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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People who’ve defended a PhD should be entitled to one free lobotomy, just to forget all the job applications they sent and never heard back from. #IfIWerePresident

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy fall! ✨️🍁🥹🖤🎃

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

About to join a very exciting project recovering German Philosophy of Psychiatry 🖤 Before I disappear into it, here’s something I wrote in 2019 about the early phenomenology of depression, time and patients avoiding weddings because they’d last too long. nathaliadeavila.substack.com/p/how-postwa...

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My new post is about Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, their affair in Köln and the story that gave us the poem "Köln, am Hof". Love and historical trauma are entangled in Celan’s poetry bc of Bachmann and the influence of Husserl, Heidegger and Adorno. nathaliadeavila.substack.com/p/in-memory-...

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In memory of Paul Celan, in memory of Cologne

How a secret love affair in Cologne birthed the German expression Herzzeit, which names a poetic dimension where memory, historical trauma and love have to co-exist.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

CFP: Walking-with the past: Embodiment, environment, and narrative for articles that explore walking as a mnemonic, narrative and pedagogical practice that produces, discloses and reconfigures cultural and (auto)biographical memories in particular places platform.openjournals.nl/LOCUS/call-f...

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Call For Papers | Locus–Tijdschrift voor Cultuurwetenschappen

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The fact that a superficial approach as radical enactivism wants to tackle psychiatry is already strange. But arguing that the various forms of sense-making should be eliminated from our models is the greatest disservice I have ever seen in various levels, even ethical ones.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In-person places for Interdisciplinary approaches to space and place — workshop with keynote from Jeff Malpas — are fully booked. Online registration remains open, so you can still register to join the workshop online. Wednesday 16 September, 10.15am–6pm Register: placememory.net/interdiscipl...

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Interdisciplinary approaches to space and place

A hybrid workshop on the neglected distinction between space and place — and what’s lost when disciplines like memory studies, cognitive science and environmental psychology gloss over it. This wor…

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Two talks coming up in Brazil 🇧🇷 At Santa Maria, I’ll be presenting "Remembering with Machines: Varieties of Memory Functions in AI-Mediated Grief", and at the USP Phil of Mind group, I’ll talk about my thesis and how models of enactive psychiatry can reframe memory concepts.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nazi psyche is so puzzling. Besides the fetishization of fertility when they don't like women at all, I can't follow the reasoning behind bitching about the Bauhaus in favor of a “traditional German” aesthetic, since that often leads to very ugly things.

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the best photoshoot I have ever seen in my life about anything forever

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José Carlos Camillo @zecamillo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy to share that my paper 'A reappraisal of the function of episodic memory' has been published in EJPS. In it, I reassess different types of evidence regarding the evolution of episodic memory in order to defend a mnemonic view of its function. It's open access! doi.org/10.1007/s131...

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Client Challenge

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fabulous opportunity for a feminist philosopher interested in coming to Germany!

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pictures I took from people I don't know. My favorite one is the pic of four little girls, but I took with an ipad when I was 22 and the resolution is what it is. It ended up looking like a scan of a postcard or so.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The discrepancy between what is actually being presented to him (the message from the university) vs. the embellished post with “allowing me to stay” when an investigation is ongoing and no one wants to see his face. Not impressive interpretation skills for a philosopher.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Scholars from Ghent have initiated another open letter, which is very detailed, in which they explain why they support Cofnas' suspension and why his research is ethically problematic. Read it in full and sign it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton me lembra dessa cena, que deve ter me ensinado alguma emoção situada entre sentir fofura e vergonha alheia ao mesmo tempo, que creio nem ter nome em português youtu.be/67RKQF4TnBY?...

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Lorelai sings 'I Will Always Love You'

YouTube video by Gilmore Gags

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I promised myself not to insult any nazis on-line out of the blue today for the sake of my mental health, then I just joined this group to practice the same uderlying aim (i.e. being helpful to society):

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am reading what is written and taught by certain ppl in Ghent. The main claims of one of the papers is explained here (a defense of the end of liberalism aiming at nationalism and anti-immigration policies. What is the name of that regime again?). nathaliadeavila.substack.com/p/reproducin...

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Reproducing the Past: why is the Far Right obsessed with birth?

The far right’s fetish with fertility and stopping immigration as curious responses to the dangerous politics of nostalgia.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fascist mimics social skills and learns what a joke is to avoid prison. (I am not laughing somehow, what about you?)

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean

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After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean

Serving the Brown University community since 1891

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sharing this helpful article "Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care" from my wonderful BU colleague Koritha Mitchell (with her links to additional resources below): muse.jhu.edu/article/715439

This article offers a primer on identifying what the author calls "know-your-place aggression" as well as the violence of white mediocrity being treated as merit. The author argues that gaining clarity about these hostile tendencies is a form of self-
care. Examples include experiences with racism, (hetero)sexism, trans antagonism, ableism, and Islamophobia. Understanding know-your-place aggression and white mediocrity can prevent marginalized communities from wasting energy by worrying about the opinions of people who use objective standards to judge everyone but themselves. The author encourages this form of self-care because she believes it can empower
members of marginalized groups to save their energy for what matters most, the quality of their lives and their contributions to research.

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Qual a relação entre Nostalgia e Luto? Traduzi o post de Dylan Trigg que explica como essa emoção é definida fora das ciências cognitivas. Outras mais vão sair esse ano ✨️☀️ thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/nostalgia-...

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Nostalgia e Luto

Dylan Trigg (Central European University), traduzido por Nathália de Ávila

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Productivity in the last 5 days: 2 submitted papers, 1 job application, 1 grant proposal. Outcome: pending rejection of all. #adayinthelife

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Presenting the talk "Affective Sedimentation and Embodied Remembering: An Enactivist Account of Panic Disorder" in the workshop “Non-intentional modes of consciousness in phenomenology" (Budapest, November 2026). Super happy to reconnect with my Husserlian colleagues from the Wuppertal group too.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What happens when Penelope has a say on her own time for once? A comparison between the uninteresting Penelope in Nolan's movie and the best Penelope out there: Molly Bloom from "Ulysses". I am writing on phenomenology, body memory and sexuality. nathaliadeavila.substack.com

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think my 3 lovely visual experiences watching The Odyssey (Circe, the Underworld, Calypso’s island) vs. the classicists’ collective hatred of it come down to this: they went in expecting fidelity to the book, while I went in already happy that someone in Hollywood knows how to spell “Odyssey.”

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Found this text by Camille Goemans from 1924 about Proust. It basically says his work is reduced o to psychology or memory theory, while the novel is neither offering explanations memory, nor asking us simply to relive the past. It is inventing a new mode of thought and writing.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Draft: opensciencestudies.eu/exeter/

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Haha, there are already 50 babies named Haaland in northeastern Brazil. I love how we deal with our soccer mediocrity in the most human way possible: by doing absolutely nothing and outsourcing the problem to the future with a dash of mystical thinking.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Watching Argentinian stuff reminds me I have not eaten dulce de leche in almost a year (i.e. serves no purpose other than making me sad).

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

With Nolan's Odyssey out, I wrote about 2 subjects I love: Ancient Greece and memory. I talk about how memory forms the poem's nonlinear structure differently from the movie and about death, oblivion and nostalgia in the Calypso episode open.substack.com/pub/nathalia...

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Every time I go to Paris I somehow come back with an alarming number of chair photos.

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My new criterion for future friends: their balcony habits. The second one in particular.

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David Robson @davidarobson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A few years ago, my mum started ghosting me, without ever explaining why. I’ve written a piece for @aeon.co about how this estrangement created an odd kind of amnesia. It explores the role family narratives play in our identity - and what happens when they crumble aeon.co/essays/when-...

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Won't attend my PhD graduation in Germany (it happens when you studied in country A, living in country B w/ your family in country C and your friends all over the solar system), **but** I am visiting probably the cutest place in Paris with my bff that just arrived in country B from country C 🤣✨️

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's Proust's bday. In december I submitted my thesis on memory and got stuck in Paris for Xmas. I found a ridiculously pink hotel and there he was. In june I won the GEM award in Bochum and the morning I left there he was. Since then I am on my way to finish La recherche so he stops haunting ❤️

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Nathália de Ávila @nndeavila.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The internet, the strangest place of all, got me emotionally invested in the story of Neal the Seal, a 1,000 kg animal whose hobby is inconveniently blocking houses and roads in Tasmania in the funniest possible way. Today he supposedly went back to the ocean, and

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