ZeroNoiseLab 🌈 (@zeronoiselab.bsky.social)

Now out in NatComms: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4146…

@breath_Guy @BSMSMedSchool @3Dneuro @ResearchHub 😂😭😂 thwarted again! ;)

@BSMSMedSchool CC @ZeroNoiseLab @3Dneuro: We tried calling it circular breathwork (as per @ResearchHub preprint: researchhub.com/paper/9455705/…) but Reviewer 2 (what a surprise.... again!) didn't like it.

Drawing from neuromuscular torque chain dynamics, fascial research & sensorimotor trauma therapy principles, MiB aims to enhance autonomic regulation, interoceptive awareness & somatic-emotional integration, bridging traditional breathwork, movement & clinical practice.

I thought we would never work on gamma oscillations again but I was wrong! So happy to see this out in @Nature, truly an epic project spearheaded by @QuentinPerreno1. Gamma isn't always an oscillation, but it's critical for sensory encoding and perceptual performance. @YaleNeuro

@breath_Guy Awesome!!

Opposing Breathing Therapies for Panic Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Lowering vs Raising End-Tidal Pco2

@psychedmt @RCarhartHarris

It’s a fascinating piece that frames those sudden “aha!” moments not as step-by-step reasoning, but as self-organizing shifts in a dynamic system. The idea that insight is a kind of phase transition helps explain why it feels so sudden, obvious, and elegant once it happens. At the same time, the article stays more at the level of metaphor. It talks about bifurcations and self-organization, but it doesn’t show how this actually unfolds in the brain. What seems missing is a link to neurobiology and computational models. Today we could enrich the picture with EEG evidence (like alpha suppression before a gamma burst), with predictive coding accounts where insight marks a sharp drop in prediction error, with energy-landscape models of cortical attractors, and with the role of neuromodulators like dopamine and noradrenaline in pushing the system toward instability and reorganization. So it's conceptually powerful, but I think it’s best read as an early gesture toward ideas that can now be more grounded in brain dynamics, predictive processing, and empirical data :)

Thoughts on this? Entropy & Insight... "The Self-Organization of Insight" by Damian G. Stephen and James A. Dixon docs.lib.purdue.edu/jps/vol2/iss1/…

@breath_Guy @alieninsect would love to hear your thoughts on this!

I just peer reviewed: High on your own supply - Is endogenous DMT the key to altered states of consciousness during breathwork? on ResearchHub! researchhub.com/fund/4270/high…

Aaand we have our final line-up for ESI-SyNC 2025! Check it out! :) Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do in (and for) your brain! esi-frankfurt.de/newevent Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers): survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/1861…

Registration is 100 Euro (free for PhDs & postdocs). Find out more! esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/ Go register! survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/1861…

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025, with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

@RCarhartHarris Apart from yours ;) (snow globe etc.) , i'd describe it as a freedom from constraint: you have, say, a river that has been heavily managed with damns, shore walls... (I.e. expected thought patterns). You remove those to let the water (I.e. information) flow freely where it wants.

Can you think of a really good description of the psychedelic experience that resonates with the idea of brain activity becoming entropic/disordered/chaotic under the drug?

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@RCarhartHarris I'd just add 'and at times actively co-opted'... ;)

Paraphrasing Jung, Peter Todd: Religious dogma is fossilised mystical experience. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new…

Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @AnneEUrai on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fixed and flexible perceptual rhythms Opinion by Aaron Kaltenmaier (@akaltenmaier), Matthew H. Davis, & Clare Press (@ClarePress) tinyurl.com/2k8p9px8

How do animals learn new rules? By systematically testing diff. behavioral strategies, guided by selective attn. to rule-relevant cues: rdcu.be/etlRV Akin to in-context learning in AI, strategy selection depends on the animals' "training set" (prior experience).

My inspiring colleague @GreggNeuroLab was diagnosed with terminal stage breast cancer, a rare disease in males. He came up with a way to combat it and wants to change the way cancer is treated! 🙌statnews.com/2025/06/17/can…

Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: 2025.neurolang.org/awards-informa…

📢 R2drive now comes with a serial number! This enables individual - traceable - quality control.

@marvinweigand 😊🙌🙌🙌

So nice to see how DomeVR is used for cutting-edge research