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Lenore Blum
@lenoreblum.bsky.social
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Mathematician and Theoretical Computer Scientist (#mathematics, #TCS) interested in #Consciousness and #NeuroAI (#Neuroscience, #AI). Distinguished Career Prof of CS at CMU, Emerita. President, Assoc for MathConscSci (AMCS) (https://amcs-community.org)
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AMS :: News from the AMS
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I'm very much looking forward to our "Mathematical Phenomenology: Synergies and Connections" workshop tomorrow!

👉 www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #consci

A huge thank you to our speakers and my co-organisizer @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social in advance!
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I am super happy to co-organize this workshop with @singhal.bsky.social, @kathrynnave.bsky.social, @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social, @robertchisciure.bsky.social, and @quantummoxie.bsky.social!

Here is a picture of the location 🤗

Join us! The Application Deadline is 20 December!
#ConSci

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November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Why do moduli spaces exist as varieties? In “Evolution of Stacks and Moduli” Jarod Alper surveys how solutions to this question have evolved. https://ow.ly/6aMT50XsNgS
cover of December Notices of the AMS
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Tomorrow 12pm (ET) at the MIT Consciousness Club. Consciousness Emerges From Neural Dynamics - Earl K. Miller (hey, that's me!). Join us via Zoom.
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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See how this wolf steals fish, a new discovery of animals using tools
Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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First talks from our Mathematical Phenomenology Sprint are being shipped. 🤗

youtube.com/@mcs_lectures

Huge thank you to all speakers! #ConSci
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Two words in UC Berkeley grant application have led to defunding of 50-year-old program
The Trump administration canceled UC Berkeley’s Educational Talent Search — a 50-year-old program that helped thousands of East Bay teens get to college — over two words in its grant...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.

But beware...
Rosalind Franklin at her microscope
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Happy Birthday @keithfrankish.com ! 🎂 🥳
philipgoff.bsky.social Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 23d
Just found out it's @keithfrankish.com's birthday!!!! Mystery solved.
philipgoff.bsky.social Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 23d
I'm feeling a deep sense of peace and joy today. Not sure why.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Another hero today: Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month
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November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Today's hero: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis
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Judge says immigration officers’ use of force in Chicago ‘shocks the conscience’
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said that officers are using excessive force against protesters and that the Department of Justice’s defense for their actions was “simply not credible.”
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November 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I voted today to keep our PA judges!
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces
- Michael Levin

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Michael Levin: Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces
YouTube video by Mathematical Consciousness Science
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November 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Several weeks ago I had great fun talking about the #Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) with Will Millership & Calum Chase. Links to the podcast are here:
www.prism-global.com/podcast/leno...

Here are 2 short clips:
bit.ly/3JAY7JS (2 types of consciousness in CTM)
bit.ly/4qFGWYh (math's effectiveness)
Lenore Blum: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Today's guest, distinguished mathematician and computer scientist Lenore Blum, explains why she and her husband Manuel believe machine consciousness isn't just possible, it's inevitable.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Mike Levin is a magician! As I've said a number of times before, if anyone could convince me to be a panpsychist it would be Mike Levin. Here, he's almost convinced me to also become a dualist. What's a mathematician and computationalist to do? 😲
#mathematics #consciousness
November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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"Worse than nothing" on the Supreme Court by Duncan Hosie from the New York Review of Books newsletter:
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Worse than Nothing
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November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Hero U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

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Judge rules Trump can’t require U.S. citizenship proof on federal voting form
President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Dr. Jane Goodall recorded this interview in March 2025, with the understanding that it would be released only after her death. #drjanegoodall
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October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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If you are worried about AI escalation, …
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Oct 30
President Trump said he had directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.

The last full-scale U.S. nuclear weapons test took place in Nevada in 1992.
A look at past nuclear weapons tests in Russia, China and the U.S.
Trump said the U.S. will test nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. None of the three countries has tested live nuclear weapons since the 1990s.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Top academic researchers leaving US amid funding cuts

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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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October 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Join us for Michael Levin's talk on Wednesday!

Context: bamxi.org/research-act...
To join, please register here: bamxi.org/kontaktnavig...

This talk is co-organized with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @lenoreblum.bsky.social!

#ConSci
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!
Inside the mind of a newborn baby
What if newborn babies are more aware than we ever imagined? Philosopher and psychologist Claudia Passos Ferreira shares groundbreaking neuroscience showing that newborn babies — and possibly even lat...
www.ted.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM