Josep Gasol

@josepgasol.com

Philosopher | PhD student at University of Pardubice & UNED | #firstgen | Doing research on philosophy of animal mind and its intersection with applied ethics. 🐳🧠🍉🐝🦑🌱 (He/him) 🌐 josepgasol.com

Researchers in Western Australia observed a dolphin mother carrying her dead calf through an estuary for days after it died. The calf was about two weeks old, and the mother has now lost her last four calves.

Comportamiento animal ante un elipse total de sol Me ha entrevistado Samuel A. Pilar @rtvenoticias.rtve.es para que le hablase de cómo reaccionan otras especies ante un evento así. Creo que le ha quedado un artículo precioso. Es un tema interesante. www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Curiosidad, indiferencia o necesidad de aparearse: así reaccionan los animales ante un eclipse solar

Curiosidad, indiferencia o necesidad de aparearse: así reaccionan los animales ante un eclipse solar

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

Thrilled to share our new paper deriving an ”Exposome Network” of functional connectivity capturing multidimensional env. exposures in youth, now out in DCN! 🌟🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.dc... Huge thank you Sarah Lichenstein, @yiplab.bsky.social & our amazing Connecticut Collab! ❤️ #devpsy #neuroimaging

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Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in! tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition *can this be a thing??

Today I was in Vienna for the second time during my PhD and I finally managed to do some sightseeing after finishing the couple of meetings I had scheduled. What a beautiful city!

A photo of the Upper Belvedere in Vienna with a cloudy sky and colorful flowers from the garden in front of it.

I just read this nonideal agency conference CFP and my eyes narrowed like, “wait, who’s organizing this mysterious event directly in my area?” Then I saw the list of speakers and I’m one of them 🤦🏻‍♂️ Anyway, it’s very exciting so submit and come hang with me and @quillkukla.bsky.social at Graz!

CfP: Rethinking Agency under Non-Ideal
Conditions
The notion of agency plays a central role across many areas of philosophy, including philosophy of action, ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, feminist philosophy, and phenomenology. While traditionally conceptualized in terms of intentional action, rational control, and autonomy, our understanding of agency has recently come under intense scrutiny and is now being increasingly transformed. Feminist and phenomenological approaches, in particular, have emphasized the need for a richer and more fine-grained conception of agency-one that takes seriously the social, historical, and relational contexts in which agents are situated.
From this perspective, agency cannot be adequately understood without acknowledging that agents are not only rational decision-makers, but also emotional, embodied, desiring, creative, and affective beings.Confirmed speakers: Maria Alvarez, Havi Carel, Hanne Jacobs, Quill Kukla, Kristina Musholt and Caleb Ward.
The conference will take place at the University of Graz, March 3-5 2027.
We invite you to submit an anonymized abstract of up to 500 words by October 31, 2026 to laurentia.adam@uni-graz.at
Please include a separate file with your name, email address, the title of your talk, and your affiliation (if any) and put 'Rethinking Agency Graz 2027' in the subject line.
Organizing Team: Emanuela Carta, Denis Dzanic and Daniel Neumann.

These two are the same insect, 26 minutes apart. The picture on the left is the regular appearance. The one on the right is what the insect looks like after it is scared and produces a chemical that spreads between its body and its elytra. 🌿🌱 #beetle #insect

A side by side composite image of a beetle. The image on the left shows a gold beetle with some reddish iridescence. The one on the right looks blue with a gold spot in the middle. These are tortoise beetles so they have clear elytra that extend well beyond the shape of its body like a helmet.