Urte Laukaityte

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Minimal, high-contrast illustration of two figures moving along a sweeping path beneath a large moon and layered clouds.

Decorative garden scene in black and white: a robed figure with a long patterned train walks past a sundial, framed by an ornate pear-and-leaf border.

Stylized black-and-white scene of a poised figure with a flowing skirt beside an impish musician playing a long-necked instrument; bubbles and chandeliers accent the composition.

Black-and-white Art Nouveau illustration of three figures crowned with grape clusters and ivy, surrounded by vines in a high-contrast design.

Perverse, grotesque, sensuous, inimitable — our latest post gathers, in high resolution, a selection of 74 key works by the era-defining English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

And prints in our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...

Thanks! It is a funky story - glad you enjoyed it:)

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.

Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.

Monsters and their makers - DISI Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.

You may want to check out the latest Many Minds episode on all things monstrous, too! disi.org/monsters-and...

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Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive Foundations Cognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different

Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

Podcast - DISI The Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) is building a new community: a vibrant network of early-career scholars who are devoted to bold, transdisciplinary inquiry into the origins, nature, a...

You might enjoy the Many Minds podcast! Lots of variety disi.org/manyminds/

Cautionary Tales – The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot Lise Meitner has fought for her entire life to be seen as a scientist, slowly building a career as a nuclear physicist in Berlin. When Adolf Hitler rises to power, the small gains she’s made …

I so wish the medal would have been given a different name, in light of Otto Hahn's actions during the Nazi era and especially his treatment of Lise Meitner, e.g. timharford.com/2025/06/caut...

Consider reading my new piece on the history and science of the nasogenital cure! Incidentally, that's not exactly what the theory was and not quite what the episode reveals. Bizarre tales sound rather less bizarre in context - possibly, our own tales in our own context, too.

On train home after Method & Convergence 2025. I got so much food for my work! Slide is from @laukas.bsky.social nice ”PR talk” on synthetic phil… 🔥

Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.

Thanks for a great 2024, friends!

We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were...

(in chronological order)

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Cool! I haven't come across too many people that share my interests - Bluesky seems like it might change that.

Slime Mould and Philosophy Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy

My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!

A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.

Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!

People: Portrait - honorable mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.

I think this might be the wrong Matteo Colombo?

Delusion and inference | 38 | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusions are commonly defined as beliefs based on incorrect inference. But the term ‘inference’ is used in different fields with a lot of variation, which has

A (provocative) new chapter. If "cognition all the way down" holds up when things go right with capacities like perception, learning, memory, etc., it should also apply when things go awry. What could taking the idea of scale-free psychiatry seriously teach us about our own cognitive (dys)function?

Thanks! Really glad to hear.

How should we think about IQ? - Many Minds podcast Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.

The Many Minds podcast has an episode with him discussing the book through the lens of IQ - for anyone interested, it could be worth checking out disi.org/how-should-w...

Evolutionary psychology!

A magazine liked a piece I turned in enough to want to include it in their print issue, not just on the web, as originally planned. It needed to be shortened for that and they had me cut it down myself. I only got paid for the number of words in the shorter version.

From Borch-Jacobsen, M. (2021). Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Reaktion Books.