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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · Sep 6

So it’s official: I’ve joined CARVAKAS as their bass player. It’s a Progressive Death Metal band from Chile 🇨🇱 with 4 albums, and their lyrics are about Ancient Philosophy and Materialism. You can find us on Spotify, Bandcamp (support us if you can!) and most music platforms. This is from rehearsal.

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 8h

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

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CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 13h

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 19h

It just hit me that my wife (who supports me all the way) must be very glad that my midlife crisis amounts to buying metal T-shirts, training at a boxing gym and playing bass in a death metal band, instead of dying my hair black or getting into booze or womanizing

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 19h

People will do and say the darndest things to achieve closure instead of going to therapy

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 20h

Every once in a while, Philosophers should get up from bed in the morning, take a good look at the mirror, and ask themselves if their current research topic matters. And to whom. And why.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 21h

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

I hate so much this thing in Facebook: reels that have a cool snippet of an obscure movie, to force interested people to ask the name of it in the comments. I'm pretty sure uploaders delete the useful replies to drive engagement, because it’s always several dozens of questions with no answer.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

This mf'er got himself a new bass amp YAY

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

You know I now play bass in this band, right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVv...

CARVAKAS - De Rerum Natura (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Carvakas

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

What is your five-word or less response to this question: What is reality made of?

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

Don't underestimate the symbolic power of a person in a costume protesting. In Chile, we had "Tia Pikachu", a lady who even became a politician after the Chilean protests in 2019

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 3d

The future of peer review is here.

Introducing Nature Instant!

We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?

Here is how it works.

#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci

Showing a fictitious system for submitting manuscripts called "Nature Instant" showing bot choices for authors to choose from as initial AI-based peer reviewers. The bots are trained on real human reviewer data.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia @drxl.bsky.social · 2d

¿A quién conviene que tanta crítica política en el espacio público tenga forma de comedia?

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 2d

Super stoked to have a piece out in Jacobin! It's a personal essay about nostalgia for the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and a reclamation of the power of nostalgia for the left. 1/

The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right

The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia tha...

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 2d

We cannot change the profession all at once, in one big sweep. But we can create a few spaces where things work as we would want them to. Hoping that people notice that good is possible and our micro-utopias catch on. #philsky #academicsky

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

The belief that words possess a meaning that would be proper to them is a leftover from sorcery, the residue of ‘the magical theory of names.’ Words are not at all the names of ideas present to the mind; they are not constituted by any fixed association with data, whatever that data might be.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 2d

Now that the grieving period is over, I can inform those interested that I will not be visiting Mexico. There are monetary concerns about making the trip, but the main reason is that it's pointless to go to talk to some of my heroes with so little written, so it's back to the whiteboard. Bummer.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 2d

Chile's most popular children's puppet show got its own Tiny Desk Concert, and it SLAPS. The songs are BANGERS. Give it a listen. youtu.be/UEqTIwRrWvA?...

31 Minutos: Tiny Desk Concert

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 2d

Had a shaving accident and ended with a Gregory House 5 o'clock shade. I'm pretty embarrassed about this whole ordeal.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 3d

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 3d

A really weird talk about Theory of Mind, the intentional stance and cosmic horror

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 4d

15 years old me would be awed if he ever knew what I'm doing now at 46

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.