"Brazilian democracy has many flaws, and far-right sectors remain very much active. Yet Bolsonaro’s fate — and with it, the fate of democracy — was shaped by...a practical reversal of the U.S. model..." Cristina Buarque de Hollanda for @sunsentinel.bsky.social www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/07/09/l...

Lessons from the South: How Brazil held onto its democracy | Opinion

After supporters rioted and trashed government buildings in the U.S. and Brazil, Donald Trump returned to power, but Jair Bolsonaro went to jail. The two countries’ institutions explain why.

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Some of the papers in this (good and timely!) Synthese issue on collective attention are coming out just now link.springer.com/collections/...

"Mulheres também sabem filosofia" 🇧🇷👩‍🎓 Iniciativa incrível de um banco de dados de filosofas brasileiras. Por favor, compartilhem! Já mandei meu cadastro! #phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio

Mulheres Também Sabem Filosofia

Projeto acadêmico focado em dar visibilidade a pesquisadoras na área da filosofia. Conheça projetos, entrevistas e a produção filosófica de mulheres.

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Dia 10.02, Pedro (@93pedrobravo.bsky.social) e eu estaremos organizando um book symposium sobre o livro Transformative Transdisciplinarity, de D. Ludwig ( @davidludwig.bsky.social) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link: bit.ly/4jtM3rD.

Marcos Fanton@tomecicuta.bsky.social · 8mo ago

No dia 10 de fevereiro, faremos um Book Symposium com os autores do livro + convidados. Logo mais sai a divulgação !

Interesting piece on the “one good use” of LLMs by @cthos.dev. His summary: “if you care about accuracy and learning, you shouldn’t be using an LLM for anything”. https://alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_a_cognitohazard/

This -> "We have deprived the youth of the joys of discovery, the thrill to feel yourself close to an answer, and the wonderful, rewarding feeling of a moment of lucidity after hard work."

Esther Mondragón@e-mondragon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Perhaps of interest to some of you. "Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures.. cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...

Perhaps of interest to some of you. "Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures.. cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...

ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn

ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn

Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned. Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...

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Mudanças climáticas agravam a poluição por plásticos. O clima mais quente aumenta a toxicidade dos plásticos, envenenando desproporcionalmente os grandes mamíferos.

Plastic pollution is worsened by climate change | Climate & Capitalism

Warmer climate increases plastics’ toxicity, disproportionately poisoning large mammals…

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My new paper has just been published online in @journalphp.bsky.social! Popperian animals and instrumental reasoning: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Due to severe economic inequalities in the Global South, we have emphasized this point from the beginning. This is very important to us. Since I started teaching from Miranda's book, students themselves have pointed out the lack of examples and discussion about class-based social prejudices.

Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today was the last class of my KIP course, and we spent it on the neglect of class/classism in the epistemic injustice literature, focusing on this paper:

Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!

Lucy Osler@lucyosler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

✨CFA✨ I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract! Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...?

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

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Perspectival Realism + Ecological Psychology = Ecological Perspectivism "Science offers knowledge of reality in terms of affordances, which are relational to the instruments and abilities of scientific communities." #PhilSci #PsycSci

Eros Carvalho@filosofemas.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.

We have been working on this for the last five years, and it's great that our paper will be published in Synthese. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26226/ Ecological psychology is a good fit for perspectival realism.

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Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

'Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction' will be published by Routledge as hardback and paperback on the 23rd of December 2025. I'm hoping it's a useful book for approaching the topic for the first time, for teaching it to all stages, and for researchers, but we'll see. Cover coming soon.

'The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism' (Kirchhoff, Kiverstein & Robertson) has finally made its way into the ahead of print stage with The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Ahead of print

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NDPR review: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-... "If the principal entanglement at the heart of this book is that between art and philosophy, its main insight—and one, appropriately enough, that engagements with both art and philosophy bring into view—is that pretty much everything is tangled up."

The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us Who We Are

One of the features of philosophical discourse that distinguishes it from most other branches of scientific and humanistic enquiry is the lack of widesp...

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The principles of charity and good faith are prima facie applicable, yet they should not prevent us from recognizing that there are foolish or malicious individuals in this world.

Study finds #AI tools made open source software developers slower. But then AI was never about saving time, but doing a highly skilled job with unskilled labour. #AIHype apple.news/AlEakH6o2Rr2...

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

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This has to stop: "According to one recent study, in 2020 alone, academics globally spent more than 100 million hours peer reviewing papers for journals. For experts in the US, the time spent reviewing that year amounted to more than $1.5bn of free labour." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

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Sempre bom lembrar e pontuar a falta de limites para a hipocrisia dos extremistas da direita na sua "defesa" da liberdade de expressão.

Agência Pública@apublica.org · last yr.

PERSEGUIÇÃO POLÍTICA | Em 2019, reportamos como universidades brasileiras se tornaram campo de ataques e ameaças contra professores identificados como ‘’de esquerda’, durante o governo de Jair Bolsonaro. A violência no ambiente acadêmico fez professores buscarem ajuda em rede internacional.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · last yr.

“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Submissions invited for 2025 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics Topic: Physics in the writings of women 1700-1900 Open to grads/recent PhDs; must be unpublished Winner receives $1000, invitation to workshop & publish paper in Studies. Deadline: October 10, 2025 www.duchateletprize.org #HPS

The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

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Remembering the smug AI hype man who in 2023 told me that factuality/confabulation would be a solved problem by summer 2024, tops. I told him that you can’t fix a problem that is also at the core of what the machine does well. He laughed at me, then got kinda quiet

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...