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Gen Eickers

@geneickers.bsky.social

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Critical/Feminist Philosophy of Mind of Emotion, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology @ Uni Osnabrück - Working on Scripts, Social Norms, Interaction, Emotion, Gender & Transness, Social Media (They/He) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Jan 8

it’s real!! 🥰

Photo of copies of book “Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others” by Gen Eickers, Routledge.

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 6d

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

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Call for Abstracts | EPSSE

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Josep Gasol @josepgasol.com · 15d

Today we had a very interesting and stimulating seminar at the Center for Ethics as Study in Human Value on Masculinity & Emotional Injustice, taught by @geneickers.bsky.social It's not even October yet, and things are already rolling.

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 15d

Aah thanks 🫣 Sorry I didn’t realize you were there!

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 15d

same

Nature @nature.com · 15d

The Moon is rusting – and it’s Earth’s fault

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The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral haematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, I’d love to hear about it!

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 16d

@elineg.bsky.social maybe Kevin’s blog post is of interest to you!

Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 16d

I just recently discovered Kevin Richardson’s blog post on my work on scripts and his thoughts on it: kevinrichardson.org/blog/03-31-2...
— seems like a good opportunity to remind you to tell your uni library to order my book (and other cool new philosophy books) 🙏🏼

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 18d

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 18d

BREAKING: Die Polizei Sachsen hat soeben rechtswidrig den Adenauer SRP+ beschlagnahmt. Der Adenauer war auf dem Weg zum CSD Döbeln, die halbe Autobahn wurde dafür abgesperrt, seit Stunden das Team festgehalten. Was ist schon wieder in Kretschmers Bundesland los? Was soll die Rechtsgrundlage sein?

Polizei Sachsen wieder mit illegalen Eingriffen in die Grundrechte unterwegs.

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wiley sharp @wiley.pink · 18d

for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 19d

This is virulently anti-trans: not simply arguing that there's a reasonably natural concept of transition-independent biological sex (fine) but also that there is no reasonably natural biological or social concept whose extensions is trans and cis women dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...

Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous

A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 19d

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · 28d

Withdraw and submit elsewhere?

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Sep 3

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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The Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care

This essay describes the author’s response to legislation on gender-affirming care.

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Sep 2

Doesn’t this massive increase in application numbers rather point to several crises academics are facing globally (eg political persecution, university cuts…)?

Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also, there’s a conference on Vice Epistemology X Situated Affectivity with a fantastic line-up happening Sep 3-5 (and it’s hybrid), see poster or link:

centreforethics.upce.cz/en/not-carin...

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Sep 2

This also feels important to me on a personal level, to be able to reconnect a bit with my family’s origins. Hoping for more such opportunities in the future.

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Sep 2

Off to the Czech Republic for a month, where I’ll be a visiting fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Pardubice. I’m so excited! My Czech is still embarrassingly bad though :-)

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · Aug 22

Just seen a great-looking job advertised at UCL. But, I'm wondering how many people, besides those already made redundant, are willing to risk a job in a UK university at the moment.

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ooh! Will read!

Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Aug 12

scary!!

Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Aug 8

Had a good time at ISOS 2025; fun book symposium with fantastic comments by @elineg.bsky.social and @nonamename.bsky.social …and my book was in good company

books on book table at ISOS 2025: Brian Epstein - Social Ontology ; Matt J. Cull - What Gender Should be; Gen Eickers - Scripts and Social Cognition

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Jul 25

MSCA is Sep 10 & ERC StG is October 10 or so… so yeah 😭

Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Jul 25

why are there so many tt job announcements with deadlines in july/august/september? do you love making precariously employed academics sacrifice our “time off”, which we spend thinking about our next grant application anyways? 😶‍🌫️

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · Jul 20

BREAKING: Das beste Sommerinterview, das die ARD je mit Faschisten geführt hat. Ausgerechnet in dem Land, in dem der politische Rechtsextremismus für die schlimmsten Katastrophen in der Menschheitsgeschichte verantwortlich ist.
Heute, 18 Uhr bei der ARD. 🚀🚀🚀

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · Jul 9

Besorgniserregend interessant und leider nicht super überraschend:
Queere Philosophie erfährt die größte Ablehnung in Fragen nach Kanonisierung während feministische Philosophie die größte Zustimmung erfährt
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Wer macht Philosophie? – Bericht zur Befragung zu Diversität in der DGPhil

von Thomas Bedorf (Hagen) und Mai-Anh Boger (Koblenz) Viele gesellschaftlich relevante Strömungen kritischer Reflexion sind seit Jahrzehnten auch in der

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