Incoming ENSO Seminar!

Next week *Matthew Egbert* will present new work on "Adaptive Autonomy in the Sensorimotor Domain."

Time: Wed 5th Nov @ 1900 UTC (see www.ensoseminars.com for time in your own timezone).

Livestream:

youtube.com/live/HPUcWz7...

#embodiment #enaction #CognitiveScience

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Time correction for our upcoming ENSO Seminar!

SNAFU on the announced time. The panel discussion on "Challenges to Enactive Cognitive Science" will take place at 18.00 UTC @ 2nd Oct

Stream link is here: youtube.com/live/w1Jc5Cd...
Seminar details here: ensoseminars.com/presentation...

It's publication day for my book with @craigspeelman.bsky.social!

"The Great Psychology Delusion" is an unsentimental look at the conceptual mess of psychology, and how to improve.

Psychology is several sciences, and we need to get clear about them.

More soon!

www.routledge.com/The-Great-Ps...

It's a tENSO Seminar!

This October is 10 years since the first ENSO Seminar. To mark the occasion we have a panel discussion, looking at Challenges to Enactive Cognitive Science.

When? Thurs 2nd October @ 1900 UTC

Find the stream link and the time in your own timezone here:

www.ensoseminars.com

"This think piece 1) draws on Paulo Freire’s (1970) critical pedagogy and embodied and enactive approaches to cognitive science to illustrate the rich, dynamic and relational nature of learning, and 2) (...)"

This Friday: yes, we need conceptual thinking in neuroscience. Join the discussion!

Now out as preprint in Philosophy of Science. l argue that two central desiderata for measures often conflict: quantitativeness and responsiveness to stakeholder values, forcing a choice between them. The conflict poses a challenge for recent work on "legitimate" measurement. doi.org/10.1017/psa....

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Consciousness/Emergence People: check out this hybrid workshop hosted by Sussex next Wednesday, September 10th www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

I will be speaking in the afternoon session (starting at 7 am Pacific time) on “The Importance of Boundaries” (abstract in thread) #philsky #neuroskyence

@melinagastelum.bsky.social‬ proposes the Dynamic Affordance Trajectory Framework, which aims to explain how affordances operate across different time scales: action control, learning, and culture

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're back for a new series!

The next ENSO Seminar will be by Nara De Figueiredo, presenting "Let's Get Social! Enaction and Agential Realism in dialogue about language."

The talk will be Thurs 4th Sept @ 1400 UTC.

For abstract and link to the livestream see:
ensoseminars.com/presentation...

I'm also put in mind of Barry Smith's (2007) comments regarding communities of wine tasters.

Or skill development even... 🙄

Trasmundi on the Gibsonian view of skull development.

Philip Ball on the Human Genome Project - prelude to a new approach to understanding life.

We'll be going live at the top of the hour with Marta Pérez-Verdugo's ENSO Seminar: Senorimotor Habits of Engagement: Looking at the interplay between technological design and autonomy through the enactive lens.

youtube.com/live/HWdYIww...

Delighted to welcome Marta Pérez-Verdugo to present our May seminar!

Marta will present on "Sensorimotor habits of engagement."

Wednesday 7th May 2025 @ 0900UTC (see www.ensoseminars.com for own timezone)

Stream: youtube.com/live/HWdYIww...

Abstract and details:
ensoseminars.com/presentation...

Delighted to welcome Marta Pérez-Verdugo to present our May seminar!

Marta will present on "Sensorimotor habits of engagement."

Wednesday 7th May 2025 @ 0900UTC (see www.ensoseminars.com for own timezone)

Stream: youtube.com/live/HWdYIww...

Abstract and details:
ensoseminars.com/presentation...

Delighted to welcome Maria Clara Garavito Gomez to present next week on "Intercorporeality at the limits of one's own body"

Thurs 6th March @ 1400 UTC (Check ensoseminars.com for time in your own timezone.)

Talk details @ www.ensoseminars.com/presentation...

#CogSci #embodiment #enaction

Hello Bluesky! This is the ENSO Seminars finally arriving.

We are monthly livestreamed talks and discussions on #enactive, ecological ( #ecopsych ), and generally #embodied #CognitiveScience!

This is a new announcement channel for us. Interested? Please follow and boost!

www.ensoseminars.com