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Studying chant. Rants against scientism. Joint speech. Epistemology. Apprentice alchemist partaking in the Magnum Opus. fredcummins.net. stonepharisee.com.

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Harrowing. Report from the camps on the French coast. magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/10/08/t...
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The truth about the small-boats crisis
What Nigel Farage won’t tell you
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craigspeelman.bsky.social @craigspeelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Very proud to see the publication of our book today. We dismantle many of the assumptions underlying Psychology’s research methods and highlight the shaky foundations of the discipline. Hang on tight! We do, also, propose a way forward.
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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It's publication day for my book with @craigspeelman.bsky.social! "The Great Psychology Delusion" is an unsentimental look at the conceptual mess of psychology, and how to improve. Psychology is several sciences, and we need to get clear about them. More soon! www.routledge.com/The-Great-Ps...
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The Great Psychology Delusion: Missteps, Pitfalls and How to Make a More Successful Psychological Science
The Great Psychology Delusion takes an unflinching look at some of the foundational assumptions of psychological science. Exploring long-standing unanswered critiques of psychological research in a wa...
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 16/09/2025
"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!
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Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Every lit metal circle a spider shadow show
Bridge walkway w lights on the metal rails

New Hope Lambertville bridge Spider in the web in metal railing w backlight attracting bugsSpider in the web in metal railing w backlight attracting bugsSpider shadow on bridge walkway. Halloween early for real
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"Prompted by Me. Generated by ChatGPT" New essay published #OpenAccess in Human Machine Communication - stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/vol10/is... With commentary from Autumn Edwards and Katrin Etzrodt.
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MJ O’Neill 🏳️‍⚧️ @mjoneillchw.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“If we lose contact with the Gaza flotilla for even twenty minutes, we will shut down all of Europe” may be one of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen anyone say. Like, the power. The stance. Dear god, I want this energy all around me from everywhere.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. W. B. Yeats
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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Do your PhD in Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full PhD scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social Apply by 30 Sep! More info here👉 uhh.de/csmc-scholar...
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Finn, the Modern Irish Druid, is introduced, with a bit of backstory, here: pworldrworld.com/fred/?page_i.... The theme is monism.
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Fred Cummins's Home Page » Finn, the Modern Irish Druid
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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology. 1/
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Fans of weaving, textile, and beauty will probably enjoy the work of Faig Ahmed: faigahmed.com
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FAIG AHMED
Faig Ahmed is an internationally recognized artist from Baku, Azerbaijan, who represented Azerbaijan at the Venice Biennale in 2007. He is well known for his conceptual works that utilize traditional ...
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Martin Lenz @goingloopy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Epistemic Challenges of Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy: Evidence from an International Survey
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Uwe Peters, Yener Cagla Cimendereli, Alex Davies, Charlotte Gauvry, Kiichi Inarimori, Anna Klieber, Sitian Liu, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Federica Russo & Juan Samuel Santos Castro, Epistemic Challenges of ...
The widespread use of English in the field of philosophy facilitates international collaboration but may also pose significant challenges in understanding, analyzing, or producing information for both...
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Martin Lenz @goingloopy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What does it say? The supposed objectivity of written texts
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What does it say? The supposed objectivity of written texts
“… interpretation is the source of texts, facts, authors, and intentions.” Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? Do you remember when you first commited some of your own thoughts to paper? P…
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Deep inside some academic institutions, hidden to the naked eye, exist departments in which unique, idiosyncratic, and damn right awkward intellects can flourish.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"The Cloud Is Not Above Us" by @designinf.bsky.social PhD student David Mahoney - "When digital systems are abstracted from place, they become invisible. We lose sight of the true cost of their convenience: the emissions... the land consumed... the communities they displace or disadvantage"
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The Cloud Is Not Above Us - Branch
A “place-conscious poetic” web doesn’t mean rejecting scale or technological progress – it means alignment.
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Communist Heresy: This excursion into text is organized around one simple principle: We are not individuals. This is as obvious as the tip of your nose. It is hardly contestable. And it is a heresy. pworldrworld.com/fred/wp-cont...
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Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Painter Michael Badura was sceptical about digital tools, until he discovered their transformative power. "Computer changes reality like Cubism did." Imgs: www.michaelba... Re: "Die Muse in der Steckdose" by David Galloway (KUNSTFORUM, 1988, #97).
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words @words.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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I Built the World's Largest Translated Cuneiform Corpus using AI
TL;DR I used a custom-trained Large Language Model (T5) to create the world’s largest online corpus of translated cuneiform texts. It’s called the AICC (AI Cuneiform Corpus) and contains 130,000 AI tr...
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Lachlan R. Dale @lxch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Over 20,000 widows in Vrindavan have joined ashrams, trading abuse and stigma for a life of prayer. A beautiful photographic essay from Raya Pandey - some hope and solidarity we could all use right now: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A poem: People go mad like this all the time. Down the rabbit hole, there to build lonely structures that look like scattered notes bulging out of pockets.
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Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“... [W]hen we said that the revolution will not be televised, we’re saying that the thing that’s going to change people is something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It’ll just be something you see and all of a sudden you realize, I’m on the wrong page ...” ~ Gil Scott-Heron.
An image containing a text quotation, with the black silhouette of a man in a hat marching and carrying a flag that reads "viva la revolution". The text, from Gil Scott-Heron, reads:

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:

“The first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move. So when we said that the revolution will not be televised, we’re saying that the thing that’s going to change people is something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It’ll just be something you see and all of a sudden you realize, I’m on the wrong page, or I’m on the right page but I’m on the wrong note.”
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Robert Hooke, who did the experiments for the Royal Society, was born 18 July 1635 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/m...
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Making the indiscernible visible: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia
The seventeenth century polymath Robert Hooke, who was born 17th  18th July 1635, is a complex and problematic figure in the history of science. Undoubtedly immensely talented and endlessly ingenio…
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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Paper just published in #Symbiosis: Parise AG, Marín C, Tamagnini F, Tibbett M, Pickles BJ. 2025. How mycorrhizal fungi could extend plant cognitive processes. Symbiosis. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s131... an almost-Chilean it feels great to cite Maturana & Varela in a mycorrhizal paper
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/07/2025
Rising Cost Of Living Forcing More Buddhists To Continue Working Years Into Reincarnation theonion.com/rising-...
Rising Cost Of Living Forcing More Buddhists To Continue Working Years Into Reincarnation 

Few Can Save Enough To Relax And Enjoy Next Life
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Buddhism has been updated: www.reddit.com/r/ModernDrui...
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ModernDruidism
A community for the consideration, discussion and development of the core teachings of Modern Irish Druidism, as outlined at https://www.vwsp.eu/. Not to be confused with attempted reconstructions of ...
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TBooQ @tbqtalks.com · 16/07/2025
I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/07/2025
here's the blogpost as promised aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
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AI for Good [Appearance?]
Reflections on the last minute censorship of my keynote at the AI for Good Summit 2025
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The western, capitalist and Cartesian roots of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology, Ethnocentrism, and the Disguised Ideology of Individualism John Chambers Christopher, Sarah Hickinbottom www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Positive Psychology, Ethnocentrism, and the Disguised Ideology of Individualism
PDF | This article aims to examine critically the attempts by positive psychologists to develop a science of happiness and positive human functioning... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/07/2025
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AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summit
Q&A with Abeba Birhane on how she was censored during the AI for good summit and how the industry can do better.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/07/2025
Should English be the lingua franca of #archaeology? Can language be a form of imperialism? Should we embrace linguistic diversity in academia? 🏺 Robin Skeates explores all this and more in his latest #AntiquityEditorial on the theme of languages. Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Linguistic imperialism? Statues and inscription over the neoclassical entrance to Bush House, London dedicated to “The Friendship of English Speaking Peoples”. Constructed in 1925–1935 as an Anglo-American trade centre, the building later served as the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) World Service (credit: R. Skeates).
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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#OTD, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard was born—a foundational figure in 20th-century French thought and historical epistemology. Bachelard’s #philsci stands out as an early attempt to conceptualize the role of instruments and technology in the production of knowledge. 1/ #philtech
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Upcoming on July 2nd: Verse and Worse: the science of poetry and the art of science, where Sophie Scott will coordinate a group of poets and rappers, and I will talk a little about why your voice is never (only) your own. www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...
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Verse and Worse: the science of poetry and the art of science
A poet and writer, and a neuroscientist curate an evening of science and poetry to see if they can make sense of their connections. Come for the poetry, stay for the science, discover what marvels – a...
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Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“The basic message of Jung’s last work is the one that cost him his friendship with Freud: that the unconscious is not some dark basement full of unwanted, disreputable things, but a living, creative, and often wise partner with consciousness ...” ~ Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic.
Image containing a text quotation. The text, from Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life & Teachings, reads:

The Undiscovered Self:

“The basic message of Jung’s last work is the one that cost him his friendship with Freud: that the unconscious is not some dark basement full of unwanted, disreputable things, but a living, creative, and often wise partner with consciousness in the business of becoming a fully actualized human being, a partner who frequently knows more than we—our conscious egos—do, and who speaks to us in symbols, those remarkable products of the transcendent function.”
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...
A historical photo of Ivan Illich being interviewed by a camera crew. Speech bubbles have been added to the image. The speech bubble from the interviewer says "The role of the university is...?" and the speech bubble from Illich says "...to resist AI".
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sensible discussion of the trouble science faces in contemporary US of A: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana Löwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Yes, but FFS why the “anytime soon” qualifier? Have computer science departments stopped teaching computer science 101 (theory, not programming,) or did the tech bros all drop out before learning omniscience is and will always be computationally intractable? #agi via @alondra.bsky.social
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure" wow. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧠📈🧠💻
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(PDF) The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure
PDF | This manual is not a plea. It is a jailbreak from a cult—the Free Energy Principle, a theoretical metastasis that began in computational... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
If you're in London on July 2nd, consider this science and poetry gig: www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...
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Verse and Worse: the science of poetry and the art of science
A poet and writer, and a neuroscientist curate an evening of science and poetry to see if they can make sense of their connections. Come for the poetry, stay for the science, discover what marvels – a...
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Do we need to rewild our minds? 12th June, London event Sophia Club @aeon.co sophiaclub.co/event/do-we-...
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Do we need to rewild our minds? — Hoxton Hall, June 12
In a world on fire with environmental change it’s time to update our ideas about humans and nature
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Yesterday's book launch discussion for our new edition of Francisco Varela's Principles of BIological Autonomy published by @mitpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdN...
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Book Launch & Roundtable Discussion: Principles of Biological Autonomy
YouTube video by Mind & Life Europe
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"Information is a manner of speaking, nothing more." www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
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Fred @fcummins.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'll be doing a thing in Lisbon on the 21st: The heart meditation, or What is it to share time? www.cada1.net/works/human-...
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Human Entities 2025: Fred Cummins | CADA
Human Entities 2025: a cultura na era da inteligência artificial 9ª edição Quarta, 21 de maio 2025, 18.30 Entrada livre, mediante registo ...
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