I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social) To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

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...

#philsky #EpistemicInjustice #YouthMentalHealth #edusky #projectEPIC

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

'“The humanities are where people learn to think critically, to analyse systems, to question authority,” @desfitzgerald.bsky.social says. “What happens if that disappears? What happens if you can simulate critical thinking without actually engaging in it?”'

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky

A brilliant talk from @rritunnano.bsky.social at #IEPA in Berlin

I think this may be the very last conference presentation before the end of my PhD 🥹 @lisabortolotti.com @matthewbroome.bsky.social

Really enjoyed presenting with amazing colleagues at our session #IEPA15 "Beyond the medical model: pluralistic and meaning-centred approaches to early intervention, youth mental health and recovery.

Great kick off for the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! Inspiring day, fruitful conversations and great speakers. An heartfelt thanks to all the people who presented and attended (in person and remotely) from us! @matthewbroome.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social

moving from the midwestern US to London means anything within a 2-3 hour train ride is *super close* as far as i’m concerned. also, i really enjoy giving talks. what i’m saying is if your uni is within 3 hours of London i would love to come give a talk and chat about research 😊

"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health. Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham) @matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks

thank you @uobphenomenal.bsky.social for an excellent workshop today! such a diverse and thought-provoking collection of talks, and lovely conversations with fellow attendees. i’m looking forward to the next event!

I've had the privilege of writing a chapter for the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine with Dr Ellie Byrne and Dr Ian James Kidd! 🙌 Check out our chapter on 'Epistemic Injustice in Medical Contexts' here 👉https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_92-1

Check out this episode of @philosophybites.bsky.social in which I discuss the life and philosophy of Henri Bergson with Nigel Warburton philosophybites.com/podcast/emil...

Nearly 1 in 4 employers still don’t provide the adjustments disabled staff need. RCPsych’s new guidance offers 15 practical steps to change that. Let’s build inclusive, thriving workplaces. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=adF2... 👉 rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/providing-reasonable-adjustments

I am on tour from the end of this week. I will be at the Urbino Summer School in Epistemology from 25 to 27 August and at the SIFA conference in Turin from 28 to 29 August. Six (different) talks in five days! Wish me luck. (Really pretty posters!)

Universities make a loss on home teaching. They make a loss on state-sponsored research. Now they will make a loss on international students. So there will be no activities at all that even break even. In those circs you cannot continue: the end. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deficit...

A colleague has just shared this with me - it's a really good article from @davehitchcock.bsky.social about the crisis in UK Universities. The situation is more dire than the public realise. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-... #AcademicSky

Holiday time 🐕🎉🎉

Delighted that two fantastic researchers and women in philosophy, Rosa Ritunnano and Eleanor Palafox-Harris, have recently submitted their PhD theses! I will miss meeting them and reading their work but I am excited about what they will do next… #philsky #philpsy #epistemicinjustice

🎉🎉🎉 PhD thesis finally submitted🎉🎉🎉 I thought the computer was meant to explode when you hit the submit button...? Anyways, my research assistant Berto said he definitely heard it 🎆🎆🎆

These tips have been made with young people to help support young people. Please check them out!

New paper accepted! 🎉 Worried about the overuse of terms like “gaslighting”, “boundaries”, or “trauma”? @almagro.bsky.social and I are too. In this paper, we explore the epistemic and ethical cocerns of therapy-speak and how it relates to epistemic and affective injustice. Preprint ⬇️

@almagro.bsky.social and I have been working on therapy-speak lately (e.g., the everyday use of psychotherapy terms like OCD, trauma, boundaries...). Check out the video if you're curious. 📽️

Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare: Free to download, 20% off for the hard copy with the code #epistemicinjustice #philsky #psychiatry #psychology #booksky #newbooks #openaccess @springernature.com

New podcast out today featuring @lisabortolotti.com, a brilliant philosopher discussing a great interdisciplinary project with a very practical intent: improving the way clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

With McPin, we prepared a set of suggestions for supporting young people, based on our research on the Agency Projects. What do you think of our leaflet? www.canva.com/design... #YouthMentalHealth #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #philpsy

New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky

Víctor M. Verdejo discusses the rationality of thought insertion judgements in this open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy 2/4

Many of these examples came together in our new chapter on Lonely Objects and Obsolete Affordances (@tomroberts.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com)! Thanks so much for the inspiration ❤️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Read "Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research" by Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo and Pablo López-Silva in the new issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Pinker vs Nietzsche: Is music the basis of language? iai.tv/articles/pin...

The Self and Its Intersubjective Synchrony in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I've just finished reading the papers I've written that will go into my final PhD thesis and it's quite A LOT of stuff to read 😅😂 Got tired of reading myself but also proud of the work done so far 💪

Off to Basel tomorrow for the BioXPhil Summit to talk about incorporating Sartre into my phenomenological interviews with young people with psychosis. You can see my slides here: jodie-russell.co.uk/2025/06/24/s...

That was a great talk. It identifies a challenge with doing interviews in contexts of hermeneutic injustice & even a problem with the academic resources available for that. Then it draws on phenomenology to find a genuinely clever solution! If you're curious, the slides are thorough & clear #philsky

Thrilled with how this day went and grateful to all my wonderful speakers 🙏🏻 I learnt about Wu Ming, make-believe, imaginative construction, ‘noise’ of economic hardship, and sensible principles beneath absurd stories. Watch out for a blog on the day at Imperfect Cognitions, thanks to Lisa! 🤓

Sad news that Helen De Cruz passed away. We are grateful that they agreed to be part of our editorial board as they embodied the ideal philosopher: brilliant, kind, creative, endlessly curious, passionate about public philosophy, and striving for meaningful change dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

A wonderful piece by Helen De Cruz: I love her defence of philosophy as therapy! helendecruz.substack.com/p/thinking-l... On the toxicity of positive thinking, and the power of philosophy as therapy

🎉 Last (6th) PhD paper going into my thesis submitted last night 🎉 Never thought I'd get here. Keep your fingers crossed for me guys. Submission soon 🤞

Amazing event and talks yesterday organised by @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social at the University of Birmingham on conspiracies and storytelling. We are all (in a way) made of stories! That's my take 😊

Are conspiracy theories epistemically innocent? New paper published in Philosophical Topics, as part of a special issue on Beyond evidence in epistemology: www.researchgate.net... #philsky

Enjoying the sunshine 🐶🌞

Going to Oxford tomorrow for a guest lecture on delusions as part of the MSt in Practical Ethics! I can see from the schedule that I'm in good company :) and hope to catch up with @ljspencer.bsky.social

I've organised a workshop on Tuesday 17th June at the University of Birmingham, on "Conspiracies and Storytelling". I am thrilled with the lineup 😇 Email me to register for in-person or online registration, at [email protected] . #philsky