Matthieu de Wit
@dewitmm.bsky.social
Liberal Arts college professor at Muhlenberg College | Working on empirical and conceptual integration of ecological psychology, neuroscience, and 4E cognition. dewitlab.wordpress.com
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The second SPAN program just dropped and its amazing!! Consider submitting a project proposal. 🥳
🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The second SPAN program just dropped and its amazing!! Consider submitting a project proposal. 🥳
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A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving
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November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience, by M. Chirimuuta
‘What’s in the brain that ink may character?’ asked Warren S. McCulloch (1964) (borrowing from Shakespeare) shortly before his death. Trained in philosophy
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November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
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Early career people:
We have funding to subsidize travel to the conference.
We have funding to subsidize travel to the conference.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Early career people:
We have funding to subsidize travel to the conference.
We have funding to subsidize travel to the conference.
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Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share!
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2026 Conference
Call for Papers: Science and Technology in the Anthropocene April 2 – 3, 2026 A conference about human experience in a world with non-biological intelligent systems and the environmental prob…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share!
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study it’s performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You can’t begin with a well formulated question about a single topic.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study it’s performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You can’t begin with a well formulated question about a single topic.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
Students don’t know how to formulate questions well at first.
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Symposium: Neurocognitive Functions of Mind
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
Symposium: Neurocognitive Functions of Mind
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
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October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Symposium: Neurocognitive Functions of Mind
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
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In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Vincente Raja suggests that neuroscientists should pay more attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance.
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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Vicente Raja brings ecological psychology to neuroscience
Neuroscientists should pay attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Vincente Raja suggests that neuroscientists should pay more attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
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New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Wow! If this holds up, it will be a triumph of science (i.e., of many hundreds of dedicated scientists over decades) over a devastating disease.
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wow! If this holds up, it will be a triumph of science (i.e., of many hundreds of dedicated scientists over decades) over a devastating disease.
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
I am super excited to be giving my talk "Characterizing neural function in ecological neuroscience" at the inaugural Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience conference @socphilneuro.bsky.social in St. Louis in May! Check out the incredible line-up of speakers and symposia: www.philandneuro.com
HOME | SPAN
The Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience (SPAN) is a new philosophical and scientific society dedicated to providing a forum for collaborations between philosophers and neuroscientists. The Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience seeks to foster, build, and maintain strong interdisciplinary relationships in the joint endeavor to understand the mind and brain.
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March 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I am super excited to be giving my talk "Characterizing neural function in ecological neuroscience" at the inaugural Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience conference @socphilneuro.bsky.social in St. Louis in May! Check out the incredible line-up of speakers and symposia: www.philandneuro.com
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🚨 Call for contributions!
We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025
We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas!
Deadline: March 14, 2025
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We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025
We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas!
Deadline: March 14, 2025
radicalembodiment3.github.io
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨 Call for contributions!
We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025
We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas!
Deadline: March 14, 2025
radicalembodiment3.github.io
We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025
We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas!
Deadline: March 14, 2025
radicalembodiment3.github.io
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No other being but humans has a right to liberty “no matter how cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated they may be.” A very disappointing ruling and a step backward from the NY ruling. Sadness ensues. #animalethics #animallaw
Colorado Supreme Court: Only humans have the right to liberty
Today the Nonhuman Rights Project issued the following statement in response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion in our elephant rights…
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January 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
No other being but humans has a right to liberty “no matter how cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated they may be.” A very disappointing ruling and a step backward from the NY ruling. Sadness ensues. #animalethics #animallaw
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Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
January 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
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🚨Abstract submission now open for the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 15-18 July 2025, in Leeds UK 🚨
Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)
Please share widely!
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Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)
Please share widely!
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...
European Workshop on Ecological Psychology | Leeds Beckett University
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January 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🚨Abstract submission now open for the European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, 15-18 July 2025, in Leeds UK 🚨
Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)
Please share widely!
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...
Abstracts: due Friday 14th March, 2025
Early Registration: by Wednesday 30 April (open shortly)
Please share widely!
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/confe...
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New Preprint! 🧐
We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️
doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/
We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️
doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/
OSF
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January 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
New Preprint! 🧐
We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️
doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/
We explored the ecological idea of resonance using virtual reality and Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MOBI). It was challenging both technically and in terms of data analysis, but we are quite happy with the results. Check it out! ⬇️
doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/
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Re-read this classic and love how Dewey describes perception as an act that is continuously transformed by new experiences (e.g. after touching 🔥, a child sees-light-that-means-pain-when-touched)—unifying stimulus/response, and framing perception as innately multisensory & memory-dependent (in 1896)
January 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Re-read this classic and love how Dewey describes perception as an act that is continuously transformed by new experiences (e.g. after touching 🔥, a child sees-light-that-means-pain-when-touched)—unifying stimulus/response, and framing perception as innately multisensory & memory-dependent (in 1896)
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hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.
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A note on AI usage
A note on AI usage I genuinely want you to succeed in this class. One of my very favorite things about my job as a professor is when students are succeeding and I feel like I helped. I want you to suc...
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December 12, 2024 at 2:25 AM
hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
Collective Action In Science Diamond
Publish one diamond open access article in 5 years
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November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
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Remember when we talked about this on the other site instead of facing threads of random blue-checks? We are finally starting to do it here 🥹
By the way, my take is that affordances are "motifs", so the concept is helplessly vague... and that's good! It helps us talk and guides us to good places.
By the way, my take is that affordances are "motifs", so the concept is helplessly vague... and that's good! It helps us talk and guides us to good places.
The term “affordance” has become so widespread and diluted that it’s become a problem, & I’m not sure what the solution is
Are affordances just generally opportunities for action? Are there different kinds of affordances & we need to carve the space up? Are most people wrong when they use the term?
Are affordances just generally opportunities for action? Are there different kinds of affordances & we need to carve the space up? Are most people wrong when they use the term?
December 6, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Remember when we talked about this on the other site instead of facing threads of random blue-checks? We are finally starting to do it here 🥹
By the way, my take is that affordances are "motifs", so the concept is helplessly vague... and that's good! It helps us talk and guides us to good places.
By the way, my take is that affordances are "motifs", so the concept is helplessly vague... and that's good! It helps us talk and guides us to good places.
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article.
"Webb's (2019) groundbreaking work on understanding the neural contributions to cognition in materially embodied, embedded models of crickets and other insects provides an example of such a method."
"Webb's (2019) groundbreaking work on understanding the neural contributions to cognition in materially embodied, embedded models of crickets and other insects provides an example of such a method."
December 4, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article.
"Webb's (2019) groundbreaking work on understanding the neural contributions to cognition in materially embodied, embedded models of crickets and other insects provides an example of such a method."
"Webb's (2019) groundbreaking work on understanding the neural contributions to cognition in materially embodied, embedded models of crickets and other insects provides an example of such a method."
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PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable.
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#ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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Redefining Publishing: PLOS, supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is launching an important new initiative
PLOS believes in a better future where science is open to all, for all. We are redefining publishing by demonstrating that new solutions are feasible and deliver tangible benefits for the entire resea...
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December 2, 2024 at 8:48 AM
PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable.
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#ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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#ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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