For your weekend reading pleasure: Olesya Bondarenko reviews Plasticity in the Life Sciences, by Antonine Nicoglou www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

But not impossible; there's EEG work from van der Meer/van der Weel, for example, and plenty of ideas about what to look for in brains (resonance to information, vs encoding of affordances). And some of that work already explicitly connects the dynamical behavioural analyses to the neural scale

Finally, our chapter (with Louise Barrett and Paco Calvo) on ecological psychology and comparative cognition is Open Access. Please, read and share :-) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...

Our thematic collection on Progress in radical embodiment is now published in the May 2026 issue of Topoi Issue here link.springer.com/journal/1124... Our editorial introduction here doi.org/10.1007/s112... @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @guicogsci.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social

All they do is move on to the next very similar desire. Their mind and senses haven't been purified at all.

I'm extremely excited to be taking part in this workshop at the University of Murcia next week! embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site

Now published! We studied the relationship between movement and sound in the singing Siamang, by multi-source acoustic-kinematic tracking two juvenile individuals from Jaderpark Tierpark Germany. escholarship.org/content/qt10... @mouniakehy @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social

Brava, Sophie!! “The project is designed to strengthen pediatric health care practices by addressing reported gaps in practitioner training and fostering collaboration with American health care professionals,” says Tomov, a pre-med biology major, French minor, and Shankweiler Scholar”

Did you know - your library hold can easily nudge a library to order more books! At my local library, THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS had 1 e-copy the morning of release day. 40 people in line. By end of day they'd ordered 5 more copies & the audiobook Libraries rule & your holds legit increase our sales 🥰

Last word: History of science exists. Philosophy of science exists. Science and technology studies exist. There is no excuse for writing about science in complete and utter oblivion about vast scholarship that has produced a lot of knowledge and understanding about what science is and how it works.

@mjcrockett.bsky.social is totally killing it (pun intended) in talk about DEAD cognitive benchmarks. DEAD = Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized, Disembodied Super insightful talk at @sfiscience.bsky.social 's annual Science Symposium.

We (@edbaggs.bsky.social, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social, @guicogsci.bsky.social, & I) have organised the conference "Dimensions of Radical Embodiment" for the last few years [Stay tuned for the next one!]. And we just edited a special issue around it. Here's the intro: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

All we are is manifolds in the wind... That's not quite what Juan @juangallego.bsky.social says, but I do wish he sang it to me. We discuss all things neural manifolds, and a little motor control and BCI for spinal injury prosthetics braininspired.co/podcast/234/

Excited to announce that Prof. Alicia Juarrero just joined the fantastic line-up of Keynote speakers for the "Beyond Neuro-Computationalism" workshop. CFA here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

⚡🏠 With power outages becoming a recurring event across much of the US, backup power and grid support have become two handy uses for EVs. UCS's Sam Houston breaks down how to take advantage of these features in her new blog. Read it here: act.ucsusa.org/3NrnnEw

A guitarist performing classic 90's Autechre electronic music. I'm hearing not just a cover but something more and different from the original track. Delightful and unexpected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-9...

I’m thrilled to announce the release of #Simbrain 4, which I have been working on for over 10 years! For the last five of those years I have met almost every weeknight with Yulin Li and we have pair-programmed our way through the entire app, adding hundreds of new features.

@braininspired.bsky.social talks to @dewitmm.bsky.social, Luis Favela and @diovicen.bsky.social about the trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, how an organism’s interactions with its environment explains perception and action. #neuroskyence bit.ly/3OyNEkp

Really enjoyed this discussion on Brain Inspired. We talk about how EP is currently showing up in the mainstream, and how it might be done better. We also talk about neuro developments within the ecological community itself. Thanks for leading us through it, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social!

Do neuroscientists know what "affordance" actually means? (it seems perhaps not) Luis, Vicente, and Matthieu @dewitmm.bsky.social on neuroscience trying to adopt ecological psychology for an "ecological neuroscience" braininspired.co/podcast/232/

Luis Favela, @dewitmm.bsky.social, and yours truly talked to @braininspired.bsky.social about ecological neuroscience. Among other things, we tried to comment on how to make "affordances" and "ecological information" helpful for neuroscientists. Check it out! youtu.be/p987y_v-_PE?...

Is this bad

New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now. cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...

The call for abstracts for ICPA 2026 in Omaha is open and includes an intriguing idea for a book icpa2026omaha.com/schedule

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? "High-resolution activity maps of PFC did NOT align with cytoarchitecturally defined subregions." Key tenet in neuroscience is that cytoarchitectonic boundaries correspond to functional ones. NB: study in the mouse #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The real question is whether Lilliputian mushrooms make you hallucinate tiny people, or allow you to see the tiny people that we ordinarily can't perceive

New paper, out now! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

The second SPAN program just dropped and its amazing!! Consider submitting a project proposal. 🥳

A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Early career people: We have funding to subsidize travel to the conference.

Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study it’s performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You can’t begin with a well formulated question about a single topic. Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.

Symposium: Neurocognitive Functions of Mind Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Vincente Raja suggests that neuroscientists should pay more attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Wow! If this holds up, it will be a triumph of science (i.e., of many hundreds of dedicated scientists over decades) over a devastating disease.

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

I am super excited to be giving my talk "Characterizing neural function in ecological neuroscience" at the inaugural Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience conference @socphilneuro.bsky.social in St. Louis in May! Check out the incredible line-up of speakers and symposia: www.philandneuro.com

🚨 Call for contributions! We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025 We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas! Deadline: March 14, 2025 radicalembodiment3.github.io

No other being but humans has a right to liberty “no matter how cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated they may be.” A very disappointing ruling and a step backward from the NY ruling. Sadness ensues. #animalethics #animallaw

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

🚨Abstract submission now open for the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 15-18 July 2025, in Leeds UK 🚨 Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025 Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly) Please share widely! www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...

New Preprint! 🧐 We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️ doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/

Re-read this classic and love how Dewey describes perception as an act that is continuously transformed by new experiences (e.g. after touching 🔥, a child sees-light-that-means-pain-when-touched)—unifying stimulus/response, and framing perception as innately multisensory & memory-dependent (in 1896)

hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

Remember when we talked about this on the other site instead of facing threads of random blue-checks? We are finally starting to do it here 🥹 By the way, my take is that affordances are "motifs", so the concept is helplessly vague... and that's good! It helps us talk and guides us to good places.