Bei #Grundlagenforschung kürzen? Keine gute Idee! so die Philosophin @asmeincke.bsky.social in ihrem Gastkommentar in @diepressecom.bsky.social. Denn Österreich brauche eine starke und vielfältige Wissenschaft. @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social Bessere Ideen 👉 www.diepresse.com/20152064/bei...

Warum Österreich eine starke und vielfältige Wissenschaft braucht: mein heutiger Artikel "Bei der Grundlagenforschung kürzen? Keine gute Idee!" in @diepressecom.bsky.social. #Wissenschaft #Grundlagenforschung #Österreich #FTIPakt #Geisteswissenschaften #Frauenförderung @ya-oeaw.bsky.social

#FWF Präsident Christof Gattringer befürchtet starke Budgeteinsparungen für #Grundlagenforschung in Österreich: 800 Arbeitsplätze könnten durch Kürzungen wegfallen. Die Unis würden dadurch weiter an Boden bei der Spitzenforschung verlieren. via @derstandard.at 👉 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Enjoyed being part of a *packed* final session of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social where we all witnessed @asmeincke.bsky.social make a compelling case to @kevinlala.bsky.social (in the room!) as to why he should explicitly adopt a process ontology for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis! 🌱🐋

Do you think (neuro)biology has killed free will? Think again. In our Young Academy Distinguished Lecture on 10 June 2025, hosted by @ya-oeaw.bsky.social, Alfred R. Mele and I argued the opposite. Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHGR... #FreeWill #philosophy #biology #neuroscience

🚨 Call for Papers: Tech Oligarchy Forum 🚨 Science as Culture invites contributions on how digital elites shape science, tech, and society—from AI monopolies to platform power 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #TechOligarchy #ScienceAsCulture #STS

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

@asmeincke.bsky.social following Al Mele, on free will…

I was indeed free to be overexhausted by a child who had not been feeling well, to forego the generous childcare offered by @asmeincke.bsky.social's colleagues, to watch the lecture from one's own home. Thank you for providing this degree of freedom :) #freewill Live www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltun...

Signed up for two academic events that offer on-site childcare. Let's hope that this works out for my <2 year old. Many thanks to @wobio-ubb.bsky.social & the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Science (esp @asmeincke.bsky.social) for trying.

#IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #ExStra #ExitExzellenz

Sind wir frei in unserem Wollen, oder sind unsere Entscheidungen durch Gene und Gehirn determiniert? Warum gerade die Biologie unsere Willensfreiheit nicht untergräbt, erklärt die Philosophin @asmeincke.bsky.social im Standard-Blog der Jungen Akademie. 👇 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

From Café Central to the University of Vienna, philosopher @martinkusch.bsky.social takes us for a walk through Vienna's intellectual scenes. Examining how past #philosophers like Wittgenstein worked through issues of their time, Kusch finds the tools to tackle troubles of our own. ⤵️ #philsky 🗃🧠

Today's the day! Martin Kusch's retirement lecture will take place in person & online at the Main Ceremonial Hall of @univie.ac.at Main Building. Link at the bottom of the article. This piece covers two of the 3 issues he'll address today, in his talk titled "The Road Ahead". #philsky #socialsci

Event information: Interdisciplinary Conference "Free Will: New Perspectives from #Philosophy, #Biology and #Neurosciences" 📅: 11th - 12th June 2025 📍: Johannessaal, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien & via Live stream Find out more about the program & registration here: ⤵️

Really looking forward to this workshop on Agency and Free Will in Vienna in June - you should come! Choose to!

In May 21st at 5:30pm (Vienna time), I will give my "Farewell Lecture" on the topic "The Road Ahead". If you are in Vienna, please do come (alcoholic beverage are free of charge!). The talk will be streamed here: vimeo.com/event/5014783 (Just in case you haven't got anything better to do.)

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Join us for the graduate conference "From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism" on May 8-10, at the University of Vienna. The conference's schedule, alongside other details about how to register and find the venue, can be found here: mindstomovements.carrd.co #cogsci #philsky

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What does it mean to be an agent endowed with free will in an indeterministic world? Is there empirical evidence for free will? Join us for the interdisciplinary conference "Free Will: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience", 11-12 June 2025, Vienna, Austria @oeaw.bsky.social

Has (neuro-)biology disproved free will? If not, can a case for free be made on the basis of biology? Join Al Mele & me for our YA Distinguished Lecture “Can Biology Help Us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy”, 10 June 2025, Vienna, 17:00 CEST, @oeaw.bsky.social @ya-oeaw.bsky.social

Mark your calendars for this event in Vienna, June 10: "Can Biology Help us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy." Alfred Mele and Anne Sophie Meincke discuss what philosophers can learn from #biology about #freewill […]

Another important call for scientists to stand up against Eugenics and Scientific Racism. Yet, not much said about the structural changes and the crucial role of humanities in this. #philsci #philsky #STS #metascience #popgen #evosky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For German readers interested in animal innovation and tool use. My new book is now available ! ( e.g. Amazon, Hugendubel, Thalia or via the publisher) www.brandstaetterverlag.com/buch/der-erf...

It has been a pleasure to contribute to addressing the challenges of #QuantumPhysics from the perspective of #ProcessMetaphysics.

If you live in #Vienna & have a young daughter, this is a great opportunity to take her to a university lab to get to know what it's like to do research. She'll get an official day off school from the city government. #scicomm #outreach

Mein kleiner Text über die grossangelegten Datenbanksäuberungen und Bildzensurkampagnen in den USA sow die veränderte Rolle von digitalen Bildarchiven angesichts generativer KI ist jetzt auch online frei verfügbar www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

This video is making the rounds in German #academia. The comments under the video show pretty well, that those cases of horrible treatment of junior researchers, specifically of non-German (speaking) colleagues, is not only limited to those cases and the Max-Planck society.

The absurdity of deporting (unverified) gang members to El Salvador while having these two (court verified) sexual abusers in the Oval Office.

On top of total capture of COP by the fossil fuel industry, we now have "Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit." At what point do we acknowledge what is now plainly obvious: that this is not the solution, but a big part of the problem, a coverup for BAU? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Support & solidarity sent across the ocean, as many friends & colleagues #StandUpForScience today. Science is an inclusive, collective enterprise, open to all. We are in this together 🧪

Ladies and gentlemen, a tweet from a senator who—like all other U.S. senators—swore to "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution, and to "support and defend" it.

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.

A new initiative after I joined the editorial team of Rudolphina Research Magazine @univie.ac.at: #RudolphinaReads, an interview series that recommends #UniVienna books & popular reads to go with it! This week, read Climate Fiction with Tatiana Konrad #clifi rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/rudolphin...

Deets! #March4Science March 7th (Fri), 1pm Vienna Organized by #scientists4future @s4fat.bsky.social Meeting point: main building of @univie.ac.at Press release: at.scientists4future.org/2025/02/24/7... #freescience

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

What's it gonna take for everyone to realize the occupant of the white house is fundamentally anti-American?

To paraphrase Zelensky, 'I don't need reposts, I need bullets'. Please join me in donating to Ukraine. Please give any amount that you can. There are multiple options for which specific cause to support at the link below. war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Don't sit in silence while history repeats itself. On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science. Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🧪

They’re feeling safe and empowered, that needs to end

Davor wurde gewarnt. U.a. von der Bundeswahlleiterin. Und die CDU hat ihr deshalb den Verlust ihres Jobs angedroht ... Weil sie den frühen Wahltermin kritisch fand ... www.n-tv.de/der_tag/CDU-...

Germany is voting for a new federal parliament on Sunday - but without me. Due to the short timeframe of this snap election, my ballot didn’t make it to Sweden in time. Disappointed and angry. It’s the first election I’m not voting in since I’ve become eligible.

Is David Chalmers right that organisms could just as well be zombies, beings without a mental life? No, I argue in my new essay in @derstandard.at. The ability to have subjective experience is essential to being an organism. Consciousness is inseparable from life. #mind #life #philsci #metaphysics