Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Come one, come all - it's a great place to start! 053
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Check 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. 091
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteAnil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Applications 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...cifar.caCIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFARFollow 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 […] 01113
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteMany 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...open.spotify.comPhilosophers of Many Minds 12911
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026It 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! 082
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteMany Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 31/12/2025A look back out our five most popular episodes of 2025!! 🎉🎉 (in order of release) 2176
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Tickled to be acknowledged with an 'honourable' mention by the 2025 Monochrome Awards in photography.monoawards.comConceptual: 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... 060
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 21/12/2025For 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!open.spotify.comMany MInds – Complete Audio Essays 0235
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteBarry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 05/12/2025American 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...marcsandersfoundation.orgPhilosophy in Media Fellowship 2026 - The Marc Sanders Foundation 032
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteFelipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Good 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/submitssnap.submittable.comSSNAP Applications ManagerSSNAP Applications Manager Powered By Submittable - Accept and Curate Digital Content 05935
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Perverse, 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... 06016
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteBrains @philosophyofbrains.com · 30/10/2025Inference 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…philosophyofbrains.comInference in (neuro)cognitive systemsInference 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. 082
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.publicdomainreview.orgPerverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey BeardsleySelections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era. 050
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Inferential 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.taylorfrancis.comInference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive FoundationsCognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different 0217
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Consider 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. 1157
Reposted by Urte LaukaitytePolaris Koi @polariskoi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025On 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… 🔥 041
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould. 060
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteDiverse 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 15039
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.monoawards.comConceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria) 000
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteMany Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Thanks for a great 2024, friends! We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were... (in chronological order) 🧵 1207
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteMatthew Sims @philosobio.bsky.social · 12/12/2024My 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!doi.orgSlime Mould and PhilosophyCambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy 117331
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteKate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 27/11/2024A 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! 119519
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.ndawards.netPeople: Portrait - honorable mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria) 120
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A (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?taylorfrancis.comDelusion and inference | 38 | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy ofDelusions 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 1111
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 11/09/2024From Borch-Jacobsen, M. (2021). Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Reaktion Books. 040
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 14/08/2024From Shorter, E. (1992). From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. The Free Press. 030
Reposted by Urte LaukaityteMany Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 07/05/2024New 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...disi.orgRehabilitating placebo - Many Minds podcastExploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. 0113
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 26/02/2024From Few, M. (2005). Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52(4), pp. 673–687. 010
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 21/02/2024From Carnwath, T., Smith, I. (2002). The Heroin Century. Routledge. 000
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 09/11/2023From Wuthnow, R. (2017). American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability. Princeton University Press. 000
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 05/11/2023From Weatherford, J. (2010). The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire. Crown Publishers. 041
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 04/11/2023From Wilkins, B. S. (2002). The Spleen. British Journal of Haematology 117(2), pp. 265-274. 010
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 02/11/2023From Park, S. K., Lee, E. J., Park, J. W. (2016). Visual History with Choson Dynasty Annals. Leonardo 49(4), pp. 334–341. 000
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 02/11/2023From Kotchemidova, C. (2005). From Good Cheer to “Drive-By Smiling”: A Social History of Cheerfulness. Journal of Social History 39(1), pp. 5-37. 020