Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

This paper by @liao.shen-yi.org and Zoe Brinner is such a helpful, clear primer on the central concepts in 4E cognitive science! Use it as your crib sheet on concepts like affordances, scaffolding, or niche construction + a fantastic list of recent work on hostile environments!

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Für @zeitonline.bsky.social habe ich einen Essay geschrieben über das, was wir gerade Backlash nennen und frage mich, ob es diesen wirklich gibt oder ob wir nicht seit langem etwas vor allem unter Aspekten der Gerechtigkeit diskutieren, obwohl es in Wirklichkeit essenziell für unsere Demokratie ist.

You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone” www.science.org/content/arti...

Reminder that we are seeking submissions to a rad special issue! Send us your coolest papers that apply a feminist lens to the mind and to cognitive science! Deadline is January 15. #philsky hypatiaphilosophy.org/uncategorize...

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

How do chatbots based on Large Language Models impact our self-narrative practices? We will explore this question in a workshop titled "Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots." The workshop will take place at Macquarie University on 21 November 2025. sites.google.com/view/human-c...

Highly recommended!

Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️

Ich bin einer der vielen lebenden Beweise dafür, dass man am Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer Abitur machen und an der Uni Mainz studieren, gar promovieren kann, ohne Queer-Feindlichkeit das Wort zu reden und rechte Hetze mit linkem Qualitätsjournalismus gleichzusetzen. 1/2

I am very happy so share that my most recent article on self-narration titled "Counter Self-Narration: A Creative-Imaginative Practice of Resistance" just got published in Topoi (Open Access). doi.org/10.1007/s112... #philsky 1/3

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Highly recommended: the most recent article by my brilliant friend, collaborator, and co-editor @marilynstendera.bsky.social about the impact of griefbots on the phenomenal experience of time in grief.

✨ PhD position available ✨ @loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇 Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Heewon Seo's contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration" has just been published (Open Access). Highly recommended! #philsky

The first contribution to the Special Issue of Topoi titled "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration," which I edit with the always brilliant Emily Joy Hughes, has just been published. link.springer.com/collections/... #philsky 1/2

Now out Open Access: My new article on human-deathbot interactions! doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/3

When I started to work on the phenomenology and epistemology of grief a few years ago, I couldn't help but notice that a lot of philosophers of grief frequently cite grief memoirs. 1/2

If you could hold on to just a single memory, just one episode from your personal past, what would it be? Today at the Memory Palace, Chris McCarroll investigates this exciting question about personal memory. A highly recommended reading! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

Irrsinnige Summen von öffentlichen Mitteln werden investiert, damit Wissenschaftler_innen Expertise auf- & ausbauen können. Und was macht D, wenn diese Leute am Höhepunkt ihrer Expertise angelangt sind? Es wirft sie raus & fängt mit neuen Leuten wieder bei Null an. Teurer ‚Spaß‘! #IchBinHanna

I am happy to share that my work on distributed self-narration is amongst the 10 most-cited articles published in Mind & Language in 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #TopCitedArticle #philsky

In this week's post, Regina Fabry discusses her paper, Narrative Gaslighting, exploring some of the potentially harmful consequences of self-narration, and how narrative gaslighting threatens to undermines a narraters epistemic and moral competence #philsky imperfectcognitions....

The first contribution to the Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on “Grief in the Digital Age,” co-edited with the always brilliant @marilynstendera.bsky.social, is now published online! #philsky 1/2 link.springer.com/collections/...

You are cordially invited to register for an in-person workshop titled “Narratives and Beyond: Negotiating Experiences through Imaginative Practices,” which takes place at Macquarie University, Sydney on 22 and 23 April 2025. #philsky sites.google.com/view/narrati... 1/4

When I protect and help other people, I am told to stop “mothering” (=sexism). If a male colleague is doing the same it is called “leadership”.

The Memory Palace is back! We’re starting with a fantastic post from Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez on a recent conference and the consequences of restricting philosophy of memory to English. A great read and a great project! #philsky #philscisky

The introduction to the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi is out! (This is by me, Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton, the co-editors.) All but two of the papers are out too, and those last ones are in the production pipeline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

A new philosophy of AI paper out in Topoi, it is part of the very interesting collection "Meaning and Understanding via Proofs". This one is also open access. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How can we integrate epistemological and ethical considerations on AI technologies? We will discuss this question in an upcoming workshop at the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre in Sydney on 28 February 2025. www.eventbrite.com/e/epistemic-... 1/3

6 Forderungen richtet #IchBinHanna im Wahlkampf an die Parteien im demokratischen Spektrum — zum Nachlesen haben @drkeichhorn.bsky.social, @kubon.bsky.social & ich sie im heutigen #ArbeitInDerWiss Newsletter festgehalten. Für ein faires & zukunftsfähiges dt. Wissenschaftssystem! 💪 #HannaWählt2025

An excellent new paper on the Turing Test.

I made a "critical 4E" starter pack, of people who are sympathetic to 4E cognition—that is: embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended—cognition, but also interested in exploring its moral and social and political implications. See examples of work in the area! nickbrancazio.com/home/feminis...

Gemütlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln?! Ihr wisst: Ich habe #IchBinHanna gestern im Wissenschaftsausschuss des NRW-Landtags vertreten. Was ich da alles gesagt hab? 1 🧵! Da ich vermute, dass Euch das besonders interessiert, fange ich mal mit meiner Reaktion auf das Einkuscheln an. (1/8)

An outstanding and timely contribution to research on self-narration by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social!

“Tight narrative railroading is characterised by an overdetermination of the way in which the narrative is constructed by limiting the available options for shaping one’s (self-)narrative…narrative railroading can significantly impact an agent’s sense of self and way of being in the world.”

Tapping the 'do not send me referee requests in December' sign so hard I put my index finger clean through it (it does not work)

I just published an article in which I propose to conceptualise grief memoirs as imaginaries of loss that can help navigate the delicate tenporalities of grief. This is a contribution to an interdisciplinary forum on "Imagination and Emotion." doi.org/10.1163/2208...

I am much looking forward to discussing "Technological Niche Disruptions" at a workshop organised by my wonderful former colleagues Sabrina Coninx and Guido Löhr. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Hi all! I am a philosopher of mind and cognition with a background in literary studies and training in the empirical cognitive sciences. I work at Macquarie University, Sydney. My research currently focusses on self-narration, grief, human-AI interactions, and their various intersections.

How do social structures influence self-narratives? What is the role of such an influence in remembering events of our personal past? In today's post, Regina Fabry (@reginafabry.bsky.social) investigates these and other exciting questions about our personal memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Reminder: Submissions for the Special Issue of Topoi on the "Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration" are open until 31 March 2025. We welcome submissions, targeted at philosophical audiences, by researchers working in philosophy, psychology, narratology, history, and their intersections.

Could there be “epistemic as­saults” on truthful memory that violate the dignity of genocide survivors and their descendants? In today's post, Melanie Altanian investigates this and other important questions about collective traumatic memory. open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Another paper in the 'Scaffolding Bad' collection has come out. This is Eleanor Byrne's "Narrative Deference" (on when it might not be an unalloyed good to distribute the work of self-narration). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As my ARC DECRA project on the relationship between embodied experiences and self-narration is coming to a close, I am excited to share that my article titled "Self-Narration in the Oppressive Niche" just got published (Open Access). #philsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

After enjoying a little bit of summer, The Memory Palace is glad to open its doors again, with an exciting post on dreams and memory from Melanie Rosen (Trent University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Please consider submitting an article to the Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on "Grief in the Digital Age." Submissions close on 1 February 2025. You can find all information below.