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📅Save the Date!📅 From 7 to 9 January 2025, the MPI and Radboud University will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures. The lectures will be given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…

Truth is both left and right have been working hard to destroy the independence of science in the ‘West’, perhaps a golden age for (fairly) independent science is coming to an end

These are worrying trends because there are direct links between decreasing reading habits, decreasing literacy, and decreasing intelligence theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

This analysis is spot on but there’s no country in the world where (‘true non-capitalist’) socialism has ever worked in the long run. Perhaps what is needed is an honest evolutionary analysis of common ‘traits’ of our species and what this means for developing a just society

It's time!📝 Registration for the Nijmegen Lectures 2025 is now open. Join us for three days of lectures given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira from 7 to 9 January. Register here: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…

Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.

Nick Cave: “I was happy to see Bob on X, just as many on the Left had performed a Twitterectomy and headed for Bluesky. It felt admirably perverse, in a Bob Dylan kind of way”

Christian Lindner Dear Slim, I wrote you, but you still ain’t callin’ I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not’ve got ’em There prob’ly was a problem at the post office or somethin’

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According to a recent paper, the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way, they were born with rich parents.

Ex-„Tagesschau“-Planer: „Westdeutsch sind die Chefs, westdeutsch ist der Blick auf die Welt“ berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnue…

2025 Maha Kumbh Mela Ganges River pilgrimage from the ISS at night. The largest human gathering in the world is well lit.

Interested in how language production is regulated and controlled? Here's an update, in light of new developments in the cognitive control literature. nature.com/articles/s4415…

The deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC) in Zurich is coming up soon. culturalcogsci.org/AnnualMeeting.…

It's been fascinating to read this academic debate between Dorsa Amir/Chaz Firestone and Joe Henrich! The authors present compelling evidence that the Müller-Lyer illusion is not the byproduct of culture, but I think they've all been focusing on the wrong illusion... 🧵 (1/25)

My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) cambridge.org/de/universityp…

In the journal Brain Research we introduce The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions. Joint work with O. Jubran and T. Lachmann. Open access a sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind‘ is now available as ebook via Cambridge Core cambridge.org/core/books/loo…

The true colors of reading: Literacy enhances lexical-semantic processing in rapid automatized and discrete object naming (Cognition, in press), with Susana Araújo, Tânia Fernandes, Margarida Cipriano, Laura Mealha, Catarina Silva-Nunes (all Uni of Lisbon) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…

Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world (in press, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience). Lead author Chris Allison, with L. Fernandez and T. Lachmann (all RPTU Kaiserslautern) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…