Joshua Shepherd

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

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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)

Session on Public Interest AI at the Paris AI Action Summit

So grateful for @abeba.bsky.social on stage at the AI Action Summit, challenging us to be honest about the fact that we’re moving backward, not forward toward a shared social contract as Big Tech have now walked back nearly every voluntary commitment they once made to be responsible social actors.

Ever wondered how basketball players know when their throws are in/out?
L. Brun & @perrineporte.bsky.social asked players to rate confidence in their throws under variable visual feedback.
Turns out vision helps adjust confidence in successful, but not failed throws:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Theories in our field are often sketchy, they are indispensable in providing explanations for important phenomena...”

Only a psychologist would think both these things can be true

no lo creo

qué te haría feliz

I just watched the film Conclave with a friend who said “haha imagine if real-life jobs were decided by a bunch of old dudes who don’t get to leave the room until they’ve agreed to vote for the person they dislike the least!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her about academia.

preach

yeah my stuff doesn't wear the dynamic systems aspect on the sleeve, but control theory is v much behind a lot of my work on agency, including a bunch of papers in the last 5 yrs