When the climate shifts, it squeezes the safe climatic space of grasslands, says lead author Chaohui Li in @cnn.com interview. The researchers find that world's grasslands could shrink by half as climate change becomes more intense, threatening global food systems.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/27/w...
As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time.
My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇
Looks great! #philsky #booksky #belief
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Next Talk of "Monthly #Phenomenology": Lorenza D’Angelo (Pompeu Fabra University) - 'Pleasure, Pain and Introspection'.
6 March 2026 - Online.
Organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/03/02/n...
This is good!
Safety, Connection, and Communication: Qualitative Insights into the Multidimensionality of Autistic Stimming
(Bates et al, 2026)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#JBSP Online: ‘What Moves Us, & What We Move Towards: Tracing Tendency in Husserl’s Volitional Genesis’ – Min Li (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)
New article for the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/03/02/j...
#phenomenology #philosophy
One week left to apply to be the next project EPIC postdoctoral fellow! We’re looking for a good all-rounder. Suits a team player happy to join a friendly bunch of people super committed to make healthcare better for everyone. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM117/r...
01.03.2026 15:10 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0The polymathic astronomer John Herschel coined the word "photography" on this day in 1839. Here is the story of the medium's inception, with a stunning meditation by Virginia Woolf (whose aunt was a pioneering photographer) on the fate of every technology. www.themarginalian.org/2019/04/03/v...
28.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
On Behalf of the Wolf: Niche Construction and Indigenous Concepts of Creation
Raymond Pierotti
www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/6/...
The Spirit of the Woods – poet and painter Rebecca Hey's gorgeous illustrations for the world's first encyclopedia of trees www.themarginalian.org/2020/01/06/s...
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Are you an adult with a dissociative disorder? Join our study! #did #dissociation #dissociativedisorder
01.12.2025 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Are you a therapist who treats clients with dissociative disorders? See the attached recruitment ad for more details about a study on therapists’ experiences working with these clients around themes of death and dying!
22.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Next Consciousness Club is this Wednesday 25th Feb at 11am UK time!
Anat Arzi @anatarzi.bsky.social will be talking about "The Dynamics of (Un)Consciousness: Insights from Olfaction and Respiration"
All welcome, for more info and how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Art and the Critical Medical Humanities - New book on how art can contribute to understanding health and illness - co-edited by Dr Fiona Johnstone from Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
medhumsplatform.org/art-and-crit...
Check out the Cultural Autism Studies at Yale website.
I have just updated it!
culturalautismstudiesatyale.space
Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A Summary of the Evidence
Guest Post by Nev Jones (@viscidula.bsky.social)
No study has demonstrated that involuntary outpatient treatment adds value beyond the enhanced services and system accountability that accompany it.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/assisted-o...
Super excited to have been invited to contribute to this incredible event as keynote speaker alongside some of my favourite people including Awais Aftab and Sofia Jeppsson!
Have a look and submit your abstract:
What can philosophy do for psychiatry?
inpp2026.com
🎉 Announcing the launch of an agenda-setting collection of essays exploring how art and art-history can transform understandings of health, illness, care and medical knowledge. Edited by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire 🧵
@durham.ac.uk @languagesdurham.bsky.social
Two side-by-side images depicting the nested hierarchical IPOMDP and the non-hierarchical x-IPOMDP mechanism.
What happens when we can't use recursive belief to compete? We can use anomaly detection instead!
Here, we (led by soon-to-be-Dr @nitalon.bsky.social ) devise a multi-agent account where compression & reward expectation are used to notice deception
jair.org/index.php/ja...
New exciting collaborative work just published, led by Florestan Delcourt
Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Wow.
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Have you heard of the compassionate approach to relating to voices? I really like the way this short animation explains it.
youtu.be/VRqI4lxuXAw
Happy to have the preprint of my work in @philcorlett.bsky.social's lab out 🎊 read below to see how experienced volatility influences social hallucinations in paranoid perception
11.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek listen to this podcast by the Royal College of Psychiatrists where Matthew Broome, Rose McCabe, Michael Larkin, and I talk about the importance of agency in youth mental health #epistemicinjustice #philsky #philpsy
10.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Voice hearing can also be observed amongst people who are neither unwell nor psychotic. […] Religious
practitioners endorse hearing God speak to them on occasion.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Clinical Staging, Early Intervention, and Youth Mental Health: An Interview with Patrick McGorry
How do we intelligently connect multifactorial, pluripotential syndromes to treatment decisions?
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/clinical-s...
We have a fab line up of podcasts& talks on embodied agency in biological & artificial systems!
Watch this space 😎
Call for papers: astonphar.blogspot.com/2026/02/we-e...
Deadline March 20th.
Event May 12th.
Theme: Relationships and mental health.
One-day conference, co-organised by PHaR and the Phenomenology of Mental Health team at UoB.
A woman stands at the front of a seminar room giving a presentation to a seated audience. A slide is projected behind her. On the right side of the image, a blue panel with NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London branding features a quote about the need to do research differently, more equitably, and more inclusively, attributed to Josephine Ocloo, senior lecturer at King’s College London and principal investigator.
Over 120 people joined our recent webinar showcasing how peer-research approaches - involving people with lived experience and from diverse backgrounds - can drive more equitable and inclusive research.
Read our round-up and catch up with the recording:
arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...
