Sad news – one of my favorite European actresses, Claudia Cardinale, has passed away today. away. Her performances were always mesmerizing. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

This article is an example that opens a critical space for phenomenological interdisciplinary inquiries like mine, which deepen the study of #consciousness “by virtue of embodying our correlative participation in the world” in a field still marked by the prevalence of neuro-reductionist paradigms.

Oh, I loved reading her last book, “Bacteria to AI”, and I look forward to listening to this interview with N. Katherine Hayles. For me, she is another thinker who represents critical & philosophical #posthumanism and #consciousness studies

This is such a bad read for many of us who made the move. Links are not deprioritized here. My readership has exploded since moving to Bluesky, and my mental health and work life balance has improved now that I’m not subject to constant death threats and brain rot that lives on twitter.

Today I attended the first MIT #Consciousness Club talk: Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social gave a fascinating presentation on Sensory Horizons and the Evolution of Visual Consciousness. Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

«mischaracterizations of newborns’ behaviors as passive, limited, disorganized, and low-level reflexes that are subcortically driven. Finally, researchers often assume that newborns’ behaviors are largely independent of experience» #intersex #newborns

I have just got an email that my paper “Vital Force and the Embodied Unconscious: Reimagining 4-EA Cognition Through a Jungian Lens” has been accepted for the IAJS 2025 Online Conference: Jung and Vital Force! 🗓️ I’ll be presenting Dec 5–7, 2025. #Jung #4EA #EmbodiedCognition #Psychology #IAJS2025

New U.S. naturalization civics test: study pool grows to 128 questions (vs. 100), interview now 20 questions (vs. 10), and you must answer 12 correctly (vs. 6) to pass. ❗Not for everyone: applicants who filed before the change will take effect or who qualify for age-65/20-year special consideration

How does the perception of our bodily self arise in our experience, and to what extent do we process body ownership information unconsciously? In a new study (preprint), we found body ownership information processing cannot occur without awareness. 0/14👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

If you live close to Boston (like me), perhaps you will be interested in attending this event on #consciousness and #AI

A couple of days ago, I & my boyfriend visited the Boston Lights at Franklin Park Zoo. I was really impressed by the special installations, which reminded me of a fantastic psychedelic jungle planet or something out of Alice in Wonderland. #bostonlights

🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 IEEE CogSIMA – #Cognitive & Computational Aspects of Situation Management 📅 Mar 9-12, 2026 | Tempe, AZ 🔍 Topics include: human-AI, cognitive architectures, generative #AI for situation awareness, neuroergonomics, and more. Submit by Oct 24: edas.info/web/cogsima2...

This sounds like a move toward philosophical #posthumanism, extending cognition beyond brains and rethinking where ‘mind’ begins.

Final Call – COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025 📍 Binghamton, NY, USA | 🗓️ Dec 9–11, 2025 Submit your Full Paper or Extended Abstract by September 14, 2025 and join a community of researchers in network science, #complexsystems, and #computational social science. 🔗 Submit now: complexnetworks.org/submission/

“Court allows federal agents to proceed with raids in southern California targeting people for deportation based on their race or language” #immigration www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

🎨 Ahead of our first in-person #BlackInNeuro Conference this week, we’re looking for neuro-inspired art for our 5th Annual Report! 🧠✨ Submit your drawings, photos, paintings & more by Sept. 30th! 🔗 forms.gle/mcW28wmzWF3j... #5YearsOfBIN

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @thomasandrillon.bsky.social #consciousness #dreaming 🧠🧪💤

Reading #posthumanism helps me reflect on my own story as intersex, queer, and a migrant, and how these lives already exceed binaries. Posthumanism shows that “the human” has never been one, but many. As Ferrando adds: “We are one and many, diversity and unity, beyond any dualities” (2024, p.5).

📣 Call for Proposals! The International Society of #Mythology invites submissions for the 7th Mythologum Conference (virtual, Mar 13–15, 2026). Theme: Mythic Imagination ✨ Submission window: Sept 1–Oct 15 (11:59 PT). 🔗 [link] www.ismythology.com/mythologium2... #Conference #DepthPsychology

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for Papers – 43rd Annual IASD Conference 📍 Ashland, Oregon, USA 📅 June 13–17, 2026 Theme: Dreaming, Health, & Wellness Submission deadline: Dec 18, 2025 🔗 iasdconferences.org/2026/call-fo... #IASD2026 #DreamResearch #Consciousness #Dreams #Conference

Can We Engineer Artificial Consciousness?" Professors Karl Friston & Mark Solms, pioneers in #neuroscience, #psychology, and theoretical #biology, dive into the frontiers of #consciousness @KarlFristonNews @Mark_Solms youtu.be/Jtp426wQ-JI?...

🧠 Phil & Neuro Salon: 9.12.25 at 12pm EST 🧠 Held on zoom and open to all! Zoom link here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today I spent a wonderful last summer day on the beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea. At the end of my trip, I met a Ukrainian guy with a Russian balalaika. A small but meaningful moment when Ukrainian and Russian can meet and talk about something light, without war, trauma, or pain, a glimpse of hope ✨

An interesting phenomenological lens on #AI and #robotics, reshaping robotic autonomy not as computational independence or behavioral self-direction, but as “existential authenticity”, the ability for self-determination, embodied understanding, & temporal awareness. philpapers.org/rec/KHARRA-2

Today I visited the educational “Glass Flowers” exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The Blaschka father-and-son team crafted this unique collection of botanical models entirely from glass between 1886 through 1936. The details are so precise, it’s hard to believe they’re not real!🌸

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

As part of my dissertation, I conducted a self-interview & body mapping. It felt like a confession especially when revisiting early years of migration & intersex experience. A forthcoming micro-phenomenological interview will be led by a colleague from the #Enactive Experience Research study group

According to a new report from @pewresearch.org , the #immigrant population in the U.S is declining for the first time: 📉 From 53.3M (Jan 2025) ➝ 51.9M (June 2025) 👷‍♂️ Immigrants now make up 19% of the U.S. labor force, down from 20% (a loss of 750K workers). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

For those who are waiting for #naturalization interviews, here’s what applicants should now expect: 🔸Deeper background checks (civic behavior, finances, community reputation) 🔸Possible delays for extra docs 🔸Need to show contributions www.boundless.com/blog/natural...

One of my intersex acquaintances shared a fascinating site on #intersex orgs worldwide 💛💜 + the Right Wing Funds Map. Chilling to see how groups like the Manhattan Institute erase intersex: “rare developmental conditions that result in apparent sex ambiguity…” slimstrategy.org/right-wing-i...

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

New dissertation on ProQuest: Designing Cyborg Consciousness (Navarro, Stanford 2025) explores how smartphones reshape our #consciousness, embodiment & cognition through lenses of transhumanism, neurodivergence & queerness 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Are we already cyborgs?📱🤖 www.sapiens.org/culture/smar...

Started transcribing my #micro-phenomenological interviews, I thought it would be a boring routine. Instead, it’s gripping. Pauses, gestures, shifts in voice, each detail opens a window into how memory flows, how trauma lives in the body, how identity unfolds moment-to-moment. #migrants #intersex

Human Cognitive Diversity. New in the Elements in the Philosophy of Biology series. Free to download till 26th August www.cambridge.org/core/element...?

These statistics mean that the immigration system is overwhelmed, and people have been waiting for their decisions and immigration interviews for many years. And they experience a high level of anxiety and stress constantly, especially during these days. #psychology #asylumseekers

Incredible. This is another reminder of how climate warming is reshaping the ecosystem. And then we see a “perfect” feedback loop between nature and technology: a swarm of jellyfish shutting down one of Europe’s largest nuclear plants! #climatechange www.reuters.com/business/ene...

<If you actually wanted the immigration system to work, you would be hiring thousands of immigration judges, you would be funding prosecutors, you would be funding defense lawyers,” he said. “If what we wanted was a fair and fast system, it would be the complete opposite of this.” >

I study the lived, embodied experience of migrants with variations of sex characteristics (VSC). My IRB-approved research is grounded in ethics and care. Still, some DSD orgs ask if my school is “legitimate.” Not because of the methods - but because of who’s asking, and from where. Wow. #intersex

Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Interesting how the merging/splitting agents feel like enactivist ‘becoming’ rather than static categories. It also seems close to Deleuze’s view of embodiment as process. Or am I just seeing parallels everywhere because I want them to be there? :)

Listening on the train to an insightful podcast episode @lovephilosophy.substack.com with Dr. Ezequiel Di Paolo on #enactivism & #socialcognition. It’s helping me clarify how I engage his work in my dissertation on embodied experiences of migrants with VSCs. #intersex youtu.be/aZUtvjYkBzc?...

Today we made a short trip to Gloucester, MA, a small seaside town. Spent the day on the rocks 🪨, soaking in the sun 🌞 , breeze, and listening to the gentle sea song of the bay 🌊. I cherish such simple, beautiful moments of peaceful life 🌿 outside of stressful routines of weekdays. #contemplation

Today my boyfriend and I tried a new #boardgame called Four Gardens (from Korea). It’s a game where you need to balance several tasks (4) at once. But, it’s not quite my kind of cozy. I don’t really enjoy multitasking when I’m trying to rest. Still, I can see why some people would love it. 🌿🎴

My best friend Hilary North is having her #art gallery show at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church at Greenport, NY! It features beautiful and warm paintings about animals, movement, and time. She has already sold four pieces, and I’m so proud of her work and accomplishments! #greenportny

Sitting at a café,I take a photo. Later, an older photographer walks in and takes the same shot. I ask him how he chooses a moment. He says: “When I feel a story behind the frame, an unspeakable beauty. In those moments, it feels like I’m meditating.” That’s exactly how I do it too, embodied vision

Today’s my boyfriend’s birthday, and I got him this super cool #boardgame called Botany—it’s all about Victorian plant collecting and little adventures. We played for over 1.5 hours and had way more fun than expected. Who knew chasing rare flowers could be so intense? 😄

“What most popular attempts to explain consciousness miss is that no scientific explanations of any kind can be possible without accounting for something that is even more fundamental than the most powerful theories about the physical world: our experience.” #consciousness #enactivism

The more I work on my #research, the more I realize that the term #intersex is often misunderstood—even in academia. It’s frequently reduced to a gender identity, rather than seen as part of human biological diversity. I’m shifting to “variations of sex characteristics” #VSC in my work.

With public funding cuts hitting hard, many researchers turn to big private foundations. But what if those same foundations support right-wing or evangelical agendas? Should scientists stay blind to where the money comes from or does social responsibility matter? #AcademicSky #ResearchEthics