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Yoi Kawakubo
@yoi-kawakubo.bsky.social
Spain-born Japanese artist, researcher, film-maker. Based in London and Tokyo.
Interests: the ontology of photography, the limits of knowledge, avisuality and invisibility in the nuclear, the logics of financial markets.
https://www.yoikawakubo.com/
If anyone is interested in a 1–12 month-research fellowship in Japan, The JSPS London Short-Term Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship seems to be now open.
Start: Aug 2026–Mar 2027
Application Deadline: 19 Jan 2026 (09:00 UK)
Details: www.jsps.org/upcoming/202...
JSPS London : Upcoming 2026 JSPS London Call for the Short Term Pre/postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan (1st call for 2026)
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) is Japan's leading funding agency and is largely funded through annual subsidies from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science...
www.jsps.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On Wed I'll be joining an online talk organised by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) on how art can confront atomic bomb violence! 11 Dec, 11pm JST/ 9:00am EST/ 2:00pm GMT/ 3:00pm CET. zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@fairpicture_org, @bakushin2025, @artistsagainstthebomb and more.
#ArtForPeace
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Atomic Bomb Survivor Stories Through Art Event #3 - Dismantling Nuclear Weapons Narratives. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about j...
THIRD EVENT - 11 DECEMBER 2025 9:00AM EST (NEW YORK) This special program will explore research and creative practices that challenge dominant narratives shaping public understanding of nuclear weapon...
zoom.us
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Doctoral Student positions available at the Rachel Carson Center Munich to study socioecological implications of nuclear sites decommissioning in Germany and Belgium (m/f/x) job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3...
Doctoral Student positions available at the Rachel Carson Center Munich to study socioecological implications of nuclear sites decommissioning in Germany and Belgium (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Yoi Kawakubo
🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 FY2025 JSPS London Call for the Short Term Pre/postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan (Final Call for FY2025)
🗓 Fellowship period: 1 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
⏰ Deadline: Monday 26 May 2025 at 09:00 (UK time)
🔗 More info & apply here
April 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reposted by Yoi Kawakubo
If only! So many people want to unpack their deep thoughts on the headline! (Or, to be fair, the picture.)
With the influx of Bluesky users, I'm starting to see more unfortunate behaviors that made Twitter a miserable experience, even before Musk took over.

So a few helpful hints to keep this place happy, clean, and useful!

1) Read articles before commenting......
March 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Over on FB, I've launched my annual year-end fundraiser for Oil Change International, the brilliant climate group on whose board I've served since 2017. The fundraising apparatus isn't available here, but if you're so moved oilchange.org

and thank you!
Oil Change International
Oil Change International works to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate a just transition to clean energy. Data driven, people powered.
oilchange.org
December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
After exploring different options over the past few months, I am settling on this flow: reading papers either in print or PDFs on the iPad, annotating them in Zotero, importing them into Obsidian and writing in Scribd.
But still figuring out the best way to manage references from Zotero to Scribd...
December 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Hotels, short-term rentals and event ticket-sellers must advertise prices to include service fees, cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the totals that are advertised to consumers, the FTC announced on Tuesday. Here’s what to know.
Hidden ‘Junk’ Fees Must Be Disclosed, F.T.C. Rule Says
Hotels, short-term rentals and event ticket-sellers must advertise the full price of their offerings under the rule, which is supposed to go into effect in the coming year. Here’s what to know.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I feel that hope is made of sleep
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 PM