25 minutes to complete. Please answer in a safe environment and as truthfully as possible. As a neurodiverse research team, we prioritize the comfort an...
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Hello Bluesky!
Our students are running a short survey on interoception, ADHD, and autism. If you’ve got a few minutes, they’d be so grateful if you could take part — and help spread the word!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky
Our students are running a short survey on interoception, ADHD, and autism. If you’ve got a few minutes, they’d be so grateful if you could take part — and help spread the word!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#psychscisky
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The ASSC is now on bluesky! Please follow us for more information about consciousness neuroscience, and our upcoming conference ASSC 25 assc2025.gr
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assc2025.gr
March 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The ASSC is now on bluesky! Please follow us for more information about consciousness neuroscience, and our upcoming conference ASSC 25 assc2025.gr
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We are seeking participants for a free online mindfulness study together with colleagues from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
See details below, and follow this link for more information lnkd.in/gwCrne7v
#research #mindfulness #meditation #psychology
See details below, and follow this link for more information lnkd.in/gwCrne7v
#research #mindfulness #meditation #psychology
March 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We are seeking participants for a free online mindfulness study together with colleagues from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
See details below, and follow this link for more information lnkd.in/gwCrne7v
#research #mindfulness #meditation #psychology
See details below, and follow this link for more information lnkd.in/gwCrne7v
#research #mindfulness #meditation #psychology
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Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!
February 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!
New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
Reposted by Shawn Prest
Do it
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
February 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Do it
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Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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📣 Free online event: Join @pliknaitzky.bsky.social (Monash Clinical Psychedelic Lab), as he discusses the role of psychedelics in therapy & their potential for transforming treatment at our seminar:
🗓️ Thursday, 6 March 2025
⏰ 12:00 – 12:50 PM AEDT
💻 Zoom
👇 Register via the link in the comments 👇
🗓️ Thursday, 6 March 2025
⏰ 12:00 – 12:50 PM AEDT
💻 Zoom
👇 Register via the link in the comments 👇
February 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
📣 Free online event: Join @pliknaitzky.bsky.social (Monash Clinical Psychedelic Lab), as he discusses the role of psychedelics in therapy & their potential for transforming treatment at our seminar:
🗓️ Thursday, 6 March 2025
⏰ 12:00 – 12:50 PM AEDT
💻 Zoom
👇 Register via the link in the comments 👇
🗓️ Thursday, 6 March 2025
⏰ 12:00 – 12:50 PM AEDT
💻 Zoom
👇 Register via the link in the comments 👇