Somayeh Tohidi
@somayehtohidi.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Manchester working on misinformation; Mum; #WomanLifeFreedom
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Somayeh Tohidi
@somayehtohidi.bsky.social
· Feb 18
One of the most appealing aspects of doing philosophy, for me, is having a curious puzzle tucked away in my mind for a long time. It feels like a safe, quiet room within my mind where I can take refuge whenever I’m overwhelmed by the external world.
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Nermine Memmedova - Ay Işığında ♪ ziruh
YouTube video by ziruh {Evrensel Müzik}
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May 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Listening to this famous poem from Rumi, I remembered the first time I heard about the concept of longevity…I remember it was so strange to me! The whole idea of trying hard to be alive in this world as long as possible was so unfamiliar and weird to me!/1
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Az in Marg Matarsidi: Bouye Sharab
YouTube video by Nexus Percussion - Topic
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November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Listening to this famous poem from Rumi, I remembered the first time I heard about the concept of longevity…I remember it was so strange to me! The whole idea of trying hard to be alive in this world as long as possible was so unfamiliar and weird to me!/1
youtu.be/_WS4So1l7ds?...
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I’ll be joining this fascinating project soon and am quite excited about it!☺️
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The Foundations of Longtermism
This is a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, hosted in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, and led by Richard Pettigrew. It will run from 1st September 2024 unt…
richardpettigrew.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’ll be joining this fascinating project soon and am quite excited about it!☺️
richardpettigrew.com/the-foundati...
richardpettigrew.com/the-foundati...
I was watching this knitting competition on Channel 4 and one of the knitters said “I’m probably perceived as being quite quiet, but I’m just soaking everything up and seeing what I can really do to be really loud with my knitting, albeit being quiet myself”. I loved it!
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I was watching this knitting competition on Channel 4 and one of the knitters said “I’m probably perceived as being quite quiet, but I’m just soaking everything up and seeing what I can really do to be really loud with my knitting, albeit being quiet myself”. I loved it!
I think the most significant part of philosophy research (and maybe all research) is identifying worthwhile questions. I recently discovered a funny personal shortcut: when I start working with a question, sometimes I get this vivid picture of…/1
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I think the most significant part of philosophy research (and maybe all research) is identifying worthwhile questions. I recently discovered a funny personal shortcut: when I start working with a question, sometimes I get this vivid picture of…/1
It's not news that the key to the success of almost any social movement is patience and persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. But persistence is impossible if you constantly see individuals from the oppressor group as oppressors!/1
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's not news that the key to the success of almost any social movement is patience and persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. But persistence is impossible if you constantly see individuals from the oppressor group as oppressors!/1
At 16, this album carried me through late nights of wrestling with hard math problems. It’s stayed with me as my endurance melody. Now whenever life feels too heavy, I play it and feel my soul muscles grow stronger.
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Mahtab (Esfahan)
YouTube video by Hossein Alizadeh - Topic
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October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
At 16, this album carried me through late nights of wrestling with hard math problems. It’s stayed with me as my endurance melody. Now whenever life feels too heavy, I play it and feel my soul muscles grow stronger.
youtu.be/c0ItncVzXxk?...
youtu.be/c0ItncVzXxk?...
I believe there is a significant and often ignored factor that distinguishes survival chances in humanities versus sciences: how long it takes graduate students and early career researchers to grasp the notion of 'meaningful contribution' in their field./1
October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I believe there is a significant and often ignored factor that distinguishes survival chances in humanities versus sciences: how long it takes graduate students and early career researchers to grasp the notion of 'meaningful contribution' in their field./1
Pishi and my armless chair philosophy: for some reason, she really likes this chair and doesn’t appreciate the fact that I actually need it for thinking!
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Pishi and my armless chair philosophy: for some reason, she really likes this chair and doesn’t appreciate the fact that I actually need it for thinking!
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We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions
#philsky #philsci
www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...
#philsky #philsci
www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...
Applying for Ph.d. programs
These notes were developed over the years for the annual "Applying to a PhD program" session for Simon Fraser University Philosophy MA students. This offers a perspective on how to prioritize your...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We're coming up on philosophy PhD application season. In case it is helpful for you or your students, I have a guide to this process, developed over the years of working with SFU MA students. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions
#philsky #philsci
www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...
#philsky #philsci
www.hkandersen.com/applying-for...
I have this vivid picture that at each point in time, my present self is an unstable tile between my past self and my future self, and I struggle to balance myself on that present tile. So I keep jumping back and forth until the present self tile breaks apart,/1
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have this vivid picture that at each point in time, my present self is an unstable tile between my past self and my future self, and I struggle to balance myself on that present tile. So I keep jumping back and forth until the present self tile breaks apart,/1
I was watching one of Duflo’s lectures and she showed this picture as an example of a beautiful representation of data. It’s a visualization of a Facebook network of 1000+ friends in Somalia. It reminded me of what kept me sane during the social movement in Iran 3 years ago./1
September 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I was watching one of Duflo’s lectures and she showed this picture as an example of a beautiful representation of data. It’s a visualization of a Facebook network of 1000+ friends in Somalia. It reminded me of what kept me sane during the social movement in Iran 3 years ago./1
September is coming and it marks the third year of my exile. I don’t even know whether I should call it an exile. Everything in that geography is uncertain…
Sitting in my home, mother, they forced me to fight mother
Capable, mother, I’m not mother, I can’t
Say goodbye for me, I’m opening my door, mother
maybe I won’t return, say goodbye
Tell those who are afraid, my heart’s bullets are sharp/1
Capable, mother, I’m not mother, I can’t
Say goodbye for me, I’m opening my door, mother
maybe I won’t return, say goodbye
Tell those who are afraid, my heart’s bullets are sharp/1
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
September is coming and it marks the third year of my exile. I don’t even know whether I should call it an exile. Everything in that geography is uncertain…
Sitting in my home, mother, they forced me to fight mother
Capable, mother, I’m not mother, I can’t
Say goodbye for me, I’m opening my door, mother
maybe I won’t return, say goodbye
Tell those who are afraid, my heart’s bullets are sharp/1
Capable, mother, I’m not mother, I can’t
Say goodbye for me, I’m opening my door, mother
maybe I won’t return, say goodbye
Tell those who are afraid, my heart’s bullets are sharp/1
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sitting in my home, mother, they forced me to fight mother
Capable, mother, I’m not mother, I can’t
Say goodbye for me, I’m opening my door, mother
maybe I won’t return, say goodbye
Tell those who are afraid, my heart’s bullets are sharp/1
Capable, mother, I’m not mother, I can’t
Say goodbye for me, I’m opening my door, mother
maybe I won’t return, say goodbye
Tell those who are afraid, my heart’s bullets are sharp/1
It's usually assumed that awareness of a cognitive bias is good, like once you know about it, it'll affect your decisions less and you'll get better at avoiding it over time. But is there any solid evidence for either of these claims?/1
August 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It's usually assumed that awareness of a cognitive bias is good, like once you know about it, it'll affect your decisions less and you'll get better at avoiding it over time. But is there any solid evidence for either of these claims?/1
Peder Balke - "The North Cape by Moonlight" (1848)
August 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Peder Balke - "The North Cape by Moonlight" (1848)
You have theories (a whole book of them) about history and enlightenment! TY for sharing your ideas. But I wonder how one could get themselves to record a video from their ivory tower addressing people in ME to tell them the world is improving.The rage I felt watching Pinker’s video is indescribable
August 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
You have theories (a whole book of them) about history and enlightenment! TY for sharing your ideas. But I wonder how one could get themselves to record a video from their ivory tower addressing people in ME to tell them the world is improving.The rage I felt watching Pinker’s video is indescribable
Growth is such a misleading metaphor for what life experience does to people. I feel like I’m shrinking as I go through life, and I don’t feel bad about it. It actually feels so good to think that someday I may shrink so much that I become invisible…I would have infinite density of consciousness! :)
August 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Growth is such a misleading metaphor for what life experience does to people. I feel like I’m shrinking as I go through life, and I don’t feel bad about it. It actually feels so good to think that someday I may shrink so much that I become invisible…I would have infinite density of consciousness! :)
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the final death sentence against activist Sharifeh Mohammadi. The Islamic Republic is an irreformable and brutal state whose evil character cannot be excused even when facing genuinely evil enemies.
August 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the final death sentence against activist Sharifeh Mohammadi. The Islamic Republic is an irreformable and brutal state whose evil character cannot be excused even when facing genuinely evil enemies.
‘Natoori’ by Shima Davoodpour.
(It’s a Kurdish song)
(It’s a Kurdish song)
August 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
‘Natoori’ by Shima Davoodpour.
(It’s a Kurdish song)
(It’s a Kurdish song)
It can totally be the case that all the time saved using LLMs for calculations and brainstorming will be wasted explaining away their false responses, delivered with an overconfident and self-righteous tone./1
August 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It can totally be the case that all the time saved using LLMs for calculations and brainstorming will be wasted explaining away their false responses, delivered with an overconfident and self-righteous tone./1
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In search of a ground floor
Łódź Hudego
contemporary
Łódź Hudego
contemporary
January 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
In search of a ground floor
Łódź Hudego
contemporary
Łódź Hudego
contemporary
“[…] art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experiences: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”
Reading James Baldwin and every page seems to glitter with wisdom.
August 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“[…] art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experiences: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”