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megan peters 🧠
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
assoc prof, uc irvine cogsci & LPS: perception+metacognition+subjective experience, fMRI+models+AI
phil sci, education for all

2026: UCI-->UCL!

prez+co-founder, neuromatch.io
fellow, CIFAR brain mind consciousness

meganakpeters.org

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and... that's a WRAP (ok, in 2.5 hours) on #SfN25 #SfN2025 @sfn.org!

6 posters. 5 days. many new ideas. here's to my lab and all their accomplishments!
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
dry run for turkeyday. oh yeah.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
😭
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Works ok for me!
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
happy halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
a peaceful sunday evening in southern california
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Exactly!
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
my task management software is down. oh no. oh nooooo.
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
this TNG episode is an influential and poignant commentary on cultural exchange, cultural memory, and semantics.

it's also a lot of fun!

... and thank GOODNESS i saw this post in time to change my shirt this morning.
September 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
... and a cognitive scientist (for not quite 20 years)
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
i present to you all: proof i have been a philosopher of science for over 20 years

😂
September 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
we really are living in the hunger games.

(perhaps we can hope she undergoes the same redemption arc as Effie, eventually?)
September 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
sitting on the tarmac at yyz... and see this.

united airlines now offers mach 17 services apparently.

if only.
August 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
you guys.

i am REALLY bad at steering a canoe.

@neurograce.bsky.social is truly a saint for putting up with me 🙏 at least i didn't capsize us!

(team building exercises @ #neuro4pros! h/t to @gunnarblohm.bsky.social & @kordinglab.bsky.social for organizing such a stellar group, & it's only day 2!)
August 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
August 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
NASA: She* is the moment

* She = the Black Pearl, the pinnacle of human technological innovation, exploration, and discovery

Image credit: The Black Pearl Pirates of the Caribbean Giclee by John Rowe
August 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
at the Royal Society in London, they celebrate #womeninSTEM!

meanwhile in the US theyre taking down all these photos & websites...

thanks to CIFAR for bringing us here for the Brain Mind Consciousness program meeting! so cool to see.

(also repping @neuromatch.bsky.social w/ my astrocat tee ofc!)
May 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
what a good last day at #vss2025! great chats at posters and then phiVis in the PM!
check out @norabradford.bsky.social and @angelashen.bsky.social killing it at their posters!
May 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
the #vss2025 crowd is super into metacognition it seems!

join us in Amsterdam in August for even more metacognition! deadline extended to May 27 for abstract submission!

thanks to all who stopped by my poster this morning too 😎
May 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
metacognitive science! amsterdam! August!

if you're at #vss2025 come find me to talk about this exciting meeting!

www.metacognitivescience.org
May 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
taking a break from science to stand up for what we believe in. and yell a lot.

#savedemocracy #stopfascism #stopthecoup
April 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
folks, i've found my new professional headshot.

courtesy of Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and the Duke U Consciousness Conference! 🙏
April 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the UC system just going ahead and complying in advance. disappointment is an incredible understatement. i had hoped for more from the greatest public university system in the country.

i am so proud to be a UC professor. this makes me less proud.
March 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social for inviting me to this exciting working group on the nature of intelligence! I wish I could stay longer...
March 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM