Our new paper is out in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health! Led by the amazing @marinawatowich.bsky.social What drives worsening cardiometabolic health during urbanization in Indigenous populations? We expected it to be diet. But actually, it was the built environment.

Centre guest speaker Dr Aramiha Harwood reflects on growing up Māori in Australia alongside a world of tabletop gaming. He explores the intersections of gaming, identity, and cultural inheritance, and considers how Indigenous game design can open space for Māori knowledge and connection.

What can art reveal about place, memory and contested history? Centre PhD researcher Kialy Tihngang is featured on Fane’, discussing work across film, sculpture, textiles & performance, and exploring Blackness, queerness, Britishness, & Cameroonian culture & politics. www.fane.co.uk/kialy-tihngang

I got this one last year for our conference on affective atmospheres. The application form was reasonable, the funding generous, and the team @triphilosophy.bsky.social wonderful to work with. And the conference was a blast. I highly recommend applying.

𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Excellent paper about purposiveness in biology. Important critique of the dynamical systems approach as a "simple" solution to the computationalism approach. Highly relevant to the enactive approach too. doi.org/10.1177/1059...

Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

We are proud to announce our new talk series on "Inferences & Capacities" co-organized by me, Mariela Aguilera, and Matías Osta-Vélez! Find below the 2026 lineup and info on how to register. #philosophy #philosophySky

The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide

The zeal with which universities enforce these rules stems from their fear of losing their sponsor licence, but seems incompatible with a duty of care to their students. But then international students are treated as cash cows not as people deserving care and respect.

CfA: PGR Conference – Styles of Perception 📅 30 June – 1 July 2026 📍 University of York Financial support provided. 🔗 Full details and submission information: sites.google.com/view/styleso... 🗓 Submit by 1 May!

UCL Anthropology is looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (fixed term) covering Evolutionary Medicine and Statistics teaching. Please circulate with colleagues & ECRs who may be interested. Deadline 30th April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Today at 4:30pm: Centre researcher Kialy Tihngang on Icyyy Grip at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, part of the public programme for TOOLs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tools-arti...

So excited to see this out, connecting the phenomenology of ecological grief with place attachment. Great working with @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social on this!

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

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

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Apparently we're hiring another two-year postdoc, for Aaron Cotnoir's Unity Project. AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r... #philsky

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

£1.2M UKRI grant supports groundbreaking study into the psychology of belief www.gla.ac.uk/.../news/hea...

‘Being Where? Putting memory, technology, and wayfinding together again’: new open-access paper, led by Mac Mingon with @ajgillett.bsky.social We set ‘techno-gloom’ about GPS degrading basic human navigation skills against historical shifts in ‘wayfinding ecologies’ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad to see this statement about the awful new death penalty bill passed in Israel. Made worse by the ongoing killing of palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli settlers with no legal consequences.

What does it feel like to be paid not to work? In a new paper I discuss the experiences of furloughed workers I interviewed from across the UK. My study revealed that, for some, furlough became a disorientating experience. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @rgsibg.bsky.social

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Can games become a way of remembering? Dr Aramiha Harwood (Ngāpuhi) explores how tabletop game design grounded in Māori values can transmit knowledge, identity and storytelling. 📅 Wed 22 Apr · 16:00–17:30 📍 University of Stirling + online Register here forms.gle/vKYdq9kGEmLJ...

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

Les caribous ont soutenu les humains par leur sacrifice durant des millénaires. En quelques décennies, nous les avons presque exterminés par la destruction de leur environnement et la chasse sportive (non-autochtone). Nous devons maintenant soutenir les nations autochtones qui les protègent.

I am a citizen of Iceland and let me assure you that we are not terrified of the future because of “authoritarian gender ideology”. What scares us is transphobes, ultra right wing ideologies, the manosphere, fascism, MAGA, oligarchs, techno fascists, ecological collapse and climate change.

Reform offered hate. We offered hope. Hope won. The police say his accusations of cheating are baseless. Farage is a bad loser.

This principle of "abuse" - discriminates against all Afghan women on their national group characteristics, not as individuals - does not accept that a genuine fear of persecution under the convention should count as a genuine fear of persecution, if you were already in Britain as a student

For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler

We are proud to introduce our new Native and Indigenous Studies e-book collection, available to libraries and institutions, bringing together 130 interdisciplinary titles by Indigenous scholars and community-centered researchers. Browse the collection and request a free trial: buff.ly/odzH2Zx

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

My resignation letter

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

⚠️New review straight out of the oven! "Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review" arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082 We focus on spatial navigation as a sensitive cognitive marker in preclinical AD, compiling evidence from cognitively unimpaired individuals with positive AD biomarkers.

Utterly damning

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My colleague Guido Löhr and I are excited that our paper 'Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction' has been published in 'Philosophy & Technology' - Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

On how arts journalism was gutted and the consequence: “Direct-to-consumer enterprises marketed by critic-proof institutions mean there is no need for the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. Place and memory become victims of algorithmic flattening.” www.talkscratch.com/the-job-i-wa...

Not now zombie cells...

Such a heart-breaking, cruel policy.

Reminder that you can submit an abstract to give a talk at our upcoming 'Rewilding the Web' workshop at the University of Edinburgh up until the 31st March. Details in image and alt text. Supported by @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social + Scotsphil

The lunatic quality of these proposals is persistently underestimated. They are far, far worse than people recognise.

Online Now: Toward embodied, ecological cognition with ambulatory virtual reality

Kathleen Jamie reviewing the The Beginning Comes After the End by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I can't wait to read the book

*** New paper from the lab in Nature Comms !! *** “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” by the amazing @reneecabbage.bsky.social in collab. w labs of Jill O’Reilly, Will Clarke, and modeling from Prakriti Parthasarathy and @tpvogels.bsky.social, see below!