Urte Laukaityte

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It turns out my piece made it all the way to the Top 10 of 2025, despite an admittedly late start to the game in... November. You should follow the crowd on this one and read it!

A look back out our five most popular episodes of 2025!!

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Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria) “The sphere is the most uniform of solid bodies since every point on its surface is equidistant from its centre. Because of this, and because of its ability to revolve on an axis without straying from...

Tickled to be acknowledged with an 'honourable' mention by the 2025 Monochrome Awards in photography.

Many MInds – Complete Audio Essays

For the finale of season 7, we have a new audio essay out @manymindspod.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social!

It's an exploration of names in the animal kingdom - what they are, who uses them, and why.

In case you get hooked, we've put together a separate playlist of all our essays so far. Enjoy!

American Canto...-nese man invites philosophers to apply to become the next great public intellectual. $1500, full room and board, and a three day workshop in essay writing, trade book proposal selling, and podcast production, in Tarrytown NY June 2026. marcsandersfoundation.org/philosophy-i...

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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Minimal, high-contrast illustration of two figures moving along a sweeping path beneath a large moon and layered clouds.

Decorative garden scene in black and white: a robed figure with a long patterned train walks past a sundial, framed by an ornate pear-and-leaf border.

Stylized black-and-white scene of a poised figure with a flowing skirt beside an impish musician playing a long-necked instrument; bubbles and chandeliers accent the composition.

Black-and-white Art Nouveau illustration of three figures crowned with grape clusters and ivy, surrounded by vines in a high-contrast design.

Perverse, grotesque, sensuous, inimitable — our latest post gathers, in high resolution, a selection of 74 key works by the era-defining English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98): publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

And prints in our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...

Thanks! It is a funky story - glad you enjoyed it:)

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems

Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.

Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.

Monsters and their makers - DISI Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.

You may want to check out the latest Many Minds episode on all things monstrous, too! disi.org/monsters-and...

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Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive Foundations Cognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different

Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

Podcast - DISI The Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) is building a new community: a vibrant network of early-career scholars who are devoted to bold, transdisciplinary inquiry into the origins, nature, a...

You might enjoy the Many Minds podcast! Lots of variety disi.org/manyminds/

Cautionary Tales – The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot Lise Meitner has fought for her entire life to be seen as a scientist, slowly building a career as a nuclear physicist in Berlin. When Adolf Hitler rises to power, the small gains she’s made …

I so wish the medal would have been given a different name, in light of Otto Hahn's actions during the Nazi era and especially his treatment of Lise Meitner, e.g. timharford.com/2025/06/caut...

Consider reading my new piece on the history and science of the nasogenital cure! Incidentally, that's not exactly what the theory was and not quite what the episode reveals. Bizarre tales sound rather less bizarre in context - possibly, our own tales in our own context, too.

On train home after Method & Convergence 2025. I got so much food for my work! Slide is from @laukas.bsky.social nice ”PR talk” on synthetic phil… 🔥

Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould.

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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!

More info: disi.org

Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.

Thanks for a great 2024, friends!

We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were...

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Cool! I haven't come across too many people that share my interests - Bluesky seems like it might change that.

Slime Mould and Philosophy Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy

My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!

A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.

Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!

People: Portrait - honorable mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.