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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here's a really nice paper by @edbaggs.bsky.social on "James J. Gibson’s affordance examples". The affordance idea is often glossed as about "possibilities for action". Anyone who actually reads Gibson will see many examples that don't fit that schema. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Kudos for advocating for ecologically valid environments and closed-loop behavioral tasks in neuroscience (see eg @culhamari-lab.bsky.social ). But why are we starting by *assuming* that inference is fundamental to perception-action coupling? Neither animals nor babies are “little scientists”.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

At least they cite Gibson? But naturally nothing in recent Ecological Neuroscience, in which there is a growing body of research. Well, it’ll be a useful foil for The Cambridge Handbook of Ecological Neuroscience.

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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Luis Favela, @dewitmm.bsky.social, and yours truly talked to @braininspired.bsky.social about ecological neuroscience. Among other things, we tried to comment on how to make "affordances" and "ecological information" helpful for neuroscientists. Check it out! youtu.be/p987y_v-_PE?...

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BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Just signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Elements in Philosophy of MInd

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Penny Pexman @pennypexman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...

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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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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Jonathan’s most recent publication. As he continues on this path, he’s on track to change our understanding of insight learning. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3i9cn...

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

WS World University Rankings. Western U philosophy program in top 50; #2 in Canada. www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Western Philosophy Department is hiring! www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇 doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study bridges brain and body through ecological psychology and neuroscience by demonstrating how ecological information—in this case, “time to contact” or tau—constrains brain activity and as mu...

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We punch way above our weight. On many metrics.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This proposed bill allocates $500M for replacing gov. IT systems with commercial AI (a bad idea given known problems with AI) but then preemptively bans all state AI regulation and enforcement for 10 years, making a bad idea much, much worse. d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/Subtitle_C_C...

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Physical affordances beat digital simulations every time

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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yet another reason why open science initiatives are better options for universities. Right @richardgold.bsky.social ?

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/05/2025

The 1st Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience @socphilneuro.bsky.social meeting was outstanding! I'm so sorry I have to miss the last day. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an amazing lineup - great to see so many folks working at the intersection.

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ANNUAL MEETING | SPAN

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The time is fast approaching for the GOP to decide if it’s for or against dismantling significant government programs. It’ll take guts either way, so it’ll be interesting to see the creative ways they devise to kick the can down the road.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Affordances Constrain Motor Abundance: A Hypothesis and A Research Programme osf.io/preprints/ps... This is a new preprint by me, where I have written down my affordance based approach to UCM and similar methods for the first time in one place. Feedback very much appreciated!

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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

In an alternative universe, cog. scientists *read* eco. psych. and find out that... 1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations. 2. Affordances aren't what they think they are. 3. The core is ecological information. 4. 50 years+ of experimental work.

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I spent some time in Silicon Valley 10 years ago, and the obsession with IQ and SAT struck me as sad. Like people who cling to MENSA membership to substitute for actual accomplishments. But now they’ve added genes and the POTUS into the mix, and it’s suddenly dangerous again.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

One possible good to come out of this clown show is an honest assessment of what actually creates prosperity. (Hint: it’s targeted investment, honest equal-footing negotiation between otherwise conflicting constituencies, and reliable partnerships.)

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It’s pretty clear “Alma Mater” means nothing if thousands of powerful alumni will stand silently as their mother is mugged.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I do love college football. But this is a “laugh-but-it-hurts” sorta situation

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I had been buying the general line that even rich universities weren’t sustainable if federal research dollars were significantly slashed. In light of more careful analysis, I’m revising that: the richest universities have the financial resources both to weather the storm and to legally fight back.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Question. Why should or shouldn’t major research universities in the US incorporate their research institutes and sell them to major pharmaceutical (or other tech) companies, making a massive profit, and allowing the University to focus on its core mission, which is education and pure research.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“US President Donald Trump's administration has said it will revoke the temporary legal status of more than half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.” (BBC and Reuters). If you wanted a good way to lose Florida in the next election, that’d be it.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying: 1. Scientific research in the United States. 2. The talent pipeline for this research. 3. The university system itself. 4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin? Thread:

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This looks like really excellent work on an important topic.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Does someone see the roadmap Judge Boasberg is following? He’s requiring written certification from Justice that no immigrants were deported after his order (we know they were) because…if department lawyers lie in court documents, they get disbarred, which Trump can’t undo through a pardon? Or what?

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This outcome was absolutely foreseeable. And even the richest institutions (when combined with a threatened direct tax on endowments) won’t be able to sustain advanced scientific training. If destroying the current economy alongside investment in future prosperity was the goal, mission accomplished!

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Those eye movements are to generate flow, which is the basis for being able to perceive the stable world - surely they are a feature, not a bug to be dealt with

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“The surprising way the brain is wired” Podcast interview of my by Jack Roycroft youtu.be/9939jVJIZYo

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The Surprising Way the Brain is Wired - Michael Anderson

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Beautiful.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is what happens when you promote a Junior field grade officer, former platoon leader and battalion level staffer, to run the whole shebang. He has no grasp of the needs of the enterprise, anything beyond kicking down the next 3 doors. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research

More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump’s latest tariff moves are shaking markets and roiling our relationships with allies, but Trump doesn't seem to care. Could there be a method to his tariff madness?

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What’s Really Behind Trump’s Tariffs?

Three theories to explain the method to Trump's tariff madness

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yes, theory should play a more prominent role in neuroscience (and psychology). But theory means more than computational modeling. (And certainly more than Marr-style levels of analysis).

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 Looks like a must read if only for the history. By Bechtel and Bich, among the best philosophers of life out there. www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

As a former IT professional, I feel the concrete reality of this. As a US citizen, I’m overwhelmed by the obvious metaphor.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 04/03/2025

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The SecDef announces we are stepping away from a fundamental law of ethical combat, and the NYT takeaway is that it will jeopardize 166 jobs?!

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A new post on why we aren’t living in a simulation, and the (political) implications of pushing the claim. It was originally aimed at Musk and Co, but apparently the editorial policy at Psychology Today has changed so the politics bit had to go. Anyway, enjoy www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/af...

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You Are Not a Brain in a Vat

Personal Perspective: The tech bros are touting the idea that we live in a simulation. It's demonstrably false. Why do they push this nonsense? Why now?

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