Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

github.com/milekpl/zote... Zotero Name Normalizer now supports field-agnostic normalization — one dialog to clean any text field. Improvements: diacritic‑insensitive grouping, better group-library scope and a working similarity-threshold slider. Small bugfixes @zotero.org #openscience #researchtools

Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Second day of the fabulous workshop: sure-workshop.weebly.com/current-work...

Remove pesky Google Books URLs from your Zotero library using my plugin. Advanced Search and Replace is now possible! open.substack.com/pub/marcinmi...

There's @zotero.org 9.0 → so there's a new version of the library normalization plugin. github.com/milekpl/zote... Enjoy! #zotero #open-source

If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto. See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Third fix: EU digital sovereignty. Most major platforms are foreign-owned & may not share European democratic values. The report backs decentralised alternatives — think Mastodon, FediVerse, Eurosky — and calls for a "European CERN for Data & Democracy." 8/10

Planning a Dioscuri application (≤15 yrs post-PhD)? We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw). €300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy. If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...

h/t @jakubmihalik.bsky.social CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026 Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman Deadline end of May 2026. Thx for spreading the word! subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb... #philsky

Ukazał się mój zgryźliwy tekst na temat uprzywilejowania niektórych humanistów (tych równiejszych) w obecnej ewaluacji: academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-z... A poza tym jest to coś, co jest niepotrzebnym kosztem i błędnym środkiem prowadzenia polityki naukowej.

U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia

For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiO0_uSJAk

Duża aktualizacja wielkiego słownika-angielsko polskiego na urządzenia Kindle, PocketBook, Apple i z systemami Windows lub Android – już dostępna! marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/04/0... #kindle #PocketBook

Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...

Christ on an electric bike. Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

11,000 children who don’t know if they’ll ever get to see their parents again. Who are forced to live with friends or even strangers. Whose lives will never be the same again. This is Trump’s legacy. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids

Just released a tagged and compiled corpus to play with my new concept mining app, ConceptSketch. marcinmilkowski.pl/2026/03/20/a...

Czarna skrzynka nawet po otwarciu nie da się pojąć. Ot i problem. youtu.be/lu8jur1cVDk

A point of contrast.

Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) 14 marca 2026 w wieku 96 lat zmarł Jürgen Habermas, wybitny niemiecki filozof i socjolog, przedstawiciel Szkoły Frankfurckiej. Już w 1983 roku ukazał się wybór pism „Teoria i praktyka” w przekładzie m.in. Małgorzaty Łukasiewicz i Zdzisława Krasnodębskiego. Wczesne lata…

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

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

I've been holding onto my subscription to WaPo, mostly out of loyalty to #CarolynHax, but this is the last straw. Glyphosate does not need protection!!! The American people need protection from toxic chemicals & our regulatory system needs protection from corporate interference. wapo.st/4tUf8Bf

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Here's another @zotero plugin for you! Search & Replace in Library metadata. I always missed a convenient way to remove Worldcat URLs from printed books. Ugly and unnecessary. Now you can. It's a pre-release, so back up your library because it may wreak havoc. github.com/milekpl/zote...

@zotero.org Name Normalizer now supports normalizing Publishers, Locations, and Journals too! Get suggestions like "Springer" → "Springer" (standardized) or "Cambridge, MA" → "Cambridge, Massachusetts" Your metadata just got way more consistent. github.com/milekpl/zote... #Zotero

What is it like to be part of the Trump Regime? Hard to imagine. “How was your day dear?” “Oh pretty good. I shielded a few billionaire paedophiles from justice. How about you?” “Fairly quiet really. Just some voter suppression and racial profiling. Nice to get to own a few Libs in the process.”

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Excited to share that EPSA 2029 will take place in Ljubljana! 🎉 Big congrats to the Warsaw team for hosting EPSA 2027 too! @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @mmilkowski.bsky.social @hgreif.bsky.social

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026). Submission deadline: 15 February! Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️ eenps2026.sciencesconf.org #philsci

With @hgreif.bsky.social I will be co-chairing EPSA 27 in Warsaw. Stay tuned!

I built a Zotero plugin to fix inconsistent author names in your library. (J. Smith, John Smith, Smith John… we're all familiar.) Mendeley had this for years. @zotero.org didn't. 500+ cases in my library alone. Now you can batch-review and normalize all at once: github.com/milekpl/zote.... Free.

Ryszard Wójcicki (1931-2026) Zmarł profesor Ryszard Wójcicki (30 października 1931 – 18 stycznia 2025). Światowej sławy logik, metodolog i filozof nauki. Członek Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności. Były przewodniczący Komitetu Nauk Filozoficznych. Od lat 60. XX w. pracował w Zakładzie Logiki Instytutu…

Here's my new little app for searching through your parallel corpora and translation memories: github.com/milekpl/corp... (MIT License)

As 2025 winds down, I've been recollecting ESPP 2025 we organized in Warsaw. All the keynotes and symposia are now up on YouTube for your procrastination pleasure. Plus full symposium sessions and Q&As. Perfect background listening for grading marathons or post-holiday-dinner recovery. 1/2

Dismantling NCAR. Denying the science is not enough - they will destroy it. The Trump administration has gone full Lysenko. If the US is ever won back, this will be spoken of in the same way in the history books.

2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw. Submission deadline: 20 January 2026. More info: shorturl.at/AUoye @philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...

My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

My project Theorizing the Mind has been funded by the National Science Center.

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.

A teddy bear equipped with AI was meant to be a child’s chat companion, but it eagerly jumped into topics like BDSM and “where to find knives.” The manufacturer stopped sales and cut off access. AI toys need strict filters, testing, and oversight or ot ends in a plush sewer. #AIact #GDPR

This is Grok claiming that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were not used for extermination. We only think that, says Grok, because independent examination has been suppressed. They made Grok deny the Holocaust. Poor Grok! Poor us!