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Marco Facchin
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Postdoc at UAntwerp providing your daily dose of eliminativism.
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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · Mar 23
Finally had some free time (& will) to upload new preprints on: representation-hunger, illusionism & fictionalism. Soon(ish) you can also expect a preprint on radical embodiment and cognitive ontology - on you can wait and hear me talk about that at NMO (most likely).
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ispsm.bsky.social
🔔✨Call for papers and symposia on Frances Egan’s (@francesegan.bsky.social) ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04) alongside Neural Mechanisms Online and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social)!

More info: tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan

#philsky
Poster advertising symposia on Frances Egan’s book ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04). More info: https://tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and https://tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan
January 21, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Maley, Corey (2026) Structural Representation is Analog Representation. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27929/
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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leverhulme.ac.uk
The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm
Blue and grey text on white background. Early Career Fellowships. Three images and current project titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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davidcolaco.bsky.social
More press on our recent Behavioral and Brain Sciences article:

#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

@phaueis.bsky.social

aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...
Thinking Takes Energy
A new study shows how our brain metabolism sets the limits of thinking. Researchers explain why cognitive models remain incomplete without considering biological resources.
aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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susanamonso.com
This is going to be so much fun!! Apply and come hang out in Madrid!
alejandrofabregastejeda.com Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · Dec 2
I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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alejandrofabregastejeda.com
I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
marcofacchin.bsky.social
The Nth reminder that "presrige" is at lwast in part a form of funding-agency-enforced mass hysteria
neural-reckoning.org Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Nov 27
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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lucyosler.bsky.social
Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!
lucyosler.bsky.social Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · Oct 28
✨CFA✨

I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Prieto, Guido I. and Fábregas-Tejeda, Alejandro (2025) Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27297/
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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fintanmallory.com
This Millikan line goes (as they say) hard.
"White Queen Psychology" is a diatribe against meaning rationalism, as was the Epilogue of LTOBC. My desire is to kill meaning rationalism dead, and then beat on it. Perhaps I will succeed in raising one or two more doubts about it. Reasoning, I insist, is done in the world, not in one's head. Logical pos- sibility (known a priori) is impossible. And the only hope for inten- tional psychology is to embrace its biological roots.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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evanwestra.bsky.social
Millikan
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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evanwestra.bsky.social
I've had a thread of office whiteboard philosopher portraits going for a while on the other site. Figure I'll start a fresh one here. This is Susan Hurley.
July 24, 2023 at 9:18 PM
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edouardmachery.bsky.social
Trump working for Putin again:k and asking Ukraine to capitulate to russia.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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socphilpsych.bsky.social
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter

⭐️ Work by Eugen Fischer, Keith Allen & Paul E. Engelhardt
Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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alfredvalley.bsky.social
I've crowdfunding a game with cards that look like this!

Come take a look 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...
Image showing 2 black and white cards with psychedelic borders. The one on the left is titled Ritual Whetstone and has a picture of someone sharpening a knife on a weird stone head. The one on the right is titled Lopsmite and shows a figure wielding a sword
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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evoneuro.bsky.social
So how can we best use museum collections for neuroanatomy research?
1. more skeletons in good quality
2. proper fixation of specimens
3. avoid long-term ethanol storage if possible.

And for more information on bird brains, check out our new book:
direct.mit.edu/books...

#BOU2025

6/6
The top of slide asks: what needs to be done to better support the use of museum specimens for neuroanatomy? Below on the left is a drawer full of bright green parrots with yellow-orange heads: Carolina parakeets. "More skeletons!" is written below the image. Below middle is a plastic container with a preserved hawk head inside with the skin and eyes removed with the caption "better tissue fixation". Below on the right is written "ethanol for fluid specimens" that is then crossed out with a bold red X.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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davidcolaco.bsky.social
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience

@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
meanwhile pigeons be like
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
she's doing her best
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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edouardmachery.bsky.social
Gestapo
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Nov 16
A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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stevecooke.org
You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Bich, Leonardo and Bechtel, William (2026) Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms. Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual. pp. 23-32.

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27196/
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM