While having conversation, a very well travelled US American asked if I was Turkish, and after learning that that is the case, she asked where did I study, after learning that it was METU, she just said "ah, typical, charming as any METU graduate!".
Ozan Altan Altinok
@ozanaltan.bsky.social
Philosopher, scientist, exiled. Researching philosophy of biology, evolution and medicine, knowledge and justice-related topics, individual autonomy, immigrants, health/ethics. Speaks German & Turkish too https://ozanaltanaltinok.weebly.com/
Sometimes when I think about AI, I think of death of the author for the second time, anything about this?
My take on #Stadtbild . A couple of months ago I was visiting Poland from Germany and I thought that Poland looked culturally less diverse, and everyone was smoking. After a month in the USA, when I was coming back to Germany, I thought the same, culturally less diverse, and a lot of people smoking.
Rusya ekonomisinin büyük insanlık trajedisi bir yana, yaşanan is gücü kaybına rağmen küculmuyor olması gerçekten fazlasıyla modern ekonominin modern olmayana ihtiyacının ne kadar azaldığıni gösteriyor biraz da. Sonra nerede olacaksa..
Zehn PostDocs erforschen an neuer Akademie Fragen des „guten Lebens“: Das @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social richtet mit der Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research (YAC) eine neue Plattform für hochqualifizierte PostDocs aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Ländern ein. ➡️ ufr.link/yac-frias
I have the hunch that Wilson's "self-determination principle" and the nation-state ideal have a nudge towards the empire, provincializing the other empires to make them their dependencies. As the idea does not apply to the US empire, it feels very pro US. Any reading on that?
In a different form of tech governance, a foundational model, Grok is banned in Türkiye.
BirGün Gazetesi@birgun.net · last yr.Soruşturma başlatılmıştı: Yapay zeka Grok hakkında erişim engeli kararı www.birgun.net/haber/sorust...
Sholem für Kurden und Türken, Ende einer Zeit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkp4...
Sholem Lid
YouTube video by Isabel Frey - Topic
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There is this Turkish joke: A creditor takes the debtor to court, claiming that the debtor did not pay his debt. The judge asks him if that is correct and, if so, why. The debtor answers; - When my creditor wanted the money back, I asked for a month to collect the money +
There could be much more engaged discussion about this with respect to discourse openness as well, but well, still a step forward I guess?
Laura Howes@laurahowes.bsky.social · 2y agoOver 60 German unis and institutes jointly announce they're leaving X due to the "lack of compatibility between the platform and the institutions' core values" (my translation) nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...
Literaturtipp: Ein Band von Corinna Klingler, Anja Pichl und Robert Ranisch zur "Ethik der Partizipation". Die Beiträger*innen befassen sich mit theoretischen Grundlagen einer Ethik der Partizipation und geben Hinweise zur Umsetzung in der Praxis. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...
Ethik der Partizipation
Wie kann eine Ethik der Partizipation in der Gesundheitsforschung und Technologieentwicklung theoretisch begründet und praktisch umgesetzt werden?
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📣Apply now for the HPS+Logic M.A. at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! The program includes courses on science and its history, logic and topics on culture, ethics & technology. Find all info here: www.hpsplus.org Application deadline for the summer term: - 15 January (Non-EU students) - 15 March (EU students)
Recently I presented my work on using evolutionary medicine and niche construction theory to translate perspectives from disability studies to neutralistic accounts of disease at Boston University, center on forced displacement I realize it was lacking here, please: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Disability studies have been successfully focusing on individuals' lived experiences, the personalization of goals, and the constitution of the individual in defining disease and restructuring public ...
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How is patient consent is made within imaginations of technoscience and how much responsibility should we carry thereof in the making of imaginations? Now out link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Low expectations within conservative wing of discourse coalition for innovation and technoscience: integrating vanguard visions to therapeutic consent - SN Social Sciences
Drawing on the sociology of expectations, this paper inquires what objects, promises, and audiences are invoked in two examples of biotechnology discourse on organoids, MCELS (Multicellular Engineered...
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As the old pragmatist saying goes, true if big! And this looks, well, sizeable?
Very happy to see this article published, it's been a long process and not always easy. Kudos to @anjapichl.bsky.social for seeing this through, to @robranisch.bsky.social and to all the authors for their contributions. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Ethical, legal and social aspects of human cerebral organoids and their governance in Germany, the U...
Human cerebral organoids (HCOs) are model systems that enable researchers to investigate the human brain in ways that had previously been impossible. The emergence of HCOs was accompanied by both expe...
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Hello World; This is finally out! Thanks to all who have been helpful in making, editing, advising, and publishing it. Love to hear some feedback about it from people who read it, please write me up in case! Now it is time to write how the challenge is accepted. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...