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Excited to see more #PhilSci scholars employing diverse methodologies in their work. To that end, in our paper we used qualitative data analysis to understand the role of surprise in science. #aestheticsofscience #surprise #qualitativemethods link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Plus que quelques milliers de signatures pour valider l'invitative Citoyenne Européenne pour interdire les "thérapies" de conversion visant les personnes LGBTQ... 🤞🤞 Mais la date limite c'est DEMAIN !! 😯 Vous aurez bien 3 minutes à y consacrer ? 😉 eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

You can now submit a commentary on our paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... We're very much looking forward to reading your commentaries and discussing our hypothesis with you!

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The dataset of this survey (data anonymised) is open and available to anyone. Please use it! Federico and I conceived of it and carried it out in 2021 while at @crasshlive.bsky.social. Part of Expertise Under Pressure project. Many UK colleagues, namely 1188, completed it. Thank you! #openscience

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Imaginary worlds like Star Wars and Game of Thrones dominate global culture. Are they really a recent phenomenon, or have they always been central to storytelling? In our latest paper, we investigate the historical trajectory of imaginary worlds with new large-scale data.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Philosophers: spread the word!! Full-time research postdoc, 3 year job in St Andrews-Arché within the Leverhulme-funded WIKI project: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply by clicking the link above, check the Further Particulars attachment there for details. Deadline: May 2.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

👨🏻‍🎓 Do you speak ORCiD ? A large scale study just released in Scientometrics 📈

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Obituary for Frans de Waal psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... I've long held that he was a better psychologist than the vast majority of psychologists. #PsychSciSky

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Latest papers: Benoit Guilielmo & Artūrs Logins arrive at a better understanding of what suspension of judgment is in this open access article by questioning the popular assumption they call the Triad view doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Question to the community: what is the oldest measure of happiness/subjective well-being you know (that has been used at least to some extent)? During my PhD I thought for a long time that it was the SWLS (from Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin, 1985). 1/2

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Intéressé(e) à l'idée d'enseigner et de réaliser une thèse de doctorat en philosophie des sciences dans notre équipe du SPS à l'UNamur ? Voici une offre en or pour (jusqu'à) 6 années de mandat d'assistant(e) : jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2025-...

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La 24ᵉédition du Forum des Sciences Cognitives aura lieu le 29 mars 2025 à l'@normalesup.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social ! Le thème 👉 Cognition, Art et Créativité. Le forum sera suivi d'une soirée festive ! Programme et inscription sur fsc2025.heysummit.com. Venez découvrir les #SciencesCog !

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I can't wait for us to collectively figure out how to get rid of this scam of a system.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine a person who acts one way online (by email, on social media) but a different way in person. Which of the two is more revealing of their true self? Our new paper: This seemingly simple question shows something about how people see certain environments as ‘natural’ osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments

Aaah, the good ol' days, naively reading social psychology, being astonished by the studies and their results, and trying to remember everything, without being a grumpy killjoy saying, "Meh, I'm sure this doesn't replicate"

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Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

One of the most fascinating reads I had in the past few months. Congrats to the authors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Next week - on the International Day of Happiness 20th of March - my new book will be published in English! The title is: Stop Chasing Happiness - A Pessimist’s guide to a good life 🙃 More about the book in this thread:

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

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....

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

🧪A starter pack of European scientific societies and associations🇪🇺🇬🇧 📣 Repost to connect researchers on #BlueSky🦋 #research #science #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SciSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicBluesky #SciComm #PostDoc #ECR #ECRChat #NewPI #PhD #PhDSky #MedSky #StandWithScience #eloquenti

submitted 73 days ago • 21 comments

We are hiring a postdoc. philjobs.org/job/show/28842

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to commit my first TED talk at TEDxKI: tedxki.com/events/ The topic is optimism about the future. Hope to see some of you there! Tickets available now 🎟️ #optimism #happiness #resilience

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Reading "Happy City". "It is not certain that we can all make the leap to universal empathy, but what is clear is this: as a social project, the city challenges us not just to live together but to thrive together, by understanding that our fate is a shared one". Yep. Could not be more accurate.

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Mistrust in experts is high. So, under what conditions should people defer to experts and when do they actually do so? We synthesized the philosophy and psychology literatures on deference to experts in this preprint, soon to be published in Philosophical Psychology. (1/2) https://buff.ly/3ERGzqq

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

What are the most common pseudoscientific or bullshit claims you encounter in your daily life about well-being? For example, the law of attraction, the distorted stoic trend, or catchphrases such as "what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger", or "it’s all about willpower", etc.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments