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Kate Nave
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° Leverhulme Trust research fellow at EdinburghUni
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Biological purposiveness & the meaning of life.
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.bsky.social · Jun 9
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mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 5
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬

In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
Hand holding a copy of "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" by Kathryn Nave. The cover is blue with orange text and features a geometric design at the center.
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

From the amazing @lauragrima.bsky.social and colleagues - definitely looking forward to reading this!

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience
The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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axdouglas.bsky.social
I have contributed to the debate!!

Academic Philosophers and “Writing Clearly”
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Academic Philosophers and “Writing Clearly”
Cold, limp, lifeless prose is not clear
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November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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caic-at-purdue.bsky.social
📖 NEW PUBLICATION: The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation? By @coreymaley.net & Oron Shagrir

Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠

Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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francesegan.bsky.social
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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elisecutts.bsky.social
Are you a scientist?

Is your research cool?

Do people not adequately appreciate how cool your research is?

I'm looking for researchers to feature in Q&A-style interviews on my blog and would love to hear from (or about — embarrass your friends!) scientists interested in sharing their work. 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
The hitchhiker’s guide to cross-species DNA delivery

@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight by Kotaro Kiga and Rodrigo Ibarra-Chávez

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The hitchhiker’s guide to cross-species DNA delivery
Microbial hitchhikers are rewriting the rules of horizontal gene transfer. He, Patkowski, et al. reveal how phage satellites assemble chimeric infective particles that deliver DNA across species bound...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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djnicholson.bsky.social
My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
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October 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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dialecticalsys.bsky.social
Very nice upcoming workshop at the Center for Philosophical Psychology (University of Antwerp) on how radical embodiment unfolds in complex, “wild” real-world environments.

www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/works...
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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felipedebrigard.bsky.social
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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neuroyogacara.bsky.social
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
1/13 Daniel Dennett, Three kinds of Intentional Psychology 1/15 Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, More things in heaven and earth 1/20 Amanda Corris, Defining the Environment in Organism–Environment Systems 1/22 Anna Corwin & Cordelia Erickson-Davis, Experiencing presence An interactive model of perception 1/27 Hazel Rose Markus & Shinobu Kitayama, Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution 1/29 Qi Wang et al, Culture, Memory, and Narrative Self-Making 2/3 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering 2/5 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering 2/10 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering 2/12 Nicky Clatyton et al., Can animals recall the past and plan for the future? 2/19 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds 2/24 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds 2/26 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds 3/10 G. A. Bradshaw & Allan N. Schore, How Elephants are Opening Doors:Developmental Neuroethology 3/12 [Redacted] 3/17 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness 3/19 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness 3/24 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness 3/26 Anil Seth & Manos Tsakiris, Being a beast machine 3/31 Jennifer Windt, Predictive brains, dreaming selves, sleeping bodies 4/7 Carolina Arruda & Danny Povenelli, Chimpanzees as secret agents 4/9 Elizabeth Pacherie, The Sense of Control and the Sense of Agency 4/14 Chandra Sripada, The atoms of self control 4/16 Asynchronous Activity 4/21 Nick Brancazio, Gender and the senses of agency 4/23 Rebecca Todd & Evan Thompson, The Third Entity 4/28 Hanne De Jaegher, Loving and Knowing
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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guyfletcher.bsky.social
PhD scholarship in Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh registryservices.ed.ac.uk/scholarships...
James Forrester PhD Scholarship in Moral Philosophy | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration
This scholarship has been created through the generous bequest of James Forrester to the Philosophy Department of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. The scholarship aims to nu...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
New paper by @hadeelnaeem.bsky.social on the complexity of pain experiences, and how this makes the use of AI pain-detection technologies liable to generate epistemic injustice. Pain experiences/reports is definitely one of the things I'd like to look at more closely, post-book.
AI and the Complexity of Pain - Philosophy & Technology
Pain is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Pain research documents cases where our disregard of diverse pain experiences leads to epistemic injustices against those who suffer from pain. Automate...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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dagophile.bsky.social
I've now posted an episode on the causal faithfulness condition. Faithfulness says much more than just that causal paths don't cancel, and raises foundational questions about causation, probability, and underdetermination.

youtu.be/k8p0OS-8u2Q
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Henry’s thesis is on: “Developing a Naturalistic Metaphysics for Biological Agency”. His goal (our goal in working together) was to show that there’s nothing unscientific or supernatural about ideas of agency, mental causation, and free will. ⬇️ (1/n)
wiringthebrain.bsky.social Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Oct 2
Huge congratulations to Dr. Henry Potter!!! 😊👏🎉🍾
October 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.
A pie-chart of federal research funding, using 2023 figures. The funding slices for the NIH (83%) and NSF (17%) are so large that the slices for the NEH and NEA round to 0%.
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
The best exhaustive study on helmets in the Roman Republic - an iconic marker of Roman identity and the Roman army - is a 30-year-old unpublished dissertation that I think likely gets their primary manufacture method wrong!

Much work to be done.
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Charting the rise and fall of ancient trade through shipwrecks was a major 1990s thing (substantially altering our understanding of the ancient economy) but an approach massively refined to tune for discontinuities in the evidence, e.g. Leidwanger (2020).
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Poster with QR code linking to the position
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
kathrynnave.bsky.social
Excited to be in the Himalayan foothills for the 39th @mindandlife.bsky.social / @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social dialogue on Minds, AI and Ethics. The livestream will be available from 9:30am Monday (India Time) - but in the meantime, here's some beautiful mountains 😍 www.mindandlife.org/events/minds...
October 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Save the date:The next biennial Society for the Study of Measurement (SSM) conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026.
Calls for conference papers, posters, & workshops will be posted soon ⤵️
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#HPS #STS #metrology #statistics #data #science #philsci
The Society for the Study of Measurement
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October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
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October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky
Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles and rectangular prisms in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.
October 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence
aidanhorner.bsky.social Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Oct 6
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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warwick-mindaction.bsky.social
MindGrad Deadline Extension:

The deadline for submissions to MindGrad 2026 has been extended by a week until Monday 13th October!

Submit here: forms.gle/GQ9hi68A4BKp...

#philsky #philconf #philosophy
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM