I can listen to this on repeat all day and never get tired. Ney improvisation has a magical effect… at least for me…I just can’t stop my tears…
Somayeh Tohidi
@somayehtohidi.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Bristol working on Longtermism; Mum; #WomanLifeFreedom https://somayehtohidi.github.io/
“It’s as if a creative carpenter discovered that for some tasks a stethoscope works better than a saw.” ✨🥹
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 3w agoShayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal, one of the highest honors in theoretical computer science. Read our profile exploring how he used new mathematical tools to solve decades-old problems about route planning and random sampling: www.quantamagazine.org/shayan-oveis...
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
In an unjust world, let love leash the force of hatred rather than extinguish it.
This workshop was amazing, and I’ve decided to name my learning experience from it ‘The Reasonable Effectiveness of Biology in the Social Sciences’! 🙃 Thanks so much to the organisers! www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...
July: Phil_Workshop: Randomization in Science, Society and Nature | Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences | University of Bristol
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How do we establish reliable medical knowledge in the age of AI, big data, and evidence-based medicine? Looking forward to The Epistemology of Medicine workshop (25–26 June, Munich), bringing together philosophers, statisticians, and medical researchers for two days of interdisciplinary discussion.
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Second instalment of ‘Epistemology: Normal meets Formal’ happening in Oxford tomorrow!! www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/event/episte...
In memory of the great David Hockney here’s his 1971 drawing of the anthropologist Edmund Leach of @kingscollege.bsky.social I love the focus on the frames of his glasses
I broke up with Google Sites (it kept eating my text) and moved my website to somayehtohidi.github.io. Plot twist: now I have to fight Google’s own search engine to get the new link to show up. So clicking it is an act of solidarity! :)) Research, talks, and forthcoming work all live here now.
Somayeh Tohidi
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My heart goes out to my sisters in Herat…💔 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
And he turned away from them and said, “Oh my sorrow over Joseph,” and his eyes became white from grief, for he was [of that] a suppressor. (84)
The unexpected connection between algebraic number theory and discrete geometry revealed by the solution is part of what makes the result notable. /1 openai.com/index/model-...
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
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When responsibility feels like a long thread tangled around my limbs, tripping me up, maybe the thing to do is weave it into a garment and wear it. Maybe some responsibilities shouldn’t be something we do. They should be something we are.
As comforting and safe as staying in these quiet rooms is, moving between them takes real effort. I wonder how running parallel projects feels in other fields, but I think in philosophy it can be quite demanding.
Somayeh Tohidi@somayehtohidi.bsky.social · last yr.One of the most appealing aspects of doing philosophy, for me, is having a curious puzzle tucked away in my mind for a long time. It feels like a safe, quiet room within my mind where I can take refuge whenever I’m overwhelmed by the external world.
There’s a recurring scene in Perfect Days where the main character opens his door in the morning, looks at the sky and tree branches, and takes a deep breath with a grateful smile. I think I’ll remember that scene for the rest of my life, and it makes me look up more often and smile whenever I do.
Whoever invented cheese strings deserves a global award from kids! They peel into infinitely narrow strips, stretching to fit any TV session from 5 to 5000 minutes. The moment screen time ends, a kid asks for just one more cheese string’s worth, and they’ll have indefinite time 🤦🏻♀️
The recording of the session: www.youtube.com/live/ursZB34...
The ethics of foreign intervention: philosophical perspectives on Venezuela and Iran | LSE Event
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Somayeh Tohidi@somayehtohidi.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us at LSE for a panel on the ethics of foreign intervention, with Kieran Oberman, Jonathan Parry, Paola Romero, and myself, chaired by Alex Voorhoeve. In person and online. www.lse.ac.uk/events/inter...
Realizing that you are conditioned to subordinate yourself is way more painful, and more transformative, than realizing you are being subordinated./1
And they asked him: Why do you sing? And he answered: I sing because I sing… And they searched his voice But could only find his grief And they searched his grief But could only find his prison And they searched his prison But could only find themselves in chains
#VidSource Siba Alkhiami, Berlin DOUNANA (Without Us) sibasmusic (SIBA - صِبا) www.instagram.com/sibasmusic/ Nov 10, 2024: www.instagram.com/monkyman_mus... MONKyMAN (@monkymanmusic): www.youtube.com/@monkymanmus... Nov 9, 2024 DOUNANA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...
DOUNANA (without us) SIBA & MONKYMAN
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Bomb our roofs and make us out liars and deny our feelings Destroy our dreams Objectify our bodies and darken our skies and kill our peace We will keep standing still and our love stands in us
A small joy: something I’ve always done (and got all sorts of labels for) is apparently a thing in critical theory. Inspired by Brecht: genuine critical thinking means positioning yourself against the consensus of whatever group you’re in. If you’re comfortable, you’re not thinking critically.
Some days I miss you more than I remember you. Some days I remember you more than I miss you, and I don’t know which one is more painful. I’m going to let the pain of exile erase this distinction from my vocabulary. I’m going to let the pain of exile devour all the pains.
The ideal modern human and the ideal religious human share a common aim: independence from other humans. The former seeks it through self-reliance, the latter through reliance on an infinite other. In theory, the self-reliant should be more arrogant: “I am my own best provider.”/1
“A whole civilization will die tonight…” I’m so tired of reading his words and telling myself that he is a lunatic…maybe I’m a lunatic…what sane person can read this while having no access to their whole family under this threat and still act like everything will be ok? I’m not sane…I’m not ok…
