Hey #Greensky: if you don't already subscribe to Volts.wtf pod, get yourself over there & subscribe now. @volts.wtf is the pt. of overlap in the Venn diagram of #climate policy wonks, activists, energy, tech & business: he helps set the conversation across all of them. 🧵 below of some highlights.

@sarahrobins.bsky.social and Kathryn Maxson Jones are heading to the gulf for DSPN ☀️🌴 Sarah will be talking about deciding & remembering and Kathryn will be talking about the giant squid axon as the history of neuroscience keynote! 🦑

NJ friends: come by the Montclair Book Center tomorrow at 2p to talk about social change! www.montclairbookcenter.com/pages/events... @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

Still glowing after last night's event at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social, talking about social change with a big, brilliant group of people. Special thanks to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for great questions. This was the first stop for the Somebody Should Do Something book tour. More info below!

Grateful for opportunity on @profdolske.bsky.social and Rudy Salo's podcast! bit.ly/good-deets Longer form gave us breathing room to get deeper into the philosophy and social science @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social #booksky

New Publication! @evanwestra.bsky.social's paper 'Belief in Social Cognition' is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief 🥳 Evan argues that belief plays a modest role, rather than a central role, in everyday social cognition. Abstract here: philpapers.org/rec/WESBIS

New Publication! Maria Waggoner's paper 'Moral illusions' is forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social 🥳 Maria argues that we should rethink our conception of the ideal virtuous person and suggests alternative moral resources which a virtuous person could use to navigate cases of moral illusions. 📄👇

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This book by @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social and @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social magically appeases both my worried, Skeptical Academic Self, and my much more hopeful and admittedly atrophied Organizer Self. Go buy it!

In "Somebody Should Do Something," @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, Alex @madva.bsky.social, & Daniel Kelly (@dryan149.bsky.social) combine compelling stories with science to show how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive structural change: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

🚨 Excited to share a new paper 📃, years in the making, with Zach Wood. We propose that human evolution is characterized as an Evolutionary Transition in Inheritance and Individuality (ETII). Explainer and OA paper below:

@profdolske.bsky.social reflects on our convo on @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social with @dryan149.bsky.social (also ties back to an insightful previous episode on the "manosphere"). Gotta watch til the end! www.tiktok.com/@profdolske/... @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social

Excited for Gabriele Dillman and the opening of her very cool looking BankOnArt Gallery this November! www.bankonartgallery.com

Highly recommended for anyone interested in psychology, philosophy, and their intersection. I've been a member of MPRG for the past 13 years and they are a vibrant and fun group that really encourage you to push the boundaries of how you think about research questions. This fall's meeting is online.

Really enjoyed and grateful for this conversation... and the episode drops on Tuesday: publication day! 😬 @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social

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Yes we really appreciated the chance to tell a bit of the story behind the story and share some of the key ideas from the book with @mikealbertus.bsky.social !

Thanks @mikealbertus.bsky.social! This was super fun to do. @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

David Hume helped to divide what we now call ‘literature’ from what we now call ‘philosophy’. He did so by posing a devastating challenge to a literary tool that had long been used to practise philosophy: the character sketch

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Talking about social change with @madva.bsky.social on Business Talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=93AB... @dryan149.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...

Thanks for the great write-up @cunychancellor.bsky.social! @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

New publication from @sarahrobins.bsky.social on memory traces! Her paper is featured in the newly published book 'Space, Time, & Memory' which includes contributions from a diverse and interdisciplinary range of authors across Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy 🥳 Link below!

"In sports, the idea of 'no moral victories' is a cliché. But researchers who study social movements find the opposite. Once people persist in the face of a likely defeat, they often keep fighting." The authors of "Somebody Should Do Something" write for @nytimes.com:

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Like Rumi said, "That's the funny thing about hope. Nobody else gets to decide if you feel it"... and maybe the TX Dems can feel hope for democracy even though they lost the short-term fight over gerrymandering! Big thanks to Paris Schutz for having us on!

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Why AI needs Cog Sci 🤝 (including philosophers!): "The cognitive sciences...teach us that intelligence is about more than mere statistical mimicry." 👀 Check out Gary Marcus's insightful and timely new think piece discussing the relation between CS and AI. 🧠 🎂 🤖 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

Talking about gerrymandering and the fight for democracy with @madva.bsky.social www.fox32chicago.com/video/1702135 @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

25% pre-order sale at Barnes & Noble today through September 5th! Preorder this one if you haven't already: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somebody-s... @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky @barnesandnoble.com

We’re serving some freshly baked CAIC on Bluesky 🍰 👀 Head on over and give us a follow: @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social

@sarahrobins.bsky.social will be heading to The University of Mississippi for a philosophy forum titled 'Philosophy Meets the Life Sciences' on September 5th! She'll be presenting some of her recent work on memory during her talk titled "Memory Traces & Engrams, Minds & Brains" 🧠

@madva.bsky.social and I wrote a guest essay in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com on Friday. Until we were bumped from the top spot by Bernie Sanders' op ed calling for RFK's impeachment (dammit Bernie! he's right tho), readers posted a lot of comments. A quick 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

Mark Moffett from the Smithsonian will be stopping by the Mind & Cognition Research group during his visit to Purdue on September 5th. We're looking forward to welcoming him to the philosophy department!

I'm so honoured to receive the inaugural Stephen P. Stich award, particularly since Steve is a scholar (and person) I very much admire.

Honored to be among a fantastic lineup of moral psychologists!

The Moral Psychology Research Group will host an Online Gathering this fall November -- all are welcome! Speakers include Joshua Greene, Meltem Yucel, and Paul Bloom as inaugural recipient of the The Stephen P. Stich Award for Career Achievement in Moral Psychology sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

"The Texas Democrats fought a battle they almost certainly expected to lose in order to help the rest of us grasp the stakes of current events." The authors of "Somebody Should Do Something" explain how the Texas Democrats' battle — while a loss — is a core tenet of collective action:

Want a free copy of Somebody Should Do Something? @mitpress.bsky.social is behind a Goodreads giveaway. Check it out! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

Check out more about in on our book webpage! sites.google.com/view/somebod...

“When people fight principled battles that they know they may lose, others pay attention,” Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva write.

On the value of fighting battles you think you might lose @madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o... @mitpress.bsky.social