francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
Cybernetics Blogging at https://fvfc.substack.com/
math, baseball, american pragmatism
wrote a novel about a motel. writing one about the beach
⚾️🎥🐕🎶
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
PredictivePapers @predictivepapers.bsky.social Daily automated paper alerts for Active Inference, Predictive Coding & the Free Energy Principle (arXiv, bioRxiv, journals) 🧠⚙️
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
J.P. Loo @jpl.ac Za wolność naszą i waszą. Non-spherical Maschler space enjoyer.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy 🇨🇭 in 🇦🇹 Life beyond dogma! Free-floating systems thinker & natural philosopher. Antifragilist extemporanian metamodernist. Open science, society & living […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://spore.social/@yoginho, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact- J J. H. Hartmann @jhhartmann.bsky.social
Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org Our world is not pre-given, it's enacted.
Physics of biology & cognition; mind & socio-material practices; political ecology.
All views, expressed or not, are the sole responsibility of the ambient Lebensform.
https://avel.kairos-research.org
Jacob Quinn Shenker @jqs.xyz climate/industrial policy. former biophysicist. he/him.
Jordan Theriault-Brown @jtheriault.bsky.social Assistant Prof @Northeastern. Psychology + Biology. Neuroimaging, brain metabolism + mental health. Director of IASLab with Lisa Feldman Barrett & Karen Quigley
https://www.affective-science.org/
http://www.jordan-theriault.com/
Daniel Mewes @dmewes.com Interested in artificial and natural intelligence, emergent complexity, among other things. I mostly post about AI and ML.
-> http://dmewes.com
Currently research at Imbue. Previously Ambient.ai, Stripe, RethinkDB, Max Planck Institute.
Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com
OddSocksCas @oddsockscas.bsky.social Very Marxist
I think I'm a cognitive anthropologist? Also engaged in informatics, geography, medical humanities and social sciences.
Artist; jazz, jungle, abstract and surrealist.
disabled (AuDHD)
Francesca Cesari @francesari.bsky.social Chief Biological, Clinical and Social Sciences Editor of Nature
Any views expressed here are my own
exileFaker 2351670489 @exilefaker.bsky.social 
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social Mathematical physicist
PHI @philphi.bsky.social PHILosophy, "Philo" means "loving" or "friend". D[R S] ≠ 0. sPaceNPilottime Fisher Curvature
Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social Doing a year for space contempt.
Qualifications: Vanderbilt J.D.
Official Capacity: Just Some Guy
Admissions: only when in a contemplative mood.
@alexander-tomyshev.bsky.social @alexander-tomyshev.bsky.social 
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
João Galrito @jgalrito.bsky.social (Post-)AI/AGI Systems & Governance | Senior Software Architect | Audio Engineer | Extreme Musician | Ω-Geek
Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social Neuroscience Professor at UK Essen, Germany
Yu Kanazawa @knzw783.bsky.social Ph.D. / Associate Professor (准教授) at UOsaka 阪大 / Project Leader & Coordinator of LET-FMT-SIG / Lead Coordinator of ELIPro Network Japan Branch / 金澤 佑 Opinions are my own. Sharing is not endorsement. https://bsky.app/profile/elinippon.bsky.social
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social I read a lot of research. Mostly ML.
Currently reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Statistical Learning
Information Theory
Ontic Structural Realism
Morality As Cooperation
Free Culture, Open Access
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE
Frmr FireFighter
Shawn Prest @shawnprest.bsky.social Researcher at the intersection of meditation, consciousness, perception and active inference at the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies/Meditation Research Program, MGH in affiliation with Harvard Med. School
Web: shawnprest.com
Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social CUNY neuro PhD. UMich[visiting student]. Prev at /Stanford/ETH Zurich & UZH/UIUC. Monist soft-determinism. Opinions are my own.
Open science: democratize and fund science bottom-up, not just top-down. Neuro needs more brains doing the job à la Solar Punk.
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social Picower Professor of Neuroscience @ MIT
Cognitive neuroscience, executive brain functions, consciousness, and bass guitar. You know, the good stuff.
ekmillerlab.mit.edu
Co-founder, Neuroblox
https://www.neuroblox.ai/
Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social Hic sunt dracones
I represent myself, no one else.
She/They
Computational and associative learning.
Biologically-inspired AI.
https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon
https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon
Laurent Perrinet @laurentperrinet.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist specialized in large scale neural network models of vision, perception and action @ CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université.
Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social The internet's friendliest banshee, PhD.
The Werner Herzog of dynamic systems neuroscience.
Occasional Gàidhlig, constant shouting.
Researching how the brain adapts to neurodegeneration using music.
She/her.
Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Current research: The function and implication of using idealized methods to model the mind/brain in computational neurosience. Ongoing: FEP, 4E, metaphysical musings
Ryota Kanai @kanair.bsky.social CEO of Araya
James of Seattle @jamesofseattle.bsky.social Observer on the world, trying to keep things straight.
Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science/AI. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, Statistical Thinking, and Better Code, Better Science
https://poldrack.github.io/
CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social Human exclamation point! (she/her) Chicago, journalism, joy, printmaking, kdramas, cdramas, fiction, &c
Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social Postdoc at UC Berkeley, Redwood Center | 🧠🤖 | 🎹 | 🎾 | https://mysterioustune.com/
Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social Post-doc computational psychiatry @ UCL
🧠 working on psychosis, planning, RNNs
🎓PhD: BCCN Berlin 🌍Post-doc #1: Uni Marburg
👟 runner 👩🎓 1st gen - she,her
🌐 https://eckertal.github.io/personal-website
Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Aalborg University
(prev Bristol, ITU Copenhagen, Aalto)
Human autonomy & agency. Humanistic Quant. Complexity methods. Behavioural Science.
Andreea Diaconescu @cognemo.bsky.social Associate Professor and Lab Lead of Cognitive Network Modelling cognemo.com
@CAMHResearch
#KrembilNeuroinformatics. Computational psychiatry
Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.
AI, RL, cog neuro, philosophy.
www.momen-nejad.org
nbes @nbes.bsky.social Post doctorate researcher at @real.itu.dk
Christian Kaiser @chrisk0.bsky.social A software engineer who is maximizing the evidence for his own existence.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social CoSMO, Neuromatch, Neuro4Pros co-founder.
Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control.
Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds.
Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa.
Renaissance man. Believer in humanity!
http://compneurosci.com/
Itsavibe.ai @itsavibe.ai https://www.itsavibe.ai 
Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Director Institute Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, human brain and mind, attention, predictive processing, action, consciousness, meditation
www.heleenslagter.com
Sofiia Rappe @sofiiarappe.bsky.social Neurophilosopher. 🧠 🤔💡 Honorary Fellow at Durham University and Affiliate Faculty at the American Canadian School of Medicine. Previously at Ruhr University Bochum.
Petal Mokryn @petalmokryn.bsky.social B.Sc. double-majored in physics & applied math. Aspiring interdisciplinary mathematician. Data driven, information-theoretic, Bayesian approaches to modeling complex & nonequilibrium systems.
They/Them
Most likes are papers added to my literature search
Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social Emergence, synergy, brains, AI safety, mental health
Nicholas Guttenberg @ngutten.bsky.social 
Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com Researcher in Face Perception, Breathing, & Embodied Social Intelligence | PhD Candidate, UQ | Award-Winning Operatic Soprano
Miguel Aguilera @maguilera.net Neuronas, redes y auto-organización.
Complex systems and computational neuroscience at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org Making software more open, explorable and self-explanatory
https://dynamicaspects.org/research
Also: subjectivity, agency, active inference, niche construction, enactivism
@plrg-bristol.bsky.social
@iccscambridge.bsky.social
@f.luid.org
Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social Computational Cognitive Scientist 🧠🤖 • NeuroAI, Predictive Coding, RL & Deep Learning, Complex Systems • Postdoc at @siegellab.bsky.social, @unituebingen.bsky.social • Husband & Dad
🎓 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=k5eR8_oAAAAJ
Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Rutgers University; Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science. Canadian now living in south Texas
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social Researcher at Google and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montréal (academic affiliations: @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social).
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
Tuomas Pernu @tuomaspernu.bsky.social PhD and all that. Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Research Ethics at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). Some things I'm responsible for:
http://www.tuomaspernu.london
Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others. Signal: emc.7243623.
Get my newsletter about the forces that shape how research is done, shared, believed, and acted upon: www.reviewertoo.com
Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social UCLA Associate Professor, PhD Researcher of brains 🧠 (development, stem cells, neuroinflammation, autism, sensory processing, brain injury & repair)
Teacher of Neuroanatomy, Neurophilosophy (consciousness, cognitive science), & Stem Cell Biology
Scott McFarnell @scottmcf.bsky.social Assistant Headteacher. Interested in how neuroscience can support education.
#EduSky
Tara Alixia Lindsay @taraalixia.bsky.social 
Noumenal Labs @noumenal-labs.bsky.social Collective Superintelligence at Scale
Ryan Smith @rssmith.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. My lab focuses on computational neuroscience and psychiatry, emotion-cognition interactions, prospective planning, exploration, and interoception.
Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social Phenomenologist and philosopher of cognitive science / Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä
/ Working on the differentiation and boundaries between self and other
Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social Active Inference, Phenomenology, Mobile Brain/Body Imaging, generally fascinated by rhythms.
Associate Professor, Architecture & Cognitive Neuroscience, Aalborg University, Denmark
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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social Psychologist. Joint PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Cognitive Science at @uspoficial.bsky.social & Uni. Porto. Visiting fellow at RUB.
#firstgen | I study Attention and Active Inference:
https://marialuizaiennaco.owlstown.net/
Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social O'Reilly Author, "Unifying Business, Data, and Code" (2024), and Apress author, "The Language of Innovation" (2025)
Antoine Lutz @antoinelutz.bsky.social I am currently an INSERM Director of Research at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U1028 and the co-leader of the Experiential Neuroscience and Mental Training team (Eduwell)
Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social Clinical Social Neuroscientist & Psychotherapist @tudresden.bsky.social & head of @kanskelab.bsky.social
https://tud.link/0p4j
Dimitris Bolis @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher studying social interaction and the self, with a focus on neurosocial minorities.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/dimitrisbolis/
Chris Timmermann @christimmermann.bsky.social Research Fellow. Head of DMT Research Group. Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London. Neuroscience | Phenomenology | Psychedelics | Meditation
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ezYk7h0AAAAJ&hl=
Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social I'm a scientist at Tufts University; my lab studies anatomical and behavioral decision-making at multiple scales of biological, artificial, and hybrid systems. www.drmichaellevin.org
Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social Because he doesn't post.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Moritz Kriegleder @mokriegleder.bsky.social msc in physics & cognitive science, consciousness & neuroscience, PhD student at @univie.ac.at, my band: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/momoanddervoid/solar-die-zukunft
Manuel Baltieri @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social Chief Researcher at Araya, Tokyo. #ALife, #AI, embodied and enactive #cognition. Information, control and applied category theory for cognitive science.
https://manuelbaltieri.com/
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social Slowly becoming a neuroscientist.
EiC @elife.bsky.social
Konrad Lehmann @konlehmann.bsky.social Postdoc at @kanskelab.bsky.social TU Dresden | social neuroscience | social interaction | active inference
Professor Dean Mobbs @fearbrain.bsky.social Professor at Caltech
Director: Caltech Brain Imaging Center
Www.deanmobbslab.com
Dad of amazing daughter, Liverpool Fc, Retro synthwave(in order).
Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social Older than you
Shaun Raviv @shaunraviv.bsky.social Longform audio and print journalist.
Creator and host of Noble.
shaunraviv.com
James Kilner @jameskilner.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience at UCL, London. My research is focussed on Interoception, Predictive coding, Social Cognition and social interactions and Movement Disorders. For more information visit www.profjameskilner.com
Natesh Ganesh @entropicheatdeath.bsky.social In no particular order - AI, physics, hardware, consicousness, football.
Leonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social Psychiatrist, interaction researcher & social neuroscientist. Private account.
Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social Neuroscientific philosopher; Philosophical neuroscientist. Rotman Institute of Philosophy. University of Western Ontario. http://www.emrglab.org
Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social 🧠, he/him
Cognitive Neuroscientist in Vienna, Austria
My 3C's: my children, cognition, and cooking.
Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social Evolution: it's nothing personal. (Sorry if I ask too many questions... Share nicely!)
I'm here because you're here.
http://pabloredux.wordpress.com/
(Profile photo: a faint shadow of me cast across a weathered lichen-marked stone wall by the sea.)
Zhen-Qi Liu @zhenqi.bsky.social Post-doc @Cambridge | PhD @MNI&McGill
Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social PI of Action & Perception Lab at UCL. Professor. Cognitive neuroscience, action, perception, learning, prediction. Cellist, lazy runner, mum.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/action-and-perception-lab/
https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/team/action-and-perception/
Bob Prior @bobprior.bsky.social Soon to be retired Executive Editor for Neuroscience, Biomedical Science, and other interesting areas at The MIT Press