if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

1st book review! “Lombrozo unpacks the psychology of explanations in rich detail and sharply analyzes how explaining can help and hinder…The result is a fresh, engrossing take on an important aspect of human behavior.” 😀 www.publishersweekly.com/9780063395008

Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand by Tania Lombrozo

People explain what they experience, feel, and encounter in order to understand the present and anticipate the future, according...

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Meanwhile in Mediterranean life.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d ago

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits

To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...

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Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...

Very kind words by @evanwestra.bsky.social on our paper! This is an important one to me! mini-thread below

Evan Westra@evanwestra.bsky.social · last wk.

The literature on the philosophy of social norms has gotten really exciting over the past few years. The latest example: @ledaberio.bsky.social and Kristina Musholt's awesome new paper in Phil Imprint: "Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Written together with @pfvelasco.bsky.social co-first author and analysis input from @cgahnstrom.bsky.social @matthieubernard.bsky.social and others incl @mgarvert.bsky.social A great team effort to explore this topic

🚨 new lab preprint! Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago: Global structure of new relational knowledge networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and node-distance in hippocampus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

REVEALED: Almost three-quarters of riverbanks in England have no public access - new analysis by @righttoroam.bsky.social @lewis-winks.bsky.social As heatwaves get worse we need a right to responsibly access rivers @angelaeagle1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost 75% of England’s riverbanks ‘off limits’ to public, figures show

Campaigners urge government to introduce right of access to water, particularly as heatwaves become more common

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I just read this nonideal agency conference CFP and my eyes narrowed like, “wait, who’s organizing this mysterious event directly in my area?” Then I saw the list of speakers and I’m one of them 🤦🏻‍♂️ Anyway, it’s very exciting so submit and come hang with me and @quillkukla.bsky.social at Graz!

I've written a short piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social with Matthew Brown, Leader of Preston City Council & main architect of the 'Preston Model' of @communitywealth.bsky.social, on what Andy Burnham needs to do if he's serious about changing the British economy. renewal.org.uk/blog/if-burn...

If Andy Burnham is serious about changing the British economy, Community Wealth Building is the way to do it

This week, Renewal are publishing a series of reflections on the direction that Andy Burnham's new government could or should take. In this piece, Preston City Council Leader Matthew Brown and politic...

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You roll a fair die, hoping to get a 6. If you are successful, did you *intentionally* roll a 6? In a new paper, I explain why people hesitate to call lucky outcomes intentional:🧵 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@brexitbin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nothing Andy Burnham does will work unless he bins Brexit and applies to rejoin at least the EU's Single Market. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...

How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory

In the world of science, breakthroughs often come from state-of-the-art labs with million-dollar equipment. But sometimes, they begin in a…

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WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?!!!!@the13thpanther.bsky.social · 3w ago

"I feel like they're raping the land, stealing our children, our culture,” says Ronda Kauk, tribal historic preservation officer for the Mono Lake Kutzadika'a Tribe. Tribes asked for a 2-year delay and real co-management, but a court said no. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...

‘They’re raping the land.’ |  Massive Wild Horse Round Up Proceeds on Ancestral Native Lands

For the past three days, Ronda Kauk has watched through high-powered binoculars as low-flying helicopters pursue hundreds of her relatives across Mono Lake and corral them into massive metal…

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Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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New preprint! Work led by Doug Hardman on the Barkley Marathons. This was a lot of fun, reading lots of rich qualitative data from interviews and reports. Navigating the Barkley Marathons #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

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The Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences titled "Grief in the Digital Age," edited by @reginafabry.bsky.social and @marilynstendera.bsky.social, has now been published in full. 1/2 #philsky link.springer.com/journal/1109...

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an international and interdisciplinary journal that published papers that address the philosophical and scientific ...

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My book on consciousness at Oxford University Press is now available! It is titled House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness. The (open access) pdf can be downloaded for free on Oxford Academic: academic.oup.com/book/62981 Printed copies should be available at the end of July.

House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness

Abstract. This book provides a defense and an exploration of illusionism regarding phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness supposedly encompasse

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Why do we forget our dreams? Dreams are the kind of experiences that in principle should stick well in memory: emotional and often bizarre. If we would encounter typical dream content during wakefulness, we would likely never forget it. Yet, we forget most dreams soon after awakening. (1/3)

Cardiff University paid £10m to consultants in just two years Saving money is very expensive Strangely, their “cost-cutting” advice never seems to include trimming excessive executive pay or the ever-growing layers of middle & senior management nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

Cardiff University spends more than £10m on consultants in two years

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has spent more than £10m on consultants over the last two years, according to figures released in a Freedom of Information Act disclosure. A critic of the university’...

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New perspective paper from our lab: “The hippocampus as a generative model” out now !! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... The traditional view of the hippocampus is that it creates a cognitive map. Here we extend this view to conceptualise the hippocampus as a “generative model”.

The hippocampus as a generative model

Abstract. A generative model can be defined as a model of the latent causes of sensory input that can be used to generate new data samples. By examining em

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