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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 5h

Very happy to say I have just started a new position as early-career researcher at RUB Bochum University @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Sad to leave @uonphilosophy.bsky.social and the UK, but looking forward to potentially 6 years of job security in a great place for mind and cognition research.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone else got their hands on this for tomorrow? It'll be my first massive online coffee tasting... #worldcoffeetasting #fermentationproject #jameshoffmann

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As you're probably tired of hearing, I have a new book out on 8th September that'll be in all good book stores, aimed at a wider audience, on the history of smell (yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...). If you have a fun podcast and you'd like to do an episode with me or invite me on I'd love to chat.

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Sniff - Yale University Press London

A remarkable account of the weird and wonderful history of smellAcross vast periods of time and around the globe, smell has been central to human life. From ...

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's new paper time! As usual, I have many thoughts about the topic and very little clue of what I'll end up arguing. Is this weird or do other philosophers feel the same? #philosophy

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Where, indeed. Such gems in Mind 1915.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A full day of diverse talks, from odour pollution to autism and olfactory sensitivity, via perfumes, the role of context, and perceptual impairments. But the highlight has to be the chocolate tasting at Luisa's Chocolates... www.instagram.com/luisasveganc... #smell #perception #philosophy

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Realised this is the first time where I'm organising a 2-day event entirely on my own, and I'm personally feeling responsible for the well-being of 15 people starting now until probably once I know they got their trains/flights back 🫠

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oh well.. Phil Imprint, PPR and Nous submissions all paused until end of summer. 😑

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Upcoming event on perceptual diversity organised by @giuliamartina.bsky.social 🍊🍏🍉🌹Excellent line-up and a wonderful topic! #philosophy #perception #smell #taste #research

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Open days this Friday and Saturday, 26-27 June! ⁣ ⁣ 9am - 4.30 in the Great Hall⁣ ⁣ During the day:⁣ 📢 tasters⁣ 💬 chat to staff and students⁣ 🎓 campus tours⁣ ☀️ sunshine⁣ 🐰 bunnies⁣ ⁣ Info: www.nottingham.ac.uk/open-days/ ⁣ #philosophy #open day #nottingham #uon

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In Italy I lived in a house with routinely 35 degrees inside for weeks in a row. My tip: take showers and put your clothes on without drying yourself, then when your hair is dry make it wet again under the sink, continuously. Generally, lie on the floor while wet and hate the whole thing.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Moving to that air-conditioned library again for the week. Among other things, I will be watching The Bear (for work!).

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Incidentally, I'm still so bad but I love doing multiballs* *roughly: someone throws endless balls at you and you need to hit them.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Sorry but I just did a table tennis session next to Tin-Tin Ho! Only at the University of Nottingham... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin-Tin...

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Tin-Tin Ho - Wikipedia

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New interdisciplinary venue for smell research! Philosophers, check out the CFP, esp. if your work connects to history, cultural history, literary studies, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, environmental humanities, heritage, curatorial & museum studies. I'm on the scientific board 😊

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Going to put my blue Japanese samue on, bring coffee and snacks and head to the library. You now it's serious work today!

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A moment to acknowledge the pure happiness of a long philosophy chat with another willing philosopher. Probably the primary thing my fellowship is enabling, and essential to how I work. #philosophy #academia

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As for all the stuff in the *, I had whooping cough (pertussis) as a child as that vaccine wasn't routine ...it's not just cough. A several months ordeal, very very much not recommend.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I was just thinking how I already really liked Düsseldorf because of the Japanese and Korean people and I now love it because of the growing Chinese population which is bringing even more great food and culture. And I bet that already sounds less far right-suitable...

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In better news, I'm organising a workshop 'Smell & Taste: Perceptual diversity', 6-7 July at the University of Nottingham. If anyone is around here, you're very welcome to join! List of speakers and link to register here www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d... #perception #smell #taste #philosophy

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Smell & Taste: Perceptual Diversity - The University of Nottingham

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Mobile network outage, laptop meltdown and HR / salary mess... 😑 Eyes closed and trust that I'll come through the other side 😑

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Tuner is good: funny, cute characters, and uniquely centring hyperacusis. And boy will you hear some sounds! Metallic, piercing, overwhelming sounds - besides much piano. I liked this, it helps get a sense of a condition which spellcheck still doesn't recognise. (1) #perception #senses #hyperacusis

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

First observation can be made before film starts: no one in this cinema has hyperacusis...

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

For a good 30 seconds I thought the method was looking at very kawaii tomatoes trying to silently communicate with you. I might try that one.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Going to see Tuner this week as it's likely the first film featuring hyperacusis and hyperacusis is very cool (from a philosophical pov) - very not cool to have it. Will report back. youtu.be/4bYt1n4tzZg

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TUNER Trailer | TIFF 2026

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I can't explain the sheer happiness of finding out that the 24-hour campus library has airconditioning and iced coffee.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Reminded of the first time I tried cold brew and I thought I was going to die.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Slowly watching the recordings of the World Team Table Tennis Championships, just about at the quarter finals. On campus this week students were good at not spoilering...except they all came to practice with a team China jersey 😬

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

You will have seen these news. This is so sad as it's a great place to work and study at. Lucky to be sheltered from all this, but the atmosphere is grim here.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Dawes Hicks quote of the day (1912). A little argument against Russell (spoiler: it's a good one!):

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that colour is inherent in the table, suppose the table has in reality a specific colour. Then, surely, there would be nothing to conflict with this supposition in the fact that such real colour will present a different aspect if another colour be reflected upon it, or if a blue pair of spectacles intervene between it and the observer, or if it be enveloped in darkness rather than in daylight. The reasoning would only be valid on the assumption that if the table is really coloured, the real colour must appear the same in darkness and in daylight, through a pair of blue spectacles and without them, in artificial light and in the sun's light,-an assumption extremely improbable, to say the least of it, and for which there is absolutely no warrant.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Dawes Hicks quote of the day (1913):

Experience does not advance by a gradual building up of the concrete objects of perception from originally isolated and detached sensibilia. We do not start with the apprehension of innumerable patches of colour, with visual presentations of form and of magnitude, with tactual presentations of hardness, smoothness, and the like, and out of such definite appearances construct the complexes which are designated ‘things’.

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Alfredo Vernazzani @alfredovernazzani.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

We are proud to announce a new SI on Phil Studies on "Relationalism and Its Discontents," find below the CfP — open until November 2027. link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #philosophyofperception #relationalism #philosophicalstudies #cfp #philbluesky

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Up next: late night table tennis training with the 19 year old kids after a month break. Pray for me.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

'Ammo', 'culprit' and 'outrage' all originate from English people misunderstanding French lol. youtube.com/shorts/i8so0...

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When English doesn’t understand French…

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My first impulse was to say Berkeley's Dialogues, which to me is so much fun I had my students act it out. I wonder if I'm just weird 😁 #perception

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

People who do academic philosophy. What are some fun philosophy essays? Any topic any date of publication. Must be in English and no more than 25-30ish pages long.

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New ITTF documentary about the history of my favourite sport. Amazing moment when the two Korean women's teams joined forces mid-event in 2018 and won bronze! youtu.be/GZCYLy8NRnY?...

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Who is the TT GOAT? | 100 Years of Table Tennis

YouTube video by ITTFWorld

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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Very interesting graduate conference on 'Styles of perception' at York. There's still time to submit! sites.google.com/view/styleso... #philosophy #perception

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Styles of Perception

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Ofer Perl @oferperl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We are recruiting! My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory. Please help me spread the word #newPI #academia #neurostuff

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Guy Longworth @guylongworth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

JOB: Philosophy at Warwick are advertising two one-year Teaching Fellowships. Come and work with us! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

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Teaching Fellow x2 (111540-0426) - University of Warwick

Title: Teaching Fellow x2 (111540-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term

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