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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 14d

It’s a spiral staircase. Focus on elevation over angular position

Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 18d

Not exactly. Immigration per se isn’t in the constitution (congress has explicit control over naturalization, but not immigration). So it’s a bit of a legal black hole. The executive says that its authority over foreign affairs gives it power over immigration, and the courts have deferred to this.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 18d

There are *very* few legal checks on presidential control over immigration.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 19d

Western Philosophy Department is hiring!

www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

www.uwo.ca

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 20d

On its way to me

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 20d

Send cites please

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Crazy, right? But *very* many women friends of mine report men intimidated by their MD or PhD. There’s a cultural change that eventually needs to happen, but clearly hasn’t yet.

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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study bridges brain and body through ecological psychology and neuroscience by demonstrating how ecological information—in this case, “time to contact” or tau—constrains brain activity and as mu...

doi.org

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · Sep 5

And the best news is the data are publicly available, so we can look at things from a more ecological constraint-oriented perspective (rather than a coding-based approach)

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

www.nature.com

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · Jul 22

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · Jun 27

As a damn good singer and instrumentalist, it was exposure to talent like that that made me think, you know what? I’m happy to enjoy my place in a world of music I don’t need to contribute to.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · Jun 25

“The behaviour of my measuring system I made malfunction” isn’t actually good evidence but fundamentally it’s the only argument indirect perception really has (see: illusions, studying perceptual cues in isolation, etc)

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hume's two-sentence refutation of direct realism.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · Jun 18

We punch way above our weight. On many metrics.

Western University @westernu.ca · Jun 18

#WesternU is tied for 3rd in Canada and 14th overall in the 2025 @timeshighered.bsky.social Impact Rankings, which measure progress on the UN #SDGs. From peace to economic growth to global health, Western's work on #sustainability is standing out. #THEGlobalImpact

Western 3rd in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings - Western News

Western tied for third nationally and tied for 14th overall in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025, which assesses sustainability work.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Earth is wisely trying to shake us off.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · May 29

Exactly the problem, right, if the executives in charge actually *admire* authoritarian regimes?

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · May 13

This proposed bill allocates $500M for replacing gov. IT systems with commercial AI (a bad idea given known problems with AI) but then preemptively bans all state AI regulation and enforcement for 10 years, making a bad idea much, much worse. d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/Subtitle_C_C...

d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · May 5

Physical affordances beat digital simulations every time

WIRED @wired.com · May 5

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars.

Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!

Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...

www.wired.com

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · May 3

Yet another reason why open science initiatives are better options for universities. Right @richardgold.bsky.social ?

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · May 3

Universities spend millions chasing profits from patents—but most are losing money doing it. A new study shows tech transfer is often a bad investment, costing more in faculty time and overhead than it brings in

US universities lose millions of dollars chasing patents, research shows

The problem is that costs – especially the costs to faculty – often go ignored.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · May 3

The 1st Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience @socphilneuro.bsky.social meeting was outstanding! I'm so sorry I have to miss the last day. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an amazing lineup - great to see so many folks working at the intersection.

ANNUAL MEETING | SPAN

www.philandneuro.com

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · May 2

All of them? Several professors in Philosophy of Chemistry, Art History, Psychology, an Anthropologist back from the field… how am I doing?

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · May 2

The time is fast approaching for the GOP to decide if it’s for or against dismantling significant government programs. It’ll take guts either way, so it’ll be interesting to see the creative ways they devise to kick the can down the road.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · May 2

Affordances Constrain Motor Abundance: A Hypothesis and A Research Programme osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is a new preprint by me, where I have written down my affordance based approach to UCM and similar methods for the first time in one place. Feedback very much appreciated!

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · Apr 30

That’s some International Date Line you’ve got there!

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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · Apr 27

In an alternative universe, cog. scientists *read* eco. psych. and find out that...
1. The foundational texts of eco. psych. (Gibson 1966, 1979) don't talk about representations.
2. Affordances aren't what they think they are.
3. The core is ecological information.
4. 50 years+ of experimental work.

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