I am extremely proud of what Camilo, Moritz, and the whole team have put together for this year's Models of Consciousness #MoC7. Stellar choice of topics and speakers, and an amazing social programme aimed at true exchange among participants. Come join us! #ConSci Talk application is now open.

More good news: the special issue on “The Brain Abstracted” by the great Mazviita Chirimuuta just dropped @phimisci.bsky.social. Check it out here: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... (1/2)

Looking forward to presenting later on our experience teaching Systems concepts at Trinity College Dublin, to the "Complexity Group" run by Paul Middlebrooks @braininspired.bsky.social. If you want to join or get on email list, go here: braininspired.co/complexity-g...

Looking for a #PhD or #postdoc position on predictive processing? 🧠 Please, get in touch if you are the perfect fit to join my lab at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

I had a great talk with philosopher of biology Dan Nicholson, for the New Biology project with Marginalia Review of Books, about going beyond the machine metaphor in biology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ds0...

Reminder that the deadline for talk abstract submissions for the upcoming 'Rewilding the Web' workshop at the University of Edinburgh on the 28/29th May has been extended to the 31st March. Supported by @schoolofppls.bsky.social and @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Details in image and alt text.

If you have got the opportunity, this sounds like an interesting workshop. Talks from @anil.recoil.org are always a lot of fun!

I'm co-organising this workshop on the idea of rewilding digital infrastructure in Edinburgh on the 28/29th May - and am somewhat overawed by all the incredible people who've agreed to speak. And you could be one of them... If you submit an abstract by the (new deadline) of the 31 March.

Registration is now open for our two-day **"Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics"**, https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1 an interdisciplinary event on **19-20 […] [Original post on biologists.social]

🔥My first paper is out in Synthese — open access: “From simulating to duplicating the brain”🔥 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Abstract below. Would love to hear what you think (and especially any objections / counterexamples). @springernature.com

Delighted to see this volume out and open access with lots of interesting chapters related to the human right to science. My chapter explores the notion of ‘epistemic jurisdictions’ as a way of better understanding the interlacing of local knowledge and scientific knowledge under this human right.

And if you want to understand why this is so, in many, many cases, watch the Channel 4 series about Sandi Toksvig restoring a woodland. Fly tipping, vandalism, ground torn up by motorbike and 4WD 'offroaders'.

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

In episode 886, I talk with Dr. Randall Beer about autopoiesis, enactivism, dynamical systems, and evo-devo approaches in Biology. #Science youtu.be/1YcSgczYqKk

1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint! @claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy. Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social

The just-announced Open Source Endowment is now on Bluesky, and we're open to your ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects 🙏

Archaea hit prime time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10) Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling. Abstracts due 1 June 2026 👉 www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/cfp-d...

Our fantastic podcast conversation with the inimitable philosopher and physicist Michel Bitbol has just dropped. Check it out for a wide ranging discussion of physics, reality, and consciousness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z0N...

Applications close on Monday (16 March) for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science! Supervised by our CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan, this studentship is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪 gift link 🎁

I'm co-organising this workshop on the idea of rewilding digital infrastructure in Edinburgh on the 28/29th May - and am somewhat overawed by all the incredible people who've agreed to speak. And you could be one of them... If you submit an abstract by the (new deadline) of the 31 March.

Indeterminism means pervasive indefiniteness, not determinism-plus-randomness. Henry Potter, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & George Ellis explain why this is so and what it implies for the free will debate in their new paper in my Topical Collection, see link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FreeWill

Are we really about to talk to whales? Join us TODAY for a fascinating talk by Luke Rendell, who has a number of seminal papers on human and animal social learning. Dont miss this! See you at 11am:

New paper: The origins of meaning: From pragmatic control signals to semantic representations philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

Philosophy has this journal and the papers in it are so good that they have to lock them up in a place called the ‘philosophy documentation center’ so that no one can read them.

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

Incredible! The ultimate experiment. If we could only do something like this for brains, it would go *so far* toward understanding brain and mental conditions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally ! My book on metaphysics/biology soon out And open access #philsci #kant #histbio #organism www.routledge.com/When-Metaphy...

Happy 6th anniversary to us!! 🎉🎉 Thanks for spending time with us, old friends and new! As we celebrate this milestone, we've launched a short audience survey to get your thoughts on the show (and its future). We would be most grateful for your participation! Link: forms.gle/AnJSopuX8Cho...

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

so pleased that *Romantic Empiricism* is now out in Paperback for a much more reasonable price! *And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years* global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I love that, despite blue whales being principally known for their size, we're still unable to talk about them without specifically emphasising how huge they are.

I'll be speaking there as well, about rewilding all the things. Incredibly excited to be there!

@kathrynnave.bsky.social and Dave Ward are organising a workshop in Edinburgh on rewilding the web at the end of May! I'll be speaking about https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-internet-ecology there, and I hope to see some of you there too!

Super excited to announce our big annual conference! 🥳 "Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI" 📍Prague, October 12-14 Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly 😇 Please share widely! 🙏 cetep.eu/news/cfa-car...

This PhD studentship will look at how concepts in ethics and political philosophy might give us new perspectives in philosophy of science about concepts of idealization, representation and model use. Find out more & apply by 16 March 👇 edin.ac/46cHXPd

Yes I found this on the “sounds like a Mountain Goats lyric” group

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

Applications are open for #CompNeuro, a live, intensive online course. Participants learn to combine modern #MachineLearning and causality frameworks with advanced modeling approaches to tackle real #neuroscience questions. neuromatch.io/computationa...

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

I’m excited to finally announce a Festschrift SI at Acta Biotheoretica honoring the work of Bill Wimsatt with the SI’s first publication by @consume.red and @philosofir.bsky.social! The editors (@caitlinmace.bsky.social and I) are delighted! #philsci #hpbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This Wednesday, 16:00 — @cperistianis.bsky.social How do you farm land patrolled by soldiers? Since 1974, Greek Cypriot farmers have cultivated fields inside the Buffer Zone — alongside military forces and UN peacekeepers. In person & online. Register forms.gle/5rSrXr1TyDW8...

Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester: March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep See eventbrites below

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

1/6 Excited to share the call for posters & registration for the 2nd XSCAPE Workshop: "Varieties of Externalism" ! 📅 Friday, April 10th, 2026 — Gallery Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex Registration is free but places are limited. 🧵

I'll count this hilarious @bergerandwyse cartoon as a map 😉 🗺️ 🐦️

Philosopher Jordi Galiano-Landeira here argues that Spinoza’s philosophy is panpsychist – matter contains mind – and that integrated-information theory can help solve some of the remaining problems with panpsychism. iai.tv/articles/con... #Spinoza #consciousness #IIT #philsky #PhilosophySky

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