And here is the audio player! (Bluesky wasn't previously able to let me embed a player, but now it seems to be able to do so from Spotify, at least.)

open.spotify.com/episode/0eYl...

Hotels Aren’t Seeing The World Cup Boon They Were Promised With just over two months until the World Cup begins, the hotel industry doesn’t see the promised economic boon on the horizon.

People don't want to risk being kidnapped and shipped to a Salvadoran gulag never to be seen again? Crazy

www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Review of @francesegan.bsky.social new book.

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab:

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
@nature.com

"..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a fab line up of podcasts& talks on embodied agency in biological & artificial systems!

Watch this space 😎

A complete rethinking of how our brains use categories to make sense of the world Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at eve...

A new paper in @natrevneuro.nature.com challenges decades of dogma about how and why the brain boils down what it sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels into categories. picower.mit.edu/news/complet... #neuroscience #cognition @mitbcs.bsky.social

Home This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.

🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪

Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th!

metacognitivescience.org

Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social

It’s been a real week of triumph for JD; maybe we should try having him endorse cancer or something

Itt az idő! Most vagy soha!

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones. Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual ima...

Beautiful paper — clear evidence for a generative model in the human brain 🧠 👁️

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's unfortunately not a joke.

Thank you for your interest and thoughtful comments and questions @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Thank you for your interest @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Final talk by @sschellenberg.bsky.social on the relationship between perceptual capacities and the perspectival character of perception.

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Just learned about this:
rentahuman.ai
AI bots can rent a human to do things AI systems can’t do, such as sign papers. There are over 100,000 people on the site who are paid for their work.

I learnt a huge amount and very much enjoyed this event at Bochum. Many thanks to the wonderful people at Bochum for organizing and special thanks to Julia Wolf, Ayoob Shahmoradi, Sara Papić, and Max Minden Riberio for the excellent talks. philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2025/11/...

Jordan Scott, The Rational Method - PhilPapers Performances, epistemic and practical, can be understood as having aims and methods which jointly determine whether the performance was successful. In this paper, I advance a novel, structural account...

Excellent new paper by Jordan Scott forthcoming in AJP. This paper was a core chapter of his recently defended dissertation. philpapers.org/rec/SCOTRM-2

Pleased to share new work with @sflippl.bsky.social @eberleoliver.bsky.social @thomasmcgee.bsky.social & undergrad interns at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.

Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models
www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15987

🧵1/n

I think you already speak several languages, so you are good!

Want a younger brain? Learn another language A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Single-nucleus profiling highlights the all-brain echinoderm nervous system A sea urchin is a head with a brain-like organization and a vertebrate-type retinal signature.

Sea urchins are mostly brains in a spiky shell? Soo cool! 🤯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Open-weight models are becoming increasingly capable while creating risks beyond those that already exist for closed-weight models.
To continue benefiting from the advantages of open-weight models, we must develop risk mitigation methodologies specifically for them, as discussed in this paper.

And it was as enjoyable as the first half!

Since my interview with Richard Brown abruptly ended after an hour, we did another one. This one is less free-floating than the first and includes a lot of discussion of representation, content, and the like. As someone in the chat commented dryly, “Endless discussions about semantics”.

Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg -Consciousness Live! S8 e5 YouTube video by onemorebrown

Enjoyed this interview with @onemorebrown.bsky.social. We discuss #perception, #AI, #perspectives, #capacities, @neddo.bsky.social, #Fodor, #Chomsky, the performance/competences distinction, the relation between capacities and representational states, and much else. www.youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg YouTube video by onemorebrown

Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm!

youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Discussion with Susanna Schellenberg YouTube video by onemorebrown

About to do a live podcast. Wish me luck. youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.