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hanne de jaegher

@participha.bsky.social
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Philosopher, cognitive scientist, writer Books: Linguistic Bodies (shorturl.at/bd5NS) Denken over Liefde (shorturl.at/dH5Qt) Participatory sense-making Loving and knowing she/her masking

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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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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. Pages from a mini comicPages from a mini comicPages from a mini comic
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/09/2025
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
. @olivia.science and I had the honour to speak with Kent Anderson and Joy Moore on @disruptedscience.bsky.social 🧪 💫 🎬 🍿 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w0... 🎶👂 Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/082h... 1/🧵
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September 12, 2025 — Safeguarding Science from AI: An Interview with Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij
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Love and Philosophy @lovephilosophy.substack.com · 22/08/2025
🎙the Core of Loving & Knowing with @participha.bsky.social Philosopher Hanne De Jaegher discusses life experiences and how they led to her academic journey in cognitive science and the scholarship behind ‘participatory sense-making’ #psm #phil #embodied #sensemaking #varela #loveandphilosophy
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The Core of Knowing is Loving with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher
Listen now | Episode #68
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Moving is Meeting: Inner Dramaturgies and the City With choreographer Claire French/Restless Productions and philosopher Dr. Hanne De Jaegher. At The Dance Centre Vancouver Open House this weekend. @thedancecentre.bsky.social Join us if you're there! thedancecentre.ca/event/scotia...
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Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House - The Dance Centre
The 24th annual Open House offers a chance to experience a host of different dance styles, in an afternoon of free classes, showings and events Read more
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
 But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human  knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in  with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions
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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It is vital that we don't overestimate our understanding of human cognition. Yes, there is reason to believe we have a better grasp of some things than when AI hype first appeared in the 1950s, but that better understanding is not clear, and almost certainly isn't on the basis of simple computation
Although we do not fully understand human thinking, this does not licence attributing thinking to whichever machine or technology, uncritically and through anthropomorphisation. Such arguments from ignorance lack all scientific rigour. The only argument from ignorance that science permits is caution, more research, and care as appropriate actions when something is truly unknown.
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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Why higher ed teaching is hard, and always will be. But we don't do it because it is easy, and we are trusted to do it well because we have hard earned expertise in our fields. Let's not undervalue that, hey?
Students have always cheated. Bending and breaking the rules is human nature. And by the same token, educators are not police. We are not here to obsessively surveil our students — education is based on mutual trust. Therefore, our duty is to build mutually shared values with our students and colleagues.
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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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Mind & Life Europe @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
👋 Welcome to the official Bluesky account of Mind & Life Europe! We explore the intersection of science, contemplative wisdom, and human flourishing. Follow us for research, reflections, and events bridging mind and life. 🌱🧠🌍
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Complexity fatigued? Try some participatory sense-making!
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism” www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...
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Frontiers | Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 12/04/2025
“The practice of attention is a discipline of the mind that is infused with desire,” argues Elisa Magri. | iai.tv/articles/why... Tap the link to read more about how we can chart an ethical framework that reshapes our mental landscape and provide us with meaning. #socsky #psychsky #ethics
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Why attention matters for morality | Elisa Magrì
Discover how concepts like attention can offer a deeper understanding of morality, going beyond the commonly discussed notions of principles, well-being, and virtue. Elisa Magrì's exploration of the…
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 07/04/2025
Many claim AI cannot be truly creative in the way human artists are because they lack human emotion and originality. | iai.tv/articles/inf... But Hanne De Jaegher, argues the issue is deeper still: AI is not alive. It has no will to live and to ensure its survival. #philtech #AI #techsky
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Information and data will never deliver creativity | Hanne De Jaegher
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Information and data will never deliver creativity — Life, information, and the search for meaning New piece over at @iai.tv In which I quote Colwyn Trevarthen and David Bowie. iai.tv/articles/inf...
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Information and data will never deliver creativity | Hanne De Jaegher
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
More on participatory sense-making and healing: shows.acast.com/661439abee41...
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"Beyond Healing: New Narratives for Making Sense Together" | Mind & Life Europe Podcast
Amy Cohen Varela, Dr Rika Preiser, and Dr Sanneke De Haan
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? Interview by Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care?
Tracing its Roots in Systems Thinking, Neurodivergence, and Marxist Theory
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"Intentions in interactions: an enactive reply to expressive communication proposals" By Elena C. Cuffari & Nara M. Figueiredo link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Intentions in interactions: an enactive reply to expressive communication proposals - Synthese
The search for origins of human linguistic behavior is a consuming project in many fields. Philosophers drawing on studies of animal behavior are working to revise some of the standard cognitive requi...
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
In this new substack post I interview philosopher and aerial dancer Shay Welch on the first-person experience of borderline personality disorder & using “living to die” as a strategy for managing existential boredom open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Trauma-born Sensemaking and Living to Die
An interview with Shay Welch
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A nice one to start the year: Learning to play to learn in pediatric physical therapy — Håkstad, Dusing, Girolami, De Jaegher www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | Learning to play to learn in pediatric physical therapy
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I just published a new substack post featuring visionary systems thinker & community organizer Greg Watson. Watson is a great story teller and his stories of communities self-organizing out of devastating conditions, dare I say it, kindle a of hope in dark times. open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Community out of the Ashes
An interview with Greg Watson
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition Ulises Rodríguez Jordá and Ezequiel Di Paolo in Language Sciences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Linguistic relativity from an enactive perspective: the entanglement of language and cognition
We seek to relate the fields of linguistic relativity (LR) and the enactive approach in cognitive science. We distinguish contemporary research on LR,…
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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊 go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt #racialequality #antiracism The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Iris Murdoch, Autism, and the Importance of Recognising Otherness By Danika Brown irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2024/04/29/a...
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Iris Murdoch, Autism, and the Importance of Recognising Otherness - The Iris Murdoch Society
While it may not be productive to diagnose a writer you have never met or communicated with, it is clear that Murdoch was aware of mental illness and mental difference as a psychological concept. Not ...
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Brazilian philosophers starter pack!
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I found this very moving.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New substack post. I interview entrepreneur & special effects producer Philipp Wolf on his strengths-based approach to neurdivergence, his midlife autism diagnosis, and swyvl, his company designing XR to share the experience of neurodivergent nervous systems: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Simulating neurodiversity
An interview with Philipp Wolf
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
New study analyzing interpersonal coordination in dance improv by Paige Whitehead @participha.bsky.social @beckety.bsky.social Ivana Santana & Stefanie-Blain-Moraes www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | Capturing spontaneous interactivity: a multi-measure approach to analyzing the dynamics of interpersonal coordination in dance improvisation
IntroductionInterpersonal coordination is widely acknowledged as critical to relating with, connecting to, and understanding others, but the underlying mecha...
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Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Here’s the beginnings of a starter pack of philosophers who work on topics in love, intimacy, and relationships. go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS please let me know who else to add!
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Angel flight booked! (Angelflights is a volunteer organisation that flies patients who live far from treatment centres out to medical appointments). A little perk of cancer! I'm so grateful. Hope it will be sunny those days, as the Kootenay regions are beauty to behold.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Lots of colleagues would greatly appreciate this book. But don't get it yet. A new version is coming out with annotations by Evan Thompson and Ezequiel Di Paolo. I've known for a long time that Varela was amazing, but wow! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
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Principles of Biological Autonomy
A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as m...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
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Professor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?
YouTube video by CSER Cambridge
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
It is my conviction that people who understand, at a fundamental level, what computers can and cannot do, are less susceptible to AI hype.
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Nu. Het is nu. Je suis nue. Great art helps. (I have no further comments for now.) (I don't want to not share. I don't want to share. I want all of us, our vulnerabilities, to be able to just be. I want us to be able to care for each other, mightily.) youtu.be/8aJw4chksqM?...
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Stromae - quand c'est ? (Official Video)
Listen to « La solassitude » here: https://stromae.lnk.to/la-solassitudeOrder my new album « Multitude » here: https://stromae.lnk.to/multitudeIDQuand c’est ...
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
🧵 This is hugely important work from Haaretz, Israel's paper of record. "Residents, military officials and journalists describe scenes of vast devastation. 'It's like after an atomic bomb,' one of them reported in Haaretz after visiting northern Gaza."
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Gazans fled their homes. They have nowhere to return to
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2024
In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Based on my feed this morning, it seems that the two most successful things ever discovered are UBI and gender-affirming care. Both shown to be nearly 100% reliable in test after test and survey after survey.
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
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Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
The 2022 US Trans Survey of 92,000 transgender adults, finds continued discrimination, harassment and even violence at work
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 06/02/2024
Wonderstruck will soon be out. There will be a few upcoming events (podcasts, interviews etc), I'm excited! Inevitably I feel a bit worried for the book coming into the world like that, especially since it's my first trade book, but how readers will receive it is now up to them.
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
Helen De Cruz. Cover for the book. Shows a bridge, and a comet arching over it.
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
I wrote a new substack post on connecting with spared implicit understanding in people with dementia through nonverbal means. I talk about the perspective of philosopher/psychiatrist Thomas Fuch & interview social worker extraordinaire Elaine Book. open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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CONNECTING THROUGH DEMENTIA
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time...
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Yay! Real life investigations into participatory sense-making getting out there. I look forward a lot to reading more from your newsletter, @beckety.bsky.social!
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 12/11/2023
(more can be done to connect communities of scholars here, so here's a shot in the dark/try at this) If you are a scholar, please reply with *one* link to a paper you (co)authored that is close to your heart (not necessarily most prestigious or most cited one) say something about it & RT this post.
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JoB @joberv.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
First 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.....
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Letting Tourette's be: The importance of understanding lived experience in research and the clinic
First-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....
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