Important correction to the history of the double helix discovery. Surely, more discoveries need to be corrected.

Science Magazine@science.org · 2d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

Hearty congratulations Moni! So well deserved.

Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 2d ago

Moni Naor is awarded the Knuth Prize, for his incredible body of work, spanning cryptography, pseudorandomness, algorithms, and much more! tc.computer.org/tcmf/2026/10... h/t @gautamkamath.com

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

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Hi @anilseth.bsky.social. Our invited commentary, "Anil Seth’s case for biological naturalism provides a roadmap for a conscious AI", was accepted by Behavioral and Brain Sciences almost a year ago (Sept 30, 2025). Just tried to find it today and could not. What's up -or down?

Lenore Blum@lenoreblum.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BTW, the title of our invited/accepted BBS commentary is: "Anil Seth’s case for biological naturalism provides a roadmap for a conscious AI".We also address misconceptions about computation.Hope it/other commentaries will be published soon. Meantime, see our 1000 word limit) preprint: bit.ly/3PdPfwh

Hurry up. Run 🏃, don't walk. One more day to register for Models of Consciousness 2026 in Copenhagen! (Aug 31). Don't miss an awesome conference with awesome folks (including you). See: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-... See: amcs-community.org/moc7-registr...

@wanjawiese.bsky.social · last mo.

Reminder: you can still register for Models of Consciousness 7 in Copenhagen: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...

Wow! This is not fake news. I just looked up Lake Ontario on Google maps and got Lake America. Shame on us. How come so many are capitulating? How come we can't get that guy out?

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last mo.

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

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Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman.com · last mo.

Bluesky, pray for me www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...

Yay team! Looking forward to MoC7 in Copenhagen, October 12 – 16, 2026. amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...

Moritz Kriegleder@mokriegleder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Its a pleasure to contribute in making this Models of Consciousness conference the biggest edition yet!

Excited to be included in this collection as well! Our contribution is under "Mathematical and #Computational Approaches to Study #Consciousness".

Sascha Benjamin Fink@sfink.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a great collection of views on #consciousness, edited by Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese. (My contribution on #neurophenomenal #structuralism is under „Progress and Problems“. Fitting.)

Trump is the classic example of the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2mo ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

65 yrs ago (7/30/61) and we're still going strong! That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.See, bit.ly/3rI0jSC #consciousness #AI #ML #neuroscience @mit.edu @cstheory.bsky.social Monograph still in progress.Meanwhile see arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Life of Alan Turing Emerges in Richer Detail From Short Story (Gift Article)

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.

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Just this week we saw an illustration of how critical this is: an open weight model from China was key to Huggingface defending itself from an OpenAI model that went rogue.

The 10th anniversary Women in Logic workshop is about to kick-off!

“We humans tend to overestimate how special we are” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/s...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans (Gift Article)

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

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As a refreshing antidote to the many journalistic articles/opinions on #consciousness, LuciaMelloni &UmbertoOlcese have compiled & edited an open-access volume written by over 80 researchers, integrating perspectives from neuroscience, philosophy, mathematics & beyond. See www.horizon-minds.com

Lionel Naccache and I wrote a commentary on this work from a neuroscience perspective. You can read it here : unicog.org/a-global-wor...

One of my favorite places too!

Alexander Berezkin@birchalexander.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Rockport is one of my favorite towns in eastern Massachusetts. I try to come back here every summer for walking, swimming, and meeting local artists. 🙂 After several intense days of coding my interview data, it feels like the perfect place to slow down and simply enjoy the moment.

I will be giving a short talk tomorrow (Sat) at the Varela conference in Santiago (a satellite of #ASSC29) on “AI Phenomenology: What Could Count as a 'First-Person' Perspective in a Machine Model of Consciousness?” Will try to convey ideas from my Simons’ talk: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/lenore...

Thanks, Anil!! And thanks to all the people who came to the @assc2026.bsky.social tutorial and made it both fun and inspiring 😊 For those who did not fill out our survey about communities in consciousness research, it's not too late >> socialtau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today (Tue 30th) at @assc28.bsky.social #Santiago - look out for @ronyhirsch.bsky.social's tutorial on "Consciousness Science Beyond the Lab: A Practical Guide to Building Thriving Research Communities"; 10:00-13:00". I'm so sorry to not be there myself this year!

1/2 "Many view the hard problem as needing a new kind of science to explain subjective experience. We view the hard problem as a challenge to show that subjective consciousness surely is computational," said @lenoreblum.bsky.social at the Simons Institute.

2/2 @lenoreblum.bsky.social invoked Kenneth Craik's view (1943) of the nervous system as a "calculating machine" to argue that 1st person exp/consciousness is computational, at the Simons Institute workshop on Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning Video: tinyurl.com/p7rhvdzs

Here is a link to my talk on "World Models and the Emergence of a 'First-Person' Perspective in an AI" at the Simons Institute for the #TheoryofComputing workshop on #WorldModels and Social Reasoning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQS... It has a slightly different emphasis than my other talks.

World Models and the Emergence of a “First-Person” Perspective in an AI

YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

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Excited to be participating in the 17th World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR2026) in Oulu, Finland and to meet some of the women in #robotics. I'm in the back row center next to Başak Sakçak (center left), one of the conference organizers.

Me at the beach in Oulu, Finland today at WAFR 2026

You can still submit an abstract for Models of Consciousness 7 #MoC7 (12-16 October 2026) 👇

Models of Consciousness@moc7.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Apply until June 16th for a talk or poster: amcs-community.org/moc7-talk-ap... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #consci #philsci 🧪

Schedule now available! – Looks like three exciting days ahead! 😊 I'm especially looking forward to our panel discussion sessions on Monday and Wednesday evening! 👇 Join us if you like! Schedule: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #ConSci

Johannes Kleiner@johanneskleiner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How do we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? The answer is: C-tests, empirically grounded methods developed for detecting consciousness in diverse target populations. Join us for an exciting workshop to ... 👇

The firing of Scott Pelley will reverberate in American journalism history as a symbolic execution of the single most groundbreaking and successful news program in the annals of U.S. broadcast television. trib.al/NYTPbkc

Why The New York Times Is Wholly Responsible for Bari Weiss’s Rise

She was at The Wall Street Journal and should have spent her career there. But the Times decided she was … interesting. Why do liberals do this?

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Any way to get a pdf of Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear's 1999 paper, "First-person methodologies: What, why, how?"

The once revered @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy has under current leadership totally embraced the dumbing down of America. CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’

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