A former qualitative researcher in public health nutrition policy making the leap into philosophy. [MPH → MA]
3rd-culture thing & skeet bricoleur
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Rhys Ting
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From the archive: "Against Consolations, Alain De Botton, and the Demand for Accessibility", by Ranier Abengaña #Philosophy #Philsky
What if living cells compute in ways that silicon never can? Rather than mimicking computers, the future of biocomputation may lie in harnessing the unique information-processing strategies of evolution. Check this paper by @angelgm.eurosky.social and co. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
"Like distressed jeans, the imperfections will be the point, on the implicit theory that humanness now resides in mess rather than mastery."
For our new issue, Krzysztof Pelc on the threat of LLMs: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fakes-future-artificial-intelligence-llms-larb-quarterly-traffic/
From the archive: "Against Consolations, Alain De Botton, and the Demand for Accessibility", by Ranier Abengaña
Khôra - Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
Call for papers from editors Nicholas Birns & Marina Christodoulou. Also to be published as a book by Routledge in the Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities series
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/02/c...
Ricard Solé
Epoché Magazine
Edgar Morin, grand témoin de son temps, est mort à l’âge de 104 ans. Sociologue et philosophe, il aura traversé le XXᵉ siècle avec une curiosité intacte et la force de ses convictions.
Nous vous proposons de redécouvrir une série de cinq grands entretiens ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Irw
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research.
A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated.
Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
we hope to see you at tomorrow's talk
Exclusive: AI has killed humans.
For years we've had rumours, unconfirmed reports, suggestions... Now we know that AI-controlled drones with no human oversight have killed humans on the battlefield.
This is a watershed moment in warfare.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
Los Angeles Review of Books
🧬 In our latest blog post, @vdlorenzo.bsky.social explores a new, relational narrative for Synthetic Biology, a transition from control and containment to care and stewardship, rebranding the relationship between humans and the living world.
🔗 Find the post here: khk.rwth-aachen.de/from-control...
British Society for Phenomenology
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
The North American Schelling Society Presents (NASS) Kabiri 5. Vol. 5 (2026) Published: 2026-06-02
journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/ka...
@kylabruff.bsky.social @marcelagr.bsky.social
RMZ HU
Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re)
Suse Wollin-Giering and Markus Hoffmann (TU Berlin) will present "Epistemic factors affecting the (dis)continuation of research with missing resources" at our Jour Fixe next week
27.05.26, 11 CET, join the discussion in person or via zoom (link on website)!
https://hu.berlin/86369
