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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of wearing it on a daily basis... It'll give some solemnity for the classes. Perhaps then the undergrad students read the assigned texts?! To be tested

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · 8d

We-MNF volta essa semana com uma faixa maravilhosa de M. Efekt, melodia linda, vocal magistral e um solo de guitarra matador de Radim Hladík. Diretamente da Tchecoslováquia em 1977!

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Ej, Padá, Padá Rosenka - M. Efekt - We-MNF: Reação e comentário

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · 15d

We-MNF com duas novidades, em português e com o primeiro convidado, Maestro Vinícius Vivas, que trouxe um clássico dos Beatles para a nossa conversa!

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Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles - We-MNF: Reação e Comentário, com Vinicius Vivas como convidado.

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · 21d

Boycott anything related to Harry Potter

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · 21d

Republicans should be institutionalized for fundamental handicaps in being human

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Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · 27d

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...?

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

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Letícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 27d

Boa fala do Dino. Nos EUA foi dada anistia, e não houve pacificação - muito pelo contrário!

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · 27d

Interessante que quando é pobre ele manda logo para a cadeia... Ficou feio feio feio

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Bruna Bataglia @brunamariz.bsky.social · 27d

Muito respeito pelo Vasco

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Deborah Leão 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @deborahleao.bsky.social · 27d

Dear friends from other countries:

please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

CNN @cnn.com · 27d

A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court judges have voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn the 2022 election. https://cnn.it/3VIY1Cn

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ROTO Research Group @roto-rub.bsky.social · 28d

New semester, new lecture series 🎉Starting next month, we welcome amazing scholars to give online talks in the history and philosophy of life sciences. Find all dates and registration links here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
We look forward to seeing you there 🤗
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio

Overview of the ROTO Lecture Series in the winter semester 2025/2026.

The talks will be:
- "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" by Celso Neto (University of Exeter)
- "Understanding plant holobionts through complexity science" by César Marín (Universidad Santo Tomás)
- "What is Dialectical Biology?" by Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon)
- "Learning from Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems" by Charbel El-Hani (Federal University of Bahia)
- "21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology" by Rebecca Sear (Brunel University London)
- "The Organism and the System: Boundary Crossings in 20th Century Science" by Libby O’Neil (Mississippi State University)

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WDET 101.9 FM @wdet.bsky.social · Sep 4

For decades, fossil fuel companies championed the myth of a personal carbon footprint. @naomioreskes.bsky.social sat down with @thenomadicheart.bsky.social to explain how we can move beyond guilt and toward more meaningful climate solutions 🌎

The Metro: The carbon footprint myth and where real climate solutions begin - WDET 101.9 FM

Oil companies sold us the carbon footprint myth. Experts explain how to move beyond guilt and toward collective climate solutions.

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you don't know Rodriguez, you should! What a great experience! And We-MNF opens the door for it!

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Sandrevan Lullaby + Lifestyles - Rodriguez - We-MNF: Reaction and commentary

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Sep 7

Could not locate to what post you're answering

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Sep 6

He deserves it

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

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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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

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you Celso!

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks Michela for all the support throughout the process!

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Aug 31

It can be downloaded as open access PDFs here:
academic.oup.com/book/60871

On 17 October 2025, it will also be available in print. It can be pre-ordered:
www.amazon.com/-/pt/dp/0197...

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Aug 31

I am pleased to announce that the book "Transformative Transdisciplinarity: An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy", written by David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani, has just been published by Oxford University Press.https://academic.oup.com/book/60871

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wonderful Eros! I will read soon. It interests me a lot!

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Aug 25

Returning to the adventurous and challenging music by Gentle Giant in today's episode of We-MNF!

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The house, the street, the room/Acquiring the taste - Gentle Giant - We-MNF: Reaction and commentary

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Charbel El-Hani @charbelelhani.bsky.social · Aug 10

Delving into the obscure paths of Progressive Rock once again, for the first time into the journeys of the Canterbury Scene, one of the most amazing subgenres of Prog!

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The Collapso - National Health - We-MNF: Reaction and commentary

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Aug 9

Indigenous and local knowledge can shape transformative change.🌏🧪

Many Indigenous Peoples and local communities have views and practices aligned with a just & sustainable world. Their ethics of care and values inspire equitable & inclusive change.

.— @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment

A vibrant moment from the Chumash Day Pow Wow and Inter-tribal Gathering at Malibu Bluffs Park, celebrating 24 years of tradition. A participant in traditional attire, adorned with colorful feathers, intricate beadwork, and a bright floral headband, performs a ceremonial ritual surrounded by smoke, reflecting cultural richness and spiritual connection.

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ISHPSSB2025 @ishpssb2025.bsky.social · Jul 26

#ISHPSSB2025 came to an end on Friday, 25 July, and we understand how special the ishkabibbler community is when one hour after the end of the sessions participants still continued conversations.
#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

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