Christopher J Stevens
@metaphysiology.bsky.social
Lecturer/researcher in phil & neuro.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
Pinned
Mice-side bias: Deliberative decision making in a model of rule revision reveals 'myside' confirmation bias-like cognitive processes in mice. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626648v1
Will do a thread on this soon, too busy with corrections, etc., right now. In the meantime, new preprint from my PhD project in a single hypothesis: the deep cognitive bases of myside confirmation bias run much deeper in evolutionary history than posited in the literature.
#cognition #behavior
#cognition #behavior
Our new president. Foibles and all (i.e. human), a formidable statesperson and, as such, on both fronts, a worthy successor to our previous three much loved and respected presidents. Céad fáilte roimh.
President Catherine Connolly has called for action on war, genocide and climate change, saying the normalisation of war “has never been and will never be acceptable” to Ireland, a nation with a long tradition of neutrality and peacekeeping.
#VMNews
#VMNews
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Our new president. Foibles and all (i.e. human), a formidable statesperson and, as such, on both fronts, a worthy successor to our previous three much loved and respected presidents. Céad fáilte roimh.
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[ #VeilleESR #CancelCulture ] Suite à des pressions politiques, dont un message du Ministre sur X (le réseau de désinformation du suprémaciste Elon Musk), le Collège de France a été contraint d'annuler un colloque sur la Palestine.
Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement
Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...
www.lemonde.fr
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
[ #VeilleESR #CancelCulture ] Suite à des pressions politiques, dont un message du Ministre sur X (le réseau de désinformation du suprémaciste Elon Musk), le Collège de France a été contraint d'annuler un colloque sur la Palestine.
"Welcome to Target, I love you."
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"Welcome to Target, I love you."
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“But the enemy isn’t technology. I have come to the paradoxical conclusion that technology must be protected from man.”
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“But the enemy isn’t technology. I have come to the paradoxical conclusion that technology must be protected from man.”
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
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World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
“But the enemy isn’t technology. I have come to the paradoxical conclusion that technology must be protected from man.”
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“But the enemy isn’t technology. I have come to the paradoxical conclusion that technology must be protected from man.”
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
- Valerii Lagasov (head of USSR nuclear program at time of Chernobyl disaster)
Just stumbled upon this in a "miscellaneous notes" document. One of those forever-timely quotes.
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‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
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This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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She was wonderful in other things too, but Shirley Valentine truly is a tour-de-force performance by Pauline Collins, from start to finish. If you've never seen it, please, offer yourself an hour and a half of hilarity, humanity, and an absolute acting masterclass. RIP 🙏
Shirley talks to her wall #upthenorth #shirleyvalentine
YouTube video by M62 Films - A Northern Collective
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
She was wonderful in other things too, but Shirley Valentine truly is a tour-de-force performance by Pauline Collins, from start to finish. If you've never seen it, please, offer yourself an hour and a half of hilarity, humanity, and an absolute acting masterclass. RIP 🙏
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See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
She was wonderful in other things too, but Shirley Valentine truly is a tour-de-force performance by Pauline Collins, from start to finish. If you've never seen it, please, offer yourself an hour and a half of hilarity, humanity, and an absolute acting masterclass. RIP 🙏
Shirley talks to her wall #upthenorth #shirleyvalentine
YouTube video by M62 Films - A Northern Collective
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
She was wonderful in other things too, but Shirley Valentine truly is a tour-de-force performance by Pauline Collins, from start to finish. If you've never seen it, please, offer yourself an hour and a half of hilarity, humanity, and an absolute acting masterclass. RIP 🙏
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More useful material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow. Though I’m still struggling to understand how a society that claims to value scientific rigour continues to honour someone who spreads so much disinformation.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
More useful material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow. Though I’m still struggling to understand how a society that claims to value scientific rigour continues to honour someone who spreads so much disinformation.
Planning on experimenting with a survey/questionnaire approach soon, reaching neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. It'll be my first time doing something like this, so if anyone has any tips, pitfalls to avoid, recommended platforms, etc.: all advice welcome! 🙏
#cognitivescience #neuroscience
#cognitivescience #neuroscience
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Planning on experimenting with a survey/questionnaire approach soon, reaching neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. It'll be my first time doing something like this, so if anyone has any tips, pitfalls to avoid, recommended platforms, etc.: all advice welcome! 🙏
#cognitivescience #neuroscience
#cognitivescience #neuroscience
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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We’ve come to accept the 45-minute data dump: a PI sprinting through dozens of studies to prove how much they’ve done. I’d rather hear one clear question followed to its end than a career retrospective pretending to be a talk.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We’ve come to accept the 45-minute data dump: a PI sprinting through dozens of studies to prove how much they’ve done. I’d rather hear one clear question followed to its end than a career retrospective pretending to be a talk.
Well done New Yorkers! A beacon has been lit 🙏
Power To The People (Remastered 2010)
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Well done New Yorkers! A beacon has been lit 🙏
"These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts."
As the kids say: "supposed to be" is doing a lot of work here Pete. Now, get off the site run by the white supremacist and push your colleagues and affiliated institutions to do the same.
As the kids say: "supposed to be" is doing a lot of work here Pete. Now, get off the site run by the white supremacist and push your colleagues and affiliated institutions to do the same.
I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts."
As the kids say: "supposed to be" is doing a lot of work here Pete. Now, get off the site run by the white supremacist and push your colleagues and affiliated institutions to do the same.
As the kids say: "supposed to be" is doing a lot of work here Pete. Now, get off the site run by the white supremacist and push your colleagues and affiliated institutions to do the same.
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Musk doesn't deny that he's endorsing a sexual predator
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Musk doesn't deny that he's endorsing a sexual predator
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Soudan 🇸🇩 Les massacres du Darfour, liés à l’affrontement sanglant entre les généraux ennemis Bourhane et Daglo, ne sont pas seulement le fait de fanatismes dont les puissances étrangères seraient innocentes.
Le regard de Denis Sieffert ⤵️
buff.ly/0TEYzZr
Le regard de Denis Sieffert ⤵️
buff.ly/0TEYzZr
Soudan : une guerre par procuration
Les massacres du Darfour, liés à l'affrontement sanglant entre les généraux ennemis Bourhane et Daglo, ne sont pas seulement le fait de fanatismes dont les puissances étrangères seraient innocentes.
www.politis.fr
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Soudan 🇸🇩 Les massacres du Darfour, liés à l’affrontement sanglant entre les généraux ennemis Bourhane et Daglo, ne sont pas seulement le fait de fanatismes dont les puissances étrangères seraient innocentes.
Le regard de Denis Sieffert ⤵️
buff.ly/0TEYzZr
Le regard de Denis Sieffert ⤵️
buff.ly/0TEYzZr
Revisiting Brexit debates during the Irish presidential campaign, one EU criticism Uachtarán Connolly was formulating at the time (~10 yrs ago) jumped out at me: obstacles posed to house building.
While mud-hunting during the campaign, were FFG making a separate "might be useful to pinch" pile? 🤔🤡
While mud-hunting during the campaign, were FFG making a separate "might be useful to pinch" pile? 🤔🤡
The so-called "red tape" that needs cutting is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's chaotic housing policies that created and then compounded the housing crisis.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Micheál Martin says house building in Ireland is hampered by 'gold-plating' of EU rules
Taoiseach says 'going beyond what is required' is slowing down delivery of housing and other big projects in Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Revisiting Brexit debates during the Irish presidential campaign, one EU criticism Uachtarán Connolly was formulating at the time (~10 yrs ago) jumped out at me: obstacles posed to house building.
While mud-hunting during the campaign, were FFG making a separate "might be useful to pinch" pile? 🤔🤡
While mud-hunting during the campaign, were FFG making a separate "might be useful to pinch" pile? 🤔🤡
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Monday morning, time to rise and grind!*
*Cultivate wisdom and compassion.
*Cultivate wisdom and compassion.
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Monday morning, time to rise and grind!*
*Cultivate wisdom and compassion.
*Cultivate wisdom and compassion.
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They doused petrol on a building housing of refugee families and set it alight. They were trying to burn these people out, if not actually burn them alive. It was a pogrom. It's important we identify it properly
And the government is encouraging the politics behind this. It'll happen again
And the government is encouraging the politics behind this. It'll happen again
An investigation into an arson attack at an IPAS centre in Drogheda is continuing, after gardaí confirmed a fire had been deliberately started in the building on Friday night.
Investigation continues into arson attack at IPAS centre
An investigation into an arson attack at an IPAS centre in Drogheda is continuing, after gardaí confirmed a fire had been deliberately started in the building on Friday night.
www.rte.ie
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
They doused petrol on a building housing of refugee families and set it alight. They were trying to burn these people out, if not actually burn them alive. It was a pogrom. It's important we identify it properly
And the government is encouraging the politics behind this. It'll happen again
And the government is encouraging the politics behind this. It'll happen again
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I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan
To give some credit there is a growing chorus of dissent on this issue in Congress, lead by Van Hollen, Sara Jacobs, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar among others.
Van Hollen, Jacobs Reintroduce Bill to Prohibit U.S. Arms Sales to UAE Until They Cease Support of RSF in Sudan | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.-51),...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan