Gavin Foster🦧

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I encountered this Bursaria truncatella after it "inhaled" a Paramecium. I was hoping to see the Paramecium get sealed into a vacuole, but instead it finally managed to escape! My students have nicknamed Bursaria "Micro Roomba." LOL

#microscope #science #microscopy #iteachbiology

Harvest Moon: tennis of love (and crop conditions)

The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment This paper presents an extended thought experiment conducted by Daniel Dennett and the author as a way of exploring how consciousness might develop without a central “Cartesian Theater.” The starti...

Just out: my account of an extended thought experiment conducted by Dan Dennett and me. Open access. The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I honestly can't tell which way you mean: which is better? I grew up with friends that didn't like in-arena because they couldn't see the puck!!

Crazy that more Americans in our department like hockey than Canadians 😡

Some of these views of philosophers seem totally wrong to me as well... I hope to never be a philosopher who forms such one-dimensional impressions of others.

One of the best of all time and a favorite player growing up.

Obviously saddened we didn't get gold. But the moment of holding up Gaudreau's jersey and seeing his parents in the stands -- made it all worth the loss. I saw the USA team also brought out Gaudreau's kids on the ice for the team photo. Wonderful.

Loretta wants you to know that we'll be heading to The Ohio State University soon where I'll be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy 🥹 The OSU phil department is absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to go do philosophy with them!
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Congratulations Danielle!!!!!! This is so exciting!!!

So happy to see this paper published! It represents by far the most fun and enriching experience I've had as a grad student. Reading philosophy is fun, but spending most of my week in a lab with dogs of all breeds and personalities? Nothing beats that.

Couldn't have asked for better mentors!!!

My counterexample: Outer Wilds, such that value(G, S) > value(G) + value(S).

Let P be a game with Gameplay G and Story S. Define two agent types:
Type A values S as reward for engaging G, i.e. actions maximize value(G->S).
Type B values G as reward and treats S as interference, i.e. actions maximize value(S->G).
Thus A: value(S|G) > value(G|S),
and B: value(G|S) > value(S|G)

Participate in dog studies! The Canine Minds Collaborative, established in 2023, is a collaboration between researchers at Johns Hopkins University and local pet owners, teaming up to advance our understanding of canine minds...

If you are in the Baltimore area and would like to help us with our effort to understand how dogs think, sign your dog up to participate in our studies: www.social-cognitive-origins.com/participate-...

Do dogs rationally infer the causes of failed actions? Humans regularly reason about the causes of events and actions we observe in the world, both to infer the physical properties and mechanisms of objects, and to understand others’ actions. Evidence for...

We build on seminal work w/ human infants by @hyogweon.bsky.social & @miteccl.bsky.social but find no evidence that dogs can correctly infer the social or physical causes for a failed action, even when interacting with a highly familiar kind of object (pet gates)

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My high school doesn't even have a wiki to look up who went to it

Bergson’s view of memory has largely been lost in recent philosophical discussion Doudja Boumaza is at the Palace today, with a strong case for bringing him back!

#philsky #philscisky

Trust in leadership is essential to success

A new study found that PhD students who had greater trust in their graduate advisor finished their first year more motivated, higher in well-being, and more academically successful than those with lower advisor trust.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

The “I” in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte

📢 New Paper 🚨

Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.

In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.

bit.ly/4kvLOwA

My favorite sci-fi movie series

This looks great

@jglavin.bsky.social in the sunglasses makes this CAIC talk look extra cool

Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is...

APA member Bas van Fraassen has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Congratulations! dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...

I lose because I sometimes think I'm good at certain games and then realize I am scum compared to such gods

Honestly... Might exist at one of my Canadian alma maters

Dreaming of a department where that's the reading list for quals

This makes me want to play Super Mega Baseball again

Holy shit. I wonder if this would run on a steam deck

There's also a train museum, and I must confess that unlike many autistic people, I'm not into trains (trust me, I tried!). And, to be fair, I constantly forget what all my friends' cars look like so I'm obviously just vehicle illiterate.