The event will be taking place on Jan 14, 9.30-16.30, at The Studio in central Birmingham and online. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Ray Gibbs, Prof. Francesca Ervas, Dr Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, and Dr Francesca Brencio. In-person places are limited so please do register.

Eu leio os posts nas vozes das pessoas, se eu não te conheço inventei uma voz pra vc

I’ll present “Might nostalgia once again be understood as a form of psychopathology?” on Dec 4 (online, Poland) at the Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia workshop. I explore nostalgia as an affective response to trauma in forced displacement, from deadly homesickness (banzo) in colonial Brazil to now.

I’m finishing this animation called Haunted Hotel, and some parts of it make me feel like someone downloaded my brain and used it better than I ever could.

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...

doing journalism

I went to an autumn festival and ran into this scene and concluded that if this was a cult I would probably join. 🍁🌙🖤🔥

In the first meme I am rather the opposite and the second meme is painfully accurate. #Weltalter

There was a time in Brazil when we only went on what was then Twitter just to check if the world was still there and then left. Feels the same now. It seems you guys are still here. Great. Bye.

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕 #philsky

Has chat gpt ruined dashes for mankind (Besides ruining its brains ofc)

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The fact that my confusing chapters are always clarified and not worsened by German terms that are usually Heideggerian is a complex experience. #Befindlichkeit

My translation (EN - PT) for the Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology project is finally out // Minha tradução saiu, oh glória. @matthewbroome.bsky.social @ljspencer.bsky.social many many thanks 🙏🏻 periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/art...

Every autumnal creature today having an excuse to rewatch Gilmore Girls, I am already on episode 3. 🥲

Does someone here lack heterossexuality enough to explain me how Violet Chachki ended up in a video of a goth band called Ultra Sunn? 🥲 @otvotvotvotv.bsky.social tell me everything

I think my new lifegoals are quitting academia and starting a band.🫠

My true crime obsession has shifted into tracking the lives of Brazilian sociopaths after prison. Case in point: a religious leader who adopted street kids, built a cult with them, had them kill her husband who was worse than her is prison almost founding *another religion* and also came out as bi.

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

First day back 🇲🇫: finding the neighbour's cat grumpyness painfully relatable; discovering the aesthethic power of a baguette collective; wanting the Jellycat blueberry pancakes more than I once wanted their plushie of an autumn leaf - which I ofc have 👻

See you Köln in 3 months - when instead of worrying about nonsense documents, I have to worry about my future instead. #ohadulthood #takemeback

Ordered a beer to go afraid to miss my flight; they gave me a latte cup and i feel as i am something between an alcoholic and a catfish

I am trying to sit down and read a book since yesterday, but everywhere I enter is either closing or there is someone insanely loud inside. This trip oscillates a lot between cute and cursed at once. 💀

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Urban poetry, Kölner version.

Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤

Somewhere in Germany, in the middle of nowhere, listening to 'Goodbye' by Apparat, the Dark series soundtrack, secretly wishing I’d be pulled into a time vortex where I had already taken care of all the bureaucracy I came here to deal with five years ago.

Good morning, intellectual mothership. 🖤🇩🇪

Google recalled me I was living the dream of my Game of Thrones fantasies in Rothenburg ob der Tauber a year ago 🖤 I do love my picture of a window reflecting an angel in the other window reflecting a tree (or maybe the opposite).

The art of searching your closet for a luggage organizer and only managing to find an irrational number of pink and/or fluffy things. Thankfully I already said Carnaval is now.

Carnaval came earlier www.dw.com/en/brazil-bo...

Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Fun write up of Imagination/perception work from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social and others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf... I was just live on Canadian Breakfast radio chatting about it. Bad pun, but this work really has captured the public imagination!

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"Entre l'homme et l'amour, il y a la femme. Entre l'homme et la femme, il y a un monde. Entre l'homme et le monde, il y a un mur." L'amour = le mur.

Might be that in trying to do interdisciplinary work I forgot my own discipline and now it feels like it’s not about any discipline at all.

Tomorrow’s a strike day in France i.e. nothing works and people are protesting. If anyone could tell the difference from a normal day here I would appreciate it.

Taking off to NRW on Sunday vs. having forgot to submit to GAP 12 vs. Every 30 seconds an instagram story from a friend in Düsseldorf. 🫠🫠🫠

Current mood: having to write and thus resisting the urge to abandon society running away by lighting pumpkin spice candles in my office as sensory cues to make me stay inside it. Candle is a gift by @otvotvotvotv.bsky.social , because my besties know it all 🖤🍁

Haha julgamento de fascista e coxinha 🥰

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Got an email from a psychologist in the US asking to do her internship with me. I haven’t even finished my degree, I live 700 km away from my department, and I’m like 5 years older than her. Basically, I qualify more as her patient than a supervisor.

Part of the how is house arrest + the judge’s galaxy-brain move of letting him keep his tapped phone, so he liveblogs his own crimes w/ real names in real time. Brazilian sociopaths are like the poster child for how not to be a criminal as your main job (actually not even as a hobby either) #nytimes

Trying to make Jamiroquai's concert the best solo date of the year. Tickets sold out. 💀

Countdown to fall: 19 days 🙏🏻🍂

Watching Jair Bolsonaro's trial in livestream reading the commentaries is an anthropological experience ( I am turning them off before they also become a traumatic one).