This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Interesting that after he became world-renowned, he tended to "make-up" less and less: "After “Hat,” ... his patients were far more likely to say ordinary, banal things, and they rarely quoted literature. They still had secret gifts, but they weren’t redeemed by them; they were just trying to cope."

Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Master in Cognitive Science #cogsci run by Univ Paris Cite & Sorbonne U is open for application for the 2926-2027 academic year. Tracks: #CogPsych #linguistics #philosophy #computational #neuroscience #neuroai Internships available in dozens of Parisian labs 100% English

💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Thanks to the LSE blog for the highlight! The one constant of all publishing reform efforts has been ludicrous publisher profit margins. We specifically highlight a need for funders to act. Find out more Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub

The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.

Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing. Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social). www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Huge if true, might revolutionise philosophy of perception

Paper out in Philosophical Psychology!

Philosophy-science collaborations as rare chances to adjust the normal focus of the lens- zooming in and out to examine different levels of analysis

New publication out in Philosophical Psychology! 🚨 "Explaining joint attention: Between epistemic justification and psychological processing" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication out in Philosophical Psychology! 🚨 "Explaining joint attention: Between epistemic justification and psychological processing" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huge if true! #philosophy #PhilPerception theonion.com/study-people...

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments! I'll announce the winner a week from now!

En Suède, la solastalgie du seul peuple autochtone d’Europe face à la ruée minière

New paper out in epistemology of perception! I explore other-centred or "altercentric" bias in perception: we unconsciously encode others' perspectives, which then biases/interferes with our own. But what is the epistemic status of such socially biased perception? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

C'est le moment de voter ! Paris en Selle a déposé 3 propositions en faveur des piétons et des cyclistes du quartier Bastille-Popincourt (11e) : rue de la Roquette, rue Charonne, rues Sedaine, Bréguet, Froment - Votez ici : decider.paris.fr/decider/jsp/... 🚶💚🚴

Very excited to announce ISPSM’s preliminary programme and call for abstracts for this year’s conference! ✨ Deadline for submission: 01/05/2025 See philevents.org/event/show/1... for full event details. #philsky

A monster thread for a monster work on videogames and agency. @edgardubourg.bsky.social‬ combined theoretical models of goal-directed action, dimensionality reduction techniques, and methods for automatically annotating cultural products to explain the variety of gaming preferences 1/6

📰 New paper out in @CognitionJourn w/ @juliegrezes.bsky.social & Elisabeth Pacherie ! 👉We found that perceptual metacognition can be affected when taking someone's perspective and estimating whether they also see the target doi.org/10.1016/j.co...