Thanks to our friends @cogcompneuro.bsky.social for announcing our new journal MINDS, MACHINES, & BRAINS at this morning's keynote. We're excited to be collaborating with you on this!
Daniel Kelly
@dryan149.bsky.social
Co-director of the Cognition, Agency & Intelligence Center Co-author of Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change Philosophy of mind, cog sci, cultural evolution, moral psych, climate change https://tinyurl.com/y72qnp9v
Too cool to be part of this event at @molimuseum.bsky.social! Amazing commentators who share the commitment to merge scholarship with public engagement and civic activism (... and who were also very careful readers of our work for @mitpress.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqp...
Four philosophers on social change and why our personal choices still matter in the face of intractable, global, wickedly complex problems @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Episode 72: Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly on Social Change — The UnMute Podcast
Myisha Cherry chats with philosophers Michael Brownstein (John Jay College/CUNY), Alex Madva (Cal Poly Pomona), and Daniel Kelly (Purdue) about structural change, either/or thinking, why individual ch...
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Individual actions were associated with greater collective engagement and stronger policy support within the same year. The findings challenged the crowding-out effect, suggesting that increases in individual action do not undermine broader forms of climate engagement. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence
nature.com
Spent the last 2 days bingeing all 8 episodes of the latest season of The UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, and every one is a banger! Honored to be interviewed on one of the OG philosophy podcasts, "where philosophy and real-world issues collide" www.unmutepodcast.com/all-episodes...
New podcast appearance! (Recorded in December, but still.) @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Individual Action vs. Systemic Change: Finding Agency
Individual action vs systemic change: Are individual actions pointless against climate change? Bridge the gap between either/or to both/and thinking.
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My not-very-online colleague Maria Waggoner @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social @purduephilosophy.bsky.social just published an incredibly interesting and original paper in Phil Imprint on the agential value of intrusive thoughts. Y'all should check it out! journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/articl...
www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-... That’s right. I just referenced the collective human experience. I waded deep into the primordial waters, and suddenly I have strong opinions about how you should lead your life and I want to text them to you in all caps. That nine-to-five is a hamster wheel, man.
Behold, I Have Returned from a Hike
Gaze upon my photos and weep.
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Who made the call to swap out bologna sandwiches for PB&J at the March on Washington? I found out from Tom Discenna for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social as we shared stories of social change newbooksnetwork.com/somebody-sho... @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social
Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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We need a more straightforward and persuasive argument. We teach a set of skills that you cannot get anywhere else. AI has made those skills more valuable. Those skills matter not only at work but in every domain of life. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Are Humanists So Bad at Defending the Humanities?
There is a more persuasive case, and it’s been ignored.
chronicle.com
this year @natashasnature.bsky.social and I will be taking over the SSPP as Philosophy Program Co-Chairs 🥳🥳 We can’t wait to plan some sessions 🤓🤓 See yall in Atlanta! ✌️🍑 southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/
The Southern Society
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We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇
Scott Marek@smarek0502.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com
We're excited to welcome our ITRC groups to Purdue this weekend for our @danafoundation.bsky.social funded workshop, featuring a session w/ @ucpews.bsky.social! Part of SPAN's mission is to provide resources to help foster intelligibility between phil & neuro + foster public engagement with science.
Good Is In The Details is a finalist in the HigherEd PodCon awards for our episode “Individual Choices, Challenges, and Social Change” with Philosophy Professors @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social #philsky #podcast #booksky 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Individual Choices, Challenges, and Social Changes
Podcast Episode · Good Is In The Details · September 17, 2025 · 50m
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Episode of @goodisinthedetails.bsky.social with me and @dryan149.bsky.social is 1 of 3 finalists (out of 155 submissions) for Episode of the Year for HigherEd PodCon! www.edupexperience.com/podconawardf... @mitpress.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social
And the HigherEd PodCon Awards finalists are...
It's YOUR time to #EdUp! And the HigherEd PodCon Awards finalists are... Outstanding Podcast Series “Where What If Becomes What’s Next” (Carnegie Mellon University)…
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Short essay in @slate.com today with @madva.bsky.social on using social influence for good. Draws from ideas in our recent book with @dryan149.bsky.social. Check it out!
We Do a Lot of Sneering at “Virtue Signaling.” It May Be Time to Rethink Our Approach.
Yes, it's good to do good things. It may be even more effective to tell people you're doing them.
slate.com
Today at the Memory Palace: a preview of the 5th biennial Issues in Philosophy of Memory (IPM5) meeting - at Purdue next month! #philmemory #philsky open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
IPM5: Program and Preview
Sarah Robins (Purdue University)
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For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 275 (5/10/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, shar...
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