@pfvelasco
British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Working across philosophy and cognitive science. Interested in disorientation, navigation, and ecological grief. pablofernandezvelasco.com
Call for expressions of interest — Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory - 30 Apr–1 May 2026
Artists, researchers & activists from across Scotland are invited to contribute to this two-day multimedia gathering exploring memory, ritual, cosmology and resistance.
Contact Safet safet.hm@stir.ac.uk
So excited to hear that this is in the works. Queer Phenomenology is a wonderful book, so I can’t wait for the sequel. Specially in such disorienting times.
I'm someone who spends a lot of time thinking about LLMs, and I have no idea how they would improve the selection of targets in a war. Except for one obvious affordance - they offload accountability.
They used a fucking *chatbot* to suggest targets?!? And 175 girls were killed when their school was bombed. Trump and Hegseth belong in the Hague. 🤬 #Trumpland #USFascism
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation
Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!
The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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A new paper co-authored by Centre researcher Dale Leorke rethinks the university library beyond the repository.
If the library is still the “heart of the campus”, what does it now embody?
doi.org/10.1080/0307...
Last novel I thoroughly enjoyed reading was Disorientation by @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social
Whatever the context, this is an eternal and undeniable truth:
A reminder of what some of these asylum policies are:
- giving refugees only 2.5 years of leave, meaning the Home Office has to review their status every 30 months
- quadrupling the time to settlement from 5 years to 20 years
- no automatic way to be reunited with close family members
This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.
#c4news
Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.
I'm hiring again!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
Reading these two stories today has really made me think of Terminator's Skynet.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Our co-edited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars is out: academic.oup.com/book/62270#l... (hardback to follow). Our ch 2 is OA academic.oup.com/book/62270/c.... We discuss how to better integrate local knowledge into ocean governance esp #BBNJ implementation.
Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
The machine in its quest to sound authoritative ended up sounding like a KCPE graduate who scored an 'A' in English Composition. It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-... HT @timblackwell.bsky.social @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
I just pre-ordered this. Very much looking to reading it. It sounds fascinating, and very timely.
Registration open 🎉
MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
Congratulations, Nicolás 🎉 This was a particularly competitive round, so it is a massive achievement.
Self by Adrian J. T. Alsmith: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.efd6ccc3
Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.
Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.
Tell the government to end the contract!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Day 2 of Affective Atmospheres began with a panel on Atmospheres & Decay.
Slides from Ruth Olden’s presentation — Everyday atmospheric encounters with the remnants of the 1938 Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.
How do the traces of past spectacles linger in everyday life?
Now out in Philosophy & Technology!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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