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-...

Why would you even both calling your approach ecological if you explicitly endorse indirect perception and representational solutions? Gibson should have trademarked the name. This is honestly getting out of hand

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

[CONFERENCE ALERT] May 5-7, EMBODIED COGNITION AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY Universidad de Murcia (Spain) Invited speakers: Louise Barrett, Lucia Jacobs, Susana Monsó, Paco Calvo, Matt Sims & Aditya Ponkshe. Check out the full program here: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site/program

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...

"If we ask ourselves candidly 'what has neuroscience taught us about cognition that we did not already know from behavior?' we realize that unfortunately the answer is 'not very much.'" (Niv, 2021) I'm curious about what's the general take in the field about this claim 🤔

@tonychemero.bsky.social and I have written a short James Gibson's bio for The Palgrave Encyclopaedia for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Check it out! ⬇️ doi.org/10.1007/978-...

@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

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?...

Luis Favela and I just finished editing a special issue on dynamical cognitive science for topiCS. The great contributors of the issue talk a little bit about what happened in the last 30 years, where we are now, and where we are heading to. Here's the intro (open access): doi.org/10.1111/tops...

Ah... I'm so invested in what we could call "non-standard approaches to cognition" that I often forget that out there in the real world we still lay comfortably in the arms of Immanuel Kant/René Descartes/pick-your-own-Modern-poison... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I like the idea of the book. Indeed, ecological resonance is pretty much about it. Now, unpopular opinion: ecological psychology is not a form of anti-representationalism. I say more: representations are NOT (or, at least, should NOT be) a relevant topic within the ecological approach.

"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly) www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...

Just signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

As an ecological psychologist, when I read: "the PBDR approach is always grounded in the physics of light transport... [...]... because it allows the identification of perceptual invariants." It actually sounds like: "we use the optic array to find perceptual invariants." I like it!

A little bit of spam, but this one is honestly one of my favourite papers I've participated in. I still think there's a whole dissertation to be written on this topic--ecological psychology & epistemology.

"meaningful affordances" "bio-mechanical affordances" "mental affordances" "non-representational affordances" Please stop. Stop with the adjectives. It makes no sense. Thank you.

I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇 youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg

What is plant nutation? What is a motif in science? What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience? How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science? Here are the answers: braininspired.co/podcast/223/

Some friends and I submitted a commentary Preprint here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... @guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social

Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇 doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

Want to make sure @mljanderson.bsky.social and @diovicen.bsky.social are seeing this.

"Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, as it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior." True! Happy to see this idea is growing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It never ceases to amaze me how angry some people in mainstream cognitive science get when one talks about non-representation/non-computation while they completely refuse to at least read something about it so they can have an actual reason to be angry that is not just "hey, normal science, bro".

@segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social: youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64 www.thedissenter.net

My impression is we’ve lost this kind of thinking in contemporary neuroscience: that we need good theories of the brain and *behavior* to explain stuff. James, Lashley, Hebb, Tolman, Skinner, Gibson… They all agreed on that.

David Lee just died. He formulated tau/time-to-contact, the most famous bit of ecological information. He is one of the main reasons why ecological psychology is still alive. We all are indebted to him. I met him once and ended up having dinner at his place. Very cool guy! RIP

Affordances are motifs. Representations are motifs. A sentence with both words can mean anything! 😱

No os lo vais a creer, pero en el otro lado hay un grupo de filo-bros discutiendo durante días sobre si hay ideología en la ciencia. Al quinto día empiezan a apelar a Popper. Hay que quererlos.

I work (mostly) on ecological psychology and (often) on plant intelligence. And you can’t imagine the amount of ideological reviews I get. Really bad scholarship, if you ask me. Is this also the case for people working on more mainstream frameworks?

The best of all left 15 years ago. #longlivedio www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RiJ...

¡NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! "A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative Cognition" Authors: Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett You can download it from here: miguelsegundoortinphd.com/publications

This might be the best BlueSky thread to date. Don't be like Vinny.

In an alternative universe, cog. scientists *read* eco. psych. and find out that... 1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations. 2. Affordances aren't what they think they are. 3. The core is ecological information. 4. 50 years+ of experimental work.

I'm happy & sad. Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience. Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain. Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

I should probably know this, but there's any ecological psychologist in the Toronto area (maybe Southern Ontario in general)?

What do you think is the statement most often (uncritically) repeated in cognitive science, biology, and their philosophy that is nevertheless quite obviously false? In my opinion, it is: "Organisms face an uncertain, ever-changing environment."

Abstract acceptances have gone out (finally, sorry for the delay :) Still some spaces if anyone would still like to present! Drop me an email if you are interested Registration is now open at the website - early registration runs till the end of this month

We just talked very briefly about causal cognition in the wild - w/ @annafinke.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First blog post for our forest intelligence project! www.um.es/mintlab/inde... @diovicen.bsky.social #plantintelligence

I guess Descartes ended up with the famous "cogito ergo sum" because he locked himself up to think and only think (at least from his point of view). If, instead of that, he had been running, maybe he would have ended up with "curro ergo sum", which is specially cool in Spanish.

Beren - El Afilador (Los Suaves Cover) youtu.be/CwT32BYccKc

The more (usually plant) biology I read, the more I see (plant) biologists treating psychologists in the same way they complain they're treated by physicists. I don't know who needs to read this, but respecting the knowledge from other fields is usually a good strategy for scientific collaboration.

Beren - Oración Beren is just an artisan who makes or interprets music. Everything here is recorded by using one guitar, one voice, one computer, and a couple of free apps. No proper mics, no proper room, no closed door or window... Just music. Raw. Homemade. Hopeful. youtu.be/3E2CtpZybt0

Beren - Wasted Years Beren is an artisan making and/or re-interpreting music. Everything here is recorded by using one guitar, one voice, one computer, and a couple of free apps. No proper mics, no proper room, no closed door or window... Just music. Raw. Homemade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThsE...

@segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology, the ecological handicap, teaching, and learning in the Future Learning Design Podcast. You can check the episode here: www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/migu...

The open access version of A Drive to Survive is now available to download for free! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... (If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*) - also it has way less typos.

Very excited to share that @apotochnik.bsky.social and my element on Public Engagement with Science is out (+ open-access)) I'm really proud of this work of ours. It puts in writing much of the work + thinking done over the last several years @ucpews.bsky.social... www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Paper about all the things with Taraneh Wilkinson officially out now and open access. “Affordances, phenomenology, pragmatism and the myth of the given” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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