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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 6m

Excellent book.

Tony Durham @rhamdu.bsky.social · 35m

Excellent book by @neurograce.bsky.social , accessible but not dumbed down. The math takes a back seat during a tour of important historic and current research in neuroscience. Even if you know parts of the story you may find new insights and connections. GL has a good nose for neurononsense.

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2h

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky

Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism

Science and Humanism - October 2025

www.cambridge.org

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3h

The LisaDesk code serves as an example. Ca 40 % of the code is developers’ comments (including ASCII art!) offering useful insights for the historian exploring the development process #shot2025

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3h

How can source code be used as a historical source? That’s the theme of the ”Code Histories” series of panels here at #shot2025. Titaÿna Kauffmann at @c2dh.uni.lu presenting on the Apple LISA computer and its programming languages.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 4h

My contribution would be ”how ai criticism may favor illiberal institutions and practices“ bsky.app/profile/duhe...

Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 5h

I’m on board with many of the criticisms of AI in education, the arts, and all the rest of it. What I can’t stand are self-satisfied, privileged views that take it is self evident that pre-AI status quo is awesome. You can object to AI in schools without accepting that schools are marvelous places.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 5h

AI and Ideologies: Navigating between Digital Capitalism and Illiberal theories.

This may lead to interesting discussions. calenda.org/1299607

AI and Ideologies: Navigating between Digital Capitalism and Illibe...

Over the past decade, scholarship on digital authoritarianism has rapidly expanded, highlighting how governments and political actors increasingly appropriate digital technologies to surveil, disci...

calenda.org

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 5h

As someone who thinks about standards of evidence for detecting research misconduct, I found this lecture by Frederick Schauer on his 2022 book The Proof very thought-provoking. He approaches it from perspective of a lawyer looking at use of evidence in everyday life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6q...

‘The Proof’ With Frederick Schauer

YouTube video by University of Virginia School of Law

www.youtube.com

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 5h

I’m on board with many of the criticisms of AI in education, the arts, and all the rest of it. What I can’t stand are self-satisfied, privileged views that take it is self evident that pre-AI status quo is awesome. You can object to AI in schools without accepting that schools are marvelous places.

Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 5h

Another wannabe humanities professor.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Matan Mazor @matanmazor.bsky.social · 19h

Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations

my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think the way to improve scientific literacy or fight misinformation is by parsing RFK’s statements. There are more effective ways.
I was pointing out just for our own edification that his wording was weird. Maybe I’m wrong about this and people regularly use this phrase in this way.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of scientists sense the bullshit production machine happening in the admin and reach for terms like “p-hacking” or arguing they’re doing science wrong. This is remarkably misguided and just pays them the liars dividend. 🧵

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20h

I think this is a dangerous framing because all he has to do is preregister a confounded analysis and it crops out as “confirmatory”.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 19h

Prediction: the first AI generated feature film will be a kid’s movie.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 21h

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.

We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 23h

I had a lot of fun exploring the insidious influence of dualist ideas with @evanmcgloughlin.bsky.social
Watch on Youtube Now: youtu.be/x0mjQmmzfCk

Meet the Philosopher of Mind Proving that Consciousness is Physical!

YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21h

“New”

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21h

Lets see if I can do this too… A lot of things need our input…

Philosopher of science here. Sigh. Funding choices inescapably reflect values beyond “scientific merit”. Indeed they should.

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21h

MIT’s response to The Compact invitation

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core beliefs. That scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21h

Isn’t obvious that this is just another shakedown of the Qataris ?

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