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Pablo Fernandez Velasco

@pfvelasco.bsky.social
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British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Working across philosophy and cognitive science. Exploring disorientation, spatial cognition, and ecological grief. pablofernandezvelasco.com

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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I loved Hunt for the Wilderpeople. It is also likely that he was just operating in a different creative ecosystem. Rather than him explicitly "taking credit" from someone, the problematic thing is the generalised assigning of credit to the director (often male etc), rather than to the whole team.
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I actually reviewed a paper for this special issue a while back: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... It would have been perfect for it. But maybe that journal (PPS), or New Ideas in Psychology, are good venues for it. Another one is Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (an AE there, so biased!)
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Call for Papers: Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward
Editor: Arturo E. HernandezWhat will psychological science look like in the year 2125?This special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science invites contributors to imagine the long arc of our di...
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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Errr.... right, so UK is having to find more money for defence against Russia... by cutting funding for heat pumps that get us off gas... thereby keeping us dependent on an energy commodity *weaponised* by Russia & international conflict. Smart thinking guys www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 09/10/2026
Mob rule no, but how about public interest, democratic rule & the values & principles compatible with it? Watson is so arrogant & disingenuous, using cheap rhetorical tricks to sidestep meaningful discussion. He knows what's legal isn't the same as what's ethical. I'm disgusted by his behaviour.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Spanish PP (main right wing party) is opposing a minute of silence for Maricarmen Abascal, who became a symbol of the housing crisis in the county and who died last night.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
omg where did you get boots resoled for £10??? I went to Timpson's at some point and they wanted to charge me something like 50 to resole some boots I got in a charity.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Check out the cover of my new book - out May/June next year - published by Penguin in US
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really great read. I have been living in the UK for a long time now, but what strikes me most looking back is that stopping evictions was a rallying cry back when we were camping in Sol 15 years ago, but it never made it into the focus of left-wing policy the way it has with Mamdani.
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting insights into spatial memory and hippocampal function in humans: Navigation strategies predict spatial memory and hippocampal recruitment Work Zita Patai (who I wish was still in my lab!) www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Navigation strategies predict spatial memory and hippocampal recruitment
Patai, E.Z. et al. show via analyzing spontaneous navigation behavior that humans are idiosyncratic, flexibly adapt strategies to variable degrees to achieve learning, and that strategies do not refle...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here are a few things I have spent mine on in the past: A laptop. Software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite). OA funds. Organising academic workshops.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Applications open: Methodologies for Place and Memory Loss Advanced postgraduate training for PhD and research MA students working on memory, place, loss, displacement and difficult histories. 📅 11 Nov | University of Stirling ⏰ Apply by 11 Oct tockify.com/sgsah/detail...
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Methodologies for Place and Memory Loss: Advanced Postgraduate Training
This one-day intensive training offers advanced methodological support for postgraduate researchers (PhD and MA) working at institutions in Scotland at the inte
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What happens when urban rivers disappear underground? Philip Hayward explores ghost rivers, river daylighting and the cultural life of buried waterways, including London’s Fleet River. Fri 2 Oct | 09:00–11:30 (UK) | Online Advance reading required Register: forms.gle/QizUrN2ACjuu...
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Ghost Rivers and Daylighting in Urban Landscapes
In this online seminar, Philip Hayward will introduce the River Cities Network and the developing field of river studies before discussing his research on ‘ghost rivers’ — waterways that have been cov...
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not the point, but why does the bunker look like an fMRI machine? Part of the let's-colonise-Mars aesthetic, I guess
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DiverseGrief @diverse-grief.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are launching the Diverse Grief Blog today! This blog provides a forum for exploring the diversity and complexity of grief. Our inaugural post is written by Tanya Evans and explores the complex relationship of family stories, grief, and the meaning of life. #philsky #grief diverse-grief.com
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Diverse Grief
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 14/09/2026
The government’s university funding policy is forcing women out of the academy. The example below is a pattern. This is one of the many ways the whole mess is unjust.
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Burnham knew this would be the result of dropping his pledge to cap political donations, but he did it anyway. Labour are determined to midwife a Reform government, like plenty of other centrist parties before them whose weakness paved the way for right wing extremists.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Such an elegant paper. I wonder if adversarial collaboration is the way forward here, because that way you need to agree on what terms mean ahead of time.
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@noranewcombe.bsky.social I thought you might find this recent TiCS paper on the nativist-empiricist debate interesting (not specifically about space, though).
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mahwishkittur.bsky.social @mahwishkittur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After years of analyzing thousands of drawings from hundreds of adults and children, I am excited to share my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social )! Using a simple drawing task, we show how topological structure is represented in the mind and its importance in spatial memory.
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Topological structure in human spatial representation revealed through drawing
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week's column is about the Starmer-like self-destruction of the impending decision to approve new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. It might appease certain lobby groups, but it sabotages Burnham's own project and drives voters away. Utter madness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Same here. I haven't seen a cheap ticket in a while. I always end up doing off-peak return (with the Network card discount). And if I have to get early to London, then Chiltern and an insanely early train, or the bus.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 26/07/2025
Legitimate Concerns?
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/09/2026
Seriously, they just told Grok to make the imperial officer uniforms from Star Wars but “more Hitlery.”
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Really interesting. Reading this made me wonder whether cross-cultural variation in approaches to physical, spatial navigation corresponds to variation in thinking about geometry
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CFA for K-Pop and Philosophy (actual K-Pop, not Karl Popper)
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K-Pop and Philosophy
Call for Abstracts  K-Pop and Philosophy  Edited by Catherine M. Robb, Natasha Haddal, and Gah-Kai Leung The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series      &nbs…
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If this makes you mad, submit your cognitive science research to @openmindjournal.bsky.social No APCs, no subscription fees. It's funded by university libraries, at low cost.
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What do we lose in our social lives when we lose olfaction? This question marks the beginning of a new article recently published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on Philosophy and Chemosenses: "The ‘olfactory us’: Social interaction and chemosignals" by Carlos Vara Sánchez.
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The ‘olfactory us’: Social interaction and chemosignals | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 27/08/2026
I wrote a little something on the value of philosophy for animal cognition. Out now in Science’s Expert Voices column.
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Science is based on assumptions. Philosophy can make sure they’re the right ones.
When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...
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Pilar Lopez-Cantero @lopezcantero.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Next month I’ll join Essex’s Department of Government for my MSCA placement, to work with Prof Paul Bou-Habib on distributive affective justice. I’ll be around the UK until May, between Colchester & Cambridge—you know where to find me if you’re interested in love, cities & affective (in)justice!
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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
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PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What's lost when we treat place as just space? Philosopher Jeff Malpas opens a hybrid workshop on space, place & memory — interdisciplinary talks on perfume, Polaroids & more. Wed 16 Sept, Stirling + online. 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. Da…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This should be a day of shame for my profession. Unfortunately, most of the media is not renowned for self-reflection. It may be relentless in exposing other people's faults (but in most cases only the faults of those who might threaten the status quo). It is much less prepared to confront its own.
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Musk of all people also. There is a whole wikipedia page dedicated just to his failed predictions (all made to build hype) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk - Wikipedia
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Are you tired of having to double take everything you see online because it might be fake AI slop? Get ready to double take your own photos because they may be fake AI slop.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/ Doomism means saying it's too late and nothing can be done. It doesn't mean saying things are bad. One recent high profile paper in @pnas.org treats conflates this. Whilst another paper in the British Journal of Psychology treats naming who funded climate delay as conspiracism. A thread 🧵
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