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Ivona Mikljanová
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Cognitive Neuroscience MSc first-year student at Radboud University and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. Most interested in the topics of sleep, dreams, meditation, consciousness, and their clinical applications.
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lullabyte.bsky.social
We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total.
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#Musicscience
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪

What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?

We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!

#consciousness #dreaming
Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur
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September 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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marianapereira.bsky.social
From sleep 💤 to dreams 🌙 to daydreams ☁️ - what is the brain up to?

I’m excited to host a mini-symposium before my PhD defense! Join us in person or online, details in the flyer!

@sarahschoch.bsky.social @dresler.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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iai.tv
“Placebo therapies, without deception, are no different from other expansions of the traditional ambit of clinical medicine,” believes Professor Dien Ho. | iai.tv/articles/new...

Read about how new research has revealed doctors must harness the power of placebos in treatment.

#medsky 🧪
New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem | Dien Ho
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August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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ispsm.bsky.social
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
Timetables to share
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August 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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spacelabimt.bsky.social
Save the date!! 🗓️

The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.

📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!
August 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
29 scholars reflect on their participation in adversarial collaborations:

“Rather than producing a clear 'winner,' the most common outcome was a deeper understanding of the problem space through the integration of opposing perspectives”

Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#MetaSci #Methodology 🧪
There is much enthusiasm, in principle, for adversarial collaborations (ACs), a scientific conflict resolution technique that encourages investigators with clashing models to collaborate in designing studies that test competing predictions. Adversarial collaborations offer the promise of breaking deadlocked debates, resolving disputes, and providing a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of a research domain. In practice, however, adversarial collaborations are more the exception than the rule, and there is almost no evidence on how scholars who have ventured into ACs assess the experience. To understand these perspectives, we surveyed and interviewed 29 scholars who participated in 13 AC projects. The data revealed that interpersonal conflicts were generally minor, that these projects required more upfront effort than typical collaborations, but benefited from high-quality results and more thoughtful post-publication debates. Rather than producing a clear “winner,” the most common outcome was a deeper understanding of the problem space through the integration of opposing perspectives. Although the generalizability of these findings is limited by a sample consisting only of scholars who completed an AC, they nonetheless highlight the value of ACs as a tool for advancing scientific inquiry and offer practical guidance for scholars and journals exploring this approach.
July 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
ivona-m.bsky.social
Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ageing is linked to inflammation — but only in the industrialized world
Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.
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July 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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mcxfrank.bsky.social
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
We need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤

If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then?

Scientists know actually very little about this private moment.

We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible!

Here is the link:
redcap.link/DriftingMinds
June 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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sarahschoch.bsky.social
I made some tools for our (MANY!) dream reports. I am making them openly available for others to use! First DreamProcessor github.com/SarahSchoch/..., a simple tool to preprocess dream reports (clean, anonymize, split) that integrates semiautomatic approaches. #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
GitHub - SarahSchoch/DreamProcessor: A tool to process dream reports before rating.
A tool to process dream reports before rating. Contribute to SarahSchoch/DreamProcessor development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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benjistucky.bsky.social
Sleep is a more conscious state than assumed. We analyzed 69 recent awakening studies with dream reports and found that:
1) deeper sleep leads fo forgetting ones dreams—not a lack of consciousness
2) gentler awakenings show 20% more dream recall in NREM sleep
tinyurl.com/sensecon

#consci #dreams
May 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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monash-m3cs.bsky.social
🤔Ever wondered how mindfulness influences your mind? Here is a chance to find out & be part of the research! We’re looking for participants for a free online study with our colleagues @victoriauniversity.bsky.social
Find out more👇https://monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0lIFxAdCJJ7qA2G?Q_CHL=qr
March 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM