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One thing I did not expect about 2025 is that it will feel like 1925

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Serving Kant

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"we could make academic life more rewarding by systematically scoring the underappreciated behaviours and conduct that researchers value. The product might be called the ‘G+ index’ — G representing generosity" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🚨ALERT🚨 Do not miss the deadline for abstract submission, on the 26th of February! Looking forward to meet you at our event in Brussels 🧠

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Great thread on a really sad outcome of the German election

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JLn...

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There’s still time to register/submit a poster! #philsky #psychscisky #philmind #consci #neuroskyence

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I think the biggest hit to German national pride was a few years ago where the Swiss Railway Operator threatened to ban DB from running service into Switzerland (because late running services has a massive knock-on impact) but said that the Italians were fine.

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I have a paper out in Philosophical Studies. It addresses a common (and old) objection to illusionism about phenomenal consciousness philpapers.org/rec/KAMDCA-2 1/x

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The second new volume in the Elements in Philosophy of Mind series is Bayesian Models of the Mind by Michael Rescorla. Till 27 February you can download it free from this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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This "Plastics are awesome" article from Grist pairs nicely with this from @dpcarrington.bsky.social:

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Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers. epoch.ai/gradient-upd...

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Science colleagues in the US right now. We see you. Awful it's got this bad so quickly.

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Hey, we are organizing a cool workshop in April. We have a great lineup of speakers (in alphabetical order): @introspection.bsky.social , @manolomartinez.net Lucia Melloni, @stepalminteri.bsky.social , @shenhavlab.bsky.social, Frédérique de Vignemont, and Piotr Winkielman. Check it out!

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My Cambridge Element on Irrationality is out, and open access for a month! In it I discuss akrasia, conspiracy beliefs, self-deception, delusion, and implicit bias. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Great thread that made me look forward to reading the paper! Ever since I’ve stumbled on the cultural byproduct hypothesis during my PhD I’ve been wondering whether the original study from which it originated held any water/had been reproduced…

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Where do the dopamine hits does from? A new reward center in the brain is discovered (yes, single cell, spatial omics at work again) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access! Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠 Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠

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turns out the direct perception crowd was playing the long game

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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I fear there is deep truth here.

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More than 60 German academic institutions left X today #eXit

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DOOM: The Gallery Experience. https://bobatealee.itch.io/doom-the-gallery-experience

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Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...

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On Truth We are no longer in a culture war, we are fighting instead an epistemological war, where authoritarians seek to replace process with diktat: why truth is a gradient and not a boolean.

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Musk is intensively targeting two countries right now: the UK and Germany. It's like his playing a personal game of world domination: having taken control of the USA, he is now moving strategically to build his global political power, using his unparalleled wealth and endless free time.

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I’ve finally deleted my Twitter account and I couldn’t be happier with that decision. There’s really no reason why we should be giving our data to a neo-nazi sympathizer.

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