Alexander Berezkin
@birchalexander.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Psychology, CIIS (CA).
Research interests: micro-phenomenology · embodied consciousness & 4EA cognition · intersex/VSC & migration · posthumanism & neuroanthropology
aleksanderberezkin.weebly.com
Intersex migrant (47,XXY Ks)· they/he ·👬🏳️🌈
Research interests: micro-phenomenology · embodied consciousness & 4EA cognition · intersex/VSC & migration · posthumanism & neuroanthropology
aleksanderberezkin.weebly.com
Intersex migrant (47,XXY Ks)· they/he ·👬🏳️🌈
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In my research, I approach #intersex as a form of innate bodily variability that shapes embodied experience, not as a fixed essence dictating identity. I focus on how body, consciousness, and cognition co-form each other within migration, culture, and lived subjectivity, rather than on gender.
Thought-provoking paper (2026) on dissociating agency and subjectivity under anesthesia.
Raises broader questions about early subjectivity and embodied integration in infancy, where experience may be present without expressible agency.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#Consciousness #Neurophenomenology
Raises broader questions about early subjectivity and embodied integration in infancy, where experience may be present without expressible agency.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#Consciousness #Neurophenomenology
January 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Thought-provoking paper (2026) on dissociating agency and subjectivity under anesthesia.
Raises broader questions about early subjectivity and embodied integration in infancy, where experience may be present without expressible agency.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#Consciousness #Neurophenomenology
Raises broader questions about early subjectivity and embodied integration in infancy, where experience may be present without expressible agency.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#Consciousness #Neurophenomenology
Reposted by Alexander Berezkin
Albert Einstein was one of the early supporters of zero-point energy, a quantum principle introduced by Max Planck (right) in 1911. Einstein used it as an explanation for why molecules and crystal lattices vibrate even at their lowest energy states.
In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine
Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Albert Einstein was one of the early supporters of zero-point energy, a quantum principle introduced by Max Planck (right) in 1911. Einstein used it as an explanation for why molecules and crystal lattices vibrate even at their lowest energy states.
Call for Proposals! SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" will be held July 17-18, 2026, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Deadline for proposal submissions is February 23, 2026. Submit here bit.ly/4aG7Nhw
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 PM
New qualitative study highlights #intersex (VSC) perspectives on prenatal sex chromosome screening. It indicates how #geneticcounseling can unintentionally reinforce binary sex frameworks and the ethical responsibility of counselors to affirm sex & gender diversity
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41472541/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41472541/
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
New qualitative study highlights #intersex (VSC) perspectives on prenatal sex chromosome screening. It indicates how #geneticcounseling can unintentionally reinforce binary sex frameworks and the ethical responsibility of counselors to affirm sex & gender diversity
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41472541/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41472541/
📢 Call for Posters
XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Adaptations across different timescales
May 21–24, 2026 | Dubrovnik, Croatia
📝 Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2026
More info: ducog.cecog.eu
#CognitiveScience #EmbodiedCognition #ConferenceCFP
XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Adaptations across different timescales
May 21–24, 2026 | Dubrovnik, Croatia
📝 Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2026
More info: ducog.cecog.eu
#CognitiveScience #EmbodiedCognition #ConferenceCFP
DUCOG — Conference 2025
Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science
ducog.cecog.eu
January 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
📢 Call for Posters
XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Adaptations across different timescales
May 21–24, 2026 | Dubrovnik, Croatia
📝 Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2026
More info: ducog.cecog.eu
#CognitiveScience #EmbodiedCognition #ConferenceCFP
XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Adaptations across different timescales
May 21–24, 2026 | Dubrovnik, Croatia
📝 Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2026
More info: ducog.cecog.eu
#CognitiveScience #EmbodiedCognition #ConferenceCFP
On the last weekend before the workweek, I decided to remember how to ice skate ⛸️ :) Enjoyed two hours on the rink and then took a stroll through snowy Boston at night 🙂 ❄️🎄 #iceskating #wintervacation
January 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
On the last weekend before the workweek, I decided to remember how to ice skate ⛸️ :) Enjoyed two hours on the rink and then took a stroll through snowy Boston at night 🙂 ❄️🎄 #iceskating #wintervacation
If you are interested in learning more about sleep and dreams and live in the Boston area, there will be a symposium titled “Dream and Engineering” at #MIT on January 10-11, 2026. #dreams #research #Boston
dxe.framer.website
dxe.framer.website
Dream x Engineering Symposium
A gathering of world leaders in sleep and dream science exploring how we can influence dreaming with precision to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions.
dxe.framer.website
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
If you are interested in learning more about sleep and dreams and live in the Boston area, there will be a symposium titled “Dream and Engineering” at #MIT on January 10-11, 2026. #dreams #research #Boston
dxe.framer.website
dxe.framer.website
My first day of the New Year was at the Boston Museum of Science 🧬. It was fun time 😉
January 1, 2026 at 11:46 PM
My first day of the New Year was at the Boston Museum of Science 🧬. It was fun time 😉
✨ Goodbye 2025. Hello 2026. ✨
This year was complex and very stressful. Still, even on a cold winter night, when the lights go out one by one, there is hope. May darkness not descend into our hearts.
With care, into 2026. ✨🥂
Happy New Year!
This year was complex and very stressful. Still, even on a cold winter night, when the lights go out one by one, there is hope. May darkness not descend into our hearts.
With care, into 2026. ✨🥂
Happy New Year!
December 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
✨ Goodbye 2025. Hello 2026. ✨
This year was complex and very stressful. Still, even on a cold winter night, when the lights go out one by one, there is hope. May darkness not descend into our hearts.
With care, into 2026. ✨🥂
Happy New Year!
This year was complex and very stressful. Still, even on a cold winter night, when the lights go out one by one, there is hope. May darkness not descend into our hearts.
With care, into 2026. ✨🥂
Happy New Year!
Reposted by Alexander Berezkin
How do large language models really work – and why do they continue to surprise even their creators? In this clear-eyed explainer created for the Computer History Museum, Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com traces the evolution of LLMs and opens up their hidden scaffolding
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators | Aeon Videos
River bank or bank account? How chatbots learned to make the quantum leap to context by training on billions of prompts
buff.ly
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
How do large language models really work – and why do they continue to surprise even their creators? In this clear-eyed explainer created for the Computer History Museum, Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com traces the evolution of LLMs and opens up their hidden scaffolding
Transcribing interviews, I’m finding that some #migration experiences resist the voluntary/forced binary. They unfold as prolonged conditions of constrained, delegated mobility, shaped by partial and shifting agency across bodies, institutions, time, especially in childhood
#enactive #phenomenology
#enactive #phenomenology
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Transcribing interviews, I’m finding that some #migration experiences resist the voluntary/forced binary. They unfold as prolonged conditions of constrained, delegated mobility, shaped by partial and shifting agency across bodies, institutions, time, especially in childhood
#enactive #phenomenology
#enactive #phenomenology
This Christmas, I had the chance to play a socio-cultural #boardgame, Redneck Life, which reflects American social imaginaries of poverty. I was struck by which life markers are considered significant and by how life is framed as structurally determined, with minimal space for agency.
December 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This Christmas, I had the chance to play a socio-cultural #boardgame, Redneck Life, which reflects American social imaginaries of poverty. I was struck by which life markers are considered significant and by how life is framed as structurally determined, with minimal space for agency.
Ritz & DuBois (2025) shift the question from what sex is to how it is operationalized (classification, trait, or dynamic system), thereby refocusing the debate on research aims instead of political debates.
#BiologyOfSex ##CriticalInquiry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#BiologyOfSex ##CriticalInquiry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Ritz & DuBois (2025) shift the question from what sex is to how it is operationalized (classification, trait, or dynamic system), thereby refocusing the debate on research aims instead of political debates.
#BiologyOfSex ##CriticalInquiry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#BiologyOfSex ##CriticalInquiry
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
One of the inspirational presentations on the Buddhist model of #consciousness
from the BAMΞ Paradigms in Consciousness Science workshop, organized by the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative at the University of Bamberg (Germany) last week.
from the BAMΞ Paradigms in Consciousness Science workshop, organized by the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative at the University of Bamberg (Germany) last week.
December 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
One of the inspirational presentations on the Buddhist model of #consciousness
from the BAMΞ Paradigms in Consciousness Science workshop, organized by the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative at the University of Bamberg (Germany) last week.
from the BAMΞ Paradigms in Consciousness Science workshop, organized by the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative at the University of Bamberg (Germany) last week.
Watching Hamnet (Cleo Zhao - filmmaker), I was less struck by its story than by how it asks to be felt through the body. Grief and time move through silence, gesture, breath. Art doesn’t resolve loss, it carries it, gently, into shared presence.
#Hamnet #EmbodiedExperience #CleoZhao #Grief
#Hamnet #EmbodiedExperience #CleoZhao #Grief
December 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Watching Hamnet (Cleo Zhao - filmmaker), I was less struck by its story than by how it asks to be felt through the body. Grief and time move through silence, gesture, breath. Art doesn’t resolve loss, it carries it, gently, into shared presence.
#Hamnet #EmbodiedExperience #CleoZhao #Grief
#Hamnet #EmbodiedExperience #CleoZhao #Grief
Delighted to share that my talk Radical Embodiment and Radical Care: An Enactive and Micro-Phenomenological Approach to Lived Experience has been accepted for Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy (@mindandlifeeu.bsky.social), Barcelona, May 2026
#4E #enactivism #ethics
#4E #enactivism #ethics
Mind and Life Europe | Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy
International Conference | 27th – 31st May 2026 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona We are happy to announce that the deadline for talk and poster proposals will be extended to 15th January...
mindandlife-europe.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Delighted to share that my talk Radical Embodiment and Radical Care: An Enactive and Micro-Phenomenological Approach to Lived Experience has been accepted for Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy (@mindandlifeeu.bsky.social), Barcelona, May 2026
#4E #enactivism #ethics
#4E #enactivism #ethics
Unbelievable 😡
“The wording of the H.R. 3492 exemption plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” if it is performed on a child with an intersex variation. “
“The wording of the H.R. 3492 exemption plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” if it is performed on a child with an intersex variation. “
The US House has passed HR 3492, the most extreme gender-affirming care ban Congress has considered yet. The bill's exemption for nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children is the first that also admits they are a form of genital mutilation.
interactadvocates.org/us-house-pas...
interactadvocates.org/us-house-pas...
US House passes bill criminalizing gender-affirming care while endorsing intersex genital mutilation
Today, the House passed H.R. 3492, a dangerous bill to criminalize gender-affirming care with an exception for nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children.
interactadvocates.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Unbelievable 😡
“The wording of the H.R. 3492 exemption plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” if it is performed on a child with an intersex variation. “
“The wording of the H.R. 3492 exemption plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” if it is performed on a child with an intersex variation. “
New article on #posthumanism:
Roberto Marchesini reframes embodiment as being-a-body; #embodiment remains open, processual, & unfinished.
For me, it resonates with Saketopoulou’s “Gender Without Identity,”: #gender as not fixed, relational, & continuously becoming.
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
Roberto Marchesini reframes embodiment as being-a-body; #embodiment remains open, processual, & unfinished.
For me, it resonates with Saketopoulou’s “Gender Without Identity,”: #gender as not fixed, relational, & continuously becoming.
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
New article on #posthumanism:
Roberto Marchesini reframes embodiment as being-a-body; #embodiment remains open, processual, & unfinished.
For me, it resonates with Saketopoulou’s “Gender Without Identity,”: #gender as not fixed, relational, & continuously becoming.
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
Roberto Marchesini reframes embodiment as being-a-body; #embodiment remains open, processual, & unfinished.
For me, it resonates with Saketopoulou’s “Gender Without Identity,”: #gender as not fixed, relational, & continuously becoming.
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
Reposted by Alexander Berezkin
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
🎉 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🎉
Join the MESEC Winter School 2026 in Ephesus, Turkey, March 22–28. 🗓️☀️
A week of methods, ideas, and deep dives into consciousness with an international community.
Apply now and share the call. 🧠
🔗 mesec.co/event/winter...
Join the MESEC Winter School 2026 in Ephesus, Turkey, March 22–28. 🗓️☀️
A week of methods, ideas, and deep dives into consciousness with an international community.
Apply now and share the call. 🧠
🔗 mesec.co/event/winter...
MESEC | MESEC Winter School 2026
mesec.co
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Thank you @johanneskleiner.bsky.social & the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (🇩🇪) for organizing Paradigms in Consciousness Science last week.
An intellectually rich set of exchanges across mathematics, phenomenology, neuroscience, contemplative approaches to #consciousness
An intellectually rich set of exchanges across mathematics, phenomenology, neuroscience, contemplative approaches to #consciousness
December 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Thank you @johanneskleiner.bsky.social & the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (🇩🇪) for organizing Paradigms in Consciousness Science last week.
An intellectually rich set of exchanges across mathematics, phenomenology, neuroscience, contemplative approaches to #consciousness
An intellectually rich set of exchanges across mathematics, phenomenology, neuroscience, contemplative approaches to #consciousness
I hope this trend will continue and that the academic community here on @bsky.app will keep growing. Since joining, I’ve found an abundance of inspiring research projects, articles, and scholars.
#AcademicBluesky #AcademicSky #Research #Bluesky
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#AcademicBluesky #AcademicSky #Research #Bluesky
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December 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I hope this trend will continue and that the academic community here on @bsky.app will keep growing. Since joining, I’ve found an abundance of inspiring research projects, articles, and scholars.
#AcademicBluesky #AcademicSky #Research #Bluesky
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
#AcademicBluesky #AcademicSky #Research #Bluesky
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
I am still deeply impressed by Ruth Asawa’s works at @moma.bsky.social, where care & attention embody space as a quiet form of presence.
“You’re not watching what your brush is doing, but you’re watching the spaces around it… taking care of both the negative space and the positive space” #RuthAsawa
“You’re not watching what your brush is doing, but you’re watching the spaces around it… taking care of both the negative space and the positive space” #RuthAsawa
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I am still deeply impressed by Ruth Asawa’s works at @moma.bsky.social, where care & attention embody space as a quiet form of presence.
“You’re not watching what your brush is doing, but you’re watching the spaces around it… taking care of both the negative space and the positive space” #RuthAsawa
“You’re not watching what your brush is doing, but you’re watching the spaces around it… taking care of both the negative space and the positive space” #RuthAsawa
Grateful for 1,000 followers on BlueSky @bsky.app Thank you for reading, engaging, exchanging, and thinking together. Your presence is important, appreciated, and inspiring 😊 #Bluesky #community #AcademicSky
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Grateful for 1,000 followers on BlueSky @bsky.app Thank you for reading, engaging, exchanging, and thinking together. Your presence is important, appreciated, and inspiring 😊 #Bluesky #community #AcademicSky
Remembering my visit to “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” at @moma.bsky.social this December.
The exhibition brought me back to my own liminality, to lives shaped in transition. Lam’s work embodies hybridity. It asks what remains when multiple lines of belonging intersect. #wifredolam
The exhibition brought me back to my own liminality, to lives shaped in transition. Lam’s work embodies hybridity. It asks what remains when multiple lines of belonging intersect. #wifredolam
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Remembering my visit to “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” at @moma.bsky.social this December.
The exhibition brought me back to my own liminality, to lives shaped in transition. Lam’s work embodies hybridity. It asks what remains when multiple lines of belonging intersect. #wifredolam
The exhibition brought me back to my own liminality, to lives shaped in transition. Lam’s work embodies hybridity. It asks what remains when multiple lines of belonging intersect. #wifredolam