David Barack

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

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Cool paper

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision-making via access to detailed events - Nature Human Behaviour Nicholas and Mattar found that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future. These findings reveal how the rich representational capacity of episod...

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter.

How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need?

Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

*Multi-region computations in the brain*
When two regions are better than one...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence

due date is about a month away 👀

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Aaaand we're back!!

Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp

- to work with me!

Deadline: March 20, 2026

More info on PhilJobs

What kinds of cognitions are possible? Are there discrete classes of cognition? Here's our new paper with @brigan.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837 We explore basal, neural and human-AI spaces.

This is wild

🧠 CALL FOR SYMPOSIA ABSTRACTS 🌴 SPAN is now accepting abstracts for a special session at the PSA. Put a group and a topic together and submit your idea via email by March 1st 🥳

The 52nd annual meeting of the SPP will be at JHU, June 17-20

📣 Submit your work by January 16! 📣

like are you fucking kidding me

I'm sick of this shit. when will the elected representatives of this country, republican or democratic, fucking stop the federal government from shooting us

On a New Content Indeterminacy Problem in Neuroscience By Caitlin MaceDepartment of History and Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh Find Caitlin’s recently published paper in Philosophical Psychology here. Abstract Whether neurons repre…

New Post on The FEEDBACK by Caitlin Mace (University of Pittsburgh)! Check it out and leave a comment if you have something to say! 🥳

thefeedback.blog/2026/01/06/o...

Hey everyone at the Eastern--come check us out tomorrow morning!

The nytimes has become (or always was?) the single biggest purveyor of profascist propaganda. I need a liberal rag

Her name was Renee Good. She was only 37. She was a mother of a 6 year old child. And today in Minneapolis, MN, an ICE fascist shot her dead point blank.

Sending all my love to her child and her family.

Abolish ICE. Abolish fascism. Abolish tyranny.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...

Not super fun to think about the degree to which literal brain damage is setting the American agenda at the moment

Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions are now open in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, in Value Theory and in the Philosophy, History and Ethics of Science. Closing dates: 19 & 30 Jan 2026.

Further details here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2s3n2wnk

We are excited to announce the 2026 GRC Neurobiology of Cognition (7/19-24) in beautiful Waterville Valley, NH! Registration/abstract submission open. Wonderful speakers/program covering cognition across scales & species, incl. AI & neuromodulation! @desrocherslab.bsky.social @erinlrich.bsky.social

Hey philosophers—going to the Eastern APA? Check out the special #SPAN session on Thursday at 11a! Featuring @kenaizawa.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social

Neural representations of visual memory in inferotemporal cortex reveal a generalizable framework for translating between spikes and field potentials Translating neurophysiological findings requires understanding the relationship between common measures of brain activity in animals (spiking activity) and humans (local field potentials, LFP). Prior ...

🚨 New preprint!

Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.

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What distinction

Some polling:
Invading Venezuela - 19% approve, 60% disapprove
OK to go w/o Congressional approval - 11% yes, 74% no
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May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

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