@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?...

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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.

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article. "Webb's (2019) groundbreaking work on understanding the neural contributions to cognition in materially embodied, embedded models of crickets and other insects provides an example of such a method."

PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable. plos.org/redefining-p... #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

CFP on Cognition in Social Contexts www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/worksh...

"This thing is like this other thing." "No it isn't! Look at all these differences!" "Indeed... if one or more of those weren't present, we would not be able to say there were *two* things in the first place. There would only be one thing."

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)

Episode 5 of our podcast is out! We discuss how complicated it is to assess intelligence, whether in humans, animals, or machines. With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick. Check it out! complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...

I am a bit afraid the whole Starter Pack business leaves behind trainees — make sure to follow / repost them if their work interests you so their voices are heard #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky

You asked for it...

The EJN special issue, "The Relevance of a Philosophical Toolkit to Advance Neuroscience," is here! Explore how interdisciplinary approaches can deepen our understanding of the brain and mind Co-edited with @smellosopher.bsky.social, I Sarto-Jackson, M Kunze onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14609568...

Save the date: the next European Workshop on Ecological Psychology will be July 15-18 2025, in Leeds UK hosted by me. Details to follow; please spread the word!

It is our absolute pleasure to officially announce the Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience (SPAN)! Our first meeting will be held in May of 2025: sign up for our mailing list to stay in the loop! 🥳🧠 philosophyofbrains.com/2024/10/07/a...

This is an active time in the lives of trees. Losing leaves is not a passive response to weather, but a complex set of processes to move N and other materials into the stem for winter storage. Colors protect the leaves from sun bleaching as chlorophyll breaks down, not to please us, though it does.

Please share widely: I am hiring a postdoc in philosophy of AI at the University of Florida! The AOS covers philosophy of AI, mind, science, cognitive science, and ethics, and we also welcome applications from PhDs in related disciplines. philjobs.org/job/show/27762

I am happy to see so many great scientists (including ECRs) joining and becoming more active here. It has reached the point where I can recommend students again to engage on BSky and make science communication a habit (instead of relying solely on LinkedIn 😬).

Can you help to make this go viral? Do you 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...

I had not looked at chatGPT in months but was finalizing syllabi and fed it a list of book titles and asked for ISBNs. It promptly spat out--every single one was hallucinated. Our university has appointed an "AI Dean," however.