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Susanna Schellenberg

@sschellenberg.bsky.social
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Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux perception, cognition, self-governance in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩‍🔬🧪 susannaschellenberg.org

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Norway goals causing micro-earthquakes. phys.org/news/2026-06...
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Every time Norway scores, the whole city of Bergen shakes
During Norway's first match of the FIFA World Cup against Iraq on June 17, several small vibrations were recorded on the seismometer. A particularly clear signal was observed when Erling Haaland score...
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th Birthday, David Attenborough.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2
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Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Really enjoyed this new paper by Angela Mendelovici about how representationalists can account for the perspectival elements of experience. philpapers.org/archive/MENT...
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Excellent new paper by Beck and O’Callaghan on the perception-cognition border in terms of capacities employed. I'm sympathetic to their view: cognitive capacities can be employed in perception, and some capacities are both perceptual and cognitive, so the perception-cognition border is fuzzy.
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Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction
Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non-overlapping categories. By contra....
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Scientists Built a Robot That Can Beat Elite Human Players at Table Tennis
Table tennis is one of the most skill-intensive sports on the planet – and engineers have now built a robot capable of besting some of the world's top players.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And here is the audio player! (Bluesky wasn't previously able to let me embed a player, but now it seems to be able to do so from Spotify, at least.) open.spotify.com/episode/0eYl...
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350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It
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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
People don't want to risk being kidnapped and shipped to a Salvadoran gulag never to be seen again? Crazy www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
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Hotels Aren’t Seeing The World Cup Boon They Were Promised
With just over two months until the World Cup begins, the hotel industry doesn’t see the promised economic boon on the horizon.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Review of @francesegan.bsky.social new book.
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature
Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We have a fab line up of podcasts& talks on embodied agency in biological & artificial systems! Watch this space 😎
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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT @picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A new paper in @natrevneuro.nature.com challenges decades of dogma about how and why the brain boils down what it sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels into categories. picower.mit.edu/news/complet... #neuroscience #cognition @mitbcs.bsky.social
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A complete rethinking of how our brains use categories to make sense of the world
Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at eve...
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social
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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Itt az idő! Most vagy soha!
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Beautiful paper — clear evidence for a generative model in the human brain 🧠 👁️ A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex
Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones. Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual ima...
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thank you for your interest and thoughtful comments and questions @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Final talk by @sschellenberg.bsky.social on the relationship between perceptual capacities and the perspectival character of perception.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Just learned about this: rentahuman.ai AI bots can rent a human to do things AI systems can’t do, such as sign papers. There are over 100,000 people on the site who are paid for their work.
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RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I learnt a huge amount and very much enjoyed this event at Bochum. Many thanks to the wonderful people at Bochum for organizing and special thanks to Julia Wolf, Ayoob Shahmoradi, Sara Papić, and Max Minden Riberio for the excellent talks. philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2025/11/...
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Workshop with Susanna Schellenberg: The Nature of Perspectives | Center for Mind & Cognition
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Excellent new paper by Jordan Scott forthcoming in AJP. This paper was a core chapter of his recently defended dissertation. philpapers.org/rec/SCOTRM-2
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Jordan Scott, The Rational Method - PhilPapers
Performances, epistemic and practical, can be understood as having aims and methods which jointly determine whether the performance was successful. In this paper, I advance a novel, structural account...
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Pleased to share new work with @sflippl.bsky.social @eberleoliver.bsky.social @thomasmcgee.bsky.social & undergrad interns at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15987 🧵1/n
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Sea urchins are mostly brains in a spiky shell? Soo cool! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system
A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Open-weight models are becoming increasingly capable while creating risks beyond those that already exist for closed-weight models. To continue benefiting from the advantages of open-weight models, we must develop risk mitigation methodologies specifically for them, as discussed in this paper.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Since my interview with Richard Brown abruptly ended after an hour, we did another one. This one is less free-floating than the first and includes a lot of discussion of representation, content, and the like. As someone in the chat commented dryly, “Endless discussions about semantics”.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Enjoyed this interview with @onemorebrown.bsky.social. We discuss #perception, #AI, #perspectives, #capacities, @neddo.bsky.social, #Fodor, #Chomsky, the performance/competences distinction, the relation between capacities and representational states, and much else. www.youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
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Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg -Consciousness Live! S8 e5
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onemorebrown @onemorebrown.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm! youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
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Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
About to do a live podcast. Wish me luck. youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
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Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...
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Capacities-first Philosophy
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: CAPACITIES-FIRST PHILOSOPHY. This special issue aims to analyze various ...
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta for winning the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”.
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s like watching a couple who waited too long to get divorced.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature
A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
(via Bernard Kobes)
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
oh wow wow wow. Wow. It's officially out, after many years: "Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning" authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv... Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
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Fabienne Peter @fabiennepeter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Pleased this is out. 🙂 academic.oup.com/aristotelian... The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
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Relational Moral Demands
Abstract. Relational moral theories hold that at least some moral demands are grounded in a relation between individuals. But how should this relation be u
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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My Neural Mechanisms Online talk 'Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits' takes place on Monday April 28th - 7am for me, more civilized hours for most of the rest of you! Responses from Gualtiero Piccinini and Edouard Machery. www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
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Matthew Lieberman @socialbrain.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor - Nature
A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specif...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Apr 11 at noon EST USA time. Here's the paper to get the discussion going: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Everyone welcome but register ->
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Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience
The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c....
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale. With commentary from several wonderful researchers! 🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
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Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪 Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs
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ARIA Opportunity Space: Scalable Neural Interfaces
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here is another element of the theory behind severence. It’s a core chapter of the book I’m currently writing on the nature of perspectives. I started working on this paper in 2018, but put it on hold several times to complete other projects. Free to download at the link below for a short period.
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V—The Flexibility and Stability of Perspectives
Abstract. This paper develops an account of perspectives that explains both perspectival stability and flexibility informed by research in neuroscience, co
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Congratulations to my brilliant graduate student, Andrew Rubner, for landing a TT job at UNC (among several others). He is deferring his start date at UNC to Fall 2026 to complete another year of his Bersoff postdoc at NYU. It was a pleasure being his supervisor!
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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The administration seems to want academics to live in fear and poverty. They don't seem to be aware that living in poverty doesn't scare us. We all chose to get a PhD.
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