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Sascha Benjamin Fink

@sfink.bsky.social
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Philosopher, apparently. Working on issues in neuroscience, consciousness, sensory engineering, psychedelics, and pain.

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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The FDA Meeting on the Potential Future Therapeutic Use of Psychedelic Drugs Public Hearing is starting now: www.youtube.com/live/5Kg1gj3... Will be interesting.
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Considerations for Potential Future Therapeutic Use of Psychedelic Drugs Public Hearing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hosting a public hea...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Brandon Ashby and I recently published an article on „Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering“. The journal, Gastronomica, has now published a short podcast on this topic.
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56 Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering - New Books Network
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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've posted a 3000-word summary of the main ideas of my 2024 book *The Weirdness of the World* (part of a symposium forthcoming at JCS). Celebrate National Cherry Popsicle Day by learning the main ideas of *Weirdness* in a 10-minute read: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/08/summ...
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Summary of <i>The Weirdness of the World</i>
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Honest question: Why do magnifying glasses not only make things look larger, but also closer?
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
News: I will leave the PAIR Centre at the end of the month for a position at CONCEPT (University of Cologne), which allows me to focus on research again. I am grateful to my colleagues at PAIR and look forward to working with the team at Cologne.
concept.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de
CONCEPT - Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ich freue mich schon sehr auf dieses Stück, in dem es wohl auch um den Effektiven Altruismus gehen wird. #weltuntergang
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zaungäste - Weltuntergang und wir haben keine Zeit, die Tassen auszuwaschen. Eine Teegesellschaft. in Frankfurt am Main, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm am Do. 27.08.2026 um 20:00 Uhr - einfach bestelle...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Check out this article by Chiara Caporuscio and me on epistemic risk reduction in psychedelic psychotherapy. Overall a great collection. Thanks to Chiara and the editor,Tomislav Majic.
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Epistemic Risk Reduction in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Belief change is crucial to therapeutic benefit in psychedelic-assisted therapy as well as in more traditional forms of therapy. However, the use of psychedelics comes with a few unique challenges tha...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What a great collection of views on #consciousness, edited by Lucia Melloni & Umberto Olcese. (My contribution on #neurophenomenal #structuralism is under „Progress and Problems“. Fitting.)
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Horizon Minds
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#PhiMiSci has launched a new special issue on Infant Consciousness, edited by C. Passos-Ferreira, S.B. Fink, and J. Frohlich. The first batch features three articles, covering topics including infant color consciousness, the marker method, and an argument for assessing fetal consciousness.
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yet another philosophy department under threat in the UK. Sign the petition to save philosophy at Dundee: c.org/9hQv8N8fhJ
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Sign the Petition
Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ever had a pain? Tell us about it and help in researching our understanding of pain. The survey takes about 15 minutes. www.soscisurvey.de/compain/
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Questionnaire | page 1
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Fiona Macpherson @macpherson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One of our new projects with the University of Cambridge, Exploring the Grey Zone: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Religious Delusions and Conspiracy Beliefs, is looking to hire a fixed term Research Associate in Psychiatry or Psychology: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate in Psychiatry or Psychology (Fixed Term)
The Faculty of Divinity invites applications for the position of Research Associate in Psychiatry or Psychology, to work as part of an interdisciplinary team, led by Professor Joseph Webster, on the U...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
US fördert weiter psychedelische Forschung. Auch Deutschland sollte hier aktiver werden, denn es gibt noch viel zu tun. www.youtube.com/live/GoHoG9c...
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Trump signs executive order encouraging psychedelic drug research
YouTube video by CNN
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Awesome workshop on neural correlates of consciousness! Join, in person or online: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
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New Ideas in NCC Research - Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (BAMΞ)
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I am very proud of the special issue on „Structuralism in the Science of Consciousness“ that @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I edited for @phimisci.bsky.social. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.
philosophymindscience.org
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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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
#PhiMiSci has released a Call for Papers, inviting submissions for a book symposium on Frances Egan’s new book, „Deflating Mental Representation“. The symposium will be edited by Ken Aizawa, and the submission period runs from November 15, 2025, to April 15, 2026. For more information, see here:
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#PhiMiSci recently published a new article: „Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework“ by C. Dicey Jennings & C. Montemayor explores the role of attention in #AI and argues that we should understand these systems as collective agents.
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Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework | 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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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wonderful that these two young researchers are being honored. Congratulations! A privilege to know them: Lea was my student aid, while Adrian finished his PhD under my supervision. Outstanding enthusiasm, diligence, and shrewdness in both. Cudos, Lea & Adrian! dailynous.com/2025/11/26/k...
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Kind & Nickel Awarded Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Daily Nous
The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Phil...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Join us today at 12 CET for the talk by Hadeel Naeem on #AI and the complexity of #pain, the newest entry in our #COMPAIN lecture series: compain.weebly.com
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COMPAIN PROJECT
COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and ​Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Join us all for the ongoing COMPAIN lecture series on the complexity of pain. Today’s speaker is Saulius Genusias. The whole series and link to the ZOOM link can be found here: compain.weebly.com (supported by #BMFTR and #NSTC)
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COMPAIN PROJECT
COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and ​Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrücklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kündigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwächen. Für Resilienz braucht’s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG
Sie könnten vorzeitig beendet, nicht fortgesetzt oder programmatisch verändert werden. 99,7 Prozent des promovierenden und 90 Prozent des promovierten wissenschaftlichen Personals (ohne Professuren) sind befristet beschäftigt. Ein Einstellungsstopp, weil Förderungen wegfallen, würde das System binnen zwei Jahren personell aushöhlen, ohne dass ein
Kündigungsschutz greift.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Have a contemplative UNESCO WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY, everyone.
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Ying-Tung Lin @linyingtung.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A press release by Aarhus University on our paper on the multiple generator hypothesis (Kirkeby-Hinrup, Fink, & Overgaard 2025) neurocampus.au.dk/display/arti...
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Daily Neuron comments on The Multiple Generator Hypothesis
In a recent paper published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Sascha B. Fink, and Morten S. Overgaard propose a paradigm-shifting alternative. They reject the old ass...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Our article on the multiple generator hypothesis for consciousness has been talke about at „The Daily Neuron“. Have a look: dailyneuron.com/multiple-gen...
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The Multiple Generator Hypothesis Could Revolutionize Our Search for Consciousness - Daily Neuron
The multiple generator hypothesis challenges the idea that only one theory of consciousness can be right, suggesting multiple pathways exist in the brain.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Join the „Philosophy of AI“ Conference in Amsterdam (23-24. October 2025): www.pt-ai.org/2025/ And join the associated Society for Philosophy of AI while you are at it.
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PhAI 2025 – PT-AI & Related Conferences
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@philpsy.bsky.social Adrian Kind just won the Open Access Prize by the OLH. What a great achievement! Congratulations, Adrian! And all of you: Check out his other work. dailynous.com/2025/09/25/p...
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Philosopher Wins Open Access Award - Daily Nous
Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. The award is given by Open Library of ...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators? Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!) academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
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The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness
Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I just quit academia.edu. Even trying to get such a permission – together with AI-screening of my uploaded articles being ON per default – is a no go. All of my newer stuff is open access anyway and I will move it to philpapers.org.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Forbes reports that Germany established a psilocybin access programme. That is quite big news for psychedelic research and therapy in Europe.
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Germany Approves EU’s First Psilocybin Access Program
Germany has given the green light for two medical facilities to offer psilocybin to adults with treatment-resistant depression.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Lovely that this little programmatic article is now out in #Gastronomica! Many thanks to Brandon Ashby and all member of project SENSOR (Derek Brown, Jack Lyons, & Fiona @macpherson.bsky.social ). Watch out for more on #SensoryEngineering! Bon appétit!
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Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
Is gastronomy a case of sensory engineering? Is sensory engineering relevant to gastronomy?We argue that gastronomy is a familiar and widespread example of sensory engineering. This has two consequenc...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
What a great conference of the Consciousness Research Network (CORN) in Bangkok! The whole team at Chulalongkorn (under the lead of Chaipat Chunharas and Kanit Mitinunwong Sirichan) were such excellent hosts and organisers. Thank you to all participants for the great discussions and all the fun!
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CoRN 2025
We would like to invite submissions of abstracts to be presented at the 5th Meeting of CoRN to be held August 6-8 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Please submit an abstract no longer than 1800 ch...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thank you, Adrian, for posting this. Beside our editors and advisors, we are grateful to all authors that have trusted us with their manuscripts.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Das PHILOSOPHIE MAGAZIN hat dieses kurze Interview publiziert über unser COMPAIN Schmerzprojekt. Humor wurde leider rauseditiert, aber ich danke Nils Althaus (dem Interviewer) herzlich für das tolle Gespräch! www.philomag.de/artikel/sasc...
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Sascha Fink: „Nicht Schmerz ist das Interessante, sondern schmerzinduziertes Leiden”
Der Erlanger Philosoph Sascha Fink fordert eine neue Sprache für Schmerz, einen neuen Fokus auf Leid und neue Ställe für Schweine.
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Tomas Marvan 🇪🇺 @tmarvan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The programme of the upcoming workshop on conscious AI is up: emw.flu.cas.cz #consci
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Really great resource for all people interested in illusions: www.illusionsindex.org
illusionsindex.org
Home - The Illusions Index
The Illusions Index is a fully searchable curated collection of illusions brought to you by the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ohne Transparenz regiert sich’s leichter — besonders ins eigene Tascherl. Deswegen: Halten wir’s a bisserl schwerer. Ist eh noch undurchsichtig genug.
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Dr. Christian Scharun @christianscharun.de · 23/03/2025
Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und wir haben keinen Zugriff? Ein ziemlicher Skandal, denn schließlich haben wir für diese Forschung ja mit unseren Steuergeldern bezahlt! Bei MAITHINK X decken wir heute auf, wie milliardenschwere Verlage die Wissenschaft im Würgegriff haben! Schaut rein! 🧐
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Steuerskandal: Wissenschaft hinter Paywalls
Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und milliardenschwere Verlage profitieren. Bei MAITHINK X zeigt Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, was man noch tun kann.
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#PhiMiSci announced a Call for Papers for the special issue "Philosophy and Chemosenses", edited by G. Martina & B. Young. It aims to stimulate research on perception, experience, and cognition in the chemosenses, covering established and under-explored questions. Submission deadline: Sept 1, 2025.
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Call for Papers: Philosophy and Chemosenses | 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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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
#PhiMiSci just announced a Call for Abstracts for a book symposium on “The Brain Abstracted. Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” by Mazviita Chirimuuta, which offers a novel philosophical study of the brain sciences. Deadline: 15th of April 2025.
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Call for Abstracts: „The Brain Abstracted“ by Mazviita Chirimuuta | 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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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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US to use AI to revoke visas of students perceived as Hamas supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who are perceived as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As a philosopher, I stand with the Maltese entry to #Eurovision: We should hear Conte’s song “KANT”, no matter how BBC announcers feel. #DivaNOTdown #conte #KantBringMeDown www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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No kant do: Eurovision bars Malta’s entry over title’s similarity to C-word
Singer Miriana Conte told to change title and lyrics owing to suggestive play on Maltese word for ‘singing’
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. The 2025 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced. mpe-project.info/the-mpe-proj...
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The MPE Project – MPE Project
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
CDU Anfrage zielt auf #Greenpeace, #Foodwatch, #PeTA, #BUND und #OmasgegenRechts. Man munkelt “Schattenstrukturen”. Ziel ist es, Förderungen in Frage zu stellen. — klar, die Gefahr für die Demokratie kommt ja von Omas gegen Rechts, etc…. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Zu den Urnen! Gegen den Rechtsruck.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Das Centre for Philosophy and AI Research sucht eine Teamassistenz. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 28.02.2025. Wir freuen uns über jede Bewerbung. www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...
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Teamassistenz am Lehrstuhl für Theory and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (m/w/d)
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Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you want to forego commercial science platforms, consider „The Lens“ instead of „Scopus“. (I would be grateful if universities were to make the shift as well when considering promotions.) Our journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social ) is indexed there as well.
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Results The Lens - Free & Open Patent and Scholarly Search
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
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Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies (M3CS) @monash-m3cs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Why do we dream? 🤔Are they just random neural firings, or do they serve a deeper function? M3CS researcher & lecturer, Dr Manuela Kirberg, joins 'The Briefing' to unpack the science & philosophy of dreaming. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jo3...
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