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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2026

📚 Happy Banned Books Week! 📚 We’re fighting across the nation to defend everyone’s freedom to read. We want to know: What’s your favorite banned book?

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Oded Ritov @oded-ritov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do chimpanzees value their friendships enough to pass on juicy pineapple? In our new paper, out now at Evolution and Human Behavior, we find that they do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot of the paper header on ScienceDirect. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 47, Issue 6, November 2026, article 106948. Title: "Chimpanzees steal less from their friends and expect them to do the same." Authors: Oded Ritov, Christoph J. Völter, Liran Samuni, Avi Benozio, Dacher Keltner, Jan M. Engelmann, Laura S. Lewis, Esther Herrmann.

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some CAIC highlights from the International Society for Moral Psychology Conference at Cornell last month! (Not featured: excellent presentations from Eric and Maria!) 👏 #ISMP2026 #MoralPsych #PurdueUniversity

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chandra Sripada, talking about ideas he also presented at the CAIC Launch Event last April -- all of which are now available on our new YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@CAIC-at-Pur...

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Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center

The Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center (CAIC) uses cutting edge cognitive science to understand different kinds of intelligent agents and the real-world consequences of their actions. - Cogni...

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T Revathe @revathe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using the data collected over 20 years on 21 infants between birth & independence, we find that social learning does the heavy lifting in diet profile development. How, you ask? 3/11

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today I finally won my fight in court against a slumlord! A great weight off my back and onto better things (and better leasing companies).

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me and @dryan149.bsky.social's commentary on @julianje.bsky.social and @yarrowdunham.bsky.social's excellent BBS target article "The Institutional Stance" just went live. JJ-E and YD argue that sometimes, we rely on role-based representations instead of mentalizing... philpapers.org/rec/WESWDW-2

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper! “Order of Explanation: Having it Both Ways” is now forthcoming in Noûs. It’s been a really fun paper to write and I’m stoked to share it.

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New Mr. Beast video idea: 20 philosophers have to live in the same house and the first to publish in Nous wins a million dollars.

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At a book store in Ithaca and seriously considered buying this for @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

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Wild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools | New Scientist

Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae

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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The chimps are not failing to understand the gesture. They were not paying attention to the person producing it. Communication rarely comes as an isolated signal. Gesture, gaze, voice and context work together. If we pull them apart, we may remove the very thing that made the signal communicative.

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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When the experimenter simply pointed toward the hidden food, chimpanzees were at chance. When he called their name, looked at them and produced food grunts—but did not point—they were also at chance. But when we engaged their attention and then pointed, they chose correctly 73% of the time.

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Javier Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Super happy to finally announce that our team at Purdue has been awarded $900k from NSF to develop an Adaptive AI Literacy tool for folks across disciplines!I If you have ideas in this space please reach out, I'd love to hear them and collaborate: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

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Award Details - NSF Award Search

Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

See you in England next spring for the third PAMBA meeting! Abstracts and submission for the PAMBA prize due January 7, 2027.

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New paper in draft! I've been working on this one since 2018, never satisfied, redrafting over and over. I'm sure it still needs considerable work, but I'm finally ready to circulate it. Walking the Walk Ethicists who advocate moral principles without trying to live by them will generally 1/4

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Feeling nostalgic for aliefs

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a very cool new book! Read it! Teach it!

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 07/09/2026

I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

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Javier Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pumped to be a collaborator on a 1.4M ERC starting grant aimed at studying the nature of Solidarity lead by Matthew Rachar. Our lab will run xphi studies to determine folks intuitions about solidarity and plural values over the next few years! Check it out! www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...

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ERC Starting Grant Awarded to Social Philosopher Matthew Rachar

Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin will receive over 1.48 million euros in funding from the European Research Council

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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0...

A conceptual schematic illustrating the logic of the studies. (A) Infants observe a central actor who shares saliva with one actor and does not share saliva with another actor. (B) From such observations, infants may infer and represent whether the actors are connected and how thick each connection is. (C) These representations support infants' expectations of who will respond to the central actor's distress.

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Sebastian Murgueitio Ramirez @murgue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It took a while but our paper on general relativity and causation in BJPS is officially out! This really started when working on my undergrad dissertation back in Los Andes under the supervision of Andrés Páez (in fact, that dissertation was my entrance into philosophy of science and physics).

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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s an unbelievable honor to receive this award. Getting to do it alongside such a dear friend makes it even better. Thanks for being wrong about everything so we could make it happen @felipedebrigard.bsky.social 😂😂😂

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Congrats to my brilliant colleague @sarahrobins.bsky.social!!

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

check out the invited program for the SSPP 🥳 It’s shaping up to be a great conference with some memorable sessions. call for papers coming soon! 👀 @natashasnature.bsky.social

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Another exciting new addition to the philosophy of social norms: Simon Fitzpatrick @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social 's new SEP article on Animal Normativity: plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

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Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have to be really careful when I read papers on teleosemantics because I'm super prone to fall into a deep rabbit hole and end up just reading 40 consecutive pages of philosophers who haven't taken a biology class since the 10th grade aggressively litigating the internal monologue of a frog

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Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What can development contribute to predicting evolution? I argue it sets what evolution can access, and this depends on timescale since different parts of development evolve at different rates. Hence coarse-graining: keep only what matters 📣 New in @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Listen, I get the hype around Fodor now. It took me reading Psychosemantics to appreciate that he's a snarky queen and not (only) a pretentious dick.

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What does it say about me if I love Donald Davidson's writing style and find him very intuitive, but feel the exact opposite about Tyler Burge?

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Stephanie Flynn @stephanieflynn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What a nightmare PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation | Tom's Hardware share.google/ExvNkuiN1bIl...

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archiv...

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

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Akshan deAlwis @adealwis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My paper "Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning" is forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. I argue that defeasible reasons aren't just premises in *normally* good deductive reasoning, despite what some very smart people think. philpapers.org/rec/DEARIF

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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 10/08/2026

new preprint! in my final grad school project led by @kmiceli.bsky.social & @ninavanrooy.bsky.social w/@felipedebrigard.bsky.social, we challenge ~20yrs of causal cognition research by finding a context in which people's causal judgments are completely *unaffected* by norms! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"the thing-in-itself is unknowable" ok buddy just say you're bad at reading the room and move on

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/08/2026

The beacon is lit

Small himalayan cat with her head in a barrel-shaped lampshade, creating a large shadow of her head

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i have a forthcoming paper that defends standard mapping views of computational implementation. i argue that their generality is a virtue and i make it clear how & why they are formulated as such, why that matters, + how the view relates to computational modeling in CS: philpapers.org/rec/WILWWD-4

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As a professional fact checker I would never *in a million years* use AI for research and fact checking. It lies! It makes things up! It plagiarizes! And I also have an obligation to the authors I work for not to do shoddy half-work.

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

my brain finally deciding it wants to edit and expand my backlog of papers the exact month i am legally required to do nothing but read for comps. just flawless psychological warfare from my own frontal lobe

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

rereading a book (Henrich's) about how the human brain evolved primarily to navigate complex gossip networks and realizing that academia is our purest state of nature

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Gavin Foster🦧 @gibbonitathought.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

He looks at you like this across the table at the conference dinner Is he flirting?

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