This is great. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... (free link) "Notably, half of the whales attending were not related to the mother." "The calf was rarely left untouched, and it was usually being touched by at least two whales simultaneously."

Imagination Isn’t Just Memory Replay — Your Brain Rebuilds It From Scratch Learn how imagination works in the brain and why it may come from higher-level systems, not just a replay of sensory experiences. www.discovermagazine.com/imagination-... #imagination #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

We think that consciousness is just a matter of running the right code—Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith disagrees—Research into animal minds suggests that consciousness arises not from software but from electrical oscillations moving rhythmically across cell membranes… iai.tv/articles/stu... #philsky

#WomeninEthics is taking a short break over the Easter period but we will be back soon! In the meantime you can check out all of the previous reels on our YouTube channel: shorturl.at/vQzMs #Ethics #PracticalEthics #PhilosophyMatters

Artemis II lifts off

Sybille Krämer argues for the power of Ada Lovelace’s philosophical thought in this fascinating essay: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

Day 26 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British mathematician Ada Lovelace! Lovelace rethought the potential of symbolic thinking, creating programming techniques that led to what we now call software. She is now the namesake of a programming language and a cryptocurrency! #herstory #womeninSTEM

The Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Margaret Fuller is a wonderful place to start taking her seriously as a philosophical thinker! #philsky #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth plato.stanford.edu/entries/full...

Day 30 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and journalist Margaret Fuller! Fuller rethought female intellectual solidarity, initiating "Conversations" that gathered women to discuss philosophy and social issues. With #Emerson, she founded American #transcendentalism. #herstory

Join us today for a special episode in the China series: to celebrate reaching the milestone of 50 episodes we look back at Warring States thought with the help of Bryan Van Norden! www.historyofphilosophy.net/warring-stat... #philsky #philosophy #podcasts #chinesephilosophy

Scientists & philosophers—from Leibniz to today’s AI visionaries—have dreamed of mathematizing reality, fully describing the world in equations that a machine can compute. But this is a dangerous illusion, argue mathematician&biochemist Jobst Landgrebe &philosopher Barry Smith iai.tv/articles/rea...

Your life data & willpower isn't a commodity. Billionaires should be able to buy islands, business assets, property. In other words—actual commodities. They shouldn't be able to buy YOU. They shouldn't have purchasing power of your beliefs, feelings, and life data.

We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion. People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops. open.substack.com/pub/dwarkesh... #science #AI

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Anthropomorphizing #AI Is Perilous brlawrencelc.com/2025/10/31/a...

Stephen Toulmin was born OTD 1922. If we get to Heaven and are offered eternal residence with Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Montaigne, few of us will ask instead to join Descartes, Newton, and “the exact-thinking but darker-souled geniuses of the 17th century.” #Philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫 #Booksky

How reading books regulates your nervous system Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body. bigthink.com/mind-behavio... #reading #NervousSystem #mind #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own." (Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

Reviewer #2 is a meme and at least partly a fiction, but it nevertheless reflects the real dark side of unfair standards, cultures of bitterness, and bullying that within in academia. These problem reviewers are a real phenomenon worthy of investigation. www.lexacademic.com/blog/whos-af...

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Also works for #philosophy…

It has been more or less standard terminology even before the LLM era. E.g. the article below is mostly about older concepts and describes "semantic vectors, also known as embeddings", which is another common LLM term.

Mathematician wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together seemingly disparate mathematical fields www.newscientist.com/article/2519... #AbelPrize2026 #mathematics

This is so depressing. I wrote about my strong dislike of the terms "content creator" and "influencer" in a short post last year: victorialivingstone.substack.com/p/content-cr...

Here's my periodic reminder that ChatGPT's "study mode," billed as a way for students to "learn" using this tool, remains a complete joke. Even if children engage "study mode" -- and boy am I skeptical that's happening -- it's trivially easy to just override the system prompt.

Large language mistake Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #LLM #AI #language #intelligence #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Delighted to be part of Michael Levin’s ongoing symposium on Platonic spaces in biology. My lecture focused on how we can use formalized algebraic models of language to narrow the space of candidate neural mechanisms. youtu.be/pqDnfNUlvRo?...

Imperfect Cognitions || Sharing Thoughts about Sharing Thoughts https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2026/03/sharing-thoughts-about-sharing-thoughts.html

The quality of AI-generated summaries is insufficient for academic use, and they will not provide the coherent, reliable overview you are looking for. By generating a summary you miss an essential step in processing, memorizing, and applying information effectively. www.tue.nl/en/our-unive... #AI

The Perfectionist’s Dilemma Perfection, and its pursuits, are mistakenly taken as givens—evidently worthy endeavors whose rewards contain magical, healing powers. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perf... #perfectionism #dilemma #psychology #philsky #PhilosophySky

Dr. J. spoke with philosopher Mark Walker about moral enhancement, universal basic income, theology and technoprogressivism. Mark Walker holds the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies at New Mexico State University. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/mark-walke...

Funded PhD position to work with the Averroes edition project in Cologne (fun fact: this is the same city as Köln, which I only belatedly figured out when I moved to Germany, which was very embarassing): averroes.uni-koeln.de/call-for-app...

74% of the world's population now live in autocracies, and only 7% in liberal democracies. Freedom of expression has declined in 44 countries.

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Object category warps the topography of object space for behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711098v1

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Explore 3D models of Met masterpieces "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made available to the public digital 3D models of a selection of masterpieces in its collection." www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75500 #art #museums "Old Plum" by Kano Sansetsu

"When it comes to peer review, these invariably rude, lazy, and smug academics are more likely to write things like ‘the authors seem to be reinventing the wheel and a flat tire to go along with it’." www.lexacademic.com/blog/whos-af...

Consciousness is the hidden architecture behind fundamental and quantum physics | By philosopher Harald A. Wiltsche Physics cannot escape its roots in phenomenology iai.tv/articles/con... #consciousness #physics #QM #science #PhilosophySky #philsky #philosophy

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

‘Beware of the idea of The Future Today–that is, of Today’s Future,’ Stanley Cavell wrote in the LRB in 1995. ‘It may be a function of Yesterday’s Today, and you will discover that Today was always already Tomorrow, that there is no time for origination.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1... #PhilosophySky

Ethics in AI Workshop | AI and Judgement - Philosophy | Institute for Ethics in AI Oxford The aim of the workshop was to examine the concept of judgement, especially in relation to rules & the extent to which judgement is an application of rules youtu.be/HA-uz4Z-YA8?... #PhilosophySky #philsky #AI

Ethics in AI Workshop | AI and Judgement - History | Institute for Ethics in AI Oxford youtu.be/45ssOn_z2vs?... #judgment #AI #rules #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

Moritz Schlick | With David Edmonds, Maria Carla Galavotti, and Cheryl Misak youtu.be/Rf-jlbQuSy4?... #Schlick #philosophy #science #philsky #PhikosophySky

The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 On the Art of Growing Older A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege x.com/themarginali...

Greetings! Since I’m a historian of science, I thought my first post in this space should celebrate the cyanometer, the device Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine just how blue any sky actually is

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

A frightening reading! "[...] by 2030, U.S. data centers will consume more electricity than all of the country’s heavy industries—more than the cement, steel, chemical, car, and other industrial facilities put together."

The Anxiety of Difficulty | Trying to read Thomas Mann Susan Sontag about her first encounter with Thomas Mann: “Everything that surrounds my meeting with him has the color of shame.” thepointmag.com/criticism/th... #ThomasMann #Sontag #literature #philsky