Researcher in cognitive science and philosophy of mind 🧠📚🏔️at the Institut Jean-Nicod, École Normale Supérieure Paris @cognitionens.bsky.social | @normalesup.bsky.social
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Lucas Battich
„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“
They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes
RIP Marjane Satrapi
What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising?
Restrict access or invest in excellence?
Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness
Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪
Philosophy was mostly "armchair" in the mid-20th century—but it's not anymore! Philosophers have increasingly cited empirical sources and discussed empirical data and evidence. In fact, as of the 2020s, non-empirical philosophy has become the minority.
Researching visual imagery? Consider submitting to this new cross-journal special issue on visual imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology, and Scientific Reports! We welcome a broad range of topics and methods - more info below 👇
www.nature.com/collections/...
I am extremely proud of what Camilo, Moritz, and the whole team have put together for this year's Models of Consciousness #MoC7.
Stellar choice of topics and speakers, and an amazing social programme aimed at true exchange among participants.
Come join us! #ConSci Talk application is now open.
happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉
building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax
What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising?
Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created?
A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...
Honoured and excited to take part in SPAN's Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration (ITRC) programme! We have a project on non-human colour perception with neuroscientists Jessica Lee & Chris Kymn and philosophers Mark Carstensen & me. Looking forward to start!
Team em-dashes!
I hate that now I have to do a double take about using them when writing for gate-keepers (grant reviewers, job committees)
We had a great time at Purdue! Thanks to all organisers and funders for this opportunity to carry out a unique interdisciplinary project in animal color experiences, accompanied with the right training and support. Now to get working 🧠
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
Nadine Dijkstra
Stone Cold Jane Austen
Implementation of Bayesian regressions over the meta-d' model of psychological data from two alternative forced choice tasks with ordinal confidence ratings. For more information, see Maniscalco & Lau...
The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t.
ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants.
🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
Kevin O’Neill
The text of an open letter sent by ERC President Maria Leptin to ERC panel members, grantees and other stakeholders on 16 April 2026.
The next Models of Consciousness Conference will take place in Copenhagen!
We are excited to bring #MoC7 to the University of Copenhagen on October 12–16, 2026.
Call for Abstracts is now open on our website (link below!)
We're excited to welcome our ITRC groups to Purdue this weekend for our @danafoundation.bsky.social funded workshop, featuring a session w/ @ucpews.bsky.social! Part of SPAN's mission is to provide resources to help foster intelligibility between phil & neuro + foster public engagement with science.
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Johanna Joyce
We are pleased to announce the recipients of our @danafoundation.bsky.social funded Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration (ITRC) grant! We're excited to see their projects unfold over the next year and to learn about the final results at SPAN2027!
philandneuro.wildapricot.org/ITRC
SPAN
i love m-dashes. i use 'not only but also' type of constructions in certain kinds of writing. i am not ai. i find the implication that i might be depressing. just as i dislike defensive academic writing targeting reviewers, i'd regret having to adopt defensive writing habits to prove i'm not a bot.
