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Daniel Kelly
@dryan149.bsky.social
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, cultural evolution, moral psychology, and climate change

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Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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The 52nd annual meeting of the SPP will be at JHU, June 17-20

📣 Submit your work by January 16! 📣
January 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
Scientists Catch Jellyfish and Sea Anemones Behaving in Surprisingly Human Ways
Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
www.scientificamerican.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Stop by the SPAN session at the Eastern APA this Thursday!
January 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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New post on The FEEDBACK by Caitlin Mace on content indeterminacy! It's a good one!!
January 7, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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In 2025 I published a paper opening with an episode of The Good Place (linked below) and one opening with an episode of Seinfeld (with @dryan149.bsky.social, here link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

Stay tuned, next goal is a Ted Lasso one
Leda Berio with What’s my motivation? Reputational motives, virtue signaling, and self-directed mindshaping
doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Francesco Marchi on self-deception and automatic belief
doi.org/10.1080/0951...

#philsky #philpsy
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January 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Great review of @thebusyowl.bsky.social's book!

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry is an extremely well written and empowering book that can appeal to an interdisciplinary audience ... it brings lived experience back into the heart of psychiatry

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Another cool paper by @ledaberio.bsky.social
Leda Berio with What’s my motivation? Reputational motives, virtue signaling, and self-directed mindshaping
doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Francesco Marchi on self-deception and automatic belief
doi.org/10.1080/0951...

#philsky #philpsy
2/2
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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A 2025 highlight ⚡

View below the cover images of books entered into CASBS's Ralph W. Tyler Collection in 2025. Such books are conceived, initiated, completed, or otherwise undertaken by fellows during their residence and acknowledge the Center.

Much more on the Tyler Collection: bit.ly/3JUl5vV
January 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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SPAN's new year email just went out. Click to see what's coming in 2026:
Happy new year from SPAN!
SPAN, Looking Back...
www.philandneuro.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 "Understanding & Predicting Cultural Change" is accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology!
Varnum & I argue that Psychology cannot afford to be blind to time. We need to move from cross-sectional snapshots to dynamic time-series movies. 🧵👇
December 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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A 2025 highlight ⚡

In February, CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving, led by @alisongopnik.bsky.social, guest-edited the Winter 2025 issue of Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Learn about the project & read the entire open access issue: bit.ly/3Qm49ha
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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@jayvanbavel.bsky.social hosts a terrific newsletter, "The Power of Us," and it was an honor to contribute to it, along with @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social.

@mitpress.bsky.social
"We got mad about the endless either/or debate between the “individual action” versus “systemic change” and decided to try to fix it."

Read our fantastic interview on the new book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone can Help Create Social Change": www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-anyone...
How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
An interview & book giveaway with Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly about their new book "Somebody should do something"
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"We got mad about the endless either/or debate between the “individual action” versus “systemic change” and decided to try to fix it."

Read our fantastic interview on the new book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone can Help Create Social Change": www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-anyone...
How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
An interview & book giveaway with Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly about their new book "Somebody should do something"
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The importance of social identity to social change in today's Power of Us newsletter!

We're also giving away 5 books to commenters over on Substack who answer the question, "What’s one thing you could do today to help create social change?"

www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-anyone...
How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
An interview & book giveaway with Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly about their new book "Somebody should do something"
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits

⭐️Recent work by Jordan Wylie, Matthew Lindauer & Ana Gantman
People can find their true selves outside moral pursuits
Pursuing a life of moral excellence is often seen as allowing a person not only to live by good and just principles but also to live an authentic life…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching

⭐️Work from Leda Berio & Daniel Kelly
Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
link.springer.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM