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Kate Nave
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° Leverhulme Trust research fellow at EdinburghUni ° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ ° Biological purposiveness & the meaning of life. ° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology ° Former science & technology journalist
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.bsky.social · Jun 9
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 5
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬

In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
Hand holding a copy of "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" by Kathryn Nave. The cover is blue with orange text and features a geometric design at the center.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 8h
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
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Poster with QR code linking to the position
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.bsky.social · 11h
Excited to be in the Himalayan foothills for the 39th @mindandlife.bsky.social / @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social dialogue on Minds, AI and Ethics. The livestream will be available from 9:30am Monday (India Time) - but in the meantime, here's some beautiful mountains 😍 www.mindandlife.org/events/minds...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 5d
Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026.
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
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#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci
The Society for the Study of Measurement
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 5d
Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 5d
Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky
Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles and rectangular prisms in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 6d
If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 6d
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
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Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre @warwick-mindaction.bsky.social · 6d
MindGrad Deadline Extension:

The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!

Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...

#philsky #philconf #philosophy
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 7d
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 10d
Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025.
buff.ly/MhR4PcK
Two-Year Post-Doctoral Associate, Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - PhilJobs:JFP
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 15d
If you thought people having their senses of self challenged by AI was a new thing, think again. I got this from an outstanding meeting on philosophy & AI in Prague the last few days, www.reddit.com/r/philosophy... specifically, from Dániel Golden fi.abtk.hu/hu/munkatars...
Searle vs. Boden (1984) - Consciousness and Understanding in Machines
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · Jul 6
potato.
A page filled with colored sketches of sprouting potatoes. #kimgakaku
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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 19d
We now have this nifty flier for our upcoming conference on Marxist biology - please help spread the word!

(registration including for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...)
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 20d
Why do we smile?

What makes pulling back the lip corners a fundamentally positive act? Why don’t we beam out good vibes by blinking our eyes or wrinkling our noses?

From our archive, @kensycoop.bsky.social's essay about the (murky) origins of the smile: disi.org/dawn-of-the-...
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 20d
Thanks to @pessoabrain.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social for featuring our paper and to @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Tse for engaging so generously with the ideas! 😊 www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
www.thetransmitter.org
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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 29d
I lived the times too, all too familiar. I'd like to encourage younger people to read this, especially men who feel somehow oppressed by the "woke" culture.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 28d
Gotta strive for a non-violent philosophy of biology ✌️
When we impose optimization frameworks on evolved systems, we commit not just a technical error but a profound conceptual violence—forcing the non-teleological, historically contingent pathways of evolution into the artificial straightjacket of goal-directed reasoning that reveals more about human cognitive biases than about the phenomena we claim to explain.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28d
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Sep 12
JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci
Jobs
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Bartosz Radomski @bartoszradomski.bsky.social · Aug 27
We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

#EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss
Basic Principles of Cognition
1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · Sep 12
Important for discussions about agency and free will:
Hermida M, Ladyman J (2025): Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology. Philosophy of Science :1–18.
#neuroscience #consciousness #freewill #reductionism
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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · Sep 11
New publication by our postdoc Margarida Hermida (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) and James Ladyman (University of Bristol) on physical explanation and the autonomy of biology: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philsci
Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · Sep 10
Our International Postdoc Forum is a virtual seminar series for early career researchers to share their work w/commentary by MCPS community members. Excited to welcome @rosetrappes.bsky.social (University of Bergen, Norway) at 1215 CT Wed 24 Sept. Sign up for Zoom link. buff.ly/MSAXLgY
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Sep 10
Can a single cell learn? Even without a brain, some microbes show simple forms of cognition. Can this basal cognition be engineered? Check our new paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social on the minimal synthetic circuits & their cognitive limits. @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · Sep 10
Ask Ed about the obscure reference in the title.
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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · Sep 10
Some friends and I submitted a commentary

Preprint here:

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

@guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.bsky.social · Sep 10
Looks to be someone called Joel Pashcow, not much information on him other than that he's reported as an associate of Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Photo of novelty check suggests Epstein ‘sold’ Trump a woman for $22,500
Convicted sex offender appears in birthday scrapbook photo with giant check signed by ‘DJ Trump’
www.theguardian.com
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