Timothy Fuller
Timothy Fuller
@airingnerdylaundry.bsky.social
Philosopher of cognitive science at Virginia Tech. Fascinated by cosmology, evolution, archeology, anthropology, classical music, jazz, and the physical limits of puppets.
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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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" 60 per cent of UK university libraries are considering dropping their big deals with the five major academic publisher"
Many call for diamond open access. A new organisation with many partners, @ojcollective.bsky.social , is launching in January.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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🧠 Steve Fleming (@smfleming.bsky.social), professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London on why collaborating with philosophers helps science ask better questions—and find better answers.

#PLPEXPeditions
@ucl.ac.uk @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
Philosophy of Biology
Welcome to Cambridge Core
cup.org
July 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday.

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www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...
CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids | Pacific Coast Business Times
Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camari...
www.pacbiztimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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My brave coworkers at MIT put together a statement re: Alex Byrne's confirmation that he co-authored the HHS report recommending against gender-affirming care for trans youth (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...)

Please read the letter and sign at: dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com
Dear Professor Byrne
dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:
A conversation with the editors of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.
mitpress.mit.edu
June 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale: "directly controlling the human eye’s photoreceptor activity via cell-by-cell light delivery ... we confirm a partial expansion of colorspace towards [a] theoretical ideal"

🧠📈

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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#OTD in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution by natural selection were published by the The Linnea Society, the first public announcement of the theory #histsci
August 20, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Cambrian explosion fossils - the gift that keeps on giving.
July 24, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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The development of human causal learning and reasoning

New Review by Mariel K. Goddu & Alison Gopnik

Web: go.nature.com/3Uy0WhG
PDF: rdcu.be/dFT5p

#psychology #psychscisky #devpsyc
April 26, 2024 at 7:42 PM