The HPS Podcast is back! 🎙️ Season 6 returns at the end of this month, and we've spent the past few months collecting and preparing some exciting new interviews that we can't wait to share with you. Stay tuned for more updates! In the meantime, why not revisit some episodes from Season 5? 🎧

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...

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For your weekend reading pleasure: Olesya Bondarenko reviews Plasticity in the Life Sciences, by Antonine Nicoglou www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky #hpbio

Antonine Nicoglou, Plasticity in the Life Sciences | BJPS Review of Books

Olesya Bondarenko reviews Plasticity in the Life Sciences, by Antonine Nicoglou

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But not impossible; there's EEG work from van der Meer/van der Weel, for example, and plenty of ideas about what to look for in brains (resonance to information, vs encoding of affordances). And some of that work already explicitly connects the dynamical behavioural analyses to the neural scale

Finally, our chapter (with Louise Barrett and Paco Calvo) on ecological psychology and comparative cognition is Open Access. Please, read and share :-) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

A World of minds | 17 | Ecological psychology as a framework for compa

This chapter argues that ecological psychology offers a powerful alternative framework for comparative cognition, challenging the dominant computational and

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I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...

Melanie Mitchell: What We Get Wrong About AI

Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.

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Our thematic collection on Progress in radical embodiment is now published in the May 2026 issue of Topoi Issue here link.springer.com/journal/1124... Our editorial introduction here doi.org/10.1007/s112... @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @guicogsci.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social

Ed Baggs@edbaggs.bsky.social · last yr.

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published link.springer.com/collections/...

All they do is move on to the next very similar desire. Their mind and senses haven't been purified at all.

I'm extremely excited to be taking part in this workshop at the University of Murcia next week! embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site

Now published! We studied the relationship between movement and sound in the singing Siamang, by multi-source acoustic-kinematic tracking two juvenile individuals from Jaderpark Tierpark Germany. escholarship.org/content/qt10... @mouniakehy @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social

wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our report on vocal-motor coupling in Siamang singing is now accepted at International Journal of Comparative Psychology (Diamond Open Access). www.wimpouw.com/files/Pouwet... Dashboard: tsg-131-174-75-200.hosting.ru.nl/siamang/ Special thanks to Jaderpark Tierpark Jaderberg for hosting us!

Brava, Sophie!! “The project is designed to strengthen pediatric health care practices by addressing reported gaps in practitioner training and fostering collaboration with American health care professionals,” says Tomov, a pre-med biology major, French minor, and Shankweiler Scholar”

Sophie Tomov ’26 Awarded Fulbright for Research in Bulgaria - Muhlenberg College

The pre-med biology major and French minor will work to strengthen pediatric health care practices in partnership with a nonprofit.

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Did you know - your library hold can easily nudge a library to order more books! At my local library, THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS had 1 e-copy the morning of release day. 40 people in line. By end of day they'd ordered 5 more copies & the audiobook Libraries rule & your holds legit increase our sales 🥰

Last word: History of science exists. Philosophy of science exists. Science and technology studies exist. There is no excuse for writing about science in complete and utter oblivion about vast scholarship that has produced a lot of knowledge and understanding about what science is and how it works.

@mjcrockett.bsky.social is totally killing it (pun intended) in talk about DEAD cognitive benchmarks. DEAD = Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized, Disembodied Super insightful talk at @sfiscience.bsky.social 's annual Science Symposium.

We (@edbaggs.bsky.social, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social, @guicogsci.bsky.social, & I) have organised the conference "Dimensions of Radical Embodiment" for the last few years [Stay tuned for the next one!]. And we just edited a special issue around it. Here's the intro: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Introduction: Progress in Radical Embodiment - Topoi

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All we are is manifolds in the wind... That's not quite what Juan @juangallego.bsky.social says, but I do wish he sang it to me. We discuss all things neural manifolds, and a little motor control and BCI for spinal injury prosthetics braininspired.co/podcast/234/

Excited to announce that Prof. Alicia Juarrero just joined the fantastic line-up of Keynote speakers for the "Beyond Neuro-Computationalism" workshop. CFA here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

⚡🏠 With power outages becoming a recurring event across much of the US, backup power and grid support have become two handy uses for EVs. UCS's Sam Houston breaks down how to take advantage of these features in her new blog. Read it here: act.ucsusa.org/3NrnnEw

A guitarist performing classic 90's Autechre electronic music. I'm hearing not just a cover but something more and different from the original track. Delightful and unexpected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-9...

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I’m thrilled to announce the release of #Simbrain 4, which I have been working on for over 10 years! For the last five of those years I have met almost every weeknight with Yulin Li and we have pair-programmed our way through the entire app, adding hundreds of new features.

@braininspired.bsky.social talks to @dewitmm.bsky.social, Luis Favela and @diovicen.bsky.social about the trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, how an organism’s interactions with its environment explains perception and action. #neuroskyence bit.ly/3OyNEkp

Three ecological psychologists on the right and wrong ways to use the field’s principles in neuroscience

Matthieu de Wit, Luis H. Favela and Vicente Raja weigh in on the recent trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, the study of how an organism’s interactions with its…

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Really enjoyed this discussion on Brain Inspired. We talk about how EP is currently showing up in the mainstream, and how it might be done better. We also talk about neuro developments within the ecological community itself. Thanks for leading us through it, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social!

Paul Middlebrooks@braininspired.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do neuroscientists know what "affordance" actually means? (it seems perhaps not) Luis, Vicente, and Matthieu @dewitmm.bsky.social on neuroscience trying to adopt ecological psychology for an "ecological neuroscience" braininspired.co/podcast/232/

Do neuroscientists know what "affordance" actually means? (it seems perhaps not) Luis, Vicente, and Matthieu @dewitmm.bsky.social on neuroscience trying to adopt ecological psychology for an "ecological neuroscience" braininspired.co/podcast/232/

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?...

BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?

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Einstein - AI Homework Agent

Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

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New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now. cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...

Intertwined Creatures | Columbia University Press

In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable ... | CUP

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Alejandro Vázquez M.@tormentas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you think Chomsky gets burned in the Epstein files, wait until you read @tonychemero.bsky.social (2009) on the poverty of stimulus argument.

The call for abstracts for ICPA 2026 in Omaha is open and includes an intriguing idea for a book icpa2026omaha.com/schedule

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? "High-resolution activity maps of PFC did NOT align with cytoarchitecturally defined subregions." Key tenet in neuroscience is that cytoarchitectonic boundaries correspond to functional ones. NB: study in the mouse #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The real question is whether Lilliputian mushrooms make you hallucinate tiny people, or allow you to see the tiny people that we ordinarily can't perceive

New paper, out now! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements

Abstract. Humans typically move and vocalize in a time-synchronized fashion, aligning prominence-lending hand movements to acoustically emphasized syllables. This requires complex coordination. When s...

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wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements". with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...

The second SPAN program just dropped and its amazing!! Consider submitting a project proposal. 🥳

SPAN@socphilneuro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc (This is 2/2 announcements we will make)