Krys Dolega
@krysdolega.bsky.social
Philosopher by education
Akademischer Rat @ruhr-uni-bochum.de by employment
Silly goose by calling
He\Him
www.krysdolega.xyz
Akademischer Rat @ruhr-uni-bochum.de by employment
Silly goose by calling
He\Him
www.krysdolega.xyz
The replication crisis is gonna look like a joke in a few years 😰
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The replication crisis is gonna look like a joke in a few years 😰
That feeling when you're the only illusionist at a panpsychism conference
January 29, 2026 at 11:23 AM
That feeling when you're the only illusionist at a panpsychism conference
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I'm delighted that @journalphp.bsky.social is the home of this paper, born out of the long-standing & extremely fruitful collaboration between @keithfrankish.com & Daniel Dennett. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy (soon to appear in our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas)
The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment
This paper presents an extended thought experiment conducted by Daniel Dennett and the author as a way of exploring how consciousness might develop without a central “Cartesian Theater.” The starti...
doi.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 AM
I'm delighted that @journalphp.bsky.social is the home of this paper, born out of the long-standing & extremely fruitful collaboration between @keithfrankish.com & Daniel Dennett. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy (soon to appear in our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas)
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And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess
Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:12 PM
And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess
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The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
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Enough with astrology. Tell me which Kalman filter you are! 🚀💥
#stats
www.buzzfeed.com/danielmlacha...
#stats
www.buzzfeed.com/danielmlacha...
Which Kalman Filter Are You?
Which Kalman Filter best represents you? Take the quiz to find out.
www.buzzfeed.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Enough with astrology. Tell me which Kalman filter you are! 🚀💥
#stats
www.buzzfeed.com/danielmlacha...
#stats
www.buzzfeed.com/danielmlacha...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
David Bowie - Blackstar (Audio)
YouTube video by Lhordhe Jhunyor
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Everyone is back at work, so I feel a bit less bad asking -
any postdocs in psychgen coming up? I have a PhD in genetics of psychosis from King’s and postdoc experience from Mount Sinai in postpartum psychosis, autism, and ADHD. Thankful for those who sent suggestions, just wide net casting!
any postdocs in psychgen coming up? I have a PhD in genetics of psychosis from King’s and postdoc experience from Mount Sinai in postpartum psychosis, autism, and ADHD. Thankful for those who sent suggestions, just wide net casting!
January 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Everyone is back at work, so I feel a bit less bad asking -
any postdocs in psychgen coming up? I have a PhD in genetics of psychosis from King’s and postdoc experience from Mount Sinai in postpartum psychosis, autism, and ADHD. Thankful for those who sent suggestions, just wide net casting!
any postdocs in psychgen coming up? I have a PhD in genetics of psychosis from King’s and postdoc experience from Mount Sinai in postpartum psychosis, autism, and ADHD. Thankful for those who sent suggestions, just wide net casting!
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There is a great alternative history novel to be written about a world in which people didn't get swayed by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert anti-perceptron propaganda and computer science developed in a completely different direction...
Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the Space division of General Dynamics, 1964
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
There is a great alternative history novel to be written about a world in which people didn't get swayed by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert anti-perceptron propaganda and computer science developed in a completely different direction...
Tobias Schlicht sent me a video summarizing recent debates in consciousness science
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tobias Schlicht sent me a video summarizing recent debates in consciousness science
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In a satirical commentary, @ofgulban.bsky.social examines the widening gap between traditional publication norms and emerging channels of science communication:
doi.org/10.52294/001...
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue
doi.org/10.52294/001...
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In a satirical commentary, @ofgulban.bsky.social examines the widening gap between traditional publication norms and emerging channels of science communication:
doi.org/10.52294/001...
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue
doi.org/10.52294/001...
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue
Yup, X-phi is dead
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yup, X-phi is dead
The real difference between continental and analytic philosophy consists in whether you are the supervisor of your grad student's grad students
Apparently grad students don't like it when you refer to your advisor-advisee relationship as "having liege-peasant energy"
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The real difference between continental and analytic philosophy consists in whether you are the supervisor of your grad student's grad students
I might have to print this and hang it in my office
Surprisal is the ‘everything bagel/nothing burger’ of predictors—it has everything baked in, which is the problem.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I might have to print this and hang it in my office
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Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.
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1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself.
👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
⬇️ Summary below:
👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
⬇️ Summary below:
The value of consciousness: experiences worth having | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: ‘How do we go from doing things for
reasons to having reasons for doing things?’. This question targets a fundamental
shift in nature: while all organi...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself.
👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
⬇️ Summary below:
👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
⬇️ Summary below:
Philosophical debates often resemble trench warfare: both sides are so busy defending their positions that they not only fail to notice the battle ended a long time ago, but also that the points they were defending are now so riddled with holes that they are no longer worth fighting for
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Philosophical debates often resemble trench warfare: both sides are so busy defending their positions that they not only fail to notice the battle ended a long time ago, but also that the points they were defending are now so riddled with holes that they are no longer worth fighting for
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Once again, I feel the temptation of getting into Emacs 🥲
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Once again, I feel the temptation of getting into Emacs 🥲
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Come to my talk tomorrow! I will be looking at the bibliometrics of the free energy principle framework: is it a degenerating research programme? #psaatw #philosophyofscience #fep #actinf #friston
Tomorrow 6 November is the first of three meetings of the PSA Around the World! A fantastic online program with plenary panel and parallel sessions. All welcome! Note: time zone is 3pm CET.
Check out the program in the thread! 🥳
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Come to my talk tomorrow! I will be looking at the bibliometrics of the free energy principle framework: is it a degenerating research programme? #psaatw #philosophyofscience #fep #actinf #friston
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📝 Preprint alert 📝
Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception.
Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception.
Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📝 Preprint alert 📝
Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception.
Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Recent reports showed violations of Bloch's law (aka intensity-duration reciprocity) in visual perception.
Me and @axc.bsky.social reassessed these violations using a modern LCD-based tachistoscope:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...