Why seeing a graph works better than a table of numbers? (And how hunter gatherers were good at calculus.) Related to @macrinephd.bsky.social work on embodied cognition www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Many cortical traveling waves spiral. Here's how and why. Cortical Field Model of Complex Spiral Traveling Waves doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

2nd Ed of "The AI Wars" is now available from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/great-phi...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Academic collaboration request Dear Colleagues, if you are fluent in coding in Python, and also studied FEP/ActInf, you are interested in clinical psychology/psychiatry, please reach out via direct messaging.

The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025 www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #neuroscience

mind-blowing chapter by @chrisfields38.bsky.social. I wish I read this before. Very useful on many fronts chrisfieldsresearch.com/Chapter-13-F...

perception as the center of the bow-tie. Based on @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social work. What we perceive is the result of many-to-one mapping from the environment to the boundary. We experience a low-dimensional "summary." minute 43 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw...

On applying math to mental functioning directly. @chrisfields38.bsky.social "1-st order logic from fixed axioms is not a good description of how our minds work." minute 40 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw... A profound presentation on how the old "formal systems" in math are very limited.

Environmental Relativity of computations. Another important point by @chrisfields38.bsky.social "Computation is relative to environmental constraints. (The environment shapes the free energy landscape)" @ 31 min www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw...

On embodied cognition @macrinephd.bsky.social You might enjoy this talk by @chrisfields38.bsky.social. I find it to be deeply meaningful. One quote to start with: "Numbers are actions," as in "2" means - repeat an operation f you just did one more time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw...

Do you think such concepts as "signature" and "password" would still be used 10 years from now?

Neuronal identity is not static: An input-driven perspective doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

Total investments in AI in 2025 are estimated to be on par with what the US spent on two wars - in Iraq and Afghanistan, over the course of 13 years garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...

why the story of eternal existence (in the cloud or otherwise) is dangerous alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-danger...

Two related texts. On AI taking our jobs fear alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i... And on how this and "digital immigration" related to fear of immigrants www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

A must-read review. It argues that brain areas are only one of several organizing principles and are not especially central, given their weak correspondence to function. Cytoarchitecture and connectivity are a starting point, not the endpoint. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

CNS and immune system are deeply connected! Continuous crosstalk regulates #homeostasis and #neuroinflammation. Disruptions can drive #neurodegeneration, impacting cognitive function. Key areas: #gutbrainaxis #bloodbrainbarrier #circadianrhythms #Neuroscience #Immunology #Alzheimers t.co/LGun6OuCjX

Liquid biopsies are paving the way for a new era of cancer screening. Detecting tumor-derived analytes in body fluids, these non-invasive tests could provide early diagnosis for everyone! #LiquidBiopsy #CancerScreening #EarlyDetection #PrecisionOncology t.co/z60uD5OzmV

Useful paper. osf.io/preprints/ps... Citation "linguistic plausibility can mimic judgment without undergoing evaluation." That is the definition of "Narrative Fallacy" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/embr... #AI #LLM #judgement #epistemic #narrativefallacy

An essay about AI-related anxiety alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/the-last-i... #AI #LLM #worry #jobs #unemployment

All Evo is Evo-Devo. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

Voices, Hallucinations, Demons, Spirits & Psychotherapy - a conversation with Jack Raycroft-Sherry www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4-... #psychosis #hallucinations #voices #delusions #psychotherapy

Final version is out: @LPiolopez onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Atavistic Genetic Expression Dissociation (AGED) DuringAging: Meta-Phylostratigraphic Evidence of Cellular andTissue-Level Phylogenetic Dissociation" 🧪

We are hiring at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings www.politics-of-feelings.com for a part-time RA (ideal for people with BSc/MSc before they start their PhD) to help the Centre's research on emotions and politics. Please spread the word www.jobs.london.ac.uk/internal/Job... | Deadline 16/12

If you make a system that can self-replicate and is capable of mutation in a way that can respond to selective influences, that doesn't mean it's alive. Who agrees with that?

Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City. ✨ Submissions open December 1st!

A conversation with Diana Moga, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social and me on autism - diagnosis, treatment, biases, models, prevalence of trauma, environmental issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-... #autism #ASD

"The tech capital spending in 2025, is equal, relative to GDP to The Moon Landing, the Manhattan project, the Interstate Highway System, electrification of farming, the Triborough bridge, the Midtown tunnel, the Golden Gate bridge and the Hoover Dam."

I was asked to review a paper. Turns out to be an AI-generated mimicry. I can imagine editors are flooded with this now, especially from universities in certain countries that have rapidly growing citation indexes.

When you get a younger body, does you mental age change? A conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Thomas Pollak. We also talked about cancesusceptibility/resilience, brainwashing, regenerative medicine and other topics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8u...

RIP Paul Ekman

automated AI-powered hacking? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Itching! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Any cosmologists here? My friend Cedric Dominguez wrote a paper www.researchgate.net/publication/... I hope you read it and comment. He is very kind and friendly. #physics #cosmology

When you are on an exponential curve quote from @anilseth.bsky.social from www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzvs...

A problem of certainty in LLM answers. Gary Marcus & Karl Friston make an important point. In science and in life, the answer to many questions is probabilistic. In psychology (psychometrics) we talk about confidence intervals

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976 "Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum" Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian

"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

new paper with @robertchisciure.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era" 🧪

about 25% of patients in a PVS (Persistent Vegetative State) are conscious. I recall reading about the devices to measure that in @standehaene.bsky.social's book (GWS based). Christof Koch also worked on that and provided the statistics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GjW...

A new permanent R&T position at Lecturer level was just advertised at my favourite department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social (yes, I am biased but for very good reasons). Consider applying if you are looking for an academic home. And please spread the word !

Important paper in Lancet on SSRIs documenting the effects on weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, liver functioning. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

a bit of reality about the much-advertised hip&cool, earth-shattering, mind-blowing... rebranding of psychoanalysis (and a simplification of it) presented as something brand-new. www.thecut.com/article/trut...

What exactly is general Intelligence? www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

@anilseth.bsky.social Talks about this vibe of inevitability people have when talking about AI becoming human-like. Is it inevitable? The future is not written. We can decide where to go. Wise he is.