Since the end of 2024, I’ve been waiting for life to bless me with a sensory experience as rich as the day I dreamed I was trapped inside The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. In hell, obviously.

one of my undergrad profs, who taught a course on witches, once had a student come to his office who said in a previous life they'd been burnt at the stake in salem. he said that was an amazing new breakthrough because as far as historians had known, the Salem witches had been executed by hanging

Un peu plus de Genève 👀🇨🇭

I joked twice that "I’m not white enough to attend the IPM" when people ask if I’m going (because the conference is in the USA), but now that I’ve noticed everyone else who isn’t going, the joke is actually data analysis in the end 🫠

spoiler alert: it won't involve reading

My toxic trait is that the sentences found in Wednesday Addams memes are very similar to the sentences I say in ordinary life.

Finally I am using that degree for something

Just made a Substack so there would be some place in the universe to leave the full version of a text of mine that’s going to be published elsewhere in a shorter version. I knew nothing about this. It's getting difficult to stay connected without accidentally falling into some ethical dilemma.

I am becoming more and more creeped out when my friends say "this reminded me of you" followed by an image. For instance:

I hope this becomes a vibe

Me going back to the uni I got expelled from, whose relationship to women has always felt conceptually unstable, just cause I really like a friend who’s speaking there, is a very specific genre of entertainment I can provide to my friends. Especially bc I defended my PhD elsewhere a few weeks ago 😬

I hated Switzerland the first time I went, but yesterday I went back for a stroll with @zecamillo.bsky.social and now I’m in love. Not with the prices though. Definitelyin love with Café Mimiche, Geneva 🇨🇭💸

At the school of someone I know Mother’s Day and Father’s Day got removed for inclusivity. Last year they became Parent 1 and Parent 2 Day. This year it has evolved into 'the day of the people we love'. My friend’s children then chose to make gifts for their cats instead of their parents.

I’m writing about embodiment and the afterlife in medieval philosophy while co-authoring with someone who, to me, existed only as a voice from beyond on Zoom for months. Always in transit, never on camera. A bit on the nose. She added me on LinkedIn today—with a picture—and I’m strangely relieved.

Curiously my Phd period before Cologne sucked so much that not even temporary unemployment is topping that 🤣🤣 - a weird type of winning.

Finishing a Phd = increasing my glasses correction oh so very much. Still deciding on the new one, hopefully tomorrow 🐈

I just made a section on my website full of pictures of my thesis years. Just go to nathaliadeavila.com/affective-time-travel or click on Affective Time Travel (term by Katja Crone) in the menu. Photo: My first conference in Milan, during the design week (what a privilege!), 2018.

I logged in my old twitter account and found this post from August 2024. Apparently all my AI wishes came true, can someone unwish this and see what happens

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I am PhDone! THAT WAS VERY VERY LONG 👻. I got magna cum laude (final grade = 0.35). This is my thesis summary nathaliadeavila.com/phd-project. In short: I'm an enactivist + causalist (🤷🏽‍♀️).we remember things bodily and at times get mentally ill. somehow there is an embodied unconscious involved.

*Change of date

Dude has got a point

Come along! #philosophy #philsky #memory

Finally: Empedocles, in his own words...

Eu vi um vídeo na rede vizinha de uma menina usando um site q replica as informações q a IA do google tem sobre vc a partir das suas fotos. Ela era estadunidense e fez comparações com fotos com roupas diferentes. Mas essa IA reconhece também local da foto, dai me bateu a ideia de fazer outro teste

Life lately: Emil Eva Rosina in Lyon, giraffe, suspicious love considerations, me overspending on a coat because it's pink as my birthday is in about 2 weeks and my Phd defense in about 3 weeks. Actually because of this I got exmatrikulated from Uni Köln yesterday 🤯🤷🏽‍♀️🩷🌸

My paper with @bastienperroy.bsky.social on temporal disorientation is now out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Among us baby scholars in phenomenology/4E (distinction pending), a mood has emerged and it is called “intellectual anticipatory grief” in light of Thomas Fuchs’ retirement - the collective atmosphere giving vibes of "the end of an era". Anyone else feeling it?

Vieux Lyon + Hôtel de Ville 🇨🇵

It really takes a Brazil vs. France match (the nationality I was born with and the one I bought—those documents cost a fortune) to get me to try to pay attention to a soccer game again. At least for the first 15 minutes. Let's see 🧤🥂

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Funded PhD position to work with the Averroes edition project in Cologne (fun fact: this is the same city as Köln, which I only belatedly figured out when I moved to Germany, which was very embarassing): averroes.uni-koeln.de/call-for-app...

Yep. My way to say that is that delusion possibly happens anytime you consider these platforms a sort of Big Other in a Lacanian sense. Delirium shifts from a closed interpretive system to something guided by an entity that not only validates and amplifies it, but can also steer it wherever it wants

A curious side of being an immigrant is that supermarkets are organized according to culturally conditioned logic. So if you’re used to finding certain items in one place in Brazil ou France, in Germany you’ll end up zigzagging through the aisles trying to decode where on earth they’ve hidden it.

The Institute Vienna Circle in Austria has a call for four fellowships right now. Not sure if many philosophers follow me beyond my personal friends, but I held this fellowship for a semester and it the work environment is great. wienerkreis.univie.ac.at

Depeche Mode's Black Celebration was released 40 years ago. To anyone watching, I am quietly reading a book with headphones on; in my head I am singing 'A question of lust' as if I depended on it to keep breathing.

My biggest project after finishing my thesis is posting on LinkedIn, the social network devoted to performing productivity in the most toxic way possible, about all the useless amazing things I do precisely because I don’t work. Next project is quantifying how many ppl will unfollow me.

Pink stuff of the world, I love you.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Of course I hear people insulting AI all day, but nothing struck me as a research topic until I read this excellent post. I then spent 4 days in cult-like blogs, spiral Discord forums, and podcasts where guests think AIs are aliens or gods. Newsflash: we’re so fucked.

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I will have to start getting to Germany by boat: www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

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...

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The life of an early-career scholar: thrilled that Rush is touring next year and simultaneously spiraling because I have absolutely no idea where on the planet I’ll be living to buy a ticket for the corresponding city/country/galaxy.

My new DB era: being confined with Francesca in a 4-star hotel for more than a day in Karlshuhe (?) because a 10min delay from Bochum made us lose the connection to the famous TGV that stops everywhere from Strasbourg to Marseille. It looks haunted by night and a bit Viennese in the morning.

Postando pro Felipe que ainda se nega a voltar pra isso aqui.

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...