As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

I didn't know the famous planarian memory transfer experiments had been all but discredited... www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ

The Philosophy department at Exeter is exceptional. It has both a concentration of world leading researchers in the philosophy of the biological and cognitive sciences, and a unique departmental profile in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss to the UK philosophy scene.

New from BJPS Review of Books: Plasticity in the Life Sciences – Antonine Nicoglou Reviewed by Olesya Bondarenko www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #hpbio #philsci #philsky

Spent the last two years developing a new Intro to Physics course for undergrad biology majors. It features tons of examples from biology (especially Ecology & Evolution!) and requires only middle school-level math. Lecture note here shorturl.at/0PiVp Any comments or feedback are highly welcome!

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

Only one week left until our PhD application deadline @mpicybernetics.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the intersection of RL, RNNs, and analyses of neural & behavioral data from novel, cross-species foraging experiments, make sure to submit your application by June 15! #NeuroJobs More info👇

One of the world's biggest data centres is being proposed five miles from where I grew up. The planning proposal is total nonsense—but they're not fooling any locals. I attended the public meeting against the centre. Read my report: www.planetcritical.com/plans-for-ma...

Joint statement from international LGBTQ+ rights NGOs, including @ilgaeurope.bsky.social and @tgeuorg.bsky.social “How can any trans and intersex person travelling to the UK feel secure that they will be treated with respect and dignity while using services?” tgeu.org/joint-statem...

Delighted to be participating in the @philsci.bsky.social symposium “Beyond Hierarchy: Heterarchical control in biological and cognitive systems” this fall, organised by Leonardo Bich and featuring a stellar line-up of contributors! ✨

A missing link in the Neuromatch curriculum is finally getting filled! I am *so excited* about this course, thanks very much to the generosity of @connectedminds.bsky.social and to the outstanding and unparalleled leadership of Course Director @gunnarblohm.bsky.social!

Plans for next year. Bochum, Germany.

Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Interplay of Tissue Mechanics and Gene Regulatory Networks in the Evolution of Morphogenesis" Speaker: James DIFRISCO (Francis Crick Institute, London) 🕒 28 May 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

philevents.org/event/show/1... Philosophers of mind/cognitive science: please consider submitting your abstract to the 4th online conference of the @ispsm.bsky.social 👇 • Great line-up of keynote speakers • Deadline: 31 July 2026 • Online conference: 4-6 November 2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "Why Directionality Emerged in Multicellular Differentiation" Speaker: Somya MANI (KLI) 🕒 21 May 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

Thanks to @kathrynnave.eurosky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social and everyone else who joined us for this wonderful double-header today! ✨

Happening today!👇

Wondering when the next Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association meeting will be? PAMBA 2027 will be at the University of Warwick on April 27-29, 2027. Confirmed keynotes: Steve Butterfill, Marta Halina, Susana Monsó @martahalina.bsky.social @susanamonso.com Stay tuned for CFP!

🚨NEW PRE-PRINT🚨 with Leyla Cabugos and @marijapurgar.bsky.social doi.org/10.32942/X27... Replication is a fundamental part of validating and generalising scientific findings. However, replication studies are thought to be extremely rare in ecology and evolution (EE).

Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial.

Both books are free to download from @mitpress.bsky.social ! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Looking forward to the 2026 Rotman Graduate Student Conference at @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social Western University (UWO) with @danisbassett.bsky.social as a keynote. Registration, program (w all talks!), and zoom link w rsvp below: #philsci #philsky #HPS rotman.uwo.ca/events/2026-...

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Several new volumes in my Elements in Philosophy of Mind series are coming out. Here's the first, a superb survey of debates on agency by Elizabeth Pacherie. Free to download till 11 May! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Registrations are open for the Beyond neuro-computationalism workshop. Seats are extremely limited - so registration is really necessary Register here www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).

Hiring: Neuroscience roles at the International Brain Laboratory. We’re looking for: Neuroscience Community Engineer Neuroscience Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist All applications must be submitted by May 8th. Flexible US/Europe locations. www.internationalbrainlab.com/opportunitie...

We’re hiring! Interested in conducting research on cognitive control, multitasking and aging with @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social and me? We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cogtex.bsky.social at KU Leuven. RTs much appreciated! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Join our KLI Colloquium: "A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology" Speaker: Denis WALSH (University of Toronto) 🕒 16 April 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar

Department of Philosophy of Science at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran

🌟KLI Fellow Erica Calabretta @ericacalabretta.bsky.social delivered a Brown Bag Talk titled "Birds in Two Worlds: Carry-Over Effects of Non-Breeding Conditions on Spring Migration Ecology". Thank you, Erica, for the great presentation that sparked a lively discussion! 👏👏👏

More good news: the special issue on “The Brain Abstracted” by the great Mazviita Chirimuuta just dropped @phimisci.bsky.social. Check it out here: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... (1/2)

Sigh. When we use “is” like the title of this article, it’s almost completely meaningless because it’s true for nearly every possible thing (there is some evidence for X). Public facing articles should focus more on the question: Is the evidence any good? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a707...

Join us at LSE for a panel on the ethics of foreign intervention, with Kieran Oberman, Jonathan Parry, Paola Romero, and myself, chaired by Alex Voorhoeve. In person and online. www.lse.ac.uk/events/inter...

It’s that time again! Delighted to announce the call for abstracts for ISPSM 2026 and our keynote speakers! ✨ Dates: 4-6 November 2026 Link for submissions: tinyurl.com/ISPSM-abstra... Deadline for submissions: 31/07/2026 #philsky

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

🌟KLI Fellow, Liberty Severs @libertysevers.bsky.social, gave a Brown Bag Talk on "Reinforcement learning and the organisation of agency" and sparked great discussion on agency and adaptation, representation in strange agents, etc. 👏👏👏 Check out her new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to be co-organising a #cosyne2026 workshop with Alison Comrie on 'algorithms for learning from scratch'! With a great line-up of speakers, we'll be tackling the question of what processes enable naive biological & artificial agents to adapt to new situations. Info here: tinyurl.com/4u8enf7k

On the invitation for a commentary on Mazviita Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted, I had the pleasure of writing on equating the brain with computation. The Ontological Reversal of Computation and the Brain in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences. Below see what I agree & disagree with in the book. 🧵 1/n

Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org

My lab is looking to recruit 1-2 paid summer interns to do wet lab work on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). You can apply here: forms.gle/b47WpSobjFjo...

A special year for the Cajal Course in Computational Neuroscience: the BRAIN Prize winners Haim Sompolinsky and Larry Abbott will join us as keynote speakers. And we will bring you the same great roster of instructors as every year. Applications are now open! cajal-training.org/on-site/comp...

Interesting new book on the evolution of agency by Álvaro Moreno and Juli Peretó. I've only read the first few chapters, but I am already hooked! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Join our KLI Colloquium: "O Theory Where Art Thou? The Changing Role of Theory in Theoretical Biology in the 20th Century and Beyond" Speaker: Jan BAEDKE (Ruhr University Bochum) 🕒 26 Jan 2026, 3:00 PM CET 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)