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Lucas Battich

@lucasbattich.eurosky.social
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Researcher in cognitive science and philosophy of mind at the University of Tübingen 🧠📚🏔️ lucasbattich.com

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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, that makes more sense
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
You’d need a LOT of faulty beliefs and assumptions to make this behaviour rational. Some beliefs may be purely AI induced but I also suspect cult-like dynamics, etc, so this is probably stronger than AI psychosis
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Very happy to officially start a new Research Fellowship position at the Philosophical Seminar, University of Tübingen! @unituebingen.bsky.social I'll be working on a project on the sense of reality in perception, with generous support from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. New exciting stuff coming up! ✨
Front façade of the "Alte Burse" building, location of the Philosophical Seminar, University of Tübingen
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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Borut Trpin @boruttrpin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is now open for submissions! It is fully open access, with no fees for authors or readers. Please help spread the word, and do consider sending us your work. Very happy to be part of the inaugural editorial board. mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil
mathematicalphilosophy.org
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses
obc.copim.pub
When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026
calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!
I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
At a time when organisations say that what they desperately need isn't more coders or exam takers but young people with critical thinking and independent reasoning skills, it's a profound injury to the future to allow the closure of Philosophy programmes across the UK and US, including Dundee's.
c.org
Sign the Petition
Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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Rob Calver @robcalver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
Besides being a misguided/lazy approach, we do students a disservice by presenting philosophy of mind as being mainly about the mind-body problem, as if the last 20 years of empirically informed work were an aside. I agree that a different approach is welcome
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The heatwave in western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever, with almost half of Europe’s largest cities experiencing their worst ever heat stress, a combination of high temperatures and humidity. Unless we stop burning fossil fuels, future heat conditions will become even more extreme.
theguardian.com
European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say
Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ
c.org
Sign the Petition
Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
c.org/JGxvMV2MPq Please sign this petition to save Philosophy and our wonderful colleagues under threat at the University of Dundee.
c.org
Sign the Petition
Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
RIP Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi artwork from Persepolis showing you girl in hijab w “pink is not ded” on back. She is being grabbed by women in hijabs
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026
We had a great time at Purdue! Thanks to all organisers and funders for this opportunity to carry out a unique interdisciplinary project in animal color experiences, accompanied with the right training and support. Now to get working 🧠
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026
Is reviewer 2 a reader tho?
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Researching visual imagery? Consider submitting to this new cross-journal special issue on visual imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology, and Scientific Reports! We welcome a broad range of topics and methods - more info below 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising? Restrict access or invest in excellence? Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪
linkedin.com
#erc | Johanna Joyce
What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising? Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created? A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“ They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes
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Michael Prinzing @mprinzing.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Philosophy was mostly "armchair" in the mid-20th century—but it's not anymore! Philosophers have increasingly cited empirical sources and discussed empirical data and evidence. In fact, as of the 2020s, non-empirical philosophy has become the minority.
A graph showing the percentage of philosophy articles that cited empirical sources each year between 1970 and 2024. That proportion has increased from approximately 10% in the 1970s to over 50% in the 2020s.
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 30/03/2026
Team em-dashes! I hate that now I have to do a double take about using them when writing for gate-keepers (grant reviewers, job committees)
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 30/03/2026
Honoured and excited to take part in SPAN's Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration (ITRC) programme! We have a project on non-human colour perception with neuroscientists Jessica Lee & Chris Kymn and philosophers Mark Carstensen & me. Looking forward to start!
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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 19/03/2026
happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax
metacoglab.github.io
hmetad: an R package for hierarchical Bayesian modeling of confidence ratings
Implementation of Bayesian regressions over the meta-d' model of psychological data from two alternative forced choice tasks with ordinal confidence ratings. For more information, see Maniscalco & Lau...
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Johannes Kleiner @johanneskleiner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I am extremely proud of what Camilo, Moritz, and the whole team have put together for this year's Models of Consciousness #MoC7. Stellar choice of topics and speakers, and an amazing social programme aimed at true exchange among participants. Come join us! #ConSci Talk application is now open.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
And third, academic content is turned into valuable assets when authors sign copyright agreements with journal publishers, and then publishers make AI licencing agreements with big tech companies to bundle up their article archives for AI training theconversation.com/an-academic-...
theconversation.com
An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge
After news, art and music, generative AI has found a new resource to mine: academia
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 12/02/2026
Dear santa please give more time so I can keep writing to you for gifts
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Rose Trappes @rosetrappes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Inequalities in the funding landscape are actually a major barrier to OA publication. The author-pays model for OA means only those with access to resources get their research out there for all to read for free. OA should become truly open, for authors too! #OpenScience
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Jean-Baptiste André @jbaptistandre.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
1/ 📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year. 🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The Barcelona Principles propose some simple actions to create a less unequal play field between native speakers and non native speakers of English in philosophy. First among them: reviewers should not assess papers based on style. contesi.info/bp/
contesi.info
BARCELONA PRINCIPLES FOR A GLOBALLY INCLUSIVE PHILOSOPHY
We acknowledge that English is the common vehicular language of much contemporary philosophy, especially in the tradition of so-called “analytic” or “Anglo-American” philosophy. This tradition is i…
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026
When personal level sufficient & necessary conditions for a mental phenomenon X are taken as a description of the underlying psychological process for X. Example: Common belief and knowledge assumed to need recursive mindreading
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026
When personal level sufficient & necessary conditions for a mental phenomenon X are taken as a description of the underlying psychological process for X. Example: Common belief and knowledge assumed to need recursive mindreading
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Nicolas Hervieu @nicolas.eurosky.social · 06/01/2026
Ecriture inclusive : Le Conseil d'Etat valide l'utilisation par une ville (Paris) de l'écriture inclusive (point médian) sur des plaques commémoratives. Pour la 1ère fois, le Conseil d'Etat entérine le constat selon lequel l'écriture inclusive relève bien de la langue française. => bit.ly/49qbFB6
L'association Francophonie Avenir a demandé au tribunal administratif de Paris d'annuler la décision implicite par laquelle la maire de Paris a refusé de remettre dans leur état initial des plaques commémoratives regravées en écriture dite « inclusive », de juger illégale l'écriture utilisée et d'enjoindre à la maire de ne plus l'utiliser. Par un jugement n° 2206681du 14 mars 2023, le tribunal administratif a rejeté sa demande.

Par un arrêt n° 23PA02015 du 11 avril 2025, la cour administrative d'appel de Paris a rejeté l'appel de l'association Francophonie Avenir.

Par un pourvoi sommaire et un mémoire complémentaire, enregistrés les 11 juin et 8 septembre 2025 au secrétariat du contentieux du Conseil d'Etat, l'association Francophonie Avenir demande au Conseil d'Etat :
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1. Aux termes de l'article L.822-1 du CJA : « Le pourvoi en cassation devant le Conseil d'Etat fait l'objet d'une procédure préalable d'admission. L'admission est refusée par décision juridictionnelle si le pourvoi est irrecevable ou n'est fondé sur aucun moyen sérieux ».

2. Pour demander l'annulation de l'arrêt de la cour administrative d'appel de Paris qu'elle attaque, l'association Francophonie Avenir soutient qu'il est entaché :
- d'erreur de droit, d'erreur de qualification juridique des faits et de dénaturation des pièces du dossier, en ce que la cour a jugé que l'utilisation de l'écriture dite « inclusive » ne saurait être regardée comme l'usage d'une autre langue que le français ;
- d'erreur de droit, d'erreur de qualification juridique des faits et de dénaturation des pièces du dossier, en ce que la cour a jugé que l'utilisation de cette même écriture sur des plaques commémoratives ne revêtait pas systématiquement le caractère d'une prise de position politique et que son usage pour désigner un titre ou une fonction ne saurait, à lui seul, être regardé comme une prise de position politique ou idéologique.

3. Aucun de ces moyens n'est de nature à permettre l'admission du pourvoi.
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026
Y a-t-il un lien pour les autres arrondissements ?
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
nature.com
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 21/12/2025
A challenge for teaching but one that can be easily solved. Many students are usually a very motivated to try out different fields. The *real* challenge is for established academics on hiring committees to start seeing the value of those multidisciplinary grads.
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 16/12/2025
Interesting that after he became world-renowned, he tended to "make-up" less and less: "After “Hat,” ... his patients were far more likely to say ordinary, banal things, and they rarely quoted literature. They still had secret gifts, but they weren’t redeemed by them; they were just trying to cope."
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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Introducing Philosophy Corner - Tim S. Meese, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025
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Thérèse Collins @theresecollins.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Master in Cognitive Science #cogsci run by Univ Paris Cite & Sorbonne U is open for application for the 2926-2027 academic year. Tracks: #CogPsych #linguistics #philosophy #computational #neuroscience #neuroai Internships available in dozens of Parisian labs 100% English
cog-sup.fr
Application | cog-SUP
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
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Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thanks to the LSE blog for the highlight! The one constant of all publishing reform efforts has been ludicrous publisher profit margins. We specifically highlight a need for funders to act. Find out more Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
Experimental Philosophy
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing. Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social). www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
researchprofessionalnews.com
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 04/11/2025
Huge if true, might revolutionise philosophy of perception
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 23/10/2025
Paper out in Philosophical Psychology!
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 21/10/2025
I still find disjunctivism about hallucination really counterintuitive (compared to perception) after years of following the debate, so kudos for making it accessible
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Philosophy-science collaborations as rare chances to adjust the normal focus of the lens- zooming in and out to examine different levels of analysis
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 17/10/2025
This is pretty informative! Look forward to checking out Pinker's book. But the (prevalent) emphasis on recursive mentalizing for common knowledge seems to me a non-starter. I suspect a confusion here between epistemological models and models about what people actually do, psychological models
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Lucas Battich @lucasbattich.eurosky.social · 28/07/2025
New publication out in Philosophical Psychology! 🚨 "Explaining joint attention: Between epistemic justification and psychological processing" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
Explaining joint attention: Between epistemic justification and psychological processing
The ability to engage in joint attention, where two individuals attend to the same object or event together, provides an evidential basis for coordinated behaviors and interactions. To play this ro...
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