Our paper 'Carving Stories at Their Natural Joints' is out in Psychological Review (@apajournals.bsky.social). It means a lot to me, especially because I got to collaborate with many researchers from different disciplines whose work I truly admire.
"OURS": In a chat about LLMs, ChatGPT just wrote: "Their learning history, architecture, sensory experience, embodiment, memory systems differ radically from ours." When I pointed out the oddity of this "ours", it explained it as an "automatic perspective alignment with the interlocutor". Ok, ok
Insighful and quite challenging! From Lionel Page's Substack www.optimallyirrational.com : How AI will revolutionise peer-reviewed research open.substack.com/pub/lionelpa...
How AI is going to revolutionise peer-reviewed research
Frontier models will change the way scientific papers are checked, selected and written
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More evidence of basic ostension (Sperber & Wilson, Psych. Review 2025) among nonhuman apes www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Chimpanzees follow human pointing when attention is engaged
Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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"The central problem is endogenous validation: the same operations that make texts scoreable also delimit the evidence by which success is assessed." Discusses methods in textual analysis, but the problem Jennifer Devereaux identifies is much more general. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Success Without Measure: Historical Authority and Epistemic Overreach | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Success Without Measure: Historical Authority and Epistemic Overreach
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✨"Social epistemology needs a theory of reasoning that would explain the type of social interactions it describes as the root of scientific knowledge production. And here is the good news: the argumentative theory of reasoning is a rather good candidate for that purpose." philpapers.org/rec/HEITUE
Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵
Multiplier par 15 les frais d’inscription universitaires des étudiant·es étrangèr·es non européen·nes. Piétiner l'égal accès aux services publics. Appeler le programme "Bienvenue en France" 🇫🇷🥖 🔴 Signez et faites signer la pétition, ça prend 2 min : petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
Pour la suppression du programme Bienvenue en France mettant en place des frais différenciés pour les étudiant·es extra-européen·nes - Pour la suppression du programme Bienvenue en France mettant en p...
La stratégie Bienvenue en France prétend renforcer l'attractivité internationale de la France en multipliant par 15 les frais d’inscription à l’université des étudiant·es non européen·nes. Si les exon...
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Nothing undermine the never-ending fight against antisemitism in a worse way than the repression of pro-Palestinian activism as inherently antisemitic, which has become routine in many European countries and in the US
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Nathan Sperber, Beyond Neoliberalism?, NLR 158, March–April 2026
Investigating the persistence—or retreat—of capital’s great programmatic offensive, along its many fronts: ideological struggle, policy prescription, macro-regulation of economic life, class directio...
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Kate Scott: "...offers a cognitive underpinning to existing understandings of the various hearer roles that individuals might play in a discourse, ... a key expansion of the scope of relevance theory via application to multiparty communicative interactions." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A relevance-based framework for hearer roles in multiparty interactions
This paper proposes a cognitive pragmatic, relevance-theoretic framework for understanding and analysing hearer participant roles in discourse. Releva…
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Why is domain-generality so intuitive? This paper makes a case for why we need an evolutionary psychology of psychology, and what it has to say about the study of intelligence, consciousness, domain-generality, and the theory crisis. @pdurkee.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What a difference a mind makes: How evolved difference detecting mechanisms harm psychological science, and how an evolutionary psychology of psychology can help
From an adaptationist perspective, most of psychology's concepts that form the basis of empirical inquiry, such as memory, attention, consciousness, i…
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La mémoire enfouie des camps de regroupement de la guerre d’Algérie
Entre 1954 et 1962, l’armée française a déplacé et parqué dans des camps plus de 2 millions de paysans algériens. Plus de 200 000 d’entre eux, dont deux tiers d’enfants, y seraient morts de froid et d...
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An absolutely devastating account of part of what is going on in Sudan. The RSF apparently funded by the UAE, where people go for sunny holidays ... (until recently anyway) www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
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State-supported pogroms in Palestinian villages www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
No Israel prosecutions for killing Palestinian civilians in occupied West Bank since start of decade
Dozens of former Israeli military, police and spy chiefs describe situation as ‘organised Jewish terrorism’
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Here is a PhD fellowship in one of the best places in the world to study cognition and culture. 1. Cultural phenomenon: writing 2. Cognitive capacity: to detect what is unpredictable 3. Mission: Show how (2) drives the evolution of (1) 😲 4. Methods: you’ll eventually master some powerful ones
Olivier Morin@oliviermorin.bsky.social · 8mo agoCALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
"Social sadism"? Great quote (from Merton, R. K. (1972). Insiders and outsiders: A chapter in the sociology of knowledge. American journal of sociology, 78(1)), serious issue.
Martin Kusch@martinkusch.bsky.social · 8mo agoMerton 1972 ... Surprising that these terms have not caught on.
Wow! More effectively Orwellian than 1984 www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
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The cold-blooded, brutal grab of Palestinian land in the West Bank goes on in the shadow of the ongoing anihilation of Gaza. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.
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Thom Scott-Phillips presents a novel analysis of people's spontaneous intuitions about sentence acceptability "grounded in theoretical and empirical knowledge from cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and evolutionary approaches to the mind." cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...
Why Do Humans Have Linguistic Intuition? | Cadernos de Linguística
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25 year ago, Monsanto (acquired by Bayer in 2018) acting against public health and honest science www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’
Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence
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I agree: there’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles, which will save many lives. More than 39,000 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes yearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Not a topic on which I would normally post, but given that road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years (www.who.int/news-room/fa...), this is hugely relevant. Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.
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Thank you Ben Rhodes for this important column: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o... Some exerpts: "If you believe a Palestinian child is equal in dignity and worth to an Israeli or American child, it is no longer possible to support this Israeli government while hiding behind platitudes about peace. ...
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At last, the final publication in 'Cognitive Technologies and their Histories': the editorial introduction to the issue in TopiCS, by myself and @helenamiton.bsky.social. 4.5 years since our initial @cogscisociety.bsky.social panel. Free access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories
Cognitive technologies are socially acquired and culturally evolved systems whose primary function is cognitive. There is a tremendous untapped opportunity for a broad range of disciplines across the...
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Yuli Novak (executive director of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem): "Demanding accountability from Israeli leaders isn’t just about the past, it’s the only way to challenge a system designed to repeat such violence." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
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