I am looking for #academia and #nonfiction #authors and #scicomm people who want to do some AMA-style events on Lemmy. The few I ran on Reddit were fun, and it makes an excellent opportunity for public outreach as people feel comfortable in an informal space, ECRs especially. These are great if you have a paper you want to rizz too. It's a good outreach thing; I always think 1:1 talking to people is the most successful and impactful. @phdstudents @academicchatter
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My paper got published in Synthese! 🥲
“Inspired by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics of monads, I will focus on a relational explanation of how simple subjects could constitute complex experiences, without them having to combine in virtue of their subjectivity. I call this view monadic panpsychism.”
You can download it for free here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0
#philosophy #openaccess #academia #panpsychism #consciousness #academicchatter @philosophy @philosophyofmind @academicchatter
Howdy! New to this whole Mastodon thing (I'm not even sure what instance I should be on) but eager. Name's Bug — I'm a queer master's student in an entomology lab, passionate about scientific outreach.
When I’m not staring at insects, I spend my time creating zines, comics, other art, and playing D&D. I want to learn how to make video games. Let’s connect if you think little critters are cool!
#introductions #pixelart #zines #entomology #academia #comics #queer #insects
University protests against Israel's war in Gaza are spreading across the U.S. After multiple Columbia University students were arrested last week for refusing to leave an encampment, arrests were made at Yale University today.
Daily Beast has a recap of what's happening, including new protests at New York University and the University of Michigan: https://flip.it/2MJY.s
For more stories on the Mideast crisis, follow @israel-hamas-war-thenewsdesk
The #DCG201 #HackerSummerCamp 2024 Guide for the #freeculture festival #Wikimania in #katowice #Poland is now live:
https://defcon201.medium.com/hacker-summer-camp-2024-guides-part-eleven-wikimania-katowice-b4b6c19b7038
#wikipedia #wikimedia #wikidata #wikifunctions #wiki #academia @wikimediafoundation #wmhack #wmhack2024 #katowice #poland @internetarchive @defcon #fediverse #mastodon #freeculture
So, that thing with Amazon being full of AI-generated books containing tips to eat poisonous mushrooms?
Google Scholar now appears to be increasingly full of GPT-fabricated academic papers too - undermining human society’s hard-amassed evidence base.
Good work, everyone.