Alexander Berezkin
@birchalexander.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Psychology, CIIS (CA).
Research interests: micro-phenomenology · embodied consciousness & 4EA cognition · intersex/VSC & migration · posthumanism & bioethics.
Intersex migrant (47,XXY Ks) 💛💜· they/he · hiking, art, cinema, board games ·👬🏳️🌈
Research interests: micro-phenomenology · embodied consciousness & 4EA cognition · intersex/VSC & migration · posthumanism & bioethics.
Intersex migrant (47,XXY Ks) 💛💜· they/he · hiking, art, cinema, board games ·👬🏳️🌈
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In my research, I approach #intersex as a form of innate bodily variability that shapes embodied experience, not as a fixed essence dictating identity. I focus on how body, consciousness, and cognition co-form each other within migration, culture, and lived subjectivity, rather than on gender.
Whenever I visit New York City before Christmas, I never fail to walk down Fifth Avenue to see these always very beautiful and extravagant windows shops
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Whenever I visit New York City before Christmas, I never fail to walk down Fifth Avenue to see these always very beautiful and extravagant windows shops
Reposted by Alexander Berezkin
Call for papers: 'Social Constitution through Affectivity. Phenomenological Perspectives'
«#Phenomenology and Mind» an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, and fully open access journal.
Editors: Rosario Croce, Alessandra Fussi, Sara Rocca
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/02/s...
«#Phenomenology and Mind» an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, and fully open access journal.
Editors: Rosario Croce, Alessandra Fussi, Sara Rocca
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/02/s...
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Call for papers: 'Social Constitution through Affectivity. Phenomenological Perspectives'
«#Phenomenology and Mind» an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, and fully open access journal.
Editors: Rosario Croce, Alessandra Fussi, Sara Rocca
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/02/s...
«#Phenomenology and Mind» an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, and fully open access journal.
Editors: Rosario Croce, Alessandra Fussi, Sara Rocca
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/02/s...
🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc
(This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If our thinking is shaped by the whole body, not just the brain, then imagine what it means to grow up with a body that’s different from birth, as #intersex people do. How does a different morphology shape embodied self-experience & embodied cognition, perception, and the sense of “being me”? #4E
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cool! There is a virtual option too! #consci
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Cool! There is a virtual option too! #consci
On the weekend I visited the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Every time I go to this local museum, I’m struck by the compelling work on display. This time the exhibition explored both the history of the 19th Amendment and the contemporary women’s rights movement. #art #womenrights
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the weekend I visited the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Every time I go to this local museum, I’m struck by the compelling work on display. This time the exhibition explored both the history of the 19th Amendment and the contemporary women’s rights movement. #art #womenrights
The #FrontiersForum webinar on “Consciousness Science: Where Are We Going?” affirmed that my work on embodied #consciousness, micro-phenomenology, & the lived experience of #intersex migrants aligns with the interdisciplinary expansion the field now calls for.
forum.frontiersin.org/science-even...
forum.frontiersin.org/science-even...
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The #FrontiersForum webinar on “Consciousness Science: Where Are We Going?” affirmed that my work on embodied #consciousness, micro-phenomenology, & the lived experience of #intersex migrants aligns with the interdisciplinary expansion the field now calls for.
forum.frontiersin.org/science-even...
forum.frontiersin.org/science-even...
I’m really impressed. I just finished the incredible episode 4 of #StrangerThings season 5, and I didn’t expect such a powerful queer-acceptance storyline at the very center of the plot. It feels so relevant to my own experience as an intersex queer child. #QueerRepresentation #lgbtqia
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m really impressed. I just finished the incredible episode 4 of #StrangerThings season 5, and I didn’t expect such a powerful queer-acceptance storyline at the very center of the plot. It feels so relevant to my own experience as an intersex queer child. #QueerRepresentation #lgbtqia
The day of gratitude from my winter cactus:)
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The day of gratitude from my winter cactus:)
Even though my PhD approaches consciousness phenomenologically and through embodied/enactivist experience rather than neuroscience, this graph still feels encouraging. It reflects the broader growth of #consciousness studies as an interdisciplinary field.
I started my PhD on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness in 2022. Even though people advised against it, I think it was good timing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Even though my PhD approaches consciousness phenomenologically and through embodied/enactivist experience rather than neuroscience, this graph still feels encouraging. It reflects the broader growth of #consciousness studies as an interdisciplinary field.
Reposted by Alexander Berezkin
Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below
events.frontiersin.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below
According to this fantastic anthropological piece, when ayahuasca becomes mainstreamed through tourism, the ritual, cosmology, and meaning of healing shift with it.
Be careful what you’re hoping to find. Probably secular psychedelic therapy may be a better option. #psychedelic #ayahuasca #anthro
Be careful what you’re hoping to find. Probably secular psychedelic therapy may be a better option. #psychedelic #ayahuasca #anthro
From Peruvian healers battling sorcerers to Chinese executives seeking financial success, ayahuasca’s power shifts across worlds. Today’s essay follows ayahuasca’s remarkable journey across cultures and contexts, and explores the many ways of experiencing and understanding the brew
The many realities of ayahuasca, from rural Peru to urban China | Aeon Essays
From Peruvian healers battling sorcerers to Chinese executives seeking financial success, ayahuasca’s power shifts across worlds
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
According to this fantastic anthropological piece, when ayahuasca becomes mainstreamed through tourism, the ritual, cosmology, and meaning of healing shift with it.
Be careful what you’re hoping to find. Probably secular psychedelic therapy may be a better option. #psychedelic #ayahuasca #anthro
Be careful what you’re hoping to find. Probably secular psychedelic therapy may be a better option. #psychedelic #ayahuasca #anthro
LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) invites proposals for “Mindful Creativity in the Age of AI,” a hybrid symposium on #posthuman embodied creativity, #AI human co-production in the arts. 4–5 Mar 2026. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
lasalle.edu.sg/events/posthuman-pedagogies-mindful-creativity-age-ai
lasalle.edu.sg/events/posthuman-pedagogies-mindful-creativity-age-ai
Posthuman Pedagogies: Mindful Creativity in the Age of AI | LASALLE College of the Arts
Organised by LASALLE's Learning, Teaching and Research The integration of generative AI in the creative arts marks a critical inflexion point in how knowledge, authorship and imagination are produced ...
lasalle.edu.sg
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) invites proposals for “Mindful Creativity in the Age of AI,” a hybrid symposium on #posthuman embodied creativity, #AI human co-production in the arts. 4–5 Mar 2026. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
lasalle.edu.sg/events/posthuman-pedagogies-mindful-creativity-age-ai
lasalle.edu.sg/events/posthuman-pedagogies-mindful-creativity-age-ai
It’s interesting how, in surveys of trans and nonbinary participants, the category #intersex is often used as an identity rather than a bodily variation. To me, this reflects about the way research language shifts when embodied experience disappears from view.
escholarship.org/uc/item/05n1...
escholarship.org/uc/item/05n1...
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s interesting how, in surveys of trans and nonbinary participants, the category #intersex is often used as an identity rather than a bodily variation. To me, this reflects about the way research language shifts when embodied experience disappears from view.
escholarship.org/uc/item/05n1...
escholarship.org/uc/item/05n1...
The new student loan rules basically tell me that my field studying migration, embodied cognition, and social complexity isn’t “professional” enough to deserve federal support.
So I’m planning to finish my PhD by the end of the Spring 2027 semester. #AcademicSky
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
So I’m planning to finish my PhD by the end of the Spring 2027 semester. #AcademicSky
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin
Certain students may no longer receive the same loan for their studies as what counts as "professional" will determine how much they get.
www.newsweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The new student loan rules basically tell me that my field studying migration, embodied cognition, and social complexity isn’t “professional” enough to deserve federal support.
So I’m planning to finish my PhD by the end of the Spring 2027 semester. #AcademicSky
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
So I’m planning to finish my PhD by the end of the Spring 2027 semester. #AcademicSky
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
This week I was in NYC and I experienced a perceptual shift: from task-focused attention to sensory attunement. The city became a living field where race, class, and migration appeared as #embodied patterns in gestures, movement, & presence. I also noticed dual attention emerging in myself.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This week I was in NYC and I experienced a perceptual shift: from task-focused attention to sensory attunement. The city became a living field where race, class, and migration appeared as #embodied patterns in gestures, movement, & presence. I also noticed dual attention emerging in myself.
In my opinion, although the article is framed around neuro-computational correlates, it also implicitly advances an #enactivist view of visual consciousness: organism–environment coupling, bodily organization, and sensorimotor capacities shape what kinds of conscious-like perception are possible.
Bees, blindsight, and consciousness, by Tamietto et al. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Bees, blindsight, and consciousness
Blindsight patients lack conscious visual perception yet perform visual tasks effectively,
suggesting many animals may similarly rely on non-conscious vision. Here, we discuss
how to investigate visua...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In my opinion, although the article is framed around neuro-computational correlates, it also implicitly advances an #enactivist view of visual consciousness: organism–environment coupling, bodily organization, and sensorimotor capacities shape what kinds of conscious-like perception are possible.
The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies invites you to submit a proposal to participate in the 21st annual conference: Rewilding the Psyche: Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives, to be held in Portland, Oregon, June 11−24, 2026.
Deadline is January 31, 2026
jungiansociety.org/2026-conference
Deadline is January 31, 2026
jungiansociety.org/2026-conference
2026 JSSS Conference - Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies
Call for Proposals for 2026 JSSS Conference Please download and review the Call for Proposals, and once your proposal is ready use the form below to submit your proposal. Proposals… Read More »2026 JS...
jungiansociety.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies invites you to submit a proposal to participate in the 21st annual conference: Rewilding the Psyche: Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives, to be held in Portland, Oregon, June 11−24, 2026.
Deadline is January 31, 2026
jungiansociety.org/2026-conference
Deadline is January 31, 2026
jungiansociety.org/2026-conference
Honored to be named a Point Persistence Scholar for Spring 2026.
As an intersex and queer academic, building an interdisciplinary path takes persistence & courage.
Thank you #PointFoundation for recognizing this work and welcoming me into your community of LGBTQI scholars 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
pointfoundation.org
As an intersex and queer academic, building an interdisciplinary path takes persistence & courage.
Thank you #PointFoundation for recognizing this work and welcoming me into your community of LGBTQI scholars 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
pointfoundation.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Honored to be named a Point Persistence Scholar for Spring 2026.
As an intersex and queer academic, building an interdisciplinary path takes persistence & courage.
Thank you #PointFoundation for recognizing this work and welcoming me into your community of LGBTQI scholars 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
pointfoundation.org
As an intersex and queer academic, building an interdisciplinary path takes persistence & courage.
Thank you #PointFoundation for recognizing this work and welcoming me into your community of LGBTQI scholars 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
pointfoundation.org
Reading about polygenic embryo selection, I think that when epigenetic dynamics are ignored, “risk reduction” becomes a narrative that treats embodied diversity as something to eliminate.
My life as #intersex is living evidence of the developmental complexity that genotype alone can’t predict.
My life as #intersex is living evidence of the developmental complexity that genotype alone can’t predict.
There’s a new kid in town!
Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence.
We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality.
With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence.
We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality.
With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality
The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...
www.fertstert.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reading about polygenic embryo selection, I think that when epigenetic dynamics are ignored, “risk reduction” becomes a narrative that treats embodied diversity as something to eliminate.
My life as #intersex is living evidence of the developmental complexity that genotype alone can’t predict.
My life as #intersex is living evidence of the developmental complexity that genotype alone can’t predict.
This article is closely aligned with the #micro-phenomenology, which examines the micro-temporal and micro-spatial dynamics that constitute experiential structure of time. It shows that time is shaped through shifts in attention, affective tone, bodily tonicity, and subtle sensory micro-variations.
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This article is closely aligned with the #micro-phenomenology, which examines the micro-temporal and micro-spatial dynamics that constitute experiential structure of time. It shows that time is shaped through shifts in attention, affective tone, bodily tonicity, and subtle sensory micro-variations.
Even though this is about brain cancer, the logic of discussing worries me. Framing some developmental outcomes as “bad” and in need of correction, and treating critique as obstruction, is harmless in oncology but can be dangerous when applied to #intersex (variations of sex characteristics)
Bottom line. The vocabulary matters when it comes time to decide whether to do research, and if so, in what direction. Patients want a choice about outcomes. Whatever vocabulary helps us communicate about what direction we're trying to push things, that's what we need. And of course I want everyone,
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Even though this is about brain cancer, the logic of discussing worries me. Framing some developmental outcomes as “bad” and in need of correction, and treating critique as obstruction, is harmless in oncology but can be dangerous when applied to #intersex (variations of sex characteristics)
It sounds like the #transhumanist -focused conference on “psychedelics, brain implants and anti-ageing therapies.
Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.”
Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.”
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance www.nature.com/articles/d41... - all the grifters together at last!
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It sounds like the #transhumanist -focused conference on “psychedelics, brain implants and anti-ageing therapies.
Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.”
Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.”
Reposted by Alexander Berezkin
Gone are the days when someone can say there is no theory of consciousness.
www.consciousnessatlas.com
www.consciousnessatlas.com
Consciousness Atlas: Interactive Visualization of 325+ Theories from Kuhn's Landscape of Consciousness
Explore 300+ theories of consciousness. The Consciousness Atlas is a free web app visualizing Robert Kuhn's Landscape of Consciousness—325+ theories of phenomenal consciousness in one interactive char...
www.consciousnessatlas.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Gone are the days when someone can say there is no theory of consciousness.
www.consciousnessatlas.com
www.consciousnessatlas.com
Upcoming micro-phenomenology trainings (Spring 2026) are now open.
Having gone through one of these trainings before, I can say it’s a strong foundation for anyone working with embodied cognition or lived experience research.
#microphenomenology #4E #research
microphenomenology.com/so/b6PfuKTls/c
Having gone through one of these trainings before, I can say it’s a strong foundation for anyone working with embodied cognition or lived experience research.
#microphenomenology #4E #research
microphenomenology.com/so/b6PfuKTls/c
Trainings | microphenomenology
microphenomenology.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Upcoming micro-phenomenology trainings (Spring 2026) are now open.
Having gone through one of these trainings before, I can say it’s a strong foundation for anyone working with embodied cognition or lived experience research.
#microphenomenology #4E #research
microphenomenology.com/so/b6PfuKTls/c
Having gone through one of these trainings before, I can say it’s a strong foundation for anyone working with embodied cognition or lived experience research.
#microphenomenology #4E #research
microphenomenology.com/so/b6PfuKTls/c