@pfvelasco
British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Working across philosophy and cognitive science. Interested in disorientation, navigation, and ecological grief. pablofernandezvelasco.com
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
I'm co-organising this workshop on the idea of rewilding digital infrastructure in Edinburgh on the 28/29th May - and am somewhat overawed by all the incredible people who've agreed to speak.
And you could be one of them... If you submit an abstract by the (new deadline) of the 31 March.
New paper out! Using data from 219 BaYaka HGs and 33 plant species, I find that plants used by more people tend to show stronger agreement on their main function. Drop me an email if you don't have access to the paper and would like a PDF copy.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
We have already filled 1/3rd of the places. Don't miss out on yours :)
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Think of a place you feel attached to; when you’re there, does life feel more meaningful? In our new article in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, we find that people report higher meaning in life in places they are attached to.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
Call for expressions of interest — Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory - 30 Apr–1 May 2026
Artists, researchers & activists from across Scotland are invited to contribute to this two-day multimedia gathering exploring memory, ritual, cosmology and resistance.
Contact Safet safet.hm@stir.ac.uk
So excited to hear that this is in the works. Queer Phenomenology is a wonderful book, so I can’t wait for the sequel. Specially in such disorienting times.
I'm someone who spends a lot of time thinking about LLMs, and I have no idea how they would improve the selection of targets in a war. Except for one obvious affordance - they offload accountability.
They used a fucking *chatbot* to suggest targets?!? And 175 girls were killed when their school was bombed. Trump and Hegseth belong in the Hague. 🤬 #Trumpland #USFascism
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation
Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!
The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
🧵 1/4
A new paper co-authored by Centre researcher Dale Leorke rethinks the university library beyond the repository.
If the library is still the “heart of the campus”, what does it now embody?
doi.org/10.1080/0307...
Last novel I thoroughly enjoyed reading was Disorientation by @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social
Whatever the context, this is an eternal and undeniable truth:
A reminder of what some of these asylum policies are:
- giving refugees only 2.5 years of leave, meaning the Home Office has to review their status every 30 months
- quadrupling the time to settlement from 5 years to 20 years
- no automatic way to be reunited with close family members
This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.
#c4news
Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.
I'm hiring again!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
Reading these two stories today has really made me think of Terminator's Skynet.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Our co-edited volume with @abbeaberdeen.bsky.social and Marcel Jaspars is out: academic.oup.com/book/62270#l... (hardback to follow). Our ch 2 is OA academic.oup.com/book/62270/c.... We discuss how to better integrate local knowledge into ocean governance esp #BBNJ implementation.
Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
The machine in its quest to sound authoritative ended up sounding like a KCPE graduate who scored an 'A' in English Composition. It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-... HT @timblackwell.bsky.social @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
I just pre-ordered this. Very much looking to reading it. It sounds fascinating, and very timely.
Registration open 🎉
MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
Congratulations, Nicolás 🎉 This was a particularly competitive round, so it is a massive achievement.
Self by Adrian J. T. Alsmith: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.efd6ccc3
