Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS
@comadork.bsky.social
British/Canadian Neuroscientist. Two times cancer survivor. Bucket list ticker. Proud atheist. Author of Sunday Times Best-seller ‘Into The Gray Zone'.
I know it's a bit early, but this stocking filler will be coming to a good bookstore near you on August 4th, 2026 😀
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I know it's a bit early, but this stocking filler will be coming to a good bookstore near you on August 4th, 2026 😀
Many thanks for all the kind words about my post yesterday. The issue has now been resolved and the lab is back up and running. I will not be providing any more details.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Many thanks for all the kind words about my post yesterday. The issue has now been resolved and the lab is back up and running. I will not be providing any more details.
One in four comatose (behaviourally non-responsive) patients in the ICU following a serious brain injury show us they are aware using fNIRS - published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One in four comatose (behaviourally non-responsive) patients in the ICU following a serious brain injury show us they are aware using fNIRS - published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Why treadmills soothe our minds and joysticks sharpen our wits: fab to see the peer-reviewed results of our online mass experiment for the Manchester Science Festival with @comadork.bsky.social and his team from @westernu.ca in @plosone.org! blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/why-treadmil...
Why treadmills soothe our minds and joysticks sharpen our wits | Science and Industry Museum
Detailed findings of a pioneering 'brain and body' study developed for the Manchester Science Festival have just been published, reports Science Director, and study co-author, Roger Highfield.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Why treadmills soothe our minds and joysticks sharpen our wits: fab to see the peer-reviewed results of our online mass experiment for the Manchester Science Festival with @comadork.bsky.social and his team from @westernu.ca in @plosone.org! blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/why-treadmil...
It will be 20 years next year, yet our 2006 article continues to be the paper that keeps on giving. What a wild ride it’s been! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms
Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.
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July 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It will be 20 years next year, yet our 2006 article continues to be the paper that keeps on giving. What a wild ride it’s been! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Very proud of this one. If you want a complete primer on the history of functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, then this is for you. With @karnig-kazazian.bsky.social and Martin Monti. owenlab.org/uploads/pdfF...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Very proud of this one. If you want a complete primer on the history of functional neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness, then this is for you. With @karnig-kazazian.bsky.social and Martin Monti. owenlab.org/uploads/pdfF...
Brilliant straight talking from the brilliant @adamrutherford.bsky.social A must read for everyone. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.
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April 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Brilliant straight talking from the brilliant @adamrutherford.bsky.social A must read for everyone. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
My new book, provisionally titled “Thinking On Your Feet” will be published soon by #norton. But maybe I should retitling it “The Rise and Fall of the American Frontal Lobe”? Everyone seems to have stopped thinking for themselves. Did some cosmic event turn off an entire nation’s frontal lobes?
April 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My new book, provisionally titled “Thinking On Your Feet” will be published soon by #norton. But maybe I should retitling it “The Rise and Fall of the American Frontal Lobe”? Everyone seems to have stopped thinking for themselves. Did some cosmic event turn off an entire nation’s frontal lobes?
It took them a while to catch on, but they’re finally waking up. If you wait to be told what to do, it will be too late to do anything about it. apple.news/AvPEO57t0TSS...
Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States — The Canadian Press
The association that represents academic staff at Canadian universities is wa
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April 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It took them a while to catch on, but they’re finally waking up. If you wait to be told what to do, it will be too late to do anything about it. apple.news/AvPEO57t0TSS...
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Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter
One boss passes the baton to another. Incredible performances all round. I’ve seem them both many times and this shows they are more than the sum
of their parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_...
of their parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_...
The Killers & Bruce Springsteen: Encore At The Garden
YouTube video by TheKillersMusic
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April 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
One boss passes the baton to another. Incredible performances all round. I’ve seem them both many times and this shows they are more than the sum
of their parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_...
of their parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma_...
Then he’ll sort Alzheimer’s disease by Christmas, cancer early in the new year, and eradicate heart disease by the summer. It’s shocking that thousands of scientists have spent decades failing to solve problems that one man with no relevant qualifications is going to fix in less than a year.
April 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Then he’ll sort Alzheimer’s disease by Christmas, cancer early in the new year, and eradicate heart disease by the summer. It’s shocking that thousands of scientists have spent decades failing to solve problems that one man with no relevant qualifications is going to fix in less than a year.
In my ongoing quest to publish as many academic papers with Arnold Schwazenegger movies as part of the title, I give you…..Total Recall….out today and free to read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Total recall: Detecting autobiographical memory retrieval in the absence of behaviour
Functional neuroimaging has fundamentally changed our understanding of disorders of consciousness (DoC). While many DoC patients exhibit minimal to no…
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March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In my ongoing quest to publish as many academic papers with Arnold Schwazenegger movies as part of the title, I give you…..Total Recall….out today and free to read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Post you from a different era. One side done. 1980.
March 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Post you from a different era. One side done. 1980.
*BREAKING* World’s largest baby throws second tantrum in as many days…
March 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
*BREAKING* World’s largest baby throws second tantrum in as many days…
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New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience
Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Oh, it’s Friday. They’re back on. No, they’re off. Or is on the new off? 250%? Did he make that number up? Does he think that’s the same as 25%? Who knows? He certainly doesn’t. It’s a beautiful number. What number? Any number! What did I just say? #internationallaughingstock
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Oh, it’s Friday. They’re back on. No, they’re off. Or is on the new off? 250%? Did he make that number up? Does he think that’s the same as 25%? Who knows? He certainly doesn’t. It’s a beautiful number. What number? Any number! What did I just say? #internationallaughingstock
Grass roots revolution starting at my local liquor store….
March 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Grass roots revolution starting at my local liquor store….
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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I’m off to get the week’s all non-American groceries. I’ll stop by the liquor store to buy some non-American wine to celebrate. We’re having our kitchen renovated so I’ll put in that order for a non-American fridge, freezer, stove, oven, and microwave. Then I’ll settle down to watch the BBC news.
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’m off to get the week’s all non-American groceries. I’ll stop by the liquor store to buy some non-American wine to celebrate. We’re having our kitchen renovated so I’ll put in that order for a non-American fridge, freezer, stove, oven, and microwave. Then I’ll settle down to watch the BBC news.
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Everyone Like And Repost 💯
March 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Everyone Like And Repost 💯
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UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street.
This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.
This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.
March 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street.
This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.
This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.