Joshua Shepherd

a man with a beard is holding a pair of binoculars in front of a trendzisst logo ALT: a man with a beard is holding a pair of binoculars in front of a trendzisst logo

when the referee tells you to cite more of your work

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social

Valence Asymmetries Seminar UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA | CAMPUS DEL POBLENOU, 52.701 CARRER DE ROC BORONAT, BARCELONA, ESPANYA   We are delighted to welcome you to the Valence Asymmetries Seminar Series. We invite both local and i...

Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.

There is also good work.

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
#neuroscience

Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured.

Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!

Interested? Check it out ⬇️

This is now out (by me, Patrick Forber and Josh Shepherd):
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ABSTRACT. Recent years have seen little pushback on the pictorialist thesis that mental imagery occurs in an analogue or iconic format. This paper challenges the status quo in developing new arguments to show how the phenomena most commonly cited in pictorialism’s favour—namely, participant response times during ‘mental rotation’ and ‘mental scanning’ tasks, and the retinotopic organization of cortical areas underlying visual imagery—fail to provide positive evidence for the thesis that mental imagery is analogue or iconic in format. In addition, alternative explanations are provided for why we might see retinotopic activation in cortical areas underlying imagery, and why we would observe the relevant response times in rotation and scanning tasks, even if mental imagery did not occur in an analogue format.

Just accepted:

'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated'
– Peter Langland-Hassan

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky

so Nous, PPR, and now Phil Imprint, aren't taking submissions. Nice.

keep us posted

Creativity, Agency, and Value Conference Speakers :  Alice Helliwell, Andrea Rivadulla-Duró, Antti Kauppinen, Claire Anscomb, Elliot Samuel Paul, Francesca Secco, Joshua Shepherd, Patrik Engisch. Location : Espace Colladon, University of...

The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely!

Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...

if even eye movements are driven by effort minimization, then what's going on with conscious feelings of effort

Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆

Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June.

www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

I can’t get over the fact that after all the amazing things AI could have been, we got a bunch of sycophantic little machine shits that at any given moment are stealing from you, plagiarizing you, defaming you, manipulating you, lying to you, or turning you into nonconsensual porn

🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?

Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.

Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d

A thread 🧵👇 1/n

Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...

Today is a great day to ditch your Echo. #privacy #AIEthics #surveillance

Everyone clap for the crap artists
A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest
-Despot

the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨

📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book:

📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance

🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR

👇👇👇

TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.

Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression Causal investigation of engram ensembles shows that natural forgetting is an active and reversible process driven by perceptual feedback, supporting the perspective of forgetting an adaptive function ...

Concluding 2024 with a thread on our most recent empirical manuscript.

"Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression"
elifesciences.org/articles/92860

- by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social

#engram #memory #forgetting

las vibes son demasiado similares. Tengo que desconectarme como lo hice con el sitio anterior.

Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with? The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …

My thoughts from yesterday's hoo ha at the AI Action Summit for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social (Very happy for this to be mistaken as a slightly misty-eyed application for French citizenship) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

what happens when we slash US public funding for a biomedical field, & increase the availability & significance of private funding, when the media generally become less restricted by traditional/expert regulations?

unfortunately, i may know the answer, based on some related experiences

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meh, guy raps with dancers. i like the songs. never know how i'm supposed to feel about the production. (but i usually think it's silly)