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academia lurker | habitual overthinker | professional code-switcher
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

I need a PA to help me keep up with all the scandal and fraud in the psychology news these days

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Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’
Hans Eysenck A “high and far reaching” number of papers and books by Hans Eysenck could be “unsafe,” according to an updated statement from King’s College London, where the psychologist was a profe…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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TT #PhilJobs in Philosophy Dept joint w/ Bouvé College of Health in Ethics & Health @ Northeastern University, Boston. Ph.D. in #Philosophy, #HPS #STS, #Bioethics
To apply northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Review of applications begins December 15 til position is filled.
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Full Professor
About the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its ten tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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rjwatt42.bsky.social
This is important, without any doubt: the link between slowness - timelessness - and healthy scientific practice.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d
Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy
practices.

See section 6 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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6 Slow Science Industry sells the narrative that AI can maximise efficiency, including within science. We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated (Rich et al. 2021; van Rooij, Guest, et al. 2024). But this does not stand in the way of industry narratives that want to do away with thinking and deep reflection. Slow science was developed by Isabelle Stengers (2018), who explains: “Fast science refers not so much to a question of speed but to the imperative not to slow down, not to waste time, or else. . . ” (p. 115) Unless we push back against the use of AI products this will only further crystallise into the new normal (but see Guest, Suarez, et al. 2025; Guest and van Rooij 2025). AI not only epitomises fast science, but turbocharges it, nosediving us into anti-science and antiintellectualism. We see this pattern of condensing time in most computational fields (Guest 2025). “The ultra rapid computing machine” (Wiener 1948, 1950) serves two discursive purposes, as Sheryl Hamilton (1998) explains: “First, it forms an overall temporal backdrop against which various cybernetic dramas are played out. Second, condensed time becomes a measure of the performance of humans and machines.” (p. 193) There are simple ways to counteract this. We can allow flexible deadlines, and pursue ungrading with our students, while also explaining this is part and parcel of good science. In STEM programmes assigning essays in a possible way to support students to develop their ideas. We can also promote slow science by making space for our mentees, colleagues, and selves to take time to think and to make choices that move our scientific practices towards reflection and decolonisation. Building scientific knowledge and expertise takes time. By not allowing this we deskill our profession and corrupt our practice (Pfaffenberger 1988). We lose the ability to recognize and acknowl… Marcela Suarez has created a tripartite pedagogical method: 7 Guest et al. (2025) a) situating, b) reconnecting, and c) rendering power visible. First, the materiality of AI devices is situated through examining their geopolitical territories; second, we reconnect the digitality of technologies with their materiality; and third, we render the exploitation, extraction and domination visible. While academic discussion has centred around sustainability (Wynsberghe 2021), engaging uncritically can merely reaffirm its colonial past of reinforcing hierarchies between the Global North and South (Sultana, 2022). However, sustainability is reclaimable through questioning: What are the social relations, territories and resources that sustain AI technologies? For example, how is data mining not only a discursive metaphor, but also a material practice of companies to extract minerals that sustain AI capitalism (Parikka 2015; Valdivia 2025). Through teaching capitalist AI’s social relations, we can bring to the fore core fallacies, such as that automation requires more not less labour (Bainbridge 1983; Guest 2025). Flawed and false discourses on automation are materially sustained by the obfuscation of the exploitation of Global South workers at the intersection of racism, gender, ability, and more — through these discourses, AI products are gifted value. By the same token, we can explain the intensive power, computation, and infrastructures that these systems require, from internet cables, data centres, raw materials to water and energy to run data centres, as well as the aforementioned labour to operate and maintain these infrastructures, which in so doing re-enact existing colonial lines of extraction (Hao 2025; Parikka 2015; Suarez et al. 2025; Valdivia 2025).
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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alexdrace.bsky.social
International Workshop: "Capital and Empire in Modern Southeastern Europe"
New Europe College, Bucharest, 4 Dec, 0930-1830hrs
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Photo: Janos Mattis-Teutsch, Assembly Line (fresco draft), 1930
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Pls don't try to “desensitize” autistics to overwhelming sensory stimuli like clothes tags, tight clothes, even individual acne blemishes, humming machines, flushing toilets, strong scents, or flickering lights. Research shows "desensitization" is traumatizing:

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Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Autism is strongly associated with sensory processing difficulties. We investigate sensory habituation, given its relevance for understanding important phenotypic traits like hyper- and hypo-sensitivi...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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saraprotasi.bsky.social
I had a good time conversing with Will Gildea about my work on envy. If you listen to it, let me know what you think!
#philsky
#philosophy
williamgildea.bsky.social William Gildea @williamgildea.bsky.social · 3d
NEW episode: why envy can be *good*, according to @saraprotasi.bsky.social. Our conversation covers envy's role in self-improvement, self-esteem, self-acceptance, love, friendship, inequality and racism. Listen here:

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December 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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memoryplace.bsky.social
Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy

In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.

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Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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olivia.science
We can't really say this enough...

> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.

www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
This explains so much lol
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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granttharward.bsky.social
I'm excited for the launch of this book, *The History of the Blind: Romania in War, 1940-1945*, in a week. It's about the Romanian home front. The title refers to how most Romanians grope blindly in the past knowing only part of their WW2 history.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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chrispps.bsky.social
...and gives the culture of my youth one of its most important images
cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, which is Peter Saville's artistic rendering of a recorded image of signals from the pulsar found by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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digthatdata.bsky.social
Taiwan recognized the threat of disinformation from china around 2000-ish and engaged in a society-wide cognitive inoculation strategy that focuses on prebunking and media literacy education.

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Beyond Censorship: Taiwan’s Model for Combating Disinformation — FOREIGN AFFAIRS REVIEW
In today's digital and globalised world, disinformation is a greater threat than ever. In 2024, when major democracies held elections, fears of its impact were especially strong. According to the Co...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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associationruta.bsky.social
Last days to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change: apply by Nov 30
associationruta.bsky.social The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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minzlicht.bsky.social
New Nature Medicine study: doulas with a few weeks of training delivered therapy as effectively as PhD clinicians. Same outcomes. If that's true, what exactly requires 5-7 years of grad school? And what does it mean for AI therapy? The therapy elite won't like this.
The Therapy Elite Won’t Like This
I feel shook.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jleser.bsky.social
New publication! Our conversation on emergent and everyday ecofascism – featuring perspectives from Germany, Zimbabwe, Romania, Turkey, the Philippines, the US, India, and the UAE – is now out in @amanthro.bsky.social #openaccess

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November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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ninogoz.bsky.social
Far-Right Networks in Motion — Webinar on Dec 5, 4 PM CET A discussion on the transnational dynamics of the far right with
@steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
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📩 Register with mertz@cmb.hu-berlin.de
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
Depressing read on anti-immigrant sentiments among immigrants (in Poland).
Why do children of immigrants dislike immigrants?
Research shows that immigrants tend to bring their prejudices with them, adopting the anti-immigrant sentiments of their new hosts. Middle-class immigrants may fear a loss of status. Others simply see...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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aeon.co
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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aldersonday.bsky.social
New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis.

We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis
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November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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alexdrace.bsky.social
My article "Obiceiurile de căsătorie ale țăranilor români" (1837): O lucrare necunoscută a lui Mihail Kogălniceanu și soarta ei ["The Marriage Customs of the Romanian Peasants": An unknown work by Mihail Kogălniceanu and its fate] now #OpenAccess (in RO, w EN+DE abstracts)
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Tomul LXII, 2025 - Anuarul Institutului de Istorie „A. D. Xenopol”
STUDII ŞI ARTICOLE MEDIAEVALIA » SUZANA SIMON, ALEXANDRU SIMON, Doamna Clara și Papa Inocențiu al VI-lea în vara anului 1360: înainte și după apariția Mitropoliei …
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November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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uonphilosophy.bsky.social
Congratulations to Jon Robson on his new @cambridge.org Element on aesthetic knowledge!

Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
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#philosophy #aesthetic #knowledge #cambridgeelements #philosophy
Aesthetic Knowledge
Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Aesthetic Knowledge
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November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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bencenanay.bsky.social
LAST CALL: Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia
Length: 3000 words.
Deadline: December 1, 2025.
Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
Remember the online outrage over Cracker Barrel on Twitter? Research indicates much of it was amplified by bots. Fake accounts fueling outrage isn’t new, but most people don’t realize how often it happens.
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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?
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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM