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Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Now out in @aimagazine.bsky.social - Against "AI Welfare": Care Practices Should Prioritize Living Beings Over AI philpapers.org/archive/DORA... led by @johndorsch.bsky.social ! We propose a novel guideline, the “Precarity Guideline,” to sidestep protracted debates about AI consciousness. We 1/11

Left: an endangered biosystem (the Amazon rainforest), a child holding up a cardboard sign that says "I'm hungry", and 10 endangered species;
Center: a "greater than" sign;
Right: the supercomputer used to power ChatGPT

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humans are remarkably good at recognizing other animals from appearance🐾 Our new study in J Cogn Neurosci @MITPress shows this ability is surprisingly resilient to visual information loss, using EEG, behavioral measures, and deep neural networks. With @jrhochmann.bsky.social C. Spriet F. Rostami 🧵👇

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

fie upon us all, lest the bigger be true

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In my capacity as associate/area editor for two different journals, I've gone quickly from seeing a few papers that may have relied a bit on AI (like a year ago) to seeing many papers very recently where Claude or GPT clearly led the writing and the framing (and where this is unacknowledged).

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When is distinguishing imagery from perception really a problem? Is this ever just trivial? In this paper, together with philosopher Nick Shea and @smfleming.bsky.social, we aimed to answer "Why do we need imagination-reality monitoring?" -now out in #NCONSC! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

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Why do we need imagination–reality monitoring?

Abstract. The ability to imagine scenarios decoupled from the immediate environment supports a wide range of cognitive functions, such as planning, memory,

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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com. Psychedelics don’t simply disorder the brain. We found hidden, context-sensitive organisation beneath the apparent chaos -- strongest in people reporting more positive, profound experiences and a reduced sense of separation from the world. 🧵👇

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Steve Downes @stevemdownes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Lamb's Canyon, UT last night.

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

philpapers.org/rec/SHESTS-2 doi.org/10.1007/s112... doi.org/10.1111/mila... doi.org/10.1080/0004... doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We gave 24 talks! We had a workshop in BCN on creative cognition, and speakers from all over the place came and shared their work. We’ve published a few papers (links in next post), and what I think of as our best papers are yet to be published – making their way through minefields of reviewer 2.

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My two-year project, The composition of creative intelligence, funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation, is coming to a close. I think it’s been a huge success. I got to work with Andrea Rivadulla-Duró - if you know her you know how good she is. And she is on to much bigger and better things.

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UCL Div. of Psychology & Language Sciences (PALS) @uclpals.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Congratulations to Dr Megan Peters from UCL PALS who has been named a 2026 FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar. The honour recognises outstanding early-career neuroscience researchers for their scientific excellence, originality and leadership. 🔗Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49

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Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The philjobs ad is up for the research role on our ARC Discovery Project on VR and knowing what it is like. Full time, research only until March 2029 (with a possible 4-6 month extension subject to grant approvals). Need existing approval to work in Australia. #philjobs philjobs.org/job/show/31529

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Research Officer (Philosophy), La Trobe University - PhilJobs:JFP Research Officer (Philosophy), La Trobe University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My book is now out! www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy... It's about wine—but also about much more! It introduces a special kind of artifacts, naturefactual ones, which are artifactual vehicles for the appreciation of nature. Natural wine is offered as a paradigm case. 🧵

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A Philosophy of Natural Wine: Nature, Artifacts, and the Space in Between

This book examines whether wine can be natural and explores what this means and why it matters. Natural wine is one of the most contested notions in contemporary food and drink culture. Its defenders ...

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Models of Consciousness @moc7.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We are excited that @meganakpeters.bsky.social is our next keynote speaker at the 7th Models of Consciousness Conference #MoC7! She investigates the mechanisms behind metacognition and perceptual decision-making, shedding light on their links with conscious experience and AI consciousness.

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you to the amazing Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social) for her words. In the digital age, reading a paper book is a quiet act of defiance. Support #books and #authors by pre-ordering #PROPHECY: US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692... UK: amzn.eu/d/09DFxL4Q

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

And huge thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered it. You are making a big difference. It's great to see #PROPHECY gathering attention before publication! 🙏

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Jesse Geerts @jessegeerts.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space. @lmesseri.bsky.social

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Isidora Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.

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Valence Asymmetries Seminar

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA | CAMPUS DEL POBLENOU, 52.701 CARRER DE ROC BORONAT, BARCELONA, ESPANYA We are delighted to welcome you to the Valence Asymmetries Seminar Series. We invite both local and i...

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Sebastian Watzl @sebastianwatzl.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

There is also good work.

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured. Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)! Interested? Check it out ⬇️

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Just accepted: 'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated' – Peter Langland-Hassan Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

ABSTRACT. Recent years have seen little pushback on the pictorialist thesis that mental imagery occurs in an analogue or iconic format. This paper challenges the status quo in developing new arguments to show how the phenomena most commonly cited in pictorialism’s favour—namely, participant response times during ‘mental rotation’ and ‘mental scanning’ tasks, and the retinotopic organization of cortical areas underlying visual imagery—fail to provide positive evidence for the thesis that mental imagery is analogue or iconic in format. In addition, alternative explanations are provided for why we might see retinotopic activation in cortical areas underlying imagery, and why we would observe the relevant response times in rotation and scanning tasks, even if mental imagery did not occur in an analogue format.

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

so Nous, PPR, and now Phil Imprint, aren't taking submissions. Nice.

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APSC @apscreativity.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely! Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...

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Creativity, Agency, and Value Conference

Speakers : Alice Helliwell, Andrea Rivadulla-Duró, Antti Kauppinen, Claire Anscomb, Elliot Samuel Paul, Francesca Secco, Joshua Shepherd, Patrik Engisch. Location : Espace Colladon, University of...

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

if even eye movements are driven by effort minimization, then what's going on with conscious feelings of effort

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆 Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June. www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I can’t get over the fact that after all the amazing things AI could have been, we got a bunch of sycophantic little machine shits that at any given moment are stealing from you, plagiarizing you, defaming you, manipulating you, lying to you, or turning you into nonconsensual porn

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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n

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Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social (2024) –– "LLMs Don't Know Anything" philpapers.org/archive/GODL...

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Today is a great day to ditch your Echo. #privacy #AIEthics #surveillance

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Everyone clap for the crap artists A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest -Despot

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨ 📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book: 📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance 🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... 💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR 👇👇👇

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Lakatos Award Lecture by Carl Hoefer

Join us as Carl Hoefer gives a public lecture on his Lakatos Award winning book, Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance. Time: 6:00pm–7:15pm Place: Hong Kong Theatre, Clemen…

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/03/2025

TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.

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Joshua Shepherd @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

las vibes son demasiado similares. Tengo que desconectarme como lo hice con el sitio anterior.

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