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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks!!

Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 6h

Really interesting! It seems the form is at capacity. Any chance of new slots opening up?

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 8h

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2d

𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆
This short book by Moreno and Pereto' looks very interesting. One more on the understanding of biological agency.
And it's open access!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 5d

And we can see, in creatures that developed nervous systems especially, that they can act *for reasons*, based on the meaning of neural patterns. Living systems literally incorporate knowledge about the world to guide their behavior adaptively. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience

The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 7d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 8d

Grim Fandango for sure. Also Hypnospace Outlaw!
Also, embarrassing to admit, but Nier Automata was genuinely excellent, and gets bonus points for working within the genre of escapist slop, but then ultimately putting that frame into question and rising above it. Was brought to tears by the ending.

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Constantin Rothkopf @c-rothkopf.bsky.social · 8d

If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

(SW2025) Control theory approaches for analysing, modeling, and manipulating brain activity and cognitive function – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience

bernstein-network.de

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 15d

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939

#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 15d

Very cool!

Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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𖤐B𖤐 @neuroyogacara.bsky.social · 16d

I'm bumping this job announcement up again, for folks who might have missed it last time!

𖤐B𖤐 @neuroyogacara.bsky.social · 21d

I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710

Assistant Professor, Georgetown University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

philjobs.org

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 16d

@nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @bwz-brain.bsky.social, genuinely curious for your take here, as it would help clarify a lot.

When you say "FFA does face processing", do you mean that face processing implies FFA activity? Or do you mean that FFA activity implies face processing?

Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 16d

The reverse claim, FFA->FP means
~FP
∴ ~FFA.
i.e., if the task doesn't involve face processing, you should not see FFA activity.

The question was which claim is meant when saying "The FFA does face processing".

FP->FFA seems totally reasonable, but means FFA is not be unique to face processing.

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 16d

Just to press on this a bit more, because I'm bummed this never got a response: It's useful because it shows what negative evidence implies for different claims.

FP->heart
no (~) heart
therefore (∴) ~FP. (obviously)

For FFA, it would mean:
FP->FFA
~FFA
∴ ~FP, which I think most would accept.

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Bowen Zheng @bwz-brain.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m not sure how useful this form is for characterizing part of the brain that does specific computation though. The heart is an important part of keep me alive to do face processing, but it does’t seem useful to say face processing -> heart is active. though it’s logically correct.

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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 16d

Great to see that people are reading Danziger!
I increasingly started to get interested in questions about cultural specificty of psychological kinds toward the end of my book as well.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 17d

Wherever a researcher comes down on natural kinds, constructs & Operationalization, I agree it would be great for more to realize it’s a thing to think through it all wrt “What are we doing here?” This book (especially the Intro start) is good to get the gist.

api.pageplace.de/preview/DT04...

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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 16d

A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Schematic summary of key findings and proposed mechanisms from Rossetti et al. (2025) regarding the interaction between circulating platelets and cerebral neurovascular function in healthy ageing.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 18d

It was amazing to me that the report I heard on this *only* mentioned effects on tech. Especially given the war(s) on universities, and on immigrants, being so visible on other fronts.

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 22d

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 24d

This paper presents an interesting account of the 1700s parsing of the mind by Kant and others into knowing(=cognition)/feeling(=affection)/willing(=contation).

It also laments that "knowing" somehow took over everything else, which I'm sympathetic to 😉.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11608381/

For two hundred years many psychologists took for granted that the study of mind could be divided into three parts: cognition, affection, and conation. They disagreed on whether these should be considered faculties of the mind or merely a classification of aspects of mental activity, but the threefold division was repeatedly revived. In the last twenty-five years, if we judge from the titles of books and journal articles, scientific psychology-whether its focus is on perception, learning and memory, development, or personality and social psychology-has become engaged withone of these aspects, now called cognitive psychology. An examination of the tripartite classification in historical perspective may show the extent to which affection and conation are now suffering neglect by contrast with cognition as their coequal. This historical review may give a better understanding of what is happening in the present.

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 24d

Cool! Was "will" the closest English translation for the German concept at the time?
Also, to clarify, not saying no one in English ever thought about "why people do what they do" before 1900! The point was that psychologists coined a term to flag a new explanatory target for scientific pursuit.

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 24d

Danziger's definitely worth a read. Constructing the Subject is also useful for seeing how stats and group-based experiments became the gold standard in psych. This worked well for interventions and population studies, but not so good for understanding individual experience (e.g., emotion).

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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 24d

Super interesting! Reminds me of a point from Danziger's "Naming the Mind": That "motivation", as a term, was coined in the 20th century, largely to cover the ambition of early psychologists to explain ALL human behavior, which was thought impossible earlier.
www.amazon.com/Naming-Mind-...

Google n gram showing usage of the word "motivation". Usage increased after 1900, flattened from 1938-1945, then rose again to hold steady since ~1975.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 25d

Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller
Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25
youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...

"Cognition is emergent" by Earl Miller

YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

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