Dimitris Bolis

Temporally-precise sensory encoding of predicted content, entraining motor oscillations to derive time. @akalt.bsky.social's first study out @currentbiology.bsky.social, testing parts of this idea (tinyurl.com/TiCSKaltenma...). Huge thanks @leverhulme.ac.uk ac.uk @erc.europa.eu, great work Aaron!

Sycophantic AI distorts reality by returning responses that are biased to reinforce existing beliefs.

"sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt."

Unbiased sampling produces discovery rates 5X higher! arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14270

“The rest is silence.”

In his final notebook, Vygotsky wrote that he would die “at the summit”, having glimpsed a promised land he would never enter.

Nearly a century later, we are still finding our way there.

A note on Vygotsky and a psychology of becoming:

Understanding social brains Social environment and species-specific experiences of macaque monkeys shape the development and plasticity of the amygdala.

Understanding social brains

“The rest is silence.”

In his final notebook, Vygotsky wrote that he would die “at the summit”, having glimpsed a promised land he would never enter.

Nearly a century later, we are still finding our way there.

A note on Vygotsky and a psychology of becoming:

dimitrisbolis.substack.com/p/beyond-sil...

A Predictive Processing Framework for Joint Action and Communication Humans act together to achieve feats they could never achieve alone and communicate to ensure alignment of meaning and understanding across different …

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"To encompass in research the process of a given thing’s development in all its phases and changes—from birth to death—means to discover its nature, its essence, for it is only in movement that a body shows what it is."

Poster for the call. All relevant information is in thread

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Excited to share the call for posters & registration for the 2nd XSCAPE Workshop: "Varieties of Externalism" !

📅 Friday, April 10th, 2026 — Gallery Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex

Registration is free but places are limited. 🧵

Emotional egocentricity bias is modulated by implicit expectations of interpersonal emotional contingencies and perceptual noise Emotional Egocentricity Bias (EEB) refers to the tendency to project one's own emotional state onto others. While previous research has demonstrated E…

Emotional egocentricity bias is modulated by implicit expectations of interpersonal emotional contingencies and perceptual noise www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture?
🧮 How often?
🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!

At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322

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Why emotion research is stuck—and how to move it forward Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.

My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...

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Social Evaluation of Neurotype-Dependent Media Contents in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEPTUNE project logo with affiliations & funders

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning.

Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬

Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...)

Please RT :)

New preprint: "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling"

Cardiorespiratory cycles gate when it's best to sense & act on the world, shaping when precision peaks

Active sensing + Interoception + Active inference 🧠

🔗 bit.ly/3MinQIi

w/ @micahgallen.com; Lucas Naranjo; @jameskilner.bsky.social

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing ...

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 we share some highlights: most cited paper in the last three years is by Kidd, Spencer & Carel: Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice. Read it open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

A group of friends toasting on a boat. Stock photo.

An online game shows that when extreme wealth is visible in social networks, lower-income players support higher taxes—and feel less satisfied with their own situation. Making wealth more visible could boost support for redistribution. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/1ItG50Xyijf

How to stop the revolving door of German academia Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

First page of Opinion piece: "Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism"

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.

Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms In order to maintain themselves as systems far from equilibrium with their environment, organisms must control the operation of numerous production mechanisms. Control involves mechanisms that make or...

New chapter co-authored with William Bechtel on the notion of heterarchy #philbio

"Autonomy and Heterarchy: Organizing Control in Biological Organisms"

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era - Synthese This paper formalizes biological intelligence as search efficiency in multi-scale problem spaces, aiming to resolve epistemic deadlocks in the basal “cognition wars” unfolding in the Diverse Intellige...

new paper with @robertchisciure.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"

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Process and Relational Ontology in Enactive Psychiatry This chapter examines mental disorders from an enactive perspective. It explores two key ontological claims—the processual and relational nature of cognition—and their implications for our...

Process and Relational Ontology in Enactive Psychiatry

Enara Garcia

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Article: "An active-inference approach to second-person neuroscience"

Coauthors: Konrad Lehmann, Dimitris Bolis, Leonhard Schilbach, Maxwell JD Ramstead, Philipp Kanske

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Understanding and explaining differences across minds in social interaction: insights from social neuroscience and clinical psychiatry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧠Excited to share our new paper with
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!

"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...

You, me and the illusion between I keep saying “you” and “we” to something that isn’t there. That discomfort? It’s a useful friction worth keeping

I keep saying “you” and “we” to something that isn’t there. That discomfort? It’s a useful friction worth keeping

By Philip O'Brien

The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self

We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...