"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!
I've been holding onto my subscription to WaPo, mostly out of loyalty to #CarolynHax, but this is the last straw. Glyphosate does not need protection!!! The American people need protection from toxic chemicals & our regulatory system needs protection from corporate interference.
wapo.st/4tUf8Bf
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Here's another @zotero plugin for you! Search & Replace in Library metadata. I always missed a convenient way to remove Worldcat URLs from printed books. Ugly and unnecessary. Now you can. It's a pre-release, so back up your library because it may wreak havoc. github.com/milekpl/zote...
@zotero.org Name Normalizer now supports normalizing Publishers, Locations, and Journals too!
Get suggestions like "Springer" → "Springer" (standardized) or "Cambridge, MA" → "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
Your metadata just got way more consistent. github.com/milekpl/zote...
#Zotero
What is it like to be part of the Trump Regime? Hard to imagine.
“How was your day dear?”
“Oh pretty good. I shielded a few billionaire paedophiles from justice. How about you?”
“Fairly quiet really. Just some voter suppression and racial profiling. Nice to get to own a few Libs in the process.”
Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."
FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...
Congratulations to you as well!
Excited to share that EPSA 2029 will take place in Ljubljana! 🎉
Big congrats to the Warsaw team for hosting EPSA 2027 too!
@epsaphilsci.bsky.social @mmilkowski.bsky.social @hgreif.bsky.social
There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026).
Submission deadline: 15 February!
Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org
#philsci
With @hgreif.bsky.social I will be co-chairing EPSA 27 in Warsaw. Stay tuned!
Main dialog of the plugin
I built a Zotero plugin to fix inconsistent author names in your library. (J. Smith, John Smith, Smith John… we're all familiar.)
Mendeley had this for years. @zotero.org didn't. 500+ cases in my library alone.
Now you can batch-review and normalize all at once: github.com/milekpl/zote.... Free.
Ryszard Wójcicki (1931-2026)
Zmarł profesor Ryszard Wójcicki (30 października 1931 – 18 stycznia 2025). Światowej sławy logik, metodolog i filozof nauki. Członek Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności. Były przewodniczący Komitetu Nauk Filozoficznych. Od lat 60. XX w. pracował w Zakładzie Logiki Instytutu…
Here's my new little app for searching through your parallel corpora and translation memories: github.com/milekpl/corp... (MIT License)
Nothing wild. It does it when the upload fails. That's why one should use whisper to transcribe. From the same company but runnable almost on any machine.
• Petra Schumacher on real-time meaning adaptation
• Emma Borg questioning reasons & action
• @noranewcombe.bsky.social on cognitive maps
• @cameronbuckner.bsky.social on LLMs as models of human reasoning.
Videos were subtitled.
All links here: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl/keynotes 2/2
As 2025 winds down, I've been recollecting ESPP 2025 we organized in Warsaw.
All the keynotes and symposia are now up on YouTube for your procrastination pleasure. Plus full symposium sessions and Q&As. Perfect background listening for grading marathons or post-holiday-dinner recovery. 1/2
Dismantling NCAR. Denying the science is not enough - they will destroy it. The Trump administration has gone full Lysenko. If the US is ever won back, this will be spoken of in the same way in the history books.
2nd CFA for the 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, which will take place May 27-29, 2026, at the IFIS PAN in Warsaw.
Submission deadline: 20 January 2026.
More info: shorturl.at/AUoye
@philsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social
A finnish guy looking happy, by finnish standards
@erc.europa.eu has decided to fund my research on how AI is transforming scientific problem-solving! #erc www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life...
My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Theorizing the Mind: Creating a Functional Atlas of Scientific Theories Marcin Miłkowski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Have you ever wondered how scientists come up with theories about how our minds work or what’s happening in our brains? From understanding how we learn and remember, to explaining emotions, to developing treatments for mental health conditions, scientific theories are the essential roadmaps that guide discovery. But what makes a scientific theory in these fields a good one? And how can we make sure scientists are building the best possible theories to help us understand ourselves and improve our lives? Our Goal: Our goal is to create the first systematic map of the different jobs that scientific theories do when studying the brain and mind. Just like a builder needs different tools for different tasks (a hammer isn’t great for sawing wood!), scientists use different kinds of theories for different purposes – some are for classifying things, others for predicting what will happen, and some for explaining why things happen. Our project will provide a clear guide to what makes each type of theory effective and trustworthy for the job it's designed to do. What We'll Be Doing: Think of us as cartographers looking at how science itself works deep down. We will: ● Study Real Science in Action: We'll look closely at how theories are actually used and developed in leading research on the brain and mind. This involves careful philosophical thinking combined with looking at examples from scientific practice. ● Analyze Scientific Language: Using modern computer tools, we'll examine thousands of scientific articles and discussions. This helps us see broad patterns in how scientists talk about, use, and judge theories. It’s like looking at the fingerprint of scientific theorizing to see what’s common and what stands out. ● Build a Functional Atlas for Theories: Based on what we learn, we will …
My project Theorizing the Mind has been funded by the National Science Center.
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
A teddy bear equipped with AI was meant to be a child’s chat companion, but it eagerly jumped into topics like BDSM and “where to find knives.” The manufacturer stopped sales and cut off access. AI toys need strict filters, testing, and oversight or ot ends in a plush sewer. #AIact #GDPR
This is Grok claiming that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were not used for extermination. We only think that, says Grok, because independent examination has been suppressed.
They made Grok deny the Holocaust. Poor Grok! Poor us!
Polish–Romanian Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science 13 November 2025 Palace of Staszic, Nowy Świat 72 Room 161 10.30 Viorel Vizureanu – Interpreting the "system" as a fundamental category of Cartesian thought 11.00 Grigore Vida – Descartes's Democritical Physics 11.30 Marcin Miłkowski – Contentful Skills 12.15 Krystian Bogucki – The False Dichotomy between Conceptual Analysis and Conceptual Engineering: Frege's Case 12.45 Marius Draghici – Ethics Beyond Humanity? Kantian Reflections on Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Knowledge 13.15 Richard David-Rus – 'Getting ethnographic' as a philosopher of science
Tomorrow we have a workshop. Join us if you're around in Warsaw.
Confirms my experience with their entshittified platforms www.reuters.com/investigatio...
