The combination of Merlin Bird ID and PlantNet is a great way of turning your phone into a tricorder.

Check out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A fascinating new paper by Amanda Royka and colleagues explores why monkeys fail false belief tasks. A natural explanation would be that monkeys wrongly assume that other agents share their own knowledge. Royka et al. find that this is NOT the case... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 "Understanding & Predicting Cultural Change" is accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology! Varnum & I argue that Psychology cannot afford to be blind to time. We need to move from cross-sectional snapshots to dynamic time-series movies. 🧵👇

Invited speaker lineup is out for SPP 2026! More information on the meeting here: www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html Submissions accepted until Jan 16! Come hang in Baltimore; conference is at Johns Hopkins from June 17-20, 2026! @socphilpsych.bsky.social @joshrottman.bsky.social #SPP2026

middle-aged man breaking down sobbing at a timelapse video of his cv growing over the years

Maybe there are two distinct kinds of belief: they either represent facts (It's rainy) or express identity (My son is the best). We find instead that many beliefs simultaneously represent facts and express identity (but few beliefs do neither).

In this new paper, we look at some different dimensions on which beliefs vary: - Is the belief deeply important to your identity? - Would you change your mind if you got evidence against it? - Is it best described in terms of credences (“pretty sure”), or is it more yes/no? 1/

Pretty excited for me and @dryan149.bsky.social 's grad seminar on (our book project about) the cognitive science of norms next term:

Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching
 ⭐️Work from Leda Berio & Daniel Kelly

Titanic 😬

"Our power comes from the perception of our power." It's the theme of this week's episode of Control Room, where @derekgottliebphd.com and I revisit HBO's Chernobyl. And it also fittingly describes the house of cards on which our current administration is built. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

Latest papers: Gavin Robert Foster offers an ontogenetic challenge to mental fictionalism in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔥 New Publication 🔥 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social and @evanwestra.bsky.social have a forthcoming book review in MIND 🥳 Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/FOSROA

🚨 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social have a new review of Emma Borg's Acting for Reasons: In Defence of Common-sense Psychology. TLDR we're big fans. We also use the review as a chance to riff on the relation between reasoning and mindreading. Check it out!

Students after grades are posted

don't forget about this one either! 👀

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

"You will be haunted by three spirits."

Stop! That's my emotional support complete Mad Men rewatch!

“A few years ago, every amateur historian with a bit of European heritage was chuffed to learn that Charlemagne was almost certainly among his ancestors.” www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...

However, the real winner here is clearly Philosophical Logic. This logo is just so good. The lines evoke 80s logic textbooks. That interlocking P and L. Diamond for possibility. Diamond for real open access. It's a classy logo from a bygone era. So anyway, support good design and open access.

Fascinating piece in the New Yorker on Oliver Sacks, especially his homosexuality and -- unfortunately! -- the fabrications in his lovely and inspiring essays about his patients, esp. in Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Since the latter is 1/2

Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city. Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th. philjobs.org/job/show/30469

The only job outcome we should be preparing students for is the only job worth having: Wykeham Professor of Logic

I'm trying to make a list of all the PhD programs in philosophy with (TT/tenured) faculty seriously working in AI ethics. (Think about prospective graduate students looking for supervisors in AI ethics.) What's missing? Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue? (plz share)

New in @socialdevelopment.bsky.social! What's behind some parents' discomfort with their kids' intergroup interactions? Potentially assumptions about who is mean, pushy, reckless, or just too different. #devpsyc #socialpsyc #familysci doi.org/10.1111/sode...

As we follow the trajectory of the student at OU who wrote an essay citing zero sources and making no argument, got the instructor fired by claiming her 1A rights were violated, went on a tour of rw media and now seems poised to become a part of the TPUSA speaker circuit: (1/4)

Jake Paul is now Wykeham Professor of Logic

uhhh, what the hell?!

I know several instructors who are looking at the spate of professors getting fired for how they've tried to handle right wing op students being racist or sexist for viral clout and deciding it's time to leave before finding out that their university will sell them out too

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I get accused of cockeyed optimism from time to time and it’s not totally unfair. but I am very pessimistic about the ability of red state publics to maintain either academic integrity or academic quality while the primary concern of their boards and legislatures is culture war.

My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

an app for Outlook that filters journal rejections sent during evenings, weekends, and holidays into a separate email purgatory, so you don't have to see that alert pop up on your phone while you're chilling, and then it releases the email when it's a more appropriate time for that sort of thing

New perspective paper (w/ @sedaakbiyik.bsky.social, Joseph Outa, & @minjaek.bsky.social ) in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ⚽💭🧠👶 : www.nature.com/articles/s44...

AI for the win again

🚨🚨🚨 Our 52nd Annual Meeting will be held from June 18–20, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a pre-conference on Mental Control and Agency held at JHU on June 17 🚨🚨🚨 We are currently inviting submissions of papers (talks and posters)!

Shamelessly nicked from Kris McDaniel over on Facebook: the book review that will make your weekend.

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

SCOOP: The Computational Theory of Mind is in the Epstein Files.

Ready to start thinking about summer? ☀️ Issues in Philosophy of Memory 5 is headed to Purdue June 10-12, 2026 Keynote lineup is 🔥🔥🔥. Come join us! Call for papers is live. 750 word abstracts, on any philosophical topic related to memory. Submit by Dec 20th!

Somebody Should Do Something and a bunch of other cool looking MIT Press books are 40% off today through the end of the week! mitpress.mit.edu/collections/...

Inferentialists! Now is your time to act!!! The era of Verstand must be ended. We shall now proceed to construct the order of Vernunft!

🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge). Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...