Anne Boticario
@anneboticario.bsky.social
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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.
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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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I absolutely adore little libraries 🥲📚
April 23, 2026 at 11:38 AM
I absolutely adore little libraries 🥲📚
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Sometimes we try to explain one thing but end up explaining something else. In this paper, I address when this is a problem, which I call the “Problem of Explaining Shifting Targets” (PEST).
#philsci #cogsky
(Available open access)
#philsci #cogsky
(Available open access)
The problem of explaining shifting targets - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Sometimes we try to explain one thing but end up explaining something else. In this paper, I address when this is a problem, which I call the...
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March 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lauren C. Fong, Daniel Feuerriegel, et al:
Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
March 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lauren C. Fong, Daniel Feuerriegel, et al:
Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Psychologist Alberta Banner Turner was born 117 years ago today. She spent her career investigating how the juvenile incarceration system treated Black youths, and the impact of that treatment, and working to improve Vocational Training.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #WHM #BlackWomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #WHM #BlackWomenInSTEM
March 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Psychologist Alberta Banner Turner was born 117 years ago today. She spent her career investigating how the juvenile incarceration system treated Black youths, and the impact of that treatment, and working to improve Vocational Training.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #WHM #BlackWomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #WHM #BlackWomenInSTEM
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This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013.
+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM
+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM
February 19, 2026 at 2:06 PM
"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013.
+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM
+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM
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Umberto Eco died 10 years ago today. Here's a short piece I wrote a few days ago about his links to some of the philosophers, mythologists and linguists I've done more work on. progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/15/u...
February 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Umberto Eco died 10 years ago today. Here's a short piece I wrote a few days ago about his links to some of the philosophers, mythologists and linguists I've done more work on. progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/15/u...
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Hard agree. As is so often the case, the elevation of machine ‘intelligence’ goes hand in hand with an impoverished view of human cognition. Just because there isn’t widespread agreement about the meaning of ‘intelligence’ or ‘understanding’ doesn’t mean you can use these terms however you want!
this argument asks the reader to reframe human intelligence/cognition in machinic terms flipping the default/baseline from which intelligence is measured/understood to machines. basically reducing human cognition to mere neural connection, making erroneous comparisons & inflating llm capabilities
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February 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Hard agree. As is so often the case, the elevation of machine ‘intelligence’ goes hand in hand with an impoverished view of human cognition. Just because there isn’t widespread agreement about the meaning of ‘intelligence’ or ‘understanding’ doesn’t mean you can use these terms however you want!
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This is the quiet alchemy of the path: nothing is conquered, everything is welcomed. When kindness meets what once frightened us, separation dissolves and the heart remembers its true size. Enlightenment is not escape, it is intimacy with all that arises.
~ Zenzi Sewaah
~ Zenzi Sewaah
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
This is the quiet alchemy of the path: nothing is conquered, everything is welcomed. When kindness meets what once frightened us, separation dissolves and the heart remembers its true size. Enlightenment is not escape, it is intimacy with all that arises.
~ Zenzi Sewaah
~ Zenzi Sewaah
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'Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare' ...
How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors
As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?
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August 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
'Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare' ...
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"All languages, large and small, have a lot to contribute to our common humanity if freed from linguistic feudalism. Education policies should be devised on the basis that all languages are treasuries of history, beauty and possibility." ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...
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August 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"All languages, large and small, have a lot to contribute to our common humanity if freed from linguistic feudalism. Education policies should be devised on the basis that all languages are treasuries of history, beauty and possibility." ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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This week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling is out!
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
August 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling is out!
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
A long noncoding RNA offers a potential target in triple-negative breast cancer, mutual information uncovers pathways that underlie heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer, and more. https://scim.ag/45uRxLR
Injury and Inhibition
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
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The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
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How the ‘myth of Phineas Gage’ affects brain injury survivors | Aeon Essays
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors
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August 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Injury and Inhibition
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors | Ben Platts-Mills
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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August 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📍Matagarup Bridge
August 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
📍Matagarup Bridge
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Numerical cognition in birds
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
July 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Numerical cognition in birds
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
Review by L. Regolin, M. Loconsole, O. Rosa-Salva, K. Brosche, M. Macchinizzi, A. Felisatti & R. Rugani
Web: go.nature.com/4lVxb5K
PDF: rdcu.be/eyEEM
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Hope some of y'all will read along with me for #WITMonth!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
31 Short Stories for Women in Translation Month
I had so much fun reading along with RJL supporters for January in Japan, that I hope you’ll join me again for #WomeninTranslation Month. #WITMonth an annual event each August that has played its o…
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July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hope some of y'all will read along with me for #WITMonth!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
I've got stories queued up by some of Japan's best-known women writers (+ some you've likely never heard of), translated by some of my favorites—Balistrieri, Bergstrom, H Kawai, M Powell, Nieda, Takemori, Wilson, Yoneda...
Starts Friday!
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This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
July 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
💜🌸
Daryl Hall and Todd Rundgren "I Saw The Light"
YouTube video by TRSD Global
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July 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
~Joyce Carol Oates
#sundaysentence
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Looking to discover a gem, maybe a long-lost book? Try a bookstore crawl!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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‘The best way to discover hidden gems’: why you should try out a bookshop crawl
Like bar-hopping, but for browsing books: this trend, popularised on TikTok, makes for a great day out – and can help you discover unique literary spots
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June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Looking to discover a gem, maybe a long-lost book? Try a bookstore crawl!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...