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Eros Carvalho

@filosofemas.bsky.social
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Prof. at UFRGS/CNPq | Interested in philosophy of cognitive sciences, ecological psychology, enactivism, know-how, perception and epistemology. EN/PT. philpeople.org/profiles/eros-moreir…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Brazilian democracy has many flaws, and far-right sectors remain very much active. Yet Bolsonaro’s fate — and with it, the fate of democracy — was shaped by...a practical reversal of the U.S. model..." Cristina Buarque de Hollanda for @sunsentinel.bsky.social www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/07/09/l...
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Lessons from the South: How Brazil held onto its democracy | Opinion
After supporters rioted and trashed government buildings in the U.S. and Brazil, Donald Trump returned to power, but Jair Bolsonaro went to jail. The two countries’ institutions explain why.
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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Some of the papers in this (good and timely!) Synthese issue on collective attention are coming out just now link.springer.com/collections/...
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Collective Attention
Attention is usually thought of as prioritization in the individual mind—for example, selecting an object to act on or centring something in one’s ...
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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Mulheres também sabem filosofia" 🇧🇷👩‍🎓 Iniciativa incrível de um banco de dados de filosofas brasileiras. Por favor, compartilhem! Já mandei meu cadastro! #phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio
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Mulheres Também Sabem Filosofia
Projeto acadêmico focado em dar visibilidade a pesquisadoras na área da filosofia. Conheça projetos, entrevistas e a produção filosófica de mulheres.
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Marcos Fanton @tomecicuta.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.
cartaz do simpósio sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de David Ludwig e Charbel El-Hani com os debatedores Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Eros Carvalho, Sarita Albagli e Ulysses Albuquerque. O evento ocorrerá dia 10 de fevereiro, das 9h30 à 11h30. O prazo para inscrição é até o dia 06 de fevereiro pelo link http://bit.ly/4jtM3rD. A organização é de Pedro Bravo e Marcos Fanton.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 23/12/2025
Interesting piece on the “one good use” of LLMs by @cthos.dev. His summary: “if you care about accuracy and learning, you shouldn’t be using an LLM for anything”. alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_a_cog…
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This -> "We have deprived the youth of the joys of discovery, the thrill to feel yourself close to an answer, and the wonderful, rewarding feeling of a moment of lucidity after hard work."
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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Perhaps of interest to some of you. "Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures.. cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...
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Scripto_Asinine or sound minds?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/11/2025
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
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ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned. Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...
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Deborah Danowski @debidanowski.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Mudanças climáticas agravam a poluição por plásticos. O clima mais quente aumenta a toxicidade dos plásticos, envenenando desproporcionalmente os grandes mamíferos.
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Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change | Climate & Capitalism
Warmer climate increases plastics’ toxicity, disproportionately poisoning large mammals…
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Laura Danón @ldanon.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My new paper has just been published online in @journalphp.bsky.social! Popperian animals and instrumental reasoning: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Popperian animals and instrumental reasoning: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Due to severe economic inequalities in the Global South, we have emphasized this point from the beginning. This is very important to us. Since I started teaching from Miranda's book, students themselves have pointed out the lack of examples and discussion about class-based social prejudices.
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...?
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Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Perspectival Realism + Ecological Psychology = Ecological Perspectivism "Science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities." #PhilSci #PsycSci
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.
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Ecological Perspectivism: Understanding Perspectival Realism through Ecological Psychology - PhilSci-Archive
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Cover:
The cover of my book 'Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction' with the title, my name, and the Routledge logo in white, on a multicoloured image of a diverse group of people, each a different colour and overlapping with the others, all talking.
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Michael David Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
'The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism' (Kirchhoff, Kiverstein & Robertson) has finally made its way into the ahead of print stage with The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0
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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Ahead of print
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
NDPR review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-... "If the principal entanglement at the heart of this book is that between art and philosophy, its main insight—and one, appropriately enough, that engagements with both art and philosophy bring into view—is that pretty much everything is tangled up."
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The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us Who We Are
One of the features of philosophical discourse that distinguishes it from most other branches of scientific and humanistic enquiry is the lack of widesp...
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The principles of charity and good faith are prima facie applicable, yet they should not prevent us from recognizing that there are foolish or malicious individuals in this world.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 14/07/2025
Study finds #AI tools made open source software developers slower. But then AI was never about saving time, but doing a highly skilled job with unskilled labour. #AIHype apple.news/AlEakH6o2Rr2...
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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This has to stop: "According to one recent study, in 2020 alone, academics globally spent more than 100 million hours peer reviewing papers for journals. For experts in the US, the time spent reviewing that year amounted to more than $1.5bn of free labour." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Sempre bom lembrar e pontuar a falta de limites para a hipocrisia dos extremistas da direita na sua "defesa" da liberdade de expressão.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 09/06/2025
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Submissions invited for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900 Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies. Deadline: October 10, 2025 www.duchateletprize.org #HPS
Homepage for Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics with famous painting of Du Châtelet by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Remembering the smug AI hype man who in 2023 told me that factuality/confabulation would be a solved problem by summer 2024, tops. I told him that you can’t fix a problem that is also at the core of what the machine does well. He laughed at me, then got kinda quiet
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
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Robin McKenna @rbnmckenna.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
My paper (w/ Hrishikesh Joshi) on why listening is A Very Good Thing is now officially published. It argues, among other things, that critical and constructive listening is crucial to maintaining the epistemic commons. It's open access. doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
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The duty to listen
In philosophical work on the ethics of conversational exchange, much has been written regarding the speaker side—i.e., on the rights and duties we have as speakers. This paper explores the relatively...
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A desk rejection is sometimes inevitable, given the high number of submissions a prestigious journal receives. However, we from the Global South have every reason to suspect that bias might also be among the implicit reasons for such empty feedback.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025
the most powerful & wealthiest corporations whose business models relies on theft, rights infringements, environmental destruction, aggressive data collection & surveillance say that the regulatory guardrails developed to tame them are a “step in the wrong direction” www.politico.eu/article/goog...
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EU rules for advanced AI are step in wrong direction, Google says
Google and Meta are leading the charge against a “code of practice” governing tools like Gemini, ChatGPT and Llama.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/03/2025
ProPublica is one of the best independent tech journalism outlets out there doing an amazing job keeping big tech accountable. glad they're hiring more people... apply if you fit the bill
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Ben Young @benyoung.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
For those interested in books about smell, taste, and flavor I made a short (eclectic) list of recommendations shepherd.com/best-books/s... #philosophy #perception #Smell #Taste
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The best introductory books on smell and flavor
Benjamin Young shares the 5 best books on smell and flavor. Have you read What the Nose Knows?
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 05/02/2025
#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
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Ad Astra Fellow in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology - UCD School of Philosophy
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Wonderful short book by Lauren Ross on how to think about explanations in the biological sciences, including brains. A lot of the focus is on causal explanations but also the need to go beyond them and how these other types of explanation connect to causation (or not).
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It is plainly obvious, but I hadn't previously associated the meaningless operations of the men in Searle's Chinese room with the meaningless, fragmentary work in our modern society, dominated by rationalization and the division of labor. Thanks to Edward Reed (The Necessity of Experience).
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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New Mary dropped: getting a sense of smell for the first time! This is a great video. Personal highlight: 'it smells like bicyle tracks look'. youtu.be/Mi0bw5ZXYtQ #olfaction #philsenses #perception #philosophy
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I got Surgery to Smell for the First Time
YouTube video by James Chewbonic
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In the upcoming years, I will not visit the US. If they treat immigrants badly, I also do not want to be there, either as a tourist or as an academic visitor.
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As expected: "Despite ChatGPT reportedly outperforming 99.9% of humans in a Verbal IQ test, it falls short of passing the Turing Test. In 9 out of the 10 tests conducted, the interrogators successfully identified ChatGPT-4 and the human participant." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ChatGPT-4 in the Turing Test - Minds and Machines
There has been considerable optimistic speculation on how well ChatGPT-4 would perform in a Turing Test. However, no minimally serious implementation of the test has been reported to have been carried...
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
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World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 17/01/2025
The Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social is the 150th organisation to be added to my list and starter pack of philosophy organisations, all of which are featured in my #Philosophy feed alongside posts from every area of academic philosophy: bsky.app/profile/did:.... #PhilSky
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A picturesque way of referring to the surprising unknown that inhabits love. "There are some people or faces I want to keep experiencing and learning more about for the rest of my life, and I hope this is true for everyone reading this book." (Edward Reed)
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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Y'all know Mary the Colour Scientist, right? That's because in 1982 The Philosophical Quarterly published 'Epiphenomenal Qualia', featuring Frank Jackson's legendary thought experiment. We've put together an Open Access VI of PQ, celebrating Frank Jackson's work: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/mar...
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Mary the Colour Scientist
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/01/2025
"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril" www.ft.com/content/63c3...

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	The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril.

As many as 80 new gas-fired power plants will be built in the US by 2030, said energy consultancy Enverus, adding 46 gigawatts of capacity — the size of the electricity system in Norway and nearly 20 per cent more than was added in the past five years.

The capacity surge is expected to unfold during the second presidential term of Donald Trump, who has vowed to keep fossil fuels at the centre of the US economy, and signals a reversal of earlier forecasts for natural gas capacity to fall in the next five years.

“Gas is actually growing faster now, and in the medium term, than ever before,” said Corianna Mah, a research analyst at Enverus.

The expansion will imperil Biden administration climate targets, which called for greenhouse gas emissions to fall by 50-52 per cent from 2005 levels by the end of the decade and the grid to be 100 per cent carbon-pollution free by 2035.

“For natural gas to have a role in a decarbonised energy system, its emissions must be mitigated to the maximum extent possible,” said Armond Cohen, executive director at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental non-profit.



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	US gas power plants emitted more than 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide last year, up nearly 4 per cent in a year and the highest on record, according to data from Ember, an energy think-tank.

None of the planned gas plants tracked by Enverus will come equipped with carbon capture systems. While the Biden administration required new facilities to include the technology starting in 2032, Trump is expected to scrap or weaken the rule.

Wood Mackenzie and S&P Global Market Intelligence said US capacity growth in total could increase even more quickly, by 35 per cent and 66 per cent, respectively, over five years, compared with the buildout in the previous half decade.
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Se puder plantar, plante; se puder comer menos carne, coma; se puder apoiar movimentos ambientalistas, apoie; se puder votar em políticos comprometidos com o meio ambiente, vote; se puder encantar a sua relação com Gaia, encante. E, melhor ainda, se puder fazer uma revolução, faça.
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Boaz Miller, The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge Free download until Jan. 31. Cambridge Element - Philosophy of Science #philsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge
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Ben Young @benyoung.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
CFP: Olfactory Philosophy Workshop at UNR Lake Tahoe philevents.org/event/show/1... Please spread the CFP widely to PhD students and ECRs - the deadline is January 31
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Olfactory Philosophy Workshop
Call For Papers: Olfactory Philosophy, April 30 - May 3, 2025 The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno will be hosting a workshop on Olfactory Philosophy April 30 - May 3, 2025 a...
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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Tenho preferido fazer vídeos curtos a tirar fotos dos seres que habitam comigo. Quando tiramos fotos, abstraímos o que há de mais característico na vida: o movimento. É um registro pálido dos encontros que temos com o outro.
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