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Urte Laukaityte

@laukas.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher: synthetic philosophy, the mind and life sciences, history of medicine, psychiatry Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social; Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte

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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come one, come all - it's a great place to start!
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Check out my piece on the Brahan Seer figure - from its roots in the Gaelic oral tradition all the way to a 21st century cultural icon. Expect folklore, prophecy, tragedy, and a bit of belly dancing.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Applications are now open for our 2026 CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Winter School, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪. Attendance is competitive & fully funded thx to generous support from @templetonworld.bsky.social. Apply by June 10: cifar.ca/next-generat...
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CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFAR
Follow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […]
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
'Philosophers of Many Minds': A selection of our interviews with philosophers!! 🎙️🎙️ Now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6UZ...
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Philosophers of Many Minds
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It turns out my piece made it all the way to the Top 10 of 2025, despite an admittedly late start to the game in... November. You should follow the crowd on this one and read it!
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A look back out our five most popular episodes of 2025!! 🎉🎉 (in order of release)
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Tickled to be acknowledged with an 'honourable' mention by the 2025 Monochrome Awards in photography.
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Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)
“The sphere is the most uniform of solid bodies since every point on its surface is equidistant from its centre. Because of this, and because of its ability to revolve on an axis without straying from...
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
For the finale of season 7, we have a new audio essay out @manymindspod.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social! It's an exploration of names in the animal kingdom - what they are, who uses them, and why. In case you get hooked, we've put together a separate playlist of all our essays so far. Enjoy!
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Many MInds – Complete Audio Essays
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Barry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
American Canto...-nese man invites philosophers to apply to become the next great public intellectual. $1500, full room and board, and a three day workshop in essay writing, trade book proposal selling, and podcast production, in Tarrytown NY June 2026. marcsandersfoundation.org/philosophy-i...
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Philosophy in Media Fellowship 2026 - The Marc Sanders Foundation
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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Perverse, grotesque, sensuous, inimitable — our latest post gathers, in high resolution, a selection of 74 key works by the era-defining English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... And prints in our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...
Minimal, high-contrast illustration of two figures moving along a sweeping path beneath a large moon and layered clouds.

Decorative garden scene in black and white: a robed figure with a long patterned train walks past a sundial, framed by an ornate pear-and-leaf border.Stylized black-and-white scene of a poised figure with a flowing skirt beside an impish musician playing a long-necked instrument; bubbles and chandeliers accent the composition.Black-and-white Art Nouveau illustration of three figures crowned with grape clusters and ivy, surrounded by vines in a high-contrast design.
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Brains @philosophyofbrains.com · 30/10/2025
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…
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Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their environment. Computer scientists suggest artificial systems can at times draw better inferences than humans. For many philosophers, these ways of talking are nonsensical because only human reasoners can make inferences.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.
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Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.
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Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive Foundations
Cognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Consider reading my new piece on the history and science of the nasogenital cure! Incidentally, that's not exactly what the theory was and not quite what the episode reveals. Bizarre tales sound rather less bizarre in context - possibly, our own tales in our own context, too.
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Polaris Koi @polariskoi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
On train home after Method & Convergence 2025. I got so much food for my work! Slide is from @laukas.bsky.social nice ”PR talk” on synthetic phil… 🔥
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould.
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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.
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Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Thanks for a great 2024, friends! We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were... (in chronological order) 🧵
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Matthew Sims @philosobio.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
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Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 27/11/2024
A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills. Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.
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People: Portrait - honorable mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A (provocative) new chapter. If "cognition all the way down" holds up when things go right with capacities like perception, learning, memory, etc., it should also apply when things go awry. What could taking the idea of scale-free psychiatry seriously teach us about our own cognitive (dys)function?
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Delusion and inference | 38 | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of
Delusions are commonly defined as beliefs based on incorrect inference. But the term ‘inference’ is used in different fields with a lot of variation, which has
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
From Borch-Jacobsen, M. (2021). Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Reaktion Books.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
From Shorter, E. (1992). From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. The Free Press.
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
New episode!! 📣📣 An essay by our Assistant Producer, @laukas.bsky.social. We often hear about placebo treatments as controls—points of comparison for "real" treatments. But placebos are much more than that. Is it time we harnessed their power? Listen: disi.org/rehabilitati...
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Rehabilitating placebo - Many Minds podcast
Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
From Few, M. (2005). Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52(4), pp. 673–687.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
From Carnwath, T., Smith, I. (2002). The Heroin Century. Routledge.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
From Wuthnow, R. (2017). American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability. Princeton University Press.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
From Weatherford, J. (2010). The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire. Crown Publishers.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
From Wilkins, B. S. (2002). The Spleen. British Journal of Haematology 117(2), pp. 265-274.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
From Park, S. K., Lee, E. J., Park, J. W. (2016). Visual History with Choson Dynasty Annals. Leonardo 49(4), pp. 334–341.
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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
From Kotchemidova, C. (2005). From Good Cheer to “Drive-By Smiling”: A Social History of Cheerfulness. Journal of Social History 39(1), pp. 5-37.
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