McGivern Lab

Research group at the University of Wollongong studying agency, intelligence, and emergent behaviours on multiple scales.

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Big congratulations to Danielle O'Neill @danielle_o24 for crushing her Research Proposal Review today! Much more to come on the philosophy of diagnosis.

[HSI Philosophy, Wollongong @HsiPhilosophy]

We're very excited to have @MattSim91081751 join us at HSI Philosophy next week for our first face-to-face research seminar in quite a while!

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Awesome line-up for this event in June, co-organised by @BeecroftNaomi! Get your abstracts in now.

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Join us for our final AIMS event of 2021, November 18/19th! More to come in 2022.

[Aeon Magazine @aeonmag]

Cognition did not appear out of nowhere in ‘higher’ animals but goes back millions, perhaps billions, of years https://t.co/j76vSy59Nq @basalcognition

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Excited to announce our next AIMS seminar, "Dimensions of Life and the Evolution of Cognition" with Dr. Emily Parke (Auckland) and Prof. Andrew Barron (Macquarie)! October 22nd, 9:30-11:30am AEDT. Register w/ nick_brancazio @ https://t.co/QXZesdwnHe

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Very proud of lab member Jimmy Lewis-Martin @minus5wisdom for nominating as Postgrad Rep on UOW's governing University Council! Bring group agency to table, Jimmy!

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Check out our awesome lab-member @minus5wisdom presenting on "Universities as autonomously individuated systems", August 27th! Midnight is the perfect time for philosophical clarity.

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Coming up next Friday! Please register with @nickbrancazio if you'd like to attend

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

AIMS workshop coming up on July 30th! "Non-neural cognition: How smart is slime?" with Christina Oettmeier (@Sulfurium), Matt Sims (@MattSim91081751), and Julian Kiverstein (@juliankiverste1)

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

AIMS workshop coming up on July 30th! "Non-neural cognition: How smart is slime?" with Christina Oettmeier (@Sulfurium), Matt Sims (@MattSim91081751), and Julian Kiverstein (@juliankiverste1)

[Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell]

A previously unknown 1949 letter from Albert Einstein, long stored away in a British home, documents his fascination with bees & his speculation that studies of biology could reveal new physics. https://t.co/QUNbGm294d

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Huge congratulations to our own @nickbrancazio and all of the 2021 UOW PERL Fellows!

[UOW Research @uowresearch]

Congratulations to our @UOW PERL Fellowship recipients announced today at the #Research & #Innovation Forum. Announced by VC Prof Davidson and DVC Prof Martin @UOW_VC @Jenny_STEM ⭐️🌱

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Our 2021 AIMS workshop series is starting on March 26th - please join us!

[Templeton World Charity Foundation @TempletonWorld]

To investigate the diversity of intelligence, we need an account of intelligent action that isn’t biased toward the human scale. @patrickmcgivern aims to develop such an account by focusing on the central concept of agency: https://t.co/b09qWMAlh6

@uowresearch @UOW

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Figure out your timezone and don't miss our own Dr @nickbrancazio at the next ENSO seminar -- tomorrow at 0900UCT (8pm AEDT)!

[ENSO Seminar Series @ensOseminars]

We are delighted that @nickbrancazio will be giving the next ENSO seminar on "Regarding Perspectives: Bridging Feminist and Enactivist Theorizing"

4th Feb @ 0900UTC. See the webpage for details incl. time in your timezone

https://t.co/NaavCUbz0U

#enaction #feminism

[FraMEPhys @FraMEPhys]

Sara Green describes the role of size-dependent constraints in biological explanation. This is the second talk from our workshop last week on Explanation by Constraint. Click here: https://t.co/8m3RiPh6wS

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

Just out from our friends over in basal cognition! "Basal cognition: conceptual tools and the view from the single cell" - Special Issue of Phil. Transactions edited by Pamela Lyon, Fred Keijzer, Detlev Arendt and Michael Levin
https://t.co/elb7GDyoD1

[McGivern Lab @mcgivernlab]

If you want to keep up to date on our events this year, we now have an email list here: https://t.co/d325iCm5cS

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Big congratulations to @BeecroftNaomi and @selfawareatoms for passing their 1st-year Research Proposal Reviews today! Glad they can both tick that off their 2020 to-do lists and move on to actual thesis writing (after a short celebratory break...)