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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 13h

“For the first time” say these authors in 2025 — but what about glowacki et al 2022 www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18h

Princeton is requiring #SAT scores again for admission because test scores predict student success
But using SAT scores also increases social mobility!
Rich students (top 1%) benefit immensely when there are no test scores because they have legacy & non-academic points (which don't predict success)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 1d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Mind & Life @mindandlife.bsky.social · 4d

AI is reshaping how we live, work & connect. How can it deepen compassion? 🌏

Join us live from Dharamsala, Oct 14–16 for Minds, Artificial Intelligence & Ethics with The Dalai Lama Trust & Mind & Life Europe.

👉 http://mindand.life/4tWl50X8I26

#MindsAIEthics #AI #Ethics #Compassion

Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

October 14, 15, and 16, 2025 What is the potential of AI to alleviate suffering, advance equity, and support human and planetary flourishing—and what risks does it pose to health, work, education, politics, and climate action? And how might we infuse AI with ethical values so that it benefits the well-being of all life on Earth? … Continue reading "Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics"

www.mindandlife.org

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 7h

The meeting is organised by @mindandlife.bsky.social and @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social You can find the live stream details in their feed

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Nathan Faivre @nfaivre.bsky.social · 8h

Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask):
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736

With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!

#iEEG

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research

Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...

arxiv.org

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 10h

View from my window here in Mcleodganj

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 10h

"Preventing tipping points from being breached, she says, requires emphasizing immediate emissions reductions and scaling up technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

www.nature.com

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

It's a real pleasure to be here in Dharamsala this week and I think this Dialogue will be really interesting.

Mind & Life @mindandlife.bsky.social · 4d

AI is reshaping how we live, work & connect. How can it deepen compassion? 🌏

Join us live from Dharamsala, Oct 14–16 for Minds, Artificial Intelligence & Ethics with The Dalai Lama Trust & Mind & Life Europe.

👉 http://mindand.life/4tWl50X8I26

#MindsAIEthics #AI #Ethics #Compassion

Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

October 14, 15, and 16, 2025 What is the potential of AI to alleviate suffering, advance equity, and support human and planetary flourishing—and what risks does it pose to health, work, education, politics, and climate action? And how might we infuse AI with ethical values so that it benefits the well-being of all life on Earth? … Continue reading "Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics"

www.mindandlife.org

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 1d

It's quite an amazing time in Dharamsala preparing for the upcoming @mindandlife.bsky.social @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social meeting

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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday morning reading in praise of difficult women occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Difficult Women | Athene Donald's Blog

occamstypewriter.org

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Cognitive Science Group @cogscigroup.bsky.social · 4d

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds

In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal a temporally organize...

www.cell.com

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 5d

wisdom about the PhD trajectory www.nature.com/articles/d41...

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

www.nature.com

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 8d

" good mentors are not born—they are built through reflection, training, and community." www.science.org/content/arti...

I didn't think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach

“I have noticed students are now quicker to ask for help,” this Ph.D. student writes

www.science.org

Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 9d

"This anti-ageing effect was strongest in expert tango dancers, whose brains were, on average, seven years younger than their chronological age." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Creative hobbies could slow brain ageing at the molecular level

To keep the mind young, dance the tango.

www.nature.com

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 9d

"Evaluating an AI co-scientist is difficult — their failures are not always obvious, and how ‘good’ a hypothesis is can be subjective." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A scientist’s guide to AI agents — how could they help your research?

Researchers are increasingly turning to artificial-intelligence tools that can handle complex, multi-step processes.

www.nature.com

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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · 13d

If you've been listening to the excellent @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social on why the embrace of AI is such a bad idea, then you're going to LOVE this take down from @edzitron.com 💣

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13d

This should be repeated constantly:
"In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone."

We need to have a real response to this!!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13d

I also loved this observation. The tech’s true “innovation” is its utter disregard for efficiency. It “works” bc it accepts the most irresponsibly resource-intensive production method imaginable. What matters is not what it costs but *who* pays. The apotheosis of a culture built around disposability

Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 13d

Sign the petition to restore eligibility of 2nd year grad students to the NSF GRFP. They are being robbed of the opportunities to advance their innovative science. @chubicki.bsky.social

Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 13d

We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 13d

Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building
dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...

He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

dailynous.com

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 14d

In case anyone is interested: it's possible to follow the live streaming of the upcoming Mind and Life dialogue about Artificial Intelligence for free: www.mindandlife.org/events/minds...
And I am lucky enough to be on the planning committee and a speaker!

Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

October 14, 15, and 16, 2025 What is the potential of AI to alleviate suffering, advance equity, and support human and planetary flourishing—and what risks does it pose to health, work, education, pol...

www.mindandlife.org

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 14d

RIP philosopher John Searle (1935-2025). I was much influenced by his Speech-Acts and philosophy of mind work. As a theologian lamb among budding philosophical wolves, I took a class with him in my grad years. He was brilliant and caustic, beyond self-confident to insouciant and inhumane. 1/2

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 20d

United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada!

I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information:

https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 14d

Great initiative:
The Max Planck AI Network PhD Program
ai.mpg.de

Home

ai.mpg.de

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