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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Inspired by #MPSG26 in Dublin, I’m returning to the piano after years away. My comeback piece: Schulhoff’s "In futurum" (1919)

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“The Way It Was Said: Thoughts On Tone Of Voice" sounds like a legit paper in pragmatics of emotional expression! Hmm...

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Can musical emotional expression be grasped teleosemantically? The struggle continues—now with my first grant from Poland’s National Science Centre: “Proper Function and Musical Meaning: Preliminary Research toward a Teleosemantic Model of Musical Expression” (Sept 2026–Sept 2027).

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Optometry still waiting for its Putnam?

View of a shop called Behavioural Optometrist, Bondi, NSW.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finally something useful on youtube. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oseq...

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Norm MacDonald - Professor of Logic Joke

YouTube video by Alex Shifrin

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Katariina @spooky-kat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Participate in a study about scary music! 🦇💀 📝 Anonymous online survey (20–30 min) 👥 Open to adults and adolescents over 15 years 🔤 Good English skills required 🎧 Please wear headphones! ♫ Listen to music clips, answer questions. Participate here: link.webropol.com/s/mapping-sc... #musicscience

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Mapping scary music

Survey Powered by Webropol

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Nature @nature.com · 25/06/2026

The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started evolving 15 million years ago go.nature.com/4eO0lkT

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Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled

The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started evolving 15 million years ago.

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thank you so much @kli.ac.at (and @epsaphilsci.bsky.social ) for all your hospitality during this wonderfully inspiring month in your beautiful niche! I leave cognitively enriched, developmentally scaffolded, and under very welcome epistemic pressure to think better.

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Excited to give a flash-talk today on the teleosemantic account of musical emotions at the 3rd Meeting of the Vienna Network of Music and Cognition Research (ViNoMaRe) at the CEU today, 5.30pm. #ViNoMaRe #CEU

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This can be weaponized and shouldn’t be made public.

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 03/06/2026

Yesterday's KLI Hike took us to the Nationalpark Donauauen. Thanks to Peter Sziemer, we learned a lot about the flora and fauna of this special habitat and also spotted some rare species, such as the little bittern, the European pond terrapin, and the violet bird's-nest orchid.

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Excited to spend my EPSA Fellowship month at KLI! Thank you both @epsaphilsci.bsky.social and @kli.ac.at !

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The authors have now responded to our critique. Basically, they say that because humans don't always agree on the same beat, the two macaques don't have to agree with humans, or with each other, or even with themselves, to count as evidence of beat synchronization. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

it is common for listeners to synchronize to the backbeat (weak beats) instead of the downbeat (strong beats), e.g. in Henry Mancini’s “Pink Panther” theme song. If two listeners (or two parts of the same listener’s body) were found to be moving in antiphase while remaining internally consistent, would it really be true that only one is “truly tapping to the subjective beat” while the other is merely “reacting to some salient rhythmic feature”?

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excited to give a talk today at the Evolution of Music and Communication Session, Cultural Evolution Society Conference in Rabat! Solving the “Meaning Problem” in the Evolution of Music: A Teleosemantic Account airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 #CESRabat

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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Since the modern university trumpets the values of innovation, “thinking outside the box”, and entrepreneurialism, it is hard to see what anyone has to complain about here

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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This one is wild...

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I challenge causal inference folks to point out exactly where the error lies.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The plot thickens

An X Y axis plot showing dots that get progressively thicker

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Dziś startuje "Znaczenie Muzyki: Muzyka i słowo” na Akademii Muzycznej im. K. Szymanowskiego w Katowicach. Dwa dni rozmów o relacjach między muzyką a słowem, o semantyce muzycznej, krytyce, kompozycji i wykonawstwie. Ciesze się, że mogę brać udział!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/04/2026

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-g…

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong
Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

One of the highlights of the 2nd day of "Negotiated Meanings, Norms, Cooperation, and Conflict in Linguistic Interaction" workshop at the Institute of Philosophy&Cog.Sci, Szczecin University From Jan G. Michel's (University of Bonn) great talk on: Articulation and Acceptance in Scientific Discovery

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Looking forward to our workshop tomorrow: Negotiated Meanings, Norms, Cooperation, and Conflict in Linguistic Interaction Venue: University of Szczecin, Campus “Krakowska” ul Krakowska 71, Szczecin room 194

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mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Instytut Filozofii i Kognitywistyki US oraz Cognition and Communication Research Group przy współpracy z Trafostacją Sztuki w Szczecinie zapraszają na Dzień Kognitywistyki 2026: Różnorodność w komunikacji i poznaniu. Piątek, 20.03.2026, Trafostacja Sztuki w Szczecinie, Św. Ducha 4, od 10:00.

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thank you #EPSA for this opportunity philsci.eu/fellowships! Looking forward to my month at #KLI and working on cultural evolution of musical meaning.

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European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - Fellowships

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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

New on the Archive: Szubart, Tomasz (2025) What are musical emotions? A proposal for a functional–teleosemantic approach. ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, 15 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 2084–1043 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27467

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We can introspectively test the Global Workspace Theory of consciousness: Just introspect your experience right now. Is there a welter of detail in many sensory modalities at once? If so, GWT must be false. Sadly, we are utterly incompetent at introspection. [link in 🧵]

The Refrigerator Light Error [illustration by Nicolas Demers, p. 218 of The Weirdness of the World]

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

What kind of functions musical emotions are and how do they fit into biological and cultural evolution? Managed finally to put on virtual paper and in english some preliminary ideas regarding my functional-teleosemantic account of musical emotion: argument.uken.krakow.pl/article/view...

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I'm speaking today at PSA Around the World 2025: "From Signal to Symbol: a Teleosemantic Framework for Musical Emotions".

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here's some outcome of philosophical fieldwork; a mentoring session in the woods with my boss. Evidence that supervision can provide fruiting bodies.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My first book (in Polish) is out: "Music and Mind: The Problem of Musical Meaning in the Light of Contemporary Cognitive Aesthetics of Music". Historical & contemporary philosophical accounts mapped on neuro/cog/evo takes. Musical representation is structural, neo-mechanistic and teleosemantic.

Painting Orfeo & Euridice, Frederic Leighton 1864. Book cover on musical meaning by Tomasz Szubart.

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Huge thanks to the #ESPP2025 team at IFiS PAN for a superb meeting in Warsaw. I presented a teleosemantic account of musical emotions—how function & history give music content. Grateful for the sharp questions! espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl

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ESPP 2025 Interdisciplinary Conference in Warsaw: Submit abstracts by March 3, 2025. Explore philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science with keynotes by Borg, Buckner, Newcombe, and Schumacher. Tra...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

How I’ll be spending the day. Hokusai, Philosopher Looking at Two Butterflies

Japanese man sitting on low couch resting elbows on small low desk gazing up in the air at two butterflies.

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

CEEPUS - Central European Exchange Program for University Studies - allowed me to provide a series of lectures on music cognition last week at KRE in Budapest. Amazing group of international students - thank you all for great discussions!

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It's always important to remember to care about our philosophical health! Please do not procrastinate, we should find time to deal with it: www.philosophyexperiments.com/health/Defau... Most likely there is nothing to worry about, but—reportedly—a check-up at every career stage is strongly advised.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I knew, of course, that William Whewell first coined the word “scientist,” but I had no idea that the idea remained so controversial that Nature was still weighing in on the appropriateness of the term at least as late as 1925. www.nature.com/articles/115253a0.pdf #HistSTM #PhilSci #STS

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

No longer drinking Americano coffees. Upping the stakes.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Had the privilege of being asked to write a Preface to a new Ukrainian edition on John Stuart Mill *On Liberty*. Here's my final paragraph (pre-translation!).

In the post-Soviet period Ukraine had the challenge of working out what type of country it wanted to be. But of course, no country speaks with one voice; some people will look to the liberties – real or imagined – of other places. Others will look to religion. Others may be nostalgic for the routines and predictability of the past. John Stuart Mill should be read as urging tolerance towards all ways of life, provided they do not inflict their values on others. No one should be forced into anything, but people should be encouraged to observe the experiments of living of others. As we saw, one centrepiece of Mill’s doctrine is freedom of thought and discussion, and the importance of listening to views that are different from your own, and not shutting out opposition, but taking it seriously and using it as a way of reflecting on one’s own views and values. This can be very hard, and sometimes emotionally very difficult. And, it is often said, truth is the first casualty of war, and it is true that different considerations apply when national security is at stake. But let us look forward to a time when the war is over and the people of Ukraine can concentrate on the question of how they want the future to be. Freedom of thought and discussion will be vital to making progress worth having. John Stuart Mill does not lay out a blueprint for the future, but even after all the time has passed since he wrote, he still speaks with a wisdom that can help light the path.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Does technology evolve as biology? In many ways, it does. Is it continuous or occurs in bursts? By analyzing the evolution of programming languages with @svalver.bsky.social, we found the answer. Wrok started at @sfiscience.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Tomasz Szubart @tszubart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I wonder what Feyerabend would have to say about the separation of science and the state these days. That was one of the topics at the XXXVII Polish Philosophy Olympiad, where I’m thrilled to be part of the reviewing team. Submissions are outstanding, and the fellow teachers truly inspiring!

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