Christian Kliesch
@enactedmind.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam.
Interested in cognition and what it means to be human. So far. I identified potential culprits: Bodies in development, minds enacting, babies being clever but mostly useless at doing things.
Interested in cognition and what it means to be human. So far. I identified potential culprits: Bodies in development, minds enacting, babies being clever but mostly useless at doing things.
Pinned
Here is a preprint for my paper "Post-natal dependency as the foundation of social learning in humans" osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
In this paper I make the claim that human social behaviour emerges from a uniquely human developmental trajectory in which infants are born with large brains are limited in their ability to interact with their environment directly.
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Wer in der Wissenschaft als exzellent gelten will, muss sichtbar sein. Nur: Frauen werden für Sichtbarkeit abgestraft. Sie können es schlicht nicht richtig machen! Kein Wunder, dass Gleichstellung im dt. Wissenschaftssystem schleppend vorangeht. Das #Sichtbarkeitsparadox: heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!
Das Sichtbarkeitsparadox: Warum Wissenschaftlerinnen es nicht richtig…
Als exzellent gelten setzt voraus, sichtbar zu sein. Wissenschaftlerinnen werden jedoch für Sichtbarkeit abgestraft. Egal was sie tun: Sie können es nur falsch machen!
steady.page
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Wer in der Wissenschaft als exzellent gelten will, muss sichtbar sein. Nur: Frauen werden für Sichtbarkeit abgestraft. Sie können es schlicht nicht richtig machen! Kein Wunder, dass Gleichstellung im dt. Wissenschaftssystem schleppend vorangeht. Das #Sichtbarkeitsparadox: heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!
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UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report
House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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These fucking psychos
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
These fucking psychos
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Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.
www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.
www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
🧵
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
🧵
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
🧵
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Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
An evaluation of the concept of innateness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The concept of innateness is often used in explanations and classifications of biological
and cognitive traits. But does this concept have a legitimate role to play in contemporary
scientific discours...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Been reading "What is Innateness?" by Paul Griffiths (2002) philpapers.org/rec/EGRWII in which he offers this very sound advice:
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Been reading "What is Innateness?" by Paul Griffiths (2002) philpapers.org/rec/EGRWII in which he offers this very sound advice:
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More than two decades have passed since we discovered that rare disruptions of the FOXP2 gene disturb development of proficient speech/language skills. Today we know of multiple FOXP genes that are directly implicated in distinct brain-related conditions with differences in symptoms & severity.🧪 1/n
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
More than two decades have passed since we discovered that rare disruptions of the FOXP2 gene disturb development of proficient speech/language skills. Today we know of multiple FOXP genes that are directly implicated in distinct brain-related conditions with differences in symptoms & severity.🧪 1/n
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Advice, please! We have this manuscript, preprinted on OSF osf.io/preprints/os..., all about our work bringing #OpenHardware into medical education. We've been desk rejected from Royal Society Open Science and Research in Learning Technology (after 3+ months!), both for being "out of scope". (1/n)
OSF
osf.io
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Advice, please! We have this manuscript, preprinted on OSF osf.io/preprints/os..., all about our work bringing #OpenHardware into medical education. We've been desk rejected from Royal Society Open Science and Research in Learning Technology (after 3+ months!), both for being "out of scope". (1/n)
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New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
September 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
Progress in Radical Embodiment
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Progress in radical embodiment. The special issue aims to explore progress ...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
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🚨 My university just announced it's closing its Women & Gender Studies and Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies departments, merging them into English. The official reason? "Low enrollment." But our meeting with the provost tells a very different story about what's really happening here. 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🚨 My university just announced it's closing its Women & Gender Studies and Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies departments, merging them into English. The official reason? "Low enrollment." But our meeting with the provost tells a very different story about what's really happening here. 🧵
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When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.
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A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
The FU Berlin has published an official obituary for Prof. Friedemann Pulvermüller: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
October 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The FU Berlin has published an official obituary for Prof. Friedemann Pulvermüller: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
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If you’ve never been to the #berlin US Embassy, it’s just past the Russian one, next to the Brandenburger Tor.
#nokings #nokingsberlin
Normally I lock my bike to the fence of the little garden in front of it, but given the occasion, I’d expected to use the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
#nokings #nokingsberlin
Normally I lock my bike to the fence of the little garden in front of it, but given the occasion, I’d expected to use the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
If you’ve never been to the #berlin US Embassy, it’s just past the Russian one, next to the Brandenburger Tor.
#nokings #nokingsberlin
Normally I lock my bike to the fence of the little garden in front of it, but given the occasion, I’d expected to use the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
#nokings #nokingsberlin
Normally I lock my bike to the fence of the little garden in front of it, but given the occasion, I’d expected to use the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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More people are joining, age and ethnic diversity is improving. Also getting more Berlin.
#berlin #nokings #nokingsberlin
#berlin #nokings #nokingsberlin
October 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
More people are joining, age and ethnic diversity is improving. Also getting more Berlin.
#berlin #nokings #nokingsberlin
#berlin #nokings #nokingsberlin
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I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
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The system feeds on your outrage. It can weaponize your anger and categorize your protest. But it can’t process humor. It can’t predict love. That’s why kindness and laughter are still the most radical acts left.
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The system feeds on your outrage. It can weaponize your anger and categorize your protest. But it can’t process humor. It can’t predict love. That’s why kindness and laughter are still the most radical acts left.
If you work in German academia or public service, *now* is a good time to join a union. The next round of collective bargaining negotiations is about to start. 1/n
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If you work in German academia or public service, *now* is a good time to join a union. The next round of collective bargaining negotiations is about to start. 1/n
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🚨 New preprint 🚨
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
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It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.
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Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social