Marcin Miłkowski
@mmilkowski.bsky.social
Philosopher of cognitive science, who also does some NLP
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The keynote talk by @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social "On Representing Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioral Science" at the 8th annual SURe workshop in Warsaw this year (shorturl.at/tE7uA) is now online!
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social
On Representing Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioral Science
YouTube video by Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
The keynote talk by @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social "On Representing Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioral Science" at the 8th annual SURe workshop in Warsaw this year (shorturl.at/tE7uA) is now online!
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social
I'd be cautious, but I just looked at the status line from one journal about my paper:
September 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I'd be cautious, but I just looked at the status line from one journal about my paper:
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Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them:
datacolada.org/138
and
datacolada.org/139
1/2
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them:
datacolada.org/138
and
datacolada.org/139
1/2
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journals.sagepub.com
September 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them:
datacolada.org/138
and
datacolada.org/139
1/2
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them:
datacolada.org/138
and
datacolada.org/139
1/2
Słowniki w LanguageTool już po pierwszym etapie reformy. Trochę łatwiej, ale też trochę trudniej, bo pojawiły się osobliwe formy „niemdlej” (od przysłówka „mdło”) – ale w słowniku ich nie dopuszczam. marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/08/2...
Reforma pisowni – oj, nieprościej
Dzisiaj wdrożyłem wszystkie poprawki potrzebne, aby LanguageTool działał zgodnie z reformą pisowni wprowadzoną przez Radę Języka Polskiego. Większość zmian to kosmetyka, bo np. pisownia samochodów …
marcinmilkowski.pl
August 20, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Słowniki w LanguageTool już po pierwszym etapie reformy. Trochę łatwiej, ale też trochę trudniej, bo pojawiły się osobliwe formy „niemdlej” (od przysłówka „mdło”) – ale w słowniku ich nie dopuszczam. marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/08/2...
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Tech guys: why do they hate us & our data centers so much?
Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!
Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!
Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Plan to Build America’s Biggest Power Plant
On Belgium’s fire, African oil, and the Philippines’ trash
heatmap.news
August 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Tech guys: why do they hate us & our data centers so much?
Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!
Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!
Reposted by Marcin Miłkowski
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
August 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
Reposted by Marcin Miłkowski
Wow.
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States.
newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
newrepublic.com
August 8, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Wow.
New paper with Krystyna Bielecka in Mind & Language: “Contentful skills: Procedural memory and the representational challenge to non-representational cognition” 1/n
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 30, 2026 at 7:22 AM
New paper with Krystyna Bielecka in Mind & Language: “Contentful skills: Procedural memory and the representational challenge to non-representational cognition” 1/n
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Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement:
"Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”
"Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
www.science.org
June 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement:
"Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”
"Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”
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It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
actionnetwork.org
June 18, 2026 at 9:58 AM
It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
github.com/milekpl/zote... Zotero Name Normalizer now supports field-agnostic normalization — one dialog to clean any text field. Improvements: diacritic‑insensitive grouping, better group-library scope and a working similarity-threshold slider. Small bugfixes @zotero.org #openscience #researchtools
GitHub - milekpl/zotero-ner: Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographi...
Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographic metadata - milekpl/zoter...
github.com
June 15, 2026 at 2:31 PM
github.com/milekpl/zote... Zotero Name Normalizer now supports field-agnostic normalization — one dialog to clean any text field. Improvements: diacritic‑insensitive grouping, better group-library scope and a working similarity-threshold slider. Small bugfixes @zotero.org #openscience #researchtools
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Is this the future of peer review?
New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper
The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate
Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper
The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate
Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
June 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Is this the future of peer review?
New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper
The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate
Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper
The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate
Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Second day of the fabulous workshop: sure-workshop.weebly.com/current-work...
Current Workshop
8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop The workshop will take place May 27-29, 2026 , at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, The Polish Academy of...
sure-workshop.weebly.com
May 28, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Second day of the fabulous workshop: sure-workshop.weebly.com/current-work...
Remove pesky Google Books URLs from your Zotero library using my plugin. Advanced Search and Replace is now possible! open.substack.com/pub/marcinmi...
Cleaning Up the Metadata Mess: Introducing Zotero Search & Replace
A missing feature of Zotero
open.substack.com
April 24, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Remove pesky Google Books URLs from your Zotero library using my plugin. Advanced Search and Replace is now possible! open.substack.com/pub/marcinmi...
There's @zotero.org 9.0 → so there's a new version of the library normalization plugin. github.com/milekpl/zote... Enjoy! #zotero #open-source
GitHub - milekpl/zotero-ner: Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographi...
Zotero name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling), publisher names, location names, and journal titles for cleaner bibliographic metadata - milekpl/zoter...
github.com
April 23, 2026 at 8:08 PM
There's @zotero.org 9.0 → so there's a new version of the library normalization plugin. github.com/milekpl/zote... Enjoy! #zotero #open-source
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If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto.
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:
These points stand out:
April 19, 2026 at 8:52 PM
If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto.
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature
How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The
direct.mit.edu
April 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Third fix: EU digital sovereignty. Most major platforms are foreign-owned & may not share European democratic values. The report backs decentralised alternatives — think Mastodon, FediVerse, Eurosky — and calls for a "European CERN for Data & Democracy."
8/10
8/10
April 9, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Third fix: EU digital sovereignty. Most major platforms are foreign-owned & may not share European democratic values. The report backs decentralised alternatives — think Mastodon, FediVerse, Eurosky — and calls for a "European CERN for Data & Democracy."
8/10
8/10
Planning a Dioscuri application (≤15 yrs post-PhD)?
We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw).
€300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy.
If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...
We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw).
€300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy.
If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...
Fifth call invitation for Dioscuri Centres of Scientific Excellence | National Science Centre
ncn.gov.pl
April 16, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Planning a Dioscuri application (≤15 yrs post-PhD)?
We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw).
€300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy.
If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...
We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw).
€300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy.
If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...
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h/t @jakubmihalik.bsky.social
CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026
Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman
Deadline end of May 2026.
Thx for spreading the word!
subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb...
#philsky
CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026
Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman
Deadline end of May 2026.
Thx for spreading the word!
subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb...
#philsky
Faces of Subjectivity – subjectivity.flu.cas.cz
subjectivity.flu.cas.cz
April 14, 2026 at 8:27 AM
h/t @jakubmihalik.bsky.social
CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026
Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman
Deadline end of May 2026.
Thx for spreading the word!
subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb...
#philsky
CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026
Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman
Deadline end of May 2026.
Thx for spreading the word!
subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb...
#philsky
Ukazał się mój zgryźliwy tekst na temat uprzywilejowania niektórych humanistów (tych równiejszych) w obecnej ewaluacji: academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-z... A poza tym jest to coś, co jest niepotrzebnym kosztem i błędnym środkiem prowadzenia polityki naukowej.
Panoptykon zamiast polityki naukowej - Academia PAN
Ocena parametryczna jednostek naukowych w jej obecnym kształcie przypomina Panoptykon – krytykowane przez Michela Foucaulta w Nadzorować i karać „więzienie idealne”, w którym więźniowie są stale obser...
academia.pan.pl
April 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Ukazał się mój zgryźliwy tekst na temat uprzywilejowania niektórych humanistów (tych równiejszych) w obecnej ewaluacji: academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-z... A poza tym jest to coś, co jest niepotrzebnym kosztem i błędnym środkiem prowadzenia polityki naukowej.
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U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia
April 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia
Reposted by Marcin Miłkowski
For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiO0_uSJAk
Can We Fix Our Rigged Tax System?
For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. Thi
www.youtube.com
April 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiO0_uSJAk
Duża aktualizacja wielkiego słownika-angielsko polskiego na urządzenia Kindle, PocketBook, Apple i z systemami Windows lub Android – już dostępna! marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/04/0... #kindle #PocketBook
April 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Duża aktualizacja wielkiego słownika-angielsko polskiego na urządzenia Kindle, PocketBook, Apple i z systemami Windows lub Android – już dostępna! marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/04/0... #kindle #PocketBook
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Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...
Vol. 40 No. 3 (2025): Representations in cognitive science
| THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
ojs.ehu.eus
March 24, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...