This Friday at 10am Elsayed Issa, an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics and Arabic in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue will be joining us for Coffee & CAIC 🥳 ☕ 🍰 Check out the abstract below!

Upcoming Neuroscience events at Purdue 🧠🥳

'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

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The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

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Cheap Batteries Are Taking Over the World’s Power Grids Falling costs, rising electricity demand and the Iran War are nurturing a boom in energy storage.

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pic of the incandescently awesome novel The Library at Mount Char

In case the name Scott Hawkins doesn't ring a bell or you haven't read his first book yet

Blacktail by Scott Hawkins: 9798217089963 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "A tale of lupine vengeance—at first—whose stakes escalate to degrees I never saw coming. Unexpected, blood-soaked, and vividly told.”—qntm, author of There Is No Antimemetics...

September 1st!

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Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids The demand for batteries - for EVs and grid - has surged in the last year and is getting a further boost from the global fuel crisis as countries think energy security.

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What makes a philosophy publication attention-worthy? Highlights from Alexandra Plakias’ Coffee & CAIC talk ☕️ 🍰

Humans and Elephants: We’re Not So Exceptional After All A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

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Celebrating Dr. Alex Madva 👏

As part of the 2025–26 Provost’s Awards for Excellence at Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Madva—Professor of Philosophy, CO-Director for the DHC and CCEP—is recognized for his exceptional, field-shaping scholarship. His work spans

New tech allows solar panels to make electricity even from raindrops Researchers in Spain have devised a hybrid device that can generate energy using sunlight as well as raindrops.

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This Friday at 10am Alexandra Plakias from Hamilton College will be joining us for Coffee & CAIC 🥳 ☕ 🍰 Check out the abstract below!

This week in the Neuroscience Department at Purdue:

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Woot woot! We have a newly redesigned Cognitive Science MSc program and Philosophy of Mind MA program here at @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social

Applications are open! www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...

Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war Demand at online marketplaces could settle at a new, higher normal, with the crisis leaving consumers ‘scarred’

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March 2026 to 'change everything': 'Tipping point' for global EV adoption Accelerated collapse of ICE cars seen, as oil crisis drives 'replacement under pressure'

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was once New Amsterdam.

Next week in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue:

Reading is magic What will happens in our second peasanthood

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Using AI to help me write would be like using the kitchen garbage disposal to help me eat dinner: if I have the disposal do the chewing and swallowing for me, then I get none of the flavor or nutrition or satisfaction of eating food. I'm just making a big noisy show of wasting something I need.

Why Would You Ask AI To Tell The Story Of Your Own Life? | Defector Writing, particularly creative or journalistic writing, is an infamously difficult, unsteady, and unfair way to try to make a living. This is in part because of the number of people who want to do it....

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Highlights from Yaroslav Rosokha’s wonderfully engaging Coffee & CAIC talk on cooperation and power dynamics 👾

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!

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🎉 We're excited to announce the SPAN Seminar Series: virtual introductions to concepts relevant to neuroscience & phil of neuroscience. Seminars are free for SPAN members & held virtually.

The first 2 seminars are on MRI methods. Register today! 🧠 philandneuro.wildapricot.org/seminar-Series

A few more days to apply for the position in our lovely School!

Middle East disruption could cut global oil demand 20% and gas 10% by 2050 as energy security drives shift to independence The global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy, metals and mining industries, providing objective analysis and advice on assets, companies and markets.

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