Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behaviour in bumblebees bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Do insects feel pain? One important source of evidence against has been that they don't tend to their injuries...but now there's strong evidence that at least some of them do! #conssky #consci #cognition #PhilSky #philsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

but I also lay out suggestions for how future research that could make progress on these issues: deciding between the interpretations is not as intractable as it sometimes seems! 7/7 #ConsciousnessScience #PhilosophyOfMind #conssky #consci

LSE Workshop on Animal Minds for Early Career Researchers Early Career Researchers (defined as anyone who has either not yet received their PhD, or received it in 2018 or later) are invited to submit abstracts for a workshop to be held in the London School o...

Early Career Researchers with interests relating to animal minds (including both philosophers and scientists)! Submit a 500 word abstract for our workshop at the LSE next April! Details and CFA here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Now finally out in PNAS, the first paper of my amazing (former) PhD @n41c0.bsky.social 🤘, showing that many (or even most) behavioral decision shifts do not reflect changes in conscious perception. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Keynote speakers for Ernst Mach Workshop XII (Prague, May 27-28) confirmed:

Ned Block (NYU) and Martine Nida-Rümelin (Fribourg)

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