New paper with Krystyna Bielecka in Mind & Language: “Contentful skills: Procedural memory and the representational challenge to non-representational cognition” 1/n

Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

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github.com/milekpl/zote... Zotero Name Normalizer now supports field-agnostic normalization — one dialog to clean any text field. Improvements: diacritic‑insensitive grouping, better group-library scope and a working similarity-threshold slider. Small bugfixes @zotero.org #openscience #researchtools

GitHub - milekpl/zotero-ner: Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographi...

Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographic metadata - milekpl/zoter...

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Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Second day of the fabulous workshop: sure-workshop.weebly.com/current-work...

Current Workshop

8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop        The workshop will take place May 27-29, 2026 , at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, The Polish Academy of...

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Remove pesky Google Books URLs from your Zotero library using my plugin. Advanced Search and Replace is now possible! open.substack.com/pub/marcinmi...

Cleaning Up the Metadata Mess: Introducing Zotero Search & Replace

A missing feature of Zotero

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There's @zotero.org 9.0 → so there's a new version of the library normalization plugin. github.com/milekpl/zote... Enjoy! #zotero #open-source

GitHub - milekpl/zotero-ner: Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographi...

Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographic metadata - milekpl/zoter...

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If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto. See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature

How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

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Third fix: EU digital sovereignty. Most major platforms are foreign-owned & may not share European democratic values. The report backs decentralised alternatives — think Mastodon, FediVerse, Eurosky — and calls for a "European CERN for Data & Democracy." 8/10

Planning a Dioscuri application (≤15 yrs post-PhD)? We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw). €300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy. If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...

h/t @jakubmihalik.bsky.social CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026 Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman Deadline end of May 2026. Thx for spreading the word! subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb... #philsky

Ukazał się mój zgryźliwy tekst na temat uprzywilejowania niektórych humanistów (tych równiejszych) w obecnej ewaluacji: academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-z... A poza tym jest to coś, co jest niepotrzebnym kosztem i błędnym środkiem prowadzenia polityki naukowej.

Panoptykon zamiast polityki naukowej - Academia PAN

Ocena parametryczna jednostek naukowych w jej obecnym kształcie przypomina Panoptykon – krytykowane przez Michela Foucaulta w Nadzorować i karać „więzienie idealne”, w którym więźniowie są stale obser...

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U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia

For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiO0_uSJAk

Can We Fix Our Rigged Tax System?

For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. Thi

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Duża aktualizacja wielkiego słownika-angielsko polskiego na urządzenia Kindle, PocketBook, Apple i z systemami Windows lub Android – już dostępna! marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/04/0... #kindle #PocketBook

Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...

Christ on an electric bike. Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

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11,000 children who don’t know if they’ll ever get to see their parents again. Who are forced to live with friends or even strangers. Whose lives will never be the same again. This is Trump’s legacy. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids

A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the

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Just released a tagged and compiled corpus to play with my new concept mining app, ConceptSketch. marcinmilkowski.pl/2026/03/20/a...

Announcing the Frontiers in Psychology Corpus: 21,000+ Papers Ready for Concept Mining

We’re excited to release a comprehensive linguistic corpus of 21,084 papers published in Frontiers in Psychology between 2010 and 2021. This dataset is specifically designed for computational lingu…

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Czarna skrzynka nawet po otwarciu nie da się pojąć. Ot i problem. youtu.be/lu8jur1cVDk

Problem czarnej skrzynki: co wiemy o tym, czego nie rozumiemy, Marcin Miłkowski

YouTube video by Copernicus

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A point of contrast.

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The Chinese government is ramping up its support for science go.nature.com/3P6OTaY

Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) 14 marca 2026 w wieku 96 lat zmarł Jürgen Habermas, wybitny niemiecki filozof i socjolog, przedstawiciel Szkoły Frankfurckiej. Już w 1983 roku ukazał się wybór pism „Teoria i praktyka” w przekładzie m.in. Małgorzaty Łukasiewicz i Zdzisława Krasnodębskiego. Wczesne lata…

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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...

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A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/x) in semantics & philosophy of memory (SEER project, 3 years)

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I've been holding onto my subscription to WaPo, mostly out of loyalty to #CarolynHax, but this is the last straw. Glyphosate does not need protection!!! The American people need protection from toxic chemicals & our regulatory system needs protection from corporate interference. wapo.st/4tUf8Bf

Opinion | Roundup needs legal protections. This is the wrong way to do it.

Glyphosate’s link to cancer has long been tenuous at best.

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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...