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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today at the 3rd symposium on the connection between physics and metabolism in brain functions, I will speak on metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The sign on the back entrance to the office:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My chapter in this anthology deals with this case: #philsci

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This Friday, I will be helping with the @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social Summer School for Widening Participation in Mathematical Philosophy. I will speak on "Thinking about metabolism when modeling cognition":

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My keynote from #IPM5, on "Conflict over and resistance to how we conceptualize memory." Taken by @sarahrobins.bsky.social

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For @gershbrain.bsky.social, if you don't have it already: (I can provide more context if need be)

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I will speak at "Atypical Cases of Memory: From Minimal Agents to Human Development" May 13th. My talk is titled: "What type of memory should concern us? Assessing the viability of taxonomic retreat"

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Several people seemed interested in my Philosophy of Scientific Communication course, so here is my schedule of readings. Thanks to everyone for their help; I hope to get to additional topics mentioned using these as the anchors:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I don't want to get too political, but I think it might be Sylvester. I found an article from a (reported by wikipedia) neo-conservative think tank about Sylvester the Cat.

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I will be a speaker at "Atypical cases of memory" this may. I intend to make my talk weird:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I am getting excited for this workshop in Berlin at the end of the month:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The minimal cognition workshop begins now:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I will be speaking at TU Berlin's "Relating explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience" this February:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

In Hannover for my talk on conceptual conflict

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Going back through my book chapter on sensational scientific claims. Here is a choice quote from McConnell (the cannibal memory person), published in Esquire:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My paper, " On consistently assessing alleged mnemonic systems (Or, why isn’t immune memory “really” memory?)," has been accepted for publication in The Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Here is the abstract:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

For scholars who get popular press buzz that comes across to the scholar as a misrepresentation of their work, I petition that you start posting this image with no additional explanation:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Guess what year this popular press article is from:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Drawing on the recent study of non-neuronal memory (see post below), I note a passage from one chapter of my book project, in which I discuss research on memory transfer via heart transplants (research that I suspect will be brought up again in light of this study):

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

The first image, taken from the Washington Post in 1961, for my talk at ESPP today:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Some of the international memory reading group attendees together at IPM4

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Reading Hebb talk about memory transfer is quite something

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Thanks to @thebusyowl.bsky.social for this photo of me talking about memory transfer via cannibalism and the idea of sensational scientific claims.

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

The Worm Runner's Digest only gets weirder once researchers attempt to study memory transfer in rats. I am surprised and perplexed by the sheer number of these cartoons in a peer-reviewed academic journal (I don't know whether to put scare quotes, and if so, where)

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Report of Angela Davis speaking out against the work of James McConnell, 1974

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

McConnell wrote an article for a music publication about getting sent a pipe bomb from the Unabomber:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

I have now acquired some of the behaviorism spoof articles that B.F. Skinner published in the Worm Runner's Digest. This image is a taste:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Talking about memory errors in Taipei yesterday

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

My paper "When remediating one artifact results in another: Control, confounders, and correction" has been accepted for publication in HPLS. Here is the abstract:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

@sarahrobins.bsky.social and I have had our paper "Why have 'revolutionary' tools found purchase in memory science?" accepted for publication in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. Here is the abstract:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Check out my talk, "Searching for cognitive errors in unconventional systems," this Friday:

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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

The Cambridge-MCMP Joint Workshop was good.

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