Jackie Sullivan

Promotional poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The poster features a dark green background with stylized yellow and red floral illustrations around the edges. Large yellow text announces the workshop title. The event will take place 18–19 June at UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers listed are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), Enara García (SDU), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). The poster highlights a Call for Abstracts (CfA) with an extended deadline of 1st February. Contact information is provided at xivpbcs@gmail.com

Final days to submit an abstract to #PBCS2026! If you are an early-career scholar looking for a supportive environment to discuss your work & meet international peers, consider applying! Another plus this year: The workshop will be in Madrid! sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs... #HPbio #philsci #philsky

Repairing trust in science requires a more inclusive understanding of innovation These are extraordinarily challenging times for university researchers across the United States. After decades of government largess based on the idea that a large and well-financed research ecosystem...

Public trust in science and technology is a serious, growing problem, especially now. Instead of trying to solve it with better communication, we should adopt a more inclusive approach to innovation that takes low-tech, incremental, and system-wide solutions seriously. My new piece @science.org 👇🏽🧵

Congratulations, Ken!!! 🎉🎉

Submissions for PSA 2026 in San Diego are now open! ☀️ Link and deadlines below

Symposia ✨ 15 January 2026
Papers ✨ 15 March 2026
Posters ✨ 1 June 2026

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It’s Giving Tuesday! Support PSA’s Annual Fund 2025!

Did you know that if half of the people receiving this message gave just $25, we
would set a new PSA record for fundraising, raising almost 3 times our goal?!

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Thanks again, 5 years later, @neurostats for organizing such a fun session!!!

Congratulations!!!🎉🥳💐

Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model The appropriate form of the drift diffusion model depends on how one wishes to reason about their target with the model. If the goal is to parsimoniously explain the speed-accuracy tradeoff, the appr...

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows - Daily Nous The American Council of Learned Societies has announced its new class of fellows, and four philosophy professors are among them. They and their projects are: Stephen C. Ferguson (North Carolina State ...

Some philosophers are among the new class of ACLS fellows...

Sullivan Wins Simon Award - Daily Nous Emily Sullivan, associate professor of philosophy at Utrecht University, is the winner of the 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. The Simon Award "recogni...

The 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award goes to...

Trump Is Gaslighting Us Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.

@cailinmeister.bsky.social

Nice mention in the Atlantic today!

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We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

And also the wonderful and incomparable @elizaha.bsky.social as BJPS’s Deputy Editor!!!

A colorful graphic showing Dr. Laura Gravelsins, TRIDENT HQP member

Did you know TRIDENT labs count over 70 Highly Qualified Personnel including trainees, students and research staff across four leading Canadian research institutions? Check out more about one of these amazing individuals, below and on our website! 🌎🔬🤝 #NFRF tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/hqpspotlight

Screenshot from the Synthese journal website listing 'How to be a realist about computational neuroscience' by Danielle Williams and 'Mapping content: why cognitive maps are non-conceptual mental states' by Arieh Schwartz (co-authored with Nir Fresco).

Congrats to Danielle Williams and Arieh Schwartz for both having new articles out in Synthese. As the former chair of their respective dissertation committees, this is a 'proud mom' moment for me. ☺️ link.springer.com/collections/...

PhysPharm Seminar Series | The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, PhD - Events Calendar - Western University March 3, 2025 - Physiology and Pharmacology in partnership with BrainsCAN will be hosting the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, PhD, PC MP on March 3rd at 3:15 pm. - Events Calendar - Western University

Check out this upcoming event featuring two incredible women, the honorable Dr. Kirsty Duncan and TRIDENT research lead @lisasaksida.bsky.social. ♀️🌎🔬!!!

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2025 Summer School of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, will feature a stream on Topological Explanations, run by myself and Jim Woodward, & @jackiesullivan.bsky.social and Muhammad Ali Khalidi's stream on Psychiatric Kinds and Natural Kinds. More info: socmetsci.org/2025-summer-...

Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization , from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and …

If you're interested in theory in biology, please consider applying for this EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course "Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems", organized by @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy, @nrepina.bsky.social, and James DiFrisco. meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul... #philsci #evobio

What a team! Philosophy, molecular neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognitive testing, partnership development, open science and open data, knowledge translation. In mice and marmosets. All in aid of better preclinical testing paradigms.

Philosophers of science! Please share widely the latest suite of PSA Office Hours, which includes an awesome career event in April as well as one-on-ones with profs. www.philsci.org/psa_office_h...

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too!

More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

These are organized for PSA For grad students to interact with scholars at other institutions!

Want to know how the TRIDENT proof-of-concept preclinical evaluation works? Check out a snip of our process animation below, or view the full version via our website 👀🤗🔬 tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/platform

Memories as Pictures Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum)

What do pictures and episodic memories have in common? In today's post, Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum) investigates this important question through the tools of picture semantics.
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Mazviita Chirimuuta, The Brain Abstracted | BJPS Review of Books Daniel C Burnston reviews The Brain Abstracted, by Mazviita Chirimuuta

New from the BJPS Review of Books:

The Brain Abstracted
—Mazviita Chirimuuta

Reviewed by Daniel C Burnston

#philsci #philsky #neurosky #neuroscience

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The title page of the special issue, which reads "Introduction to the special issue on visual cognition and visuomotor control: A tribute to Mel Goodale" The authors of the Intro are: Jody C. Culham, Gavin Buckingham, Monika Harvey, Irene Sperandio, Ingrid S. Johnsrude

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If your paper is under review somewhere that takes anon review seriously, don’t post/present the paper with identical title/abstract! Many a paper has been slowed down by ed/ref learning the AU's identity by e.g. an email alert about a preprint in their AoS. Paraphrasing will help you here!

A/HRC/55/44: Right to participate in science - Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki In her report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, emphasizes the importance of an inclusive approach to the right to science. She r...

Weekend spent to finish my slides for the PSA Biennial Meeting in New Orleans. My President’s Address will be on Sat 16th at 6pm on the topic of ‘Local Knowledges and the Right to Participate in Science’ — this is based on recent work I did with the UN for this report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...