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I want to thank @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, and @nfaivre.bsky.social for leading this project with me!🙏
As well as all of the amazing co-authors: @pietroamerio.bsky.social, David Carmel, @axc.bsky.social, Leon Deouell, Zoltan Dienes, Patxi Elosegi,
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Discovering that slimy lego is a thing in the 4 years old community

Applications will be processed until filled!

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We have a whole @erc.europa.eu project @erc-xp.bsky.social about this. I think the key is in your book actually: Let’s understand agenthood; one we do, experience will fall right out of it

Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity | TechPolicy.Press If we are to combat the AI industry’s push to build digital gods, we have to understand the ideology of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.

There’s a reason Peter Thiel hesitated when asked in a recent interview if he “would prefer the human race to endure”:

Within certain tech circles, pro-extinctionism is a mainstream ideology—and some are trying to realize it.

A must-read by @xriskology.bsky.social
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With a relieved @ademertzi.bsky.social and her live olive tree on the way back from the incredibly successful #ASSC28 🙏

@krysdolega.bsky.social

Wow not one, but two instances of @liadmudrik.bsky.social in the scientific committee of #ASSC29 - we better be outstanding !

What can “conservative scholarship” possibly mean?

“Aaay was doing consciousness science way before any of you young people”

Great post #ASSC28 INTREPID workshop featuring in-depth meta science discussions of the state of affairs in consciousness science and of the value of adversarial collaborations

Dave Chalmers and the best argument for dualism #ASSC28

"Claude suggested that I should email you about this."

Krys Dolega standing next to his heretical and illegal poster on whether the access/phenomenal consciousness distinction bears some marks of a degenerating research programme.

If you’re at #ASSC28 you can still find my Pirate Poster 🏴‍☠️🖼️ hanging on a side of the poster session area (don’t worry, it’s not taking up anyone’s else's space). 🧵

Success, yarrr!

@krysdolega.bsky.social advertising his pirate poster on the A/P distinction at #ASSC28, so echoing my own pirate talk at ASSC Paris 😃

Very pleased about @hohwy.bsky.social engaging with my paper @assc28.bsky.social, clarifying some of the metaphysics of predictive processing. 😎 Thx, Jakob!

Activities of our team of #ASSC28
Starting with the poster n.13 for Anastassia Loukianov on conflict adaptation. 😵
Tomorrow join us for Lena Lange’s talk at the Concurrent Session 15! She will present her work on the role of perceptual awareness in motivation.💪
And later, watch out for a pirate… ☠️

There’s so many satellite meetings at #ASSC28 that it feels like you’re a nobody unless you have your own 😃

EU should double, if not triple, the EIC budget, Zaharieva says The European Commission hopes to at least double the budget of the European Innovation Council (EIC), if not triple it, when the agency can only finance 4% of the projects it receives, research commis...

Research is NOT the same as innovation. Spend the money at least equally on bottom-up research by @erc.europa.eu. ERC grantees @ercgrantees.Baku.social are the most successful in the EIC, but there is no innovation without fundamental Bluesky research by the ERC
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Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?"

Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."

The ”immune system” of a safe and equal Europe is in danger, according to researchers The International non-profit Association of ERC Grantees (AERG) expresses grave concern over the future of fundamental research in Europe in statement in which it urges European leaders to protect fun...

From @eurekalert.bsky.social

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Read a comment on the @ercgrantees.bsky.social statement supporting the autonomy of the ERC @erc.europa.eu from Mojca Plesničar, the Ambassador for the ERC in Slovenia 🇸🇮 @mplesnicar.bsky.social

www.inst-krim.si/en/genuine-b...

Sector unaware of political risk to ERC, grantee leader warns - Research Professional News Association of European Research Council Grantees calls for funder to gain legal independence

“It is essential to enable scientists to continue delivering their groundbreaking contributions to societal progress. The best way for them to do so is to enhance the autonomy and the funding of the ERC”
AERG warns about the dangers for EU research
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Front cover of the book Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway

The Orwellian Problem The network of right-wing foundations, the corporations that fund them, and the journalists who echo their claims have created a tremendous problem for American science. A recent academic study found that of the fifty-six "environmen-tally skeptical" books published in the 1990s, 92 percent were linked to these right-wing foundations (only thirteen were published in the 1980s, and 100 percent were linked to the foundations).83

Sometimes reopening an old debate can serve present purposes. In the 1950s, the tobacco industry realized that they could protect their product by casting doubt on the science and insisting the dangers of smoking were unproven. In the 1990s, they realized that if you could convince people that science in general was unreliable, then you didn't have to argue the merits of any particular case, particularly one— like the defense of secondhand smoke-that had no scientific merit.

Merchants of Doubt is a very interesting read if you want to understand why science became politically partisan in the last few decades of the 20th century. Science and unfettered capitalism are not really compatible

Our symposium "How uncertainty in variant designs can inform neuro-cognitive function" just happened during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences #BAPS2025 and was not bad at all, given the diversity of the talks. Always fun around @axc.bsky.social 😊

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

JD Vance @JDVance 16h There is an extraordinary "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea. And on top of all of this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination (mostly against whites and asians) that violates the civil rights laws of this country. Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform. Or, they could yell "fascism" at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance. May 24, 2025 • 8:08 PM UTC

This from the man who said “the professors are the enemy”. Make no mistake, the #Trump regime is declaring war on science and knowledge. #Trumpland #USFascism

France 🇫🇷 has a new ambassador for the ERC @erc.europa.eu
Meet Prince Amaniampong, PhD, chemical engineer and researcher at the @cnrs.fr