Christopher J Stevens
@metaphysiology.bsky.social
Lecturer/researcher in phil & neuro.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
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Mice-side bias: Deliberative decision making in a model of rule revision reveals 'myside' confirmation bias-like cognitive processes in mice. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626648v1
Will do a thread on this soon, too busy with corrections, etc., right now. In the meantime, new preprint from my PhD project in a single hypothesis: the deep cognitive bases of myside confirmation bias run much deeper in evolutionary history than posited in the literature.
#cognition #behavior
#cognition #behavior
Post your favourite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Post your favourite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
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1994 Eurovision winner for #Ireland Charlie McGettigan has decided to hand back his trophy to the EBU in protest at apartheid Israel's continued participation in the contest.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
Irish Eurovision winner McGettigan to return trophy
Ireland's 1994 Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan has said he plans to hand back his trophy in support of last year's winner Nemo, who is returning the 2024 trophy in protest over Israel's continued...
www.rte.ie
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
1994 Eurovision winner for #Ireland Charlie McGettigan has decided to hand back his trophy to the EBU in protest at apartheid Israel's continued participation in the contest.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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Irish government to ban goods, not services, from Israeli settlements
Fruit basically, valued at €200,000 a year
Goes against the International Court of Justice & UN General Assembly stipulation that countries must not aid or assist the unlawful situation in Palestine
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Fruit basically, valued at €200,000 a year
Goes against the International Court of Justice & UN General Assembly stipulation that countries must not aid or assist the unlawful situation in Palestine
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Occupied Territories Bill to be limited to goods - Byrne
The Occupied Territories Bill, which aims to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements, will be limited strictly to goods, according to Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence Thomas Byrne...
www.rte.ie
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Irish government to ban goods, not services, from Israeli settlements
Fruit basically, valued at €200,000 a year
Goes against the International Court of Justice & UN General Assembly stipulation that countries must not aid or assist the unlawful situation in Palestine
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Fruit basically, valued at €200,000 a year
Goes against the International Court of Justice & UN General Assembly stipulation that countries must not aid or assist the unlawful situation in Palestine
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Despite contributing a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and a whole host of other environmental problems, animal agriculture is rarely reported on.
That's a problem! If people aren't reading about the issue, they won't know how to act on it.
That's a problem! If people aren't reading about the issue, they won't know how to act on it.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Despite contributing a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and a whole host of other environmental problems, animal agriculture is rarely reported on.
That's a problem! If people aren't reading about the issue, they won't know how to act on it.
That's a problem! If people aren't reading about the issue, they won't know how to act on it.
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Neil Henderson is angry that RAF spy plane footage taken over Gaza on the day his son James was killed there in an Israeli drone strike has not been released
The clip is from @declassifieduk.org's new documentary on the RAF spy flights. A must watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
The clip is from @declassifieduk.org's new documentary on the RAF spy flights. A must watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Neil Henderson is angry that RAF spy plane footage taken over Gaza on the day his son James was killed there in an Israeli drone strike has not been released
The clip is from @declassifieduk.org's new documentary on the RAF spy flights. A must watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
The clip is from @declassifieduk.org's new documentary on the RAF spy flights. A must watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
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What would happen if Kim Jong Un docked in Dingle? If a Death Star appeared over Spiddle? If Lucifer burst out of the Hill of Tara?
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
What would happen if Kim Jong Un docked in Dingle? If a Death Star appeared over Spiddle? If Lucifer burst out of the Hill of Tara?
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Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026
Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026
‘Clear conflict’ between Eurovision ideals of ‘inclusion and dignity for all’ and decision to let Israel compete, says 2024 winner
Nemo, the Swiss singer who won the 2024 Eurovision song contest, has said they are handing back their trophy in protest over Israel’s participation in next year’s event.
The 26-year-old, the first non-binary winner of the contest, said on Thursday there was “a clear conflict” between the Eurovision ideals of “unity, inclusion and dignity for all” and the decision to allow Israel to compete. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026
Can't get much more rigidly designated than being... written in the stone!
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Can't get much more rigidly designated than being... written in the stone!
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Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police
So Disney hand over their IP *and* a billion dollars!? I can only conclude that OpenAI's contract negotiator is none other than Kaa himself.
December 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
So Disney hand over their IP *and* a billion dollars!? I can only conclude that OpenAI's contract negotiator is none other than Kaa himself.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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Time to stop working for free to springer and elsevier.
Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal - Daily Nous
All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature's Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new "diamo...
dailynous.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Time to stop working for free to springer and elsevier.
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Nations should look at banning Twitter altogether. Because how would they respond if it was Russian? And what’s the difference?
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Nations should look at banning Twitter altogether. Because how would they respond if it was Russian? And what’s the difference?
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This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
Oh there just has to be a Scandinavia-wide polling organization who has the possibility to do the funniest thing here! Ballpark guesses as to the percentage of Norwegians, Swedes and Danes who'd respond positively to "Would you prefer to stay in your own country or move to MAGA-USA?"..?
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh there just has to be a Scandinavia-wide polling organization who has the possibility to do the funniest thing here! Ballpark guesses as to the percentage of Norwegians, Swedes and Danes who'd respond positively to "Would you prefer to stay in your own country or move to MAGA-USA?"..?
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By the way, did I mention that I wrote a really cool book back in 2019 that debunks the myth of the Black Confederate soldier and the broader Lost Cause narrative. You can purchase it with a 30% discount. Just use the code 01UNCP30 at checkout. 😉 uncpress.org/978146965326...
Searching for Black Confederates
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free ...
uncpress.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
By the way, did I mention that I wrote a really cool book back in 2019 that debunks the myth of the Black Confederate soldier and the broader Lost Cause narrative. You can purchase it with a 30% discount. Just use the code 01UNCP30 at checkout. 😉 uncpress.org/978146965326...
Nice self-exemplifying irony here: just noticed I got blocked by a fellow academic for this critique of his wholesale embracing of Fukuyama's idea that, in the absence of genuine tyranny & oppression, people will always come up with something else to struggle against 🙃
Literally no one has any clue what the world would look like if there existed no tyranny and oppression, worthy of the name, against which to struggle. Making this neither "on point" nor "prescient" but, in fact, preemptively defeatist.
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Nice self-exemplifying irony here: just noticed I got blocked by a fellow academic for this critique of his wholesale embracing of Fukuyama's idea that, in the absence of genuine tyranny & oppression, people will always come up with something else to struggle against 🙃
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Many psychologists are treating LLMs as if they are the mind of god.
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Many psychologists are treating LLMs as if they are the mind of god.
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
3rd time seeing Gojira in 20 yrs last night. 1st was in a tent at a festival in Belgium, middle of the day; 2nd in a small bar in Dublin; last night on their home ground in France at an arena show with the most impressive stage production I've ever seen for an extreme metal band. Quelle évolution! 🤘
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
3rd time seeing Gojira in 20 yrs last night. 1st was in a tent at a festival in Belgium, middle of the day; 2nd in a small bar in Dublin; last night on their home ground in France at an arena show with the most impressive stage production I've ever seen for an extreme metal band. Quelle évolution! 🤘
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Russia's brutal war has strengthened our EU ties. It's Israel's brutal war which has divided us: on the one side, those who think Israel should be treated the same as Russia; on the other, von der Leyen and all others who claim/pretend wannabe autocrat Bibi is any better than Vlad.
Russia’s brutal war sought to divide us but it has achieved the opposite. Our ties are stronger than ever. We are not only bound by defence interests but by our common values. And this is how we will proceed. United, in supporting Ukraine and in defending Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Russia's brutal war has strengthened our EU ties. It's Israel's brutal war which has divided us: on the one side, those who think Israel should be treated the same as Russia; on the other, von der Leyen and all others who claim/pretend wannabe autocrat Bibi is any better than Vlad.
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Scenes you'll never see on US tv:
"Senator Schumer what would you do if you were attending a wedding where some of the guests were stabbing a huge poster of a murdered Palestinian baby? Because you're supporting a government with a minister who just sat looking on while exactly that was happening."
"Senator Schumer what would you do if you were attending a wedding where some of the guests were stabbing a huge poster of a murdered Palestinian baby? Because you're supporting a government with a minister who just sat looking on while exactly that was happening."
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Scenes you'll never see on US tv:
"Senator Schumer what would you do if you were attending a wedding where some of the guests were stabbing a huge poster of a murdered Palestinian baby? Because you're supporting a government with a minister who just sat looking on while exactly that was happening."
"Senator Schumer what would you do if you were attending a wedding where some of the guests were stabbing a huge poster of a murdered Palestinian baby? Because you're supporting a government with a minister who just sat looking on while exactly that was happening."
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Please sign and share
There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th.
Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...
Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...
Petition to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
my.uplift.ie
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Please sign and share