Amazing work!!!

Philosophers, why does everything you do turn into a “plague of distinctions” descending on innocent people just trying to live their lives?? Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky

Would you plug into machine that simulates perfect life? NO! When told they’re already plugged in, half stay-when reality looks worse, almost everyone does. We don’t value reality. Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. Link in bio #philosophy #simulation #reality

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Very excited to host Nathan Spreng at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá!

Thank you to the organizers and everyone that participated in the #nokings protests. To those who can’t and/or afraid to do so, you are #hope

I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]

RIP Jane Goodall 😞

I miss Obama :-(

132,877. That’s the latest official number of people who forcibly disappeared in Colombia during the conflict. 132,877.

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

Thank you, Senator Warren.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

The art of the no deal

This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Columbia. Harvard. UPenn. George Mason. UVA. UCLA. One by one, universities are being attacked—financially, politically, ideologically. Faculty & staff: don’t wait for it to hit your campus. Join the national movement defending higher ed. standtogetherhighered.org (sign up on homepage)

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

lovely thread describing our new paper on why temporal order affects people's causal judgments! beyond finding the research cool, I also hope you'll appreciate our pretty plots (courtesy of ggdist / @mjskay.com)

This looks great!! Can’t wait to read it!

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

"If you are a woman, acquire your contraception and birth control needs before you set foot in the United States. It is effectively impossible and/or prohibitively expensive in many regions to access reproductive health care or even basic contraception."

I’ll never understand nationalistic pride. Why be proud of that one thing that’s so clearly not up to you?

migos: mi sobrino y sus colegas tienen un canal de divulgación científica buenísimo que se llama "Shots de Ciencia". Le llega a mas de medio millón de hispanohablantes a través de las redes. Los invito a apoyarlos a través de una membresía en Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/shots-...

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

When you idolize capitalism, you end up moralizing poverty.

Another nice write up on our recent work on forgiveness: greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Nice write up on our recent work on memory and forgiveness, spearheaded by Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and in collaboration with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray and Leonard Faul. www.psypost.org/scientists-s...

“I am your Republican congressman”. These are Republican policies.

📢 now out @natrevpsychol.nature.com In a new perspective w/ @davidnagy.bsky.social & @gergoorban.bsky.social, we reconcile a glaring problem in applying rate-distortion theory as a framework for human memory, integrating empirical findings across a host of human memory research 🧵👇

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when the left is the party that’s fighting to preserve the constitutional status quo, you are already in big trouble.

Amazing work by the incomparable @asinclair.bsky.social. Congratulations!

This is such a cool paper!

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)

Awesome new paper!! Congratulations @khoudary.bsky.social !!

Motion to make “basket” the collective noun of deplorables.

Thank goodness for John Oliver youtu.be/07JQr5W3970

NEW: per the CATO Institute, over 50 Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador prisons 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗨𝗦 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗟𝗔𝗪. Dozens of 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗟 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 were stripped of their status and imprisoned in El Salvador. www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...

Last week, I had the honor of hooding my first graduate students, Cortney Howard and @shenyanghuang.bsky.social (w @felipedebrigard.bsky.social). Ceremonies like these bring clarity to the complex process of academic study. I know now that what we do is sacred.

Holy macaroni! This is incredible! The always phenomenal @franklandlab.bsky.social did it again! Congrats!

This is really good!!! Check it out!

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

In case you haven't seen it yet, M&C is doing a special issue for Larry Jacoby. It says 4/30 for a due date, but I believe we're allowing for some more wiggle room. www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby

A reminder for this CFP on work related to the philosophy of Dan Dennett. Contributions could be in Spanish and English. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Dendritic arbors structure memories | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...