Kristina Šekrst

:rides her velociraptor:

#science #academicsky #academia

Me, the other day, clarifying to a historian friend that "it's just a version of the Chinese Room argument".

#science #philsky #academia

Astronomy and Philosophy Cambridge Core - History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics - Astronomy and Philosophy

Fifteen historians, eleven philosophers, and four pioneering scientists. Apparently, I'm there too, someone had to be the control group. 😁 Almost baked - July 2026!

#philosophy #philsky #astronomy #astrobiology #science

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Temporal Cognition in Animals Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Temporal Cognition in Animals

free download for 2 weeks

Correlation study update: every scientist or philosopher I admire appears to have a cat.

Working hypothesis is still in purr review.

#science #philsky

Omg you're a crazy cat lady too 😁

What if it's the end of a possible world?

Who's with me?

#philsky #academia

Academia is way worse. It even has philosophical zombies.

I've been playing the latest #ResidentEvil, and it's basically doing a postdoc in #philosophy.

You wander through enormous buildings where every door is locked. You never have enough resources. You read scattered notes left behind by people who were here before you and did not make it.

#academia

Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering b...

This open access paper in Biological Reviews offers an up-to-date synthesis of the scientific evidence on cephalopod sentience 🐙🦑

It considers 120+ studies using an 8-criterion framework:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@zoophilosophy.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social

@keithfrankish.com this is what we should be doing

scrolll through your feed a day or two and you cannot miss stuff like HERE IS MY STANCE ON EVERYTHING (part 1/47). i'll spill the tea in person with wine as a necessity. spill the wine!!!

they're all middle-aged white men so it's not difficult to miss 😁

Actually, I think I have a hunch since I was annoyed recently as well 😁

SPILL THE TEA

now you're gen z!

Me: "I don't know why I'm tired all the time."

Also me at 4AM:

#science

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Started out as an Egyptologist, somehow became a machine learning engineer, and now spend most of time doing philosophy and astrobiology. I still cannot compete with this.

#science

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

Yes.

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

#philsky #philosophysky #consci #cogsci #science

oooh, right in time for our special issue!!!

Olympics over. Time for the ad-hoc experts to pivot from bobsleigh physics back to papers on consciousness and the theory of everything.

#philsky #philosophy #science

https://sites.google.com/view/irca-conference-2026/home

📢We're thrilled to announce the first-ever #IRCA Conference on #Aphantasia!
Call for abstracts is open, deadline: 17 April 2026
sites.google.com/view/irca-co...
This 3-day interdisciplinary conference aims to consolidate current knowledge and draw a future plan for aphantasia research.

Bingo for #philosophy conferences.

#philsky #cogsci

#philosophy #philsky

I cannot believe they keep organizing conferences in my own city. How am I supposed to justify flying somewhere, eating expensive cheese, and whispering "ah yes, ontology" in a dramatic accent? This is sabotage.

#philosophy #philsky #consci #cogsci #science

Kristina Šekrst, Everybody lies: deception levels in various domains of life - PhilArchive The goal of this paper is to establish a hierarchical level of deception which does not apply only to humans and non-human animals, but also to the rest of the living ...

that's what my paper is about :)

philarchive.org/rec/EKRELD

There Are Four Ways To Lie YouTube video by The Rest Is Science

When @fryrsquared.bsky.social mentions your work, there's no more #lifegoals.

#philsky #philosophysky #deception

youtu.be/i0w6X-GeS70?...