JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 03/10/2025If we, as interpersonal objects, are socially constructed through and through, then whatever we construct, science for example, is socially constructed as well. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I’m not a fan of common sense, but isn’t that just common sense? 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 01/10/2025A publication I'm proud to have contributed to. On the relation of Tourette's to neurodiversity. And therefore on neurodiversity as such. It covers ground I also cover in my book. You can only claim diversity when you actually listen to diversity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....journals.sagepub.comCan the Neurodiversity Movement Make Space for Tourette's? Dialoguing Lived Experiences and Theory 000
Reposted by JoBGert-Jan Vanaken @gertjanvanaken.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"Can the #Neurodiversity Movement make space for #Tourette's?" Excited to share our new Open Access paper in neurodiversityjrnl.bsky.social ! shorturl.at/K9U9p 341
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 03/02/2025They have read the literature on minority well. They just apply it to the majority. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 21/01/2025January 20th 2025, the day that doomscrolling was shortened to scrolling. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 16/12/2024We had 80 years of economic growth in which to reach 0.7% of GDP spent on helping those we exploited. We didn’t. We have had a single decade to increase military spending to go over the 2% mark to protect our privilege. Yes, we can! 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Still waiting to be discovered. I appear to be too well hidden. 020
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Some times are for collective action. Some for collective inaction. 020
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024On the one hand, the world is going to hell. On the other, we have Ana Lua Caiano to listen to. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 27/05/2024Prefaces of books I probably will never write. Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn Best phrase: "Two brother’s wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked." open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...open.substack.comBeing Bo(h)rnPreface B 122
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 12/05/2024Prefaces of books I probably will not write. Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy. Best phrase: “They clearly never met me with my mother”. open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...open.substack.comAn Autistic History of PhilosophyPreface A 012
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 08/05/2024The word "reward" has been the least rewarding word in our present culture. Hooked on rewards, we become oblivious to our environment. Reward isn't just reductive, it reduces experience to nought. Luckily @sandervdc.bsky.social & I take reward down. thereisnoreward.substack.com/p/the-reward...thereisnoreward.substack.comThe reward of there being no rewardAn opening dialogue to our Substack 001
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 06/05/2024Truth is the weapon of authoritarianism. The currency of democracy is trust. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 18/01/2024Human beings are just a naturally occurring vortex that maximally dissipates energy of the Sun into heat. We're just overdoing it these last centuries & should chill for a while. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 17/01/2024Maybe the Big Freeze is coming, but let us anyway enjoy our couple of millions of years under this Sun. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Continental philosophers dismiss French philosophy because it is too scientific, whilst analytic philosophers dismiss French philosophy because is it too scientific. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 20/10/2023We humans are so proud we'd rather extinguish ourselves than give any chance to the climate to extinguish us. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 19/10/2023We have a word for all this: unsustainable. The actions of the West are those of someone who is hooked. In our case, we're addicted to our privilege. 000
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 11/10/2023I feel the urgent need to apologize for the generations of my children. We f***ed up and it is simply not enough to say we did our best to avoid decisions that blew up in their youth. It is not enough because their elders failed them and they, still, resist owning up to this failure being ours. 000
Reposted by JoBKristien @kristien.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Hi, I am a bioethics professor at the University of Antwerp. I am interested in #posthuman approaches to #bioethics, #neurodiversity. I am a #duolingo addict. I wrote a book which is freely available at the amazing publisher #OpenBookPublishers. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...openbookpublishers.comChance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged PlanetIn this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the ph... 141
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 10/10/2023I am going to teach an introduction to feminist philosophy to 18 or so high school kids. By the look of me that will be quite a challenge. I can only hope my autism is as strong today as the subject matter I'm teaching is. 000
Reposted by JoBKristien @kristien.bsky.social · 09/10/2023#NeuroEpigenEthics closing conference! Great programme, great people! www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...uantwerpen.beNeuroEpigenEthics Closing Conference | NeuroEpigenEthics Closing Conference | University of Antwerp 042
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 09/10/2023When confronted with the situation in the world today, one is living an experience neither/nor under the pressure of having to choose either/or. Even Kierkegaard was a modern as to the inescapability of a binary choice whereas we know (ànd feel!) it is precisely such choice that makes the misery. 010
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 05/10/2023In teaching introductory philosophy courses, what strikes me is that students find the philosophical underpinnings of ideas we take for granted in the West incredibly unfathomable. The opposite happens with ideas that are critical for this modern, Western consensus, whether feminist or postcolonial. 110
Reposted by JoBSander Van de Cruys @sandervdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review. With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comInsight in the Conspiracist’s Mind - Sander Van de Cruys, Jo Bervoets, Stephen Gadsby, David Gijbe...Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist, “Do your own research,” may seem ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical de... 1157
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Achieving unrealistic goals is one thing. Setting new, realistic goals quite another. 010
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 29/09/2023I never was much of a follower. I get nervous when followed. Maybe what I need is anti-socials? 030
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 27/09/2023The only sustainable use of the concept of nation states lies in the organization of inter-nation-al sports competitions. A truly Olympic thought. 010
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 24/09/2023A new theory of evolution: survival of the unfittest. Evolution is to adapt to new environments. The relative unfitness w.r.t. existing environments has to be compensated for by parental love. The more adaptable one is, the more love (trust) will be required. Weakness, then, is its own recompense. 010
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Today on Twitter somebody said that David Chalmers was the real problem of cognitive science. That maybe was the most sensible cognitive science thing to be said on Twitter today. 040
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Hi. I'm an autistic philosopher who worked on Tourette's and epigenetics for his PhD, and who has become obsessed with Bohr's concept of complementarity. In psychiatry, this means phenomena are to be both understood and explained. And in psychology that neither enactivism nor PP are, strictly, true.frontiersin.orgGoing Beyond the Catch-22 of Autism Diagnosis and Research. The Moral Implications of (Not) Asking �...Psychiatric diagnoses like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are primarily based on purely behavioral criteria. The aim of most of the biomedical research on ASD is to uncover the underlying mechanisms t... 041
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 14/09/2023People who are fake friendly need sometimes to be met with a bit of unfriendliness. Ma non troppo. 010
JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 13/09/2023First post: a paper on Tourette’s, in which we argue that being open to the first person experiences allows to break open the stalemate of the purely pathological view. And, that it puts the environment in focus of creating some Tourettic problems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....onlinelibrary.wiley.comLetting Tourette's be: The importance of understanding lived experience in research and the clinicFirst-person perspective of a Tourettic research participant looking down on their hand. They hold a gemstone that they compulsively press their index finger tip into. It took place while they were c.... 0105