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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/05/2026

The serotonin chemical imbalance theories are very pervasive pseudoscientific ideas that even academics appeal to. > Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 28/04/2026

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

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Jenna Routenberg @jennaroutenberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What fuckin dogshit vibes did they use the code this app? This shit is borked

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

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Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA

Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The problem with cognitive science, and some other so-called "special sciences" as well, is to start off with a particular ontology/metaphysics of "mind" where everyone can disagree. Instead, metaphysics of mind should be post-empirical, not pre-empirical.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fodor's entire criticism boils down to the claim that "there is something called mind and it is representational other things are not so, so genes cannot 'code' anything, natural selection cannot 'select' anything etc." I agree on the last two points, but I disagree on the first two assumtions.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sciences used to begin their lives with some sort of theory that would separate them from "everyday understanding of things", i.e. something different from folk-theory. That would be the starting point to separate them from armchair philosophy, among other factors. +

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

One hour interview about my new book Intertwined Creatures. Watch at your own risk. (The main risk is hearing me say dumb shit.) youtu.be/j8rHowYx3HA

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Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero

YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If only someone could have warned them

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I've been reading this. I wasn't expecting Fodor to be a pro evo-devo / EES person as he is renowned for his naive nativism.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

For my second master's here at Tartu Semiotics, probably I'll be working on either paramecium or c. elegans. Sounds interesting.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I do want to use BluSky. But I can't. For some reason, even though the content I see here is pretty interesting, the interface, the platform itself, the layout etc. are boring, too boring.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

What were, in your opinion, the most interesting and prominent papers published in the fields of cognitive science in 2025?

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

We have translated "No one knows what attention is" paper. It's such a good paper that changes how one looks at cognitive science in general. A must-read!

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/12/2025

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Social Psychology evidence

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Neisser also hung out with the Gibson’s at Cornell, got really intrigued on the ecological approach, and freaked out the information processing people by writing Cognition & Reality. Good interview with him on all this here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Interview with Ulric Neisser

Published in Ecological Psychology (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2013)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We’re excited to host @mljanderson.bsky.social in our next CogIST Cognitive Webinar. For more information and registration the link is the down below in the replies! 👇

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I’m happy to share that my book chapter, titled “Artificial General Intelligence: What It Is, What It Is Not, What It Could Be, Is It Possible?”, has just been published in the new volume Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence by Doruk Publishing. 1/2

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Beynimizde dil nasıl çalışıyor? Dilin nörobilimini Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Melis Çetinçelik hocamızdan dinliyoruz. Kayıtlar sürüyor, seni de bekliyoruz! Kayıt ve bilgi için: cog-ist.com/duyuru/dilin...

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Join us on November 17 for an insightful talk by Dr. Jedediah Allen on how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory continues to shape our understanding of the human mind. More info and registration link is below 👇

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"Herbart’ın yaklaşımı, daha sonra psikofizik, bilişsel modelleme ve zihne işlemlemesel yaklaşımların gelişimini önceleyen bir çizgi oluşturdu." Gönderinin tamamını okumayı unutma!

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"Herbart’s vision of psychology as a formal science, grounded in mathematical relations, anticipated later developments in psychophysics, cognitive modeling, and computational approaches to the mind." Swipe for English and don't forget to read the full post!

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’ve been working on an essay but as I tried to avoid being misunderstood, it kept expanding until it became what is now a full paper draft. It starts off with a simple but unsettling question: what makes psychotherapy psychotherapy? 1/n www.yunus-sahin.com/radically-em...

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Essay | What's Wrong With Psychotherapy and How to Replace It?: Radically Embodied Therapy (RET)

Essay | Yunus Şahin - Cognitive Science & Philosophy | Psychotherapy lacks clear, observable criteria for what makes it therapeutic, a problem revealed by the Nonchalant Therapist Thought Experiment. ...

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host @sophieslaats.bsky.social , a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève. Registration link is below 👇 #cogist #cognitivewebinar

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

We are delighted to open our new series, Analysis by Synthesis, with a talk by Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu), one of the leading figures in contemporary biosemiotics. You can find the registration link below! 👇

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It can sometimes be difficult for a person or an organization to evaluate their own work from an outside perspective, especially as time goes by. Would you help us see our strengths and weaknesses? :) cog-ist.com/en/geri-bild...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's somewhat common to attribute 'anticipation' to systems relying on dynamical systems theory and complexity theory, and later even grounding representationality on this basis.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's not that an important discussion, but for instance, in a footnote in Clark Glymour's book The Mind's Arrow, he refers to Carnap as 'actually the first cognitive scientist' because he used formal mathematical tools to explain how the mind structures and represents data from the external world.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I was already feeling somewhat unease with the interventionist accounts of causation for a while now that I couldn’t quite pin down. It’s precisely because of that, somewhere in the thesis, I felt the need to drop a note saying ‘compatible with interventionist theories, but doesn’t entail them’.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I wonder if the new mechanists, had they named it something like "New Structuralism" without any reference to 'mechanism', and said exactly the same things, would the dynamicists today be raising the same criticisms they voice?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It's funny to me that this has basically led to a search for "is there a culture group that does not do this?" and so far the answer seems genuinely to be "no".

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

'Learning' out 'adaptive flexibility' in.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If psychotherapy were being constructed today rather than 100-150 years ago, a concept like the 'therapeutic relationship' would not be at its core. This is because the concept is open to both theoretical and practical abuse.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Genocentric biology appeals to such 'long-distance causal' relationships, and is so reliant on teleological concepts like coding, storage, information, content, etc., that it is not theoretically more 'robust' than the holistic approaches or vitalism it opposes.

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Yunus Şahin @herrbokologist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In the philosophy of mind, we often see functionalists claim that they differ from vitalists. This is incorrect. From the early to mid-20th century, some 'neo-vitalists' argued that life possesses a fundamentally distinct essence +

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We’ve now completed six years on this journey that began with the goal of bringing cognitive scientists together and introducing cognitive science to broader audiences. 1/n

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