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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 17h

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

neuroscience.georgetown.edu

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liberty severs @libertysevers.bsky.social · 7d

and if you are working in the area and would like to chat, please feel free to reach out!

liberty severs @libertysevers.bsky.social · 7d

to read more about the project, check out the following link: www.kli.ac.at/content/rese...

Research | All Projects | Discover The KLI

The Konrad Lorenz Institute provides a stimulating and creative environment for fellows, visiting scholars, students, and external faculty.

www.kli.ac.at

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liberty severs @libertysevers.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to start my residency at the KLI today. For the next few months, I'll be writing-up a project on reinforcement learning and the operational foundations of agency, with a special focus on its ecological validity and underlying philosophy of control.

#philsky #cogsci

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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 11d

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14d

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 16d

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨

Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

#philmind #philsci #philsky

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Audrey Dussutour @docteur-drey.bsky.social · 18d

1/4 Calling photographers & mycologists 🍄: I’m seeking images of fungi (parasitic & pathogenic & others) for a free public science conference (later on YouTube). Files will be safe & private (Dropbox upload, not visible to others). Copyright will be credited.
🙏 Help me raise fungal love 🙏

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Tony Chemero @tonychemero.bsky.social · 19d

Lots of your favorite philosophers are assholes.

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Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous

A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...

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Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social · 20d

Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive Foundations

Cognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different

www.taylorfrancis.com

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liberty severs @libertysevers.bsky.social · 20d

I was sorry to miss this today! I don’t suppose the talk was recorded?

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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 24d

Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia
Length: 3000 words.
Deadline: December 1, 2025.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 23d

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 23d

1/11 Why is Elon Musk pushing for civil war in the US and Europe?

This thread breaks down how Musk is using his platform, wealth, and influence to amplify far-right movements, incite political violence, and undermine democracy—across continents

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liberty severs @libertysevers.bsky.social · 22d

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Bartosz Radomski @bartoszradomski.bsky.social · 28d

Save the date! Remote participation will be also possible:)

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.

basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

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ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · 28d

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
We look forward to seeing you there 🤗
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

Overview of the ROTO Lecture Series in the winter semester 2025/2026.

The talks will be:
- "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" by Celso Neto (University of Exeter)
- "Understanding plant holobionts through complexity science" by César Marín (Universidad Santo Tomás)
- "What is Dialectical Biology?" by Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon)
- "Learning from Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems" by Charbel El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia)
- "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology" by Rebecca Sear (Brunel University London)
- "The Organism and the System: Boundary Crossings in 20th Century Science" by Libby O’Neil (Mississippi State University)

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 26d

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

The image depicts the University of Lethbridge, located in Southern Alberta, Canada. The prominent building shown in the image is the Science Commons, which is situated on the university campus within the coulee landscape.

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 1

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · Sep 3

This time with a better graphic and an actual date 😶 catch our symposium on realism in neuroscience at ISPSM👀 @ispsm.bsky.social

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Sep 2

I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls.

This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.

This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · Aug 30

We're excited to say we've partnered w/ The Laboratory of Cognition & Emotion at U Maryland to bring you news about their Phil & Neuro Salon curated & hosted by @pessoabrain.bsky.social 🧠 Check here or our website for links to future events that are open to all!
www.philandneuro.com/partnerships

SPAN PARTNERSHIPS | SPAN

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 28

“overburdened with mitochondrial challenges”: Grade A pseudoprofound bullshit

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · Aug 28

🦹‍♂️How can the supervillains at the CDC believe he's a threat to public health, while he has superpowers to diagnose diseases invisible to scientists, just by looking at kids?

X (twitter) post by @Acyn (28 Aug 2025, 1.8K likes):
"RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection"
The illustration shows a video of an interview of RFK Jr on C-SPAN

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Nils Kroemer @nbkroemer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow, this is the kind of evidence we need to move ahead in the field. I'll go out on a limb here: I guess it is more about the gut than cardiac and respiratory domains. Huge effort by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com and the entire team 👏

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 27

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.25334366v1

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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)

www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...

I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

New at the university: Prof. Weber!

Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!

www.uni-osnabrueck.de

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