The osprey and the meaning of life – the poetic physicist Alan Lightman on science and our spiritual bond with nature www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/15/a...

The Osprey and the Meaning of Life: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Science and Our Spiritual Bond with Nature

“Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand… the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world.”

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It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Senses

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses

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Forever Cousins: Relationships With My Voices “If I thought my voice was nothing more than random, psychotic noise, then that’s all she ever would have been.” Guest post by Amanda Peery-Wolf www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/forever-co...

Forever Cousins: Relationships with My Voices

“If I thought my voice was nothing more than random, psychotic noise, then that’s all she ever would have been.”

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The color of wonder and the chemical code of creation – how nature makes blue, the rarest and loveliest of colors www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/19/t...

The Color of Wonder and the Chemical Code of Creation

This essay is adapted from Traversal. We look at a thing — a bird, a ball, a planet — and perceive it to be a certain color. But what we are really seeing is the color that does not inh…

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But it can be danced! benjamins.com/catalog/aicr...

The Primacy of Movement

Carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience int...

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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · last mo.

Cognition cannot be measured

@thelancetpsych.bsky.social @theichr.bsky.social @echrhallucinations.bsky.social …. Fascinating Essay from a brilliant presentation by Amanda Peery-Wolf ~ insightful, engaging, and thought-provoking from start to finish.

The Lancet Psychiatry@thelancetpsych.bsky.social · last mo.

Fascinating Essay by Amanda Peery-Wolf on how antipsychotics affect one of her voices www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📆 📢 ‼️ ⭐ ⭐ CPD course for mental health clinicians now bookable ⭐ ⭐ Please share widely New understanding in the conceptualisation and treatment of psychosis Wednesday 3rd February 2027 - 09:00 - 17:00 store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

How to be a tree – notes on the resilience of letting go www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/27/t...

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The…

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This was such a fun article to write about Tulpamancers, based on our research as part of the @echrhallucinations.bsky.social and @theichr.bsky.social

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‘Tulpas are not simply a companion imagined into being on a whim’ @dremmaclaire.bsky.social on tulpamancers. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

We're particularly excited by our final keynote, just added - the wonderful Eleanor Longden, who's going to be taking about the Talking with Voices 2 trial 4/n pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41084025/

🚨DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 New submission deadline: 22 June 2026 sites.google.com/view/echrich... We look forward to your contributions in the field of hallucination research and to welcoming you in Munich 🧠🥨 @echrhallucinations.bsky.social @theichr.bsky.social

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research@theichr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

New review on "Perspective-Giving" "Perspective-giving refers to an individual (or group), sensing that another has a different perspective on a reality common to both, explaining their own understanding of it." Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/spc3... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪

The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.

Trends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status

This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...

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Really loved this episode of @etvpod.bsky.social - some sensitive and open inquiry into spirituality. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...

Spirituality and Belonging with Kat Ford

Podcast Episode · Embrace The Void · May 20 · 1h 10m

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Latest papers: Dylan Guével draws on Ian Hacking’s notion of historical ontology to address ongoing controversies surrounding the concept of paranoia and its use beyond the boundaries of psychiatry doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

New on the Archive: Larroulet Philippi, Cristian (2026) Formative Constructs as Tailored Aggregates. In: UNSPECIFIED. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29913/

Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience. thepolyphony.org/2026/06/05/m...

Metaphor Map for Psychiatric Experiences

Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.

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Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history - Oceanographic

Papua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean.

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Happy National Trails Day!

The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum In my new post today, I discuss the B-SNIP biotypes of psychosis and how I make sense of them www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-brain-...

The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum

B-SNIP Biotypes of Psychosis

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Join us in Munich for this year's satellite meeting of @theichr.bsky.social and @echrhallucinations.bsky.social. We have a stellar lineup already but we're also very excited to announce Eleanor Longden as a keynote! Get your abstracts in; deadline Jun 15. Details at hallucinationsconsortium.org

Thanks for sharing this @oolong.co.uk Absorption An Individual Difference to Consider in Mind–Body Interventions by Victoria Menzies, Ann Gill Taylor, Cheryl Bourguignon (2025) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Absorption: An Individual Difference to Consider in Mind–Body Interventions

Given that mind–body interventions constitute a major portion of complementary and alternative medicine used by the public, it seems important to explore those human characteristics that may contribut...

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Free resource out now: The AASPIRE Measurement Toolkit is a set of accessible survey instruments for use in research or clinical settings. aaspire.org/measurement/

A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why a movement to turn concrete into urban forests is growing in the U.S. www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...

Why a decades-old forest planting practice from Japan is gaining traction in the U.S.

Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a decades-old planting method that originated in Japan.

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"I have made you a book with a bunch of tidbits on the oddities of the universe," @chanda.blacksky.app said. "The universe is stranger and more queer and more wonderful and more full of possibility than whatever limitations you might be experiencing." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge

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🚨Abstract submission for the @theichr.bsky.social & @echrhallucinations.bsky.social satellite meeting is open! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Dr @kathaschmack.bsky.social , Dr @veithweilnhammer.bsky.social, Prof @mruscalafell.bsky.social & Prof Paul Fletcher! See you in Munich 🥨🧠!