Becky Millar
@bexmillar.bsky.social
Philosophy Lecturer at Cardiff University. Thinking about hard-to-articulate experiences, disruptive emotions, flavour and smell, 4E cognition. Otherwise mainly running🏃.
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Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤
hope we can do a part 2 👀
hope we can do a part 2 👀
September 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤
hope we can do a part 2 👀
hope we can do a part 2 👀
This is today! Please do come along if you're in Cardiff.
#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is today! Please do come along if you're in Cardiff.
Please join me, @lucyosler.bsky.social, and @lopezcantero.bsky.social for our Sad Philosophy Workshop next Friday! Sign up info below.
#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please join me, @lucyosler.bsky.social, and @lopezcantero.bsky.social for our Sad Philosophy Workshop next Friday! Sign up info below.
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✨Announcing Picturing Grief: a collaborative project with
Projecting Grief✨
Projecting Grief have produced a series of images to raise awareness of our Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
Projecting Grief✨
Projecting Grief have produced a series of images to raise awareness of our Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
May 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
✨Announcing Picturing Grief: a collaborative project with
Projecting Grief✨
Projecting Grief have produced a series of images to raise awareness of our Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
Projecting Grief✨
Projecting Grief have produced a series of images to raise awareness of our Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
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So excited to see @bexmillar.bsky.social at the Narrative and Beyond workshop at Macquarie University today!!
April 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
So excited to see @bexmillar.bsky.social at the Narrative and Beyond workshop at Macquarie University today!!
I'm extremely excited to be speaking at this workshop! If you're in the Sydney area, please do come along.
You are cordially invited to register for an in-person workshop titled “Narratives and Beyond: Negotiating Experiences through Imaginative Practices,” which takes place at Macquarie University, Sydney on 22 and 23 April 2025. #philsky sites.google.com/view/narrati... 1/4
Narrative and Beyond
Throughout cultural history, human agents have engaged in imaginative practices of meaning-making to negotiate their experiences of loss, disruption, and alienation. From storytelling to painting, fro...
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March 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I'm extremely excited to be speaking at this workshop! If you're in the Sydney area, please do come along.
I was interviewed about my research on animal grief for this BBC Future article, out today. Check it out! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Why some animals appear to mourn their dead
Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also appear to suffer loss when a companion dies.
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January 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I was interviewed about my research on animal grief for this BBC Future article, out today. Check it out! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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November 29, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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I had a great time talking at this event this evening! Thanks to the lovely Cardiff and Swansea philosophy societies for facilitating it.
Lovely evening hosted by Cardiff and Swansea’s philosophical societies with Paddy McQueen and @bexmillar.bsky.social discussing the question of whether we should grieve forever 💔
#philosophy #philsky
#philosophy #philsky
December 3, 2024 at 9:21 PM
I had a great time talking at this event this evening! Thanks to the lovely Cardiff and Swansea philosophy societies for facilitating it.