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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹

@okaydaniellle.bsky.social

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🤠 Philosopher 🤓 • Mind, neuroscience, cognitive science, AI • Follow these accounts for Phil science of the mind + brain related stuff: 🧠 @socphilneuro.bsky.social & 🎂 @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social 📚 daniellejwilliams.com

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · Feb 22

My paper ‘How to be a realist about computational neuroscience’ is out now in Synthese!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How to be a realist about computational neuroscience - Synthese

Recently, a version of realism has been offered to address the simplification strategies used in computational neuroscience. According to this view, computational models provide us with knowledge abou...

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

there is a Jane Goodall special on Netflix right now that is absolutely wonderful. it’s a nice day to watch it. ❤️🦍🦧

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 3d

🧠 Phil & Neuro Salon: 10.23.25 at 12pm EST 🧠
Held on zoom and open to all!
Register for the talk here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 3d

🎲 Neurohumanities Booster Session 🧠
Neurology Through the Artist's Lens: Gamifying Visual Arts to Enhance Preclinical Neuroscience Education with Tammy Kaplan, MD and Christine Bentley, PhD

Held on zoom with @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social!
Register here:
harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 4d

Philosophy grad student, @gibbonitathought.bsky.social has a new publication out now in Philosophical Psychology! 🦍 👶Check out the abstract and then read the whole paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 5d

Highlights from Samantha Ooley's talk: Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyian Model 🎲

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 6d

Life at Purdue is basically just planes, cranes, and cotton candy skies

🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely not. Definitely never.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 6d

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 6d

i’m definitely absolutely not talking about any mascot in particular but I do find the human ones where the costume is a human body with a giant plastic human head a little bit creepy.

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 6d

@natashasnature.bsky.social says it perfectly. ❤️🦍

Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · 6d

🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 7d

desk cat be deskin

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 7d

Purdue grad student Samantha Ooley will be workshopping a talk titled 'Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyan Model' at the CAIC workshop this Friday! ✏️🎲

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 8d

Missed the SPAN sesh at DSPNW? Now you can watch Randy Beer’s talk on the SPAN website! 🥳

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 9d

Watch Randall Beer (Indiana University) give his talk titled 'Dynamical Systems for the Philosopher of Neuroscience' at DSPN this past week!

Special thank you to Marica Bernstein for recording! 🧠 🌀 Follow the link to our website to watch 👀

www.philandneuro.com/gulf

DSPN at the Gulf | SPAN

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 9d

This Tuesday David Thorstad from Vanderbilt University will be joining the mind and cognition research group to present their paper "Ecological rationality without externalism”. Read the abstract below!

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 11d

Yay @dryan149.bsky.social! 🥳

CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 11d

Purdue is doing something about books! Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, & Dan Kelly combine compelling stories with science to explore how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive the big structural change needed to tackle systemic issues. 📖 🥳

-Cristina Farmus, VP of Purdue

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 12d

New SPAN partnership just dropped 👀

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 12d

We've partnered with @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social! The NeuroHumanities Network is a virtual community of clinicians, neuroscientists, artists, humanists, and patients who explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and neuroscience. Check the link in the comments for upcoming seminars! 🧠🎨🤓

NeuroHumanities Network - Upcoming Events

Photo Credit: Priya Rama & Kate March

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 13d

If you're at DSPN at the Gulf, be sure to check out our poster on the advert table! 👀 🧠

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 15d

This Friday Kristian Gonzalez Barman (University of Ghent) and Stuart Glennan (Butler University) will join the Mind & Cognition Research Group in the philosophy department to present their work 'The New Science of Artificial Intelligence' 🤖 Read the abstract below:

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 17d

A lil SPAN update 👀

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 17d

New conference schedule announcement: SPAN will be held biennially with our next meeting scheduled for 2027. Sign up for our newsletter and learn about what we'll be up to during our off-years at philandneuro.com 👀 🧠

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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 18d

Coming up next week: SPAN's special session at DSPN at the Gulf! 🌴☀️

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you're at the DSPN at the Gulf conference this summer be sure to make time for the SPAN special session on dynamical systems!

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 18d

Available #OpenAccess, Michael Kirchhoff's "The Idealized Mind" brings together ideas from the philosophy of cognitive science and the philosophy of science to reconcile scientific realism with model-based science: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...

Hand holding a copy of "The Idealized Mind: From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science" by Michael D. Kirchhoff.

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 18d

@sarahrobins.bsky.social and Kathryn Maxson Jones are heading to the gulf for DSPN ☀️🌴 Sarah will be talking about deciding & remembering and Kathryn will be talking about the giant squid axon as the history of neuroscience keynote! 🦑

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CAIC @ Purdue @caic-at-purdue.bsky.social · 22d

New Publication! Maria Waggoner's paper 'Moral illusions' is forthcoming in @journalphp.bsky.social 🥳 Maria argues that we should rethink our conception of the ideal virtuous person and suggests alternative moral resources which a virtuous person could use to navigate cases of moral illusions. 📄👇

A graphic with a photo of maria waggoner, assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue university

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 22d

my newest book just arrived— proceeding from a 1960 conference— and it was previously owned by Adolf Grunbaum, founder of Pitt’s center for philosophy of science!

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