Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic

Yup, fortunately the vibes I got from my students were that they are def not ready to go down that kind of road, but instead we had a really great discussion about how to engage people in discussions about the harm of everyday-racism (and great ideas about how "call people in" vs. calling them out)

thx, makes sense! By coincidence this is exactly what I'll discuss with my students in class today.

I'm genuine curious here, because this argument is so widespread here in DK as well. Do mean that this strategy (looking for the middleground, not calling out racism etc.) is what leads to Trumpism?

Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain Stein loved the idea that writing might have esoteric meanings but that those meanings would be only faintly perceived...

‘Her style is so direct that it’s surprising how much it can hide. Biography seems to be an answer to a sense among some readers that Stein does not mean what she says, or that in some way we are being deceived.’

Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Vigtig ny bog, minder mig om det her smukke nye maleri som jeg kører forbi om morgenen (tunellen ved Mimersparken)
Kunst af @pil_at
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DISGUST ~ un- & dis-comforting, ingratiating its way into our senses ~ repugnant, offensive. Here, I have the absol pleasure of learning from world experts, Philippa Nicole Barr & Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic, on public health & warfare. LISTEN IN!

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Still time to listen in as @philippabarr.bsky.social & @dittemunch.bsky.social discuss disgust - its historical, moral, social manifestations and our reactions to it!

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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New issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly is out, and it's a symposium on Katharine Jenkins's book 'Ontology and Oppression', guest edited by Susan Brison and @jennysaul.bsky.social:

If you're not outraged about #AI, you're not paying attention: #Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism. Book tickets for this free public lecture by Professor Alice Crary at University College Dublin:
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Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

Our #projectEPIC on #EpistemicInjustice in healthcare is 2 years old, our blog reached 103k views and our open access book had 15k downloads… curious? Here’s our website! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org @jelliedsours.bsky.social @histloneliness.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social #philsky

Say hello to Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, who is joining us as a visiting researcher for the next six weeks.
She will give her guest lecture at the University on Thursday, so come join us!
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@anaantic.bsky.social is in Berlin, visiting BIRD - Berlin Institute for Research and Dialog, where she will give a lecture later today!

Read more about BIRD here: b-i-r-d.de#intro

Please help us give a warm welcome to @dittemunch.bsky.social and Astrid Fly Oredsson to the Centre!

They'll be working on the DFF-Sapere Aude research project: "Cultured Emotions: A Conceptual History of Alexithymia" (CULTEMO).

The September issue of the Kaleidoscope is out with thoughts from our @cfogarasi.bsky.social!

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and subscribe here cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/ 💫

We’re back and excited to invite you to a range of upcoming events. Explore the full program here:
cultmind.ku.dk/events/

We’re kicking things off with a lecture by Meta Remec on September 18, where she will discuss the phenomenon of suicide in socialist Slovenia during the post–World War II era.

https://cultmind.ku.dk/

Remember that tingling feeling from first day at school? ✨ 🫧 💫 🎉
This is how I've been feeling this week where I started as Asso. Prof. at Centre for Culture and the Mind. Here I'll be heading the research project: Cultured Emotions: A Conceptual History of Alexithymia tinyurl.com/3z8787je

🎧 Hot off the Press

Is feeling disgusted an immediate effective response or something deeper?

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa speaks to Philippa Barr and Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic about what disgust really is.

Listen to the full episode now 🔗 https://cup.org/4lL3Iuc

Very happy to see our new paper on a relational conception of moral injury published in Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health!

We have more work on the way with a similar argument, so please get in touch if you have questions or feedback!

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Tak Henrik!

RIP @helendecruz.net

Den 1 procent rigeste del af befolkningen ejer 25 af den danske nettoformue.

Den 1 procent af befolkningen med de højeste indkomster så en indkomststigning på 47% fra 2012-2019 mod kun 5% for de fattigste 10 procent.

Fra min bog - hør mere i Sydhavnssalonen den 13.6❤️

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"Critical Race Theory, Science and Pseudoscience": A Conversation with Victor Ray and Sam Hoadley-Brill Critical race theory (CRT) is based on the premises of pervasive racial inequality and a social constructionist (i.e. anti-essentialist) conception of race. It challenges the idea that the superficial...

Sunday read:
"Critical Race Theory, Science and Pseudoscience"

Victor Ray and Sam Hoadley-Brill challenge the idea that the colorblind nature of a law means the law is race-neutral, and explore the role of pseudoscience in a CRT backlash.
#Philosophy #moralphil #philsci

Registration is Open for May Events | Society for Disability Studies Get more from Society for Disability Studies on Patreon

On May 30-31, the Society for Disability Studies is hosting two author-focused events with @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp (and diverse panels of commentators). Registration is open and free. www.patreon.com/posts/regist...

I WILL BEAR WITNESS 1933-1941 A DIARY OF THE NAZI YEARS VICTOR KLEMPERER

I know i’m not the only person reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries right now. His account of the day to day experience of the consolidation of Nazi power has a lot to teach us today…

Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and I are thrilled with the cover for our book, Somebody Should Do Something

The release date is 9/16, but you can do preorders now

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#CoverReveal #Bookstagram @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social tein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

I’m super excited for the start of today’s first ever Keystone conference on #interoception. The speaker lineup is amazing and the Allen institute is breathtaking

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Our exhibition on #hiddenplantstories is taking form. Are you coming to see it in september?

www.hirschsprung.dk/en/exhibitio...

A new CV section for UNINVITED talks. List of instances I’ve accidentally lectured in unwanted contexts

Frances Stonor Saunders · Where on Earth are you? We construct borders, literally and figuratively, to fortify our sense of who we are; and we cross them in search of who...

One of the best pieces the @lrb.co.uk has ever published imo.