Alan Jurgens

Philosophical Explorations has a new BlueSky account: @philexplorations.bsky.social

Please, follow it and share it with your colleagues!

My only problem with @fractalecho.bsky.social's book is that now I have to figure out a different book to write. But while i sort that out, i can make everybody go read Rua's book. S go read it 😃

Screenshot of account deletion process on academia.edu

Just deleted my academia.edu account after 17 (!) years -- the company's exploitative new terms of use are outrageous, and it's a shame such a blatant commercial sell-out is able to operate under the .edu top-level domain. If you are still on academia.edu, please consider deleting your account too.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This paper was another one long in the making. In it, I discuss the phenomena of self illness ambiguity and the impact of processes of social understanding on demarcating mental disorder experiences from the self

YouTube video by The Dissenter #1124 Miguel Segundo Ortín & Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology

@segundo-ortin.bsky.social and I were talking about ecological psychology with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social:
youtu.be/s6EwRYqmP64
www.thedissenter.net

Q&A on AI and Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI.
danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty...

Equity and Diversity Principles AAHPSSS is committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment that celebrates diversity and encourages the participation of all individuals. We recognise the value that diverse per…

Proud to see AAHPSSS adopt the Equity & Diversity Principles I drafted as VP. Great collaboration with our executive team and membership to get this across the line.

Now for the implementation work! Policy available on our website.

#Leadership #EquityAndDiversity

Can’t take it with you I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me

helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Stop flying to Croatia – beautiful European country has 90% less tourists Three decades since it was ravaged by the Balkan Wars, the country has risen from the ashes to become an underrated yet adored summer holiday hotspot

“1.9 million tourists passed through Bosnia's borders in that same year, which is around 90% less [than Croatia]. But to miss out on this lesser-visited country is to miss out on such exquisite natural beauty, the historical monuments and breathtaking scenery.” www.express.co.uk/travel/artic...

"Narrating the Many Autisms is a reflective, careful investigation of Autism, identity, and humanity, one that draws primarily on the fields of critical psychology and anthropology." Thoughtful review of @annastenning.bsky.social's excellent book

last thing for the day before I log OFF but i keep thinking about the (bad) argument that genAI is good for disabled people, but ime true accommodations for disability are external. I don't need a tool to make me go faster; I need a society that gives me space to go slower.

Flood of AI-assisted research ‘weakening quality of science’ Wave of ‘low-quality’ papers threatening to overwhelm journals and peer reviewers, preventing them from assessing more meaningful research

'Artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up the research process by helping to extract data have led to a flood of “low-quality” research papers that threaten to damage the “foundations of scientific rigour”, according to a new study.' 1/2

Orange blending into green book cover of "neurodiversity: a very short introduction" by Robert Chapman and Sue Fletcher Watson, with this text written in a white font.

Excited to say that "Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction" written by myself and @suereviews.bsky.social is finally ready to preorder! Afaik the first general academic introduction covering the ND movement, ND studies, and applications of ND theory in practice.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Neurodiversity lite is still evolving When we talk about “neurodiversity lite” in academia or research, we're usually talking about psychologists or psychiatrists who appropriate neurodiversity paradigm terminology while failing to adhere...

New post: "driven by the development of new neurodiversity research industries and the increasing prestige of neurodiversity paradigm expertise, we see a second wave of neurodiversity lite, one that has evolved to become more complex, more subtle"
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

Fewer women use AI for the same reason fewer women use crypto or FanDuel— women are better at detecting scams

Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism”
www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

Thanks so much to @theguardian.com for having me, and especially @estelletang.bsky.social for her fastidious edits. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

(PDF) Enactive Approaches to Disability PDF | The enactive framework comprises a broad array of theoretical approaches that view action and interactive engagement as foundational to minds and... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Mads & I published our article on Enactive Approaches to Disability in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability. The published version may be a bit hard to access but a draft version is available here and you can DM me if you want the published version.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This seems to me to be an excellent list of principles

Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts.

"We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally."

medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

Master of Autism - University of Wollongong – UOW UOW's Master of Autism takes a social justice perspective to supporting autistic and neurodivergent individuals. Find out more or apply now to study in 2023.

A few days late, but I'm excited to announce that I started a new continuing full-time position as an Associate Lecturer at UOW for the Master of Autism and Neurodivergent Studies program.

It's an honor to be working with such great staff and students, and it's a relief to be off the job market.

📸 Tiger JoJo

Air pollution from AI could surpass that of all the cars in California Massive data centers power large language models but produce fine particles linked to asthma, cancers, and premature deaths.

Once again asking what problem this technology has solved or is expected to solve to force us to endure this. www.fastcompany.com/91253026/air...

My Ph.D. took a long time—and there’s no shame in that “If I didn’t have the answer to my research question yet it was because the answer was complex, not because of personal shortcomings,” this scientist writes

This piece by Anana Sen is doing the rounds and rightly so.

Honestly, this is one of the most important conversations we need to have nationally in Higher Ed. Assuming everyone will or can finish to a specific schedule is discriminatory in so many ways...

The Studeni Stream on Mt. Bjelasnica, the famed ski resort just outside Sarajevo, captured by photographer Armin Durgut.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's natural beauties continue to astound.

Our Special Issue on the Future of Phenomenological Psychopathology is finally out! 🥳This special issue has emerged from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project 'Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology' led by@matthewbroome.bsky.social & Giovanni Stanghellini 💪 #philsky