Joshua Hurtado
@joshuahh.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the University of Helsinki, studying political aspects of degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
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Death and power: call for papers
Submit your abstract to our 2026 Annual
Conference!
17-19 June, online
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Submit your abstract to our 2026 Annual
Conference!
17-19 June, online
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
CDAS conference 2026 - call for contributions
The CDAS conference 2026: death and power - is now open for contributions!
www.bath.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Death and power: call for papers
Submit your abstract to our 2026 Annual
Conference!
17-19 June, online
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Submit your abstract to our 2026 Annual
Conference!
17-19 June, online
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
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BIG NEWS! The Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies, eds. Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska is finally out! 63 chapters and 73 contributors.
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
BIG NEWS! The Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies, eds. Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska is finally out! 63 chapters and 73 contributors.
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384
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New utopian pulse is out! 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? www.uu.nl/en/opinion/a...
This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...
This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...
AI images for dreaming or ghosting?
There is much to say about the implications of using AI to depict so-called better worlds, with already numerous critiques of bias, labour exploitation, and energy unsustainability. Or even worse, the...
www.uu.nl
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New utopian pulse is out! 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? www.uu.nl/en/opinion/a...
This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...
This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...
The immortality projects that emerge from within (techno-)capitalism expand the frontiers of capital to new areas of life - including death and immortality 😑. I explored this topic in my article 'Exploited in immortality', published in the journal Mortality.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The immortality projects that emerge from within (techno-)capitalism expand the frontiers of capital to new areas of life - including death and immortality 😑. I explored this topic in my article 'Exploited in immortality', published in the journal Mortality.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.
Folks, the way to read the NYT article about OpenAI and higher education is to recognize that the person OpenAI hired to lead their effort came from Coursera. Remember when Coursera and MOOCs were going to cause the reinvention of higher education?
June 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.
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I am dead. I’m actually just inert matter now.
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I am dead. I’m actually just inert matter now.
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20/ @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social returns to the need for academics to create space to help develop imaginaries that we can unite behind.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
October 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
20/ @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social returns to the need for academics to create space to help develop imaginaries that we can unite behind.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
We're directed to this book...
mayflybooks.org/future-for-a...
But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
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My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
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Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds
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New response out! timotheeparrique.com/a-response-t...
October 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
New response out! timotheeparrique.com/a-response-t...
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There's only so much a movement can accomplish by movement-ing alone! Ultimately, they need to build broad-based solidarities and coalitions, a strategy that XR could invest in more . You may like the arguments we make here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/decolonizing-environmentalism-9781350335493/
Decolonizing Environmentalism
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…
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October 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
There's only so much a movement can accomplish by movement-ing alone! Ultimately, they need to build broad-based solidarities and coalitions, a strategy that XR could invest in more . You may like the arguments we make here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/decolonizing-environmentalism-9781350335493/
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
This reminds me of the 2002 movie S1m0ne, where Al Pacino's character creates a digital actress to avoid dealing with real actors. It goes terribly wrong for him.
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This reminds me of the 2002 movie S1m0ne, where Al Pacino's character creates a digital actress to avoid dealing with real actors. It goes terribly wrong for him.
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As European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform!
Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching
Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...
Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching
Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...
June 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
As European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform!
Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching
Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...
Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching
Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...
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When we talk "renewables" we need to consider recycling and degrowth principles, it's as simply as that. We can't afford the same number of e-cars, as they need a broader range of metal-based materials, whose extraction is already related to deforestation.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Metal mining is a global driver of environmental change - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Global metal ore extraction has increased almost fourfold since 1970. This Review explores the drivers, patterns and environmental consequences of the growth of metal ore extraction and discusses interventions to reduce negative impacts across metal supply chains.
www.nature.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When we talk "renewables" we need to consider recycling and degrowth principles, it's as simply as that. We can't afford the same number of e-cars, as they need a broader range of metal-based materials, whose extraction is already related to deforestation.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead:
#academicsky
#academicsky
September 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead:
#academicsky
#academicsky
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Why has an intelligent and articulate woman wearing a mask and speaking at the UN provoked an aggressive response from some media outlets?
Because her mask and her words have profoundly perturbed people at a deeply subconscious level. The nature of that perturbation is fear.
Because her mask and her words have profoundly perturbed people at a deeply subconscious level. The nature of that perturbation is fear.
3. As such, fulfilling this need requires a shared societal agreement to embrace vast cognitive dissonance. Those who choose not to be part of this agreement will, inevitably, be deemed as having a mental health condition (Foucault understood this phenomena very well indeed).
September 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Why has an intelligent and articulate woman wearing a mask and speaking at the UN provoked an aggressive response from some media outlets?
Because her mask and her words have profoundly perturbed people at a deeply subconscious level. The nature of that perturbation is fear.
Because her mask and her words have profoundly perturbed people at a deeply subconscious level. The nature of that perturbation is fear.
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A new documentary film released by CFI explores what does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digital immortality - LCFI
What does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence? That’s the topic of a new documentary film released by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI). The film is b...
www.lcfi.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A new documentary film released by CFI explores what does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Not exaggerating when I say I owe some of my greatest professional wins to gracious editors and reviewers. Unsung heroes of the profession.
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Not exaggerating when I say I owe some of my greatest professional wins to gracious editors and reviewers. Unsung heroes of the profession.
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📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social.
academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
Volume 101 Issue 3 | International Affairs | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Publishes content across the entire discipline of international relations and is renowned for its academically rigo...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social.
academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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Kurokawa Onsen. Words fail to describe
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Kurokawa Onsen. Words fail to describe
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This month marks our 4-year anniversary! We are working hard on a special DDD17 episode to celebrate which will be released asap!
In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue!
open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue!
open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
Dr. Kaylee Alexander on digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ethically sound data visualisation and survival bias
open.spotify.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This month marks our 4-year anniversary! We are working hard on a special DDD17 episode to celebrate which will be released asap!
In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue!
open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue!
open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
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Some pointers to writing a series of papers from the same project patthomson.net/2025/09/21/w...
Writing multiple articles from one set of data
So you’ve got this mountain of “stuff” that keeps revealing new secrets every time you look at it. Or maybe you’re doing a PhD by publication and panicking about how to sort out the art…
patthomson.net
September 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Some pointers to writing a series of papers from the same project patthomson.net/2025/09/21/w...