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Mothers as Science Storytellers Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Mothers as Science Storytellers

Check out the newest Element in Public Engagement with Science: Mothers as Science Storytellers, by Emma Frances Bloomfield.

Full text free to download until March 12.
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Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

"The problem is not simply that cross-species translation is difficult; it is that the field has largely accepted this difficulty rather than treating it as a central scientific challenge. Neuroscience has also struggled to confront the fact that different species often tell different stories."

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

1. This thread is totally lovely and scientists are some of our best people

2. Reading this really validated my life choices because a good day in the "philosophy lab" is me hyperfocused in my office obsessively writing, forgetting I have a spatiotemporal location & a body and speaking to no one

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starting to explore what it's like to add more vegetarian dishes to your diet.

Here's a great cookbook that costs <$10 used and has over 650 vegetarian recipes-
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FAR from the only good reason!

Promoting the reasons why eating vegetarian is personally beneficial –– and also that vegetarian food TASTES GOOD! –– is crucial for the movement.

You don't have to "become" a vegetarian to help yourself and the planet. You can start reaping benefits simply by

"eat" vegetarian, one *IS A* vegetarian. People often adopt a moral high-ground position, proselytizing about how evil and unethical it is to eat animals, and demonizing people who do.

I believe it's ethically wrong to eat animals. That's the major reason why I *personally* choose not to. But it's

climate change? Eat vegetarian.

Want to avoid food borne illnesses and protect yourself from the next zoonotic pandemic? Eat vegetarian.

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IMO, one of the major PR mistakes that people who choose to eat vegetarian make is that they turn it into an identity issue: one doesn't

plenty of fantastic reasons to eat vegetarian that have nothing to do with moral concern for animals!

Want to spend less money on food? Eat vegetarian.

Want to have healthy blood pressure and cholesterol? Eat vegetarian.

Want to stop supporting corporations who contribute directly to

The bit that convinced me was a kind of ethical appeal –– something to the effect of, "Imagine that an alien species far more powerful and intelligent than humans invaded Earth, and imagine they regarded us as we regard fish. What would be our argument against being eaten?"

But of course, there are

Eating Animals | Powell's Books Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a fat...

Today is my 15-year vegetarian birthday. 🎂🥬

Here's the book that convinced me –– Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals." Anyone else have a favorite piece of reasons-to-eat-vegetarian literature?

www.powells.com/book/eating-...

*Awake* two month olds in fMRI machines?! This is truly heroic work!
Can I ask if you have a full stimulus set somewhere (preferably sorted by the 12 categories, w/ the 3 viewpoints on each)? I downloaded the PDF of paper but it doesn't seem like they're there – except for small in some of the figs

3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/

THANK YOU, Congresswoman Simon! Thank you for standing up for what's right. Thank you for showing principle and courage and inspiring others to do the same. You make District 12 proud!!!!

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...

I think this is good and support it.

dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...

The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

(Here’s a direct link to this important essay:

www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

For anyone who's tempted to believe in "AI consciousness": here's a wonderfully clear and accessible set of arguments to consider, if you're open to changing your mind.

Kudos @anilseth.bsky.social for calling out the Cartesian absurdity of "techno-rapture" & going to bat for biological naturalism!🤘

Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article). First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026. Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

A new academic term is ramping up. Have you considered putting our episodes on your syllabi?

Conversations offer an accessible and engaging format—your students will thank you! We have 100+ episodes to choose from, covering many forms of mind from all disciplinary angles.

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Making faces Facial expressions are produced through a coordinated system of voluntary and emotional pathways

Our Science Perspective on Ianni et al - neural control of facial expressions involves voluntary pathways

@jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social

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Some Dogs Learn New Words Just Like Toddlers Do A new study reveals that some smart dogs can learn words just by overhearing humans’ conversations

A new study reveals that some smart dogs can learn words just by overhearing humans’ conversations

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

So glad we got rid of cancel culture though

Ch 1's overview of the general enactive literature (§1.1, pp. 11-27) has an amazing balance of detail (re: thoroughness of historical overview, distinguishing different strands of Enactivism etc.) +cogent, high-level analysis.

Plus, it starts with this pitch-perfect epigraph:

A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principle

Embarking on a writing project about enactivism; spent the morning w/ Chapter 1 ("Biodynamic Enactivism") of @kathrynnave.bsky.social's 'A Drive to Survive' and it is a *GIFT* 🍰.

Whole book is open access –– an actual gift!! –– here:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Winter Term 2026 (Jan 5-Mar 20)
-Teaching Assistant: Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
-'Naturalizing Enactivism' (Independent Study)
-'Models of Enactive & Embodied Cognition' (I.S.)
-3D Printing a Human Being: Weeks 17-27

525 things can be true, people.
1 The world is all that is the case.
1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by their being all the facts.
1.12 For the totality of facts determines what is the case, and also whatever is not

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

In the coming year, I wish you all a thriving community