At Bonn climate talks, India urged "care and clarity" (as per ENB) in how the term 'tipping points' is used. European Union muddied the waters by raising concerns about misinformation. Tried unpacking the science of tipping points, what we know and what we do not www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

"The Condorcet Jury Theorem under Ambiguity" is the first paper I worked on in grad school. Now it is finally out in Ergo, check it out: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article... Special thank you to @lastpositivist.bsky.social and @becklukas.bsky.social for their comments and encouragement.

This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.

A new paper, forthcoming in PPR: Visual Icons This paper took me more than 5 years to write. It argues that the visual system constructs imagistic representations ("visual icons") and sketches a theory of how visual icons, and iconic representations generally, are compositionally structured.

If our experiences unfold like a stream over time, how would this stream unfold in other animal species? Together with @birchlse.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social, a review of temporal illusions and a path for temporal phenomenology in animals! a 🧵/n www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

In a global milestone, Peru’s Satipo and Nauta-Loreto regions have recognized native stingless bees as rights-bearing entities. Backed by a 2025 national law, the framework allows legal action to shield critical pollinators from deforestation and pesticides. Liz Kimbrough reports for #Mongabay.

I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

for students in mainland China who are interested in neuroscience & philosophy, what platform do they use to get updates? if a Chinese prof is to have a blog w/ regular posts, which platform would be the best for reaching the students? little red book? something else?

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

2 open rank faculty positions in #HPS at University of Sydney in Australia: "particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or #Indigenous knowledge systems." #HPS #PhilJobs

📰 Ancient pigeons were already living alongside humans 3,400 years ago, pushing back evidence for domestication almost 1000 years! 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social archaeologymag.com/2026/05/pige...

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

Feeling some sympathy for this author as I read the abstract for their paper. The fact/fart distinction does seem important though.

A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Starting a petition to standardize brain-region acronym pronunciation based on the precedent that NAc = “knack” ACC = ack VTA = vita SNc = sink DMS = dims GPi = guppy mPFC = m’puffk LHb = luh-hub BLA = blah CeA = see-ya DRN = durn

Well folks, never think your vote doesn’t count. In Haringey’s Woodside ward, Green councillor Hayley Jukes lost by 3 votes. If she’d have won, the greens would have had 39 councillors and a majority. Obviously a lot at play but an interesting example! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ha...

Now! Here's the schedule with zoom link for everyone who wants to join at the last minute: sites.google.com/view/phi-of-...

✨🧠 Tribe v2, our latest model of human brain responses to sound, sight and language can now be (partly) explored on your phone📱: ▶️demo: aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ 📄paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... 💻code: github.com/facebookrese...

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pleased to announce this is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. I first presented it in 2024, and thanks to many conversations I'm happy with how it turned out. Grateful to the guest editors and reviewers for their input too! philpapers.org/rec/OPEGRL

My CUP Element on "Wittgenstein and Relativism" can now be downloaded for free. I hope some of you will find it interesting. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philosophy #Wittgenstein #relativism

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Do you work in the Global South? @biologists.bsky.social is seeking Workshop proposals for their 2028 programme from researchers based in Global South countries. The Company is looking for an exciting proposal to bring a Workshop to your region. Find out more at www.biologists.com/workshops/pr...

Camillo Golgi, nerve cells in a dog’s olfactory bulb (1885). I love these early neurobiological illustrations so much; they look almost like they could be works of Russian suprematism

New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Good discussion on city planning with researchers from India, Ghana & Bangladesh, about cycling in countries where it is "not a leisure accessory but the primary means of reaching their destination." www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Based on a paper from Jan, 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... very nice paper on a mice model of blindsight i'm not sure if i'm fully convinced by their saliency control, but maybe i'm just picking hair let me explain: (a thread to follow)

This is the first time something like this has really excited me. Proper butterflies. Aristotle writes that Empedocles claims a universal law against killing living creatures, & Cicero says he argues for the same legal standing for humans & animals. But their sources are lost. Will these be them?

Deadline is next week!

I think we can just say this out loud now: the weird performative centre-right McCarthyism around punishing and attacking anyone mentioning or studying high-emissions scenarios has directly served the interests of fossil fuel companies trying to kill regulation of their dangerous product

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

NEW – Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Anubha Aggarwal Read here: buff.ly/r64g2LV

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

What are the systems in neuroscience that we really have something that we can call “explanation” at all relevant levels, other than reflexive feed-forward like circuits. Here are a few that I would argue are getting there. Obviously not complete explanations but genuinely satisfying.

1/ The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate! The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is currently seeking a postdoctoral associate to join an interdisciplinary research project focused on wild animals in urban environments.

If you're an early career researcher (postdoc or advanced postgrad) based in/around London, you might be interested in this workshop on April 20-21! philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Primatologists have long documented that group dynamics can substantially shift in response to different alphas with varying personalities (e.g., Prita & Singh, 1980; Itani et al. 1963). Might this be evidence of inter-individual variation in personality/ social strategies on group norms?

Disgusting and awful from Sheffield Hallum, and far from the first scandalous decision they've made. The leadership team should be shamed out of ever working in the sector again.

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

it's out! @hazimi.bsky.social and i explore how higher order representations of *one's own first-order representational uncertainty* -- not representations OF noisiness in the world -- can be studied, including how they are constructed in the first place. philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Looking for some good readings for a graduate student who is interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of music #perception. Any recommendations—philosophical or otherwise? #PhilPerception #PhilQ

Society journals are quietly innovating even as MDPI and Frontiers eat their lunch