Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies (M3CS)
M3CS | A unique interdisciplinary centre at Monash University. Through research and education, we explore consciousness, mindfulness, and our connection to each other and the planet.
Learn more: monash.edu/m3cs
- 🧠 What happens when your mind goes blank? New research paper from @monash-m3cs.bsky.social members exploring mind blanking - those moments when thoughts vanish and awareness fades. A collaboration between our team and European colleagues, sparked during @antoinelutz.bsky.social year with us. Link 👇
- 🔗https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/new-study-reveals-why-your-mind-sometimes-goes-blank 🔗https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00034-8?utm_campaign=Press%20Package&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=357279461&utm_content=357279461&utm_source=hs_email
- 📣Free Event📣 🤔Can being more mindful help us think more clearly? 🤨Can sharper thinking make us more mindful? Join Craig Hassed & @andymckilliam.bsky.social in this free lunchtime webinar to find out. 🗓️ 8 May | 🕛 12–12:50pm AEST | 💻 Online 🔗 events.humanitix.com/mindful-crit...
- How does seeing Earth from afar reshape our understanding of human significance? 🌍 👇Read the article below from our very own Tim Bayne.👇
- Join us for our May Seminar! We’re excited to welcome Buddhist teacher & author Andy Karr in conversation with @kevinberryman.bsky.social for a thought-provoking discussion: Mind vs Brain – Is There More to Consciousness? 📅 Thursday 1 May 2025 ⏰ 12:00 – 12:50 PM AEST 💻 Online & free - register below
- Register here: events.humanitix.com/m3cs-seminar...
- New episode! In this episode we are joined by Dr. Saurabh Sonkusare to learn about Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) 🧠 We hear about how DBS works and its uses in psychiatry and research 🔬 links in 🧵 @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
- Have you ever wondered how the built environment effects your mood? 💭🏘️ Is it true that red rooms make you angry? 😡 This week we sit down with Dr. Isabella Bower to discuss her on research on how the built environment can impact our mental health 🌇 (links in 🧵) @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
- 📣Free Online Event: Join us this week as @amishijha.bsky.social & Prof. Craig Hassed explore the science of focus & how to reclaim it. 🧠Peak Mind - The Power of Attention 📅 3 April 2025 ⏰ 12:00 - 12:50 PM (AEST) 👉 Register here: events.humanitix.com/peak-mind-wi... @hohwy.bsky.social #Neuroscience
- 🤔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
- 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
- 📣New research alert! A fascinating study by @andrejevic.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social and Linda Barclay exploring the distinction between dignity and respect and why it matters! 👀👀
- Dignity is a very important ethical concept, but a dangerously fuzzy one, which puts into question whether and how we can honour our obligations to treat people with dignity! Our new study detangles dignity and respect, by showing dignity has specific ties to humiliation.
- 📣 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 👇
- register here: events.humanitix.com/psychedelics...
- A fabulous day of M3CS PhD presentations - Lars Sandved-Smith on pure awareness, @shawnprest.bsky.social on defabrication in meditation, @bethfisher.bsky.social Fisher on optimism and gratitude. All done brilliantly with active inference and FEP modelling. #neuroskyence #philsky
- Followed by a celebration from this wonderful group of current M3CS PhD students, with bon voyage to recent graduates departing for new postdoc adventures.
- Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias! @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
- Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
- Frame and relevance problems from the perspective of predictive processing - new paper led by @monash-m3cs.bsky.social's Tom Darling #philsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- New episode!! We sit down with Dr. Nina Rajcic to discuss her work using LLMs in her art practice giving us a new perspectives for thinking about AI 💭🤖 We share our thoughts about the future of AI in art and its connections to tech 🎨 #philsky #ai @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
