Daniel Kelly

The Association Association meeting, co-sponsored by CAIC, is coming up soon! Check out the schedule, RSVP, and join us at Purdue!

🔥 NEW PUBLICATION 🔥 @jacovides.bsky.social has a forthcoming paper titled "Hume on the Prospects for a
Scientific Psychology" 👉 Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/JACHOT-4

@caic-at-purdue.bsky.social is hosting their center launch event on April 2-3, 2026 at Purdue University! The event is free to attend with RSVP. Visit their website for more info + the RSVP link!

Transmissions Episode 3 with Dr Tim Waring YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society

🔥 @twaring.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3U...

🗓️ This week in Purdue's Department of Psychological Sciences:

👂📖 Somebody Should… listen to @dryan149.bsky.social, Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva’s book just released in audio format!

The schedule and RSVP link for the CAIC launch event is now live on our website 🚀 Check the schedule and RSVP to attend ✏️ caic.centers.purdue.edu

Audiobook?

Audiobook!

Recent setbacks in women’s rights are “a stark reminder that we’ve got plenty of work to do to actually achieve gender equality.”

Two-time CASBS fellow ESTELLE FREEDMAN among the eminent figures reflecting on the past & future of the feminist movement in the NYT

➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

We are getting there!
Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change!
Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

How Change Really Happens #system #socialchange #social #futurethinking #positivechange #shorts YouTube video by California Center for Ethics and Policy

Systems are made of people (and people are made of systems!)

#socialchange #futurethinking #positivechange #tippingpoints

@dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/shorts/4bWcQ...

Pairs well with "Somebody Should Do Something"

mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques Forty-Hz auditory stimulation increased amyloid clearance markers in aged primates and produced lasting effects, supporting its potential as a non-invasive Alzheimer’s therapy. Scientists at the Kunmi...

scitechdaily.com/breakthrough...

it’s almost time!

What I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With "Elena Ferrante" | Defector Earlier this month I received an email that, for a moment, made my heart skip. The email came from someone named Elena Ferrante, at “elenaferrante800@gmail.com,” and I feel no remorse leaking Elena’s ...

I wrote about my friend "Elena Ferrante" and what it was like to try to engage with a scammer
defector.com/what-i-learn...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Spatial Memories Ege Selin Islekel (Texas A&M University)

If a place that produced memories is altered, is the original memory of that place altered as well? Today at The Memory Palace, Ege Selin Islekel (Texas A&M) explores how traumatic memories attached to a place are influenced by changes to that place.
#philsky
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

This week in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue:

Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration & Philosophy and Neuroscience Mentorship Program applications are due 2.28.26. Visit our website for more information.

@michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Papers I learned from (Part 8: Somebody should do something) - Reflective altruism Brownstein, Madva and Kelly examine the role of personal choices in systemic change.

On the Reflective Altruism blog 🙏

Effective altruists think a lot about systemic change...Somebody Should Do Something is an important trade book backed by decades of scholarly research related to systemic change. I think it is important to examine this book.

reflectivealtruism.com/2026/02/20/p...

Highlights from this mornings Coffee & CAIC where, due to a scheduling change, Dan Kelly and Brett Karlan held an impromptu debate about authenticity and multiplicity!

Papers I learned from (Part 8: Somebody should do something) - Reflective altruism Brownstein, Madva and Kelly examine the role of personal choices in systemic change.

New short essay out today with @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social on all kinds of ways to do good visibly. Thanks to @reflectivealt.bsky.social for the opportunity to share ideas with the EA crowd.

reflectivealtruism.com/2026/02/20/p...

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‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time

Do you feel like your screen time is impacting your attention span? The panic around screens and their impact on literacy is everywhere. But the university librarian Carlo Iacono argues the problem isn’t the screen but the environment – which can be designed better

This Friday (10-11:30am, BRNG 7119) Sabine Brunswicker (Purdue, Polytechnic) will be joining CAIC to discuss QuanToM— abstract below!

Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Finally Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

A New Function for Episodic Memory? Muhammad Ali Khalidi (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

What is the function of episodic memory? Today at The Memory Palace, Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY) shares ideas on the functions of episodic memory, and how this capacity might link individual cognition and joint agency.

open.substack.com/pub/thememor...