Delighted to be participating in the @philsci.bsky.social symposium “Beyond Hierarchy: Heterarchical control in biological and cognitive systems” this fall, organised by Leonardo Bich and featuring a stellar line-up of contributors! ✨

New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).

It’s that time again! Delighted to announce the call for abstracts for ISPSM 2026 and our keynote speakers! ✨ Dates: 4-6 November 2026 Link for submissions: tinyurl.com/ISPSM-abstra... Deadline for submissions: 31/07/2026 #philsky

🌟KLI Fellow, Liberty Severs @libertysevers.bsky.social, gave a Brown Bag Talk on "Reinforcement learning and the organisation of agency" and sparked great discussion on agency and adaptation, representation in strange agents, etc. 👏👏👏 Check out her new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Some shiny new output from the non-neural cognition research initiative, out now open access in Biological Reviews ✨

Join us for another year celebrating ISPSM! Registration still open - and still free to all.

Excited to start my residency at the KLI today. For the next few months, I'll be writing-up a project on reinforcement learning and the operational foundations of agency, with a special focus on its ecological validity and underlying philosophy of control. #philsky #cogsci

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨ Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... #philmind #philsci #philsky

✨Delighted that NnCR’s own Qiuran Wang (@slimyleaf.bsky.social) will be hosting a keynote symposium on mapping theoretical and experimental perspectives on non-neural cognition, together with the excellent Margherita Bianchi and Leonardo Bich.

from www.instagram.com/yeweijun98 Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things! I wonder what's up with the peanut

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Niels Gaspers from our lab team is presenting NNcRs first poster and preliminary results at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social 🍀

Having a ball in Berlin listening to Ida Momennejad give a beautiful talk on redefining intelligence through ecology

started to analyse some pilot data this week - a beautiful and painful experience with our dear slime mould #slimecam

testing, testing… #slimecam #slimemould #slimemold