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Massive congratulations to my friend and @jhu.edu colleague, @chazfirestone.bsky.social! Chaz will receive the 2025 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, in the area of perception and motor performance. A well-earned honor for a superstar!

tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime (thank you apa!! and everyone!!)

This week in the Psychological Sciences Department:

Highlights from Maria Waggoner's talk 'Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI' at the CAIC Brown Bag on Friday

Telling myself over and over again that it doesn't matter cause we still have hockey...

Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) invites submissions for its next annual meeting, to be held in Halifax June 4-6, 2026. Submission Deadline: Saturday January 10, 2026 #HPS cshps.ca

It's one [philosophy] battle after another 🎃 Happy Halloween from the CAIC Brown Bag Series!

The CFP for the Association Association is live. See the poster for details:

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I've caught a bug and it's destroyed my sinuses. How does anyone write philosophy with clogged sinuses? I presume it's impossible. Wittgenstein might have written during WW1, but this is way worse I promise.

Are there any photos of Davidson when he's younger? Could never find one.

Oh, and for those who enjoy spitting their coffee out at memes, we have an absolute winner from @okaydaniellle.bsky.social 10/10, Danielle!

Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

This Saturday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk during @ispsm.bsky.social's annual conference. The talk is part of a symposium on realism in neuroscience. Check out the ISPSM profile for a link to watch online 🧠

@evanwestra.bsky.social is heading to Princeton to discuss a paper titled 'Desire without Metarepresentation' at the Perspectives on Perspectives Workshop 🥳

I want to be the Tom Bombadil of philosophy.

From Anthropic, Alan Turing Institute, et al. Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples share.google/spvtuhkQo0hq...

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! bigother.com/2025/10/16/o...

This Friday, @okaydaniellle.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled 'An epistemic problem for the realist about mathematical functions in neuroscience' at the CAIC Brown Bag Series! 🧠

Exciting news: My lab has published our first paper! Here, we review the literature on early social evaluation, and we make recommendations about how to best study social evaluation in infants and toddlers. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

I feel like I've lost about 150 friends simply by complaining about Dumbar's number. It is wrong theoretically, statistically, and also emprically.

“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPBio #evosky #evodevo

i mean, at the very bottom we have physical laws, not mechanisms relevant for bio explanations anymore. & Ned's example of gravity not being fundamentally computational is exactly there & bio isn't just macro-physics. evo history matters, & it needs its own vocab www.jstor.org/stable/30378... 5/

Our conference on Dialectical Biology, the Marxist tradition represented by the work of Richard Lewontin, is this weekend! Join us Friday to Sunday, online or in Toronto, register here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale... Help spread the word if you can!

Reactivating my account for the worst reason (to publicize a new paper of mine) On what human-centered AI might be and how it might help/hinder the development of our practical capacities, using empathy as a case study. You probs won't like it, but hey at least it's short philpapers.org/rec/KARPCE

October 10th, philosophy grad student Eric Servatius will be presenting a paper titled 'Signaling contempt: Immigration, social identity, and public contempt expressions' at The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum conference. Eric's paper was also chosen as the best graduate paper for 2025! 🥳

New Xphi Study with Matt Rachar just dropped: academic.oup.com/analysis/adv...

Philosophy grad student, @gibbonitathought.bsky.social has a new publication out now in Philosophical Psychology! 🦍 👶Check out the abstract and then read the whole paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Food causes 22-34% of climate change. But it only gets 4% of the media coverage. Why? Neglect. Misunderstanding. And a hell of a lot of greenwashing.

Rest in peace to Jane Goodall, without whom the field I have fallen in love with would not exist. A giant who will be remembered for centuries to come.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ok fine I'll read Reasons and Persons

We’re living though the Misanthropocene

🎙️ Have you listened to the Future Knowledge #podcast from #InternetArchive + @AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social ? Catch up on past episodes & get ready for a new one this week! 🎧 Listen & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm @Archive.org

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

When I correct someone and they say “I bet you’re fun at parties,” I explain what a terrible bet that would be.

Monte Dolack, Home on the Reef, 1994

Third: Gavin Robert Foster @gibbonitathought.bsky.social offers a critique of mental fictionalism based on evidence concerning mindreading in infants and non-human primates: doi.org/10.1080/0951...

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

New Publication! @evanwestra.bsky.social's paper 'Belief in Social Cognition' is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief 🥳 Evan argues that belief plays a modest role, rather than a central role, in everyday social cognition. Abstract here: philpapers.org/rec/WESBIS

"Mental fictionalism, in starting from the fully developed adult practice, appears to overlook the developmental trajectory that any adequate theory of folk psychology must capture."

Really excited to share my first ever published paper, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology: "From Monkeys to Infants: The Empirical Challenges Facing Mental Fictionalism" It's open-access, which I'm really happy about. Brief 🧵 on what it's all about! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Me when my prof doesn't give me a 95% on my monkey paper for philosophy of mathematics.

A lot of the justifications point to the number of Religious Studies majors—but is this really how a dept’s value should be judged? In many RS departments in which I’ve taught, our courses have enormous enrollments & student interest +

is there a better feeling than needing to reference a book and then having that book on your bookshelf? highly doubt it.