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Ann-Sophie Barwich

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Mary I. Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe/Harvard Associate Prof, Indiana U Bloomington Philosopher & Neuroscientist Book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721 Web: www.smellosophy.com Lab: thestinktank.weebly.com Poetry/Essays: https://as-barwich.medium.com

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · Aug 27

And we are live!

"Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain"
A.S. Barwich, S.J. Firestein, M. R. Dietrich
European Journal of Neuroscience

Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NeuroSky #neuro #neuroscience #philsci #hps #sts

Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain

Challenging the topographic paradigm: The olfactory system's dynamic organization and phenomena like representational drift challenge traditional spatial mapping models, advocating for flexible, r...

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 10d

You can trust analytic truth because you can trust analytic truth.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trust-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update where a woman comments that she hates the phrase "Trust the Science" (featured here on a t-shirt) because science is a never-ending process and at best we can say that we trust people with a greater expertise in a given question. She then reveals her ideal shirt slogan: Trust Analytic Truth P⮕P

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 11h

Oooof. This morning needs a lot (more) strong coffee -- and Kalkbrenner on full headphones volume:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jna5...

Paul Kalkbrenner - La Mezcla (Official Live Video)

YouTube video by Paul Kalkbrenner

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 11h

Wait what?? Ooof. Thanks for the heads-up (I missed that)!

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cover of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy"!!! published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social.
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 12h

Jane Goodall Taught You How to ‘Look’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

Jane Goodall Taught You How to ‘Look’

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 23h

🧠📈 Do neurons of a feather flock together? Not quite.

New evidence shows that neurons of the same specific type tend to avoid each other in space, supporting the mosaic hypothesis in the cortex.

📄 Read the @cp-cellreports.bsky.social study: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics.

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Physics

The prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 23h

Ha. Fair enough. Could be worse, though. You could be a FC Köln fan... that takes a brave suffering heart.

Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 23h

DUDE!?!

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories

Longitudinal measurements of brain structure and function are critical for understanding how humans change over time. Traditional longitudinal approaches sample sparsely across large windows of time t...

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social · 4d

"Où Est Le Garlic?" A conceptual blind spot reader.

Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain

Challenging the topographic paradigm: The olfactory system's dynamic organization and phenomena like representational drift challenge traditional spatial mapping models, advocating for flexible, r...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for linking. Checking it out this coming weekend

Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 1d

HA. Touché 😆

Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 1d

Rub. It. In.

(But congrats.)

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 1d

Mary Midgley and Jane Goodall in 1989.

Goodall's influence is clear throughout Midgley's work and central to her claim that philosophy needs ethology

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Back to piano practice after an hour of grueling hot yoga... But after seeing what awaits me in part 3 - I'll need to dampen my initial ambition. Let's just say, I hope to be steady halfway through Glass' Metamorphosis by the end of October. Dude's effin' with my Germanic sensorimotor habits.

Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 3d

🔥

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

Narrator: “No they don’t. They do not even extend it to women.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

Do all these AI bros defending the personhood of chatbots etc extend their ethics to their interactions with non-human animals or no

Because I’m very curious now

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I'd prefer a moonwalk button too.

Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 3d

Some people would pay good money for that haircut!

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 3d

Silhouette of a kid, ankle deep in the shallows of a bay just after sunset with a deep golden twilight sky. The child is surrounded by concentric water ripples emanating out & their arm is raised having just tossed a pebble towards the setting sun.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful!!!

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 3d

I am in fits of hysterical laughter

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 3d

Everything is relentlessly terrible 😭 and the cognitive dissonance from last week alone seemed particularly difficult to cope with.

So I tried to have last night off; started out innocently looking for new music to listen to and then, by way of a random cat massage video tutorial, ended up here...

Video Dating: Women's Edition

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 4d

This just gave me an idea for a T-Shirt. #LongCOVID

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