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📢 CfP European Academy of Religion 2027 panel on existential suffering, meaning-making, and psychiatry, organised by Hanneke Schaap-Jonker, Bart van den Brink, and Sabine Wolsink. Joins us in Münster!
europeanacademyofreligion.org/euare2027/

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#euare2027 #theology #religion #meaningmaking #psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychologicalsuffering #existentialsuffering | Sabine Wolsink
📢 Call for Papers EuARe2027 Panel on “Existential Suffering, Meaning-Making, and Psychiatry: Hermeneutical and Empirical Perspectives on Mental Health”   Interested in the existential dimension of psy...
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October 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
tolchinsky.bsky.social
Hare must be able to make sense of it at a higher level - this is a crucial, existential, necessary ability, which is over-learned into a phobic memory. (rats and mice have inborn phobia of cat odor.)

#coarsegraining
#scaling
#meaningmaking
October 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
msipress.bsky.social
How #Children Survive #Neglect: They #heal through #meaningmaking

post inspired by the #memoir, It Only Hurts When I Can't Run (Gewanda Parker)

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#parenting #childneglect #resilience #overcomingtheodds
How Children Survive Neglect: They Heal through Meaning-Making
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September 26, 2026 at 6:02 AM
thomas-ancel.bsky.social
I really like this framing. It makes me wonder whether increasingly fine-grained composition explains creativity at the artifact level, but not necessarily at the meaningmaking level (to borrow a term from Vaughn Tan).
September 24, 2026 at 9:45 AM
annakornbluh.bsky.social
"What it means to be human, to be poetic, to be a meaningmaking animal: we can imagine our world differently+so can change it. GenAI cannot imagine or originate anything, cannot depart from what it was given, + so cannot change"

ever wise @bradleyfest.bsky.social

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Bradley J. Fest–Teaching Without Computers
Teaching Without Computers Bradley J. Fest   In a moment, I am going to talk about despair. But let me be clear: What I have to say in the following is not about frustration, burnout, or stress; it is...
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September 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
deeptransformation.bsky.social
🎙️ Transmuting Life’s Tragedies: Embracing a Post-Tragic Perspective, with Alexander Love

📺 FULL VIDEO now on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn20...

#PostTragic #AdultDevelopment #MeaningMaking #Transformation #DeepTransformationPodcast
Transmuting Life’s Tragedies: Embracing a Post-Tragic Perspective, with Alexander Love
YouTube video by Deep Transformation Podcast
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September 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
alethianstrata.bsky.social
⚠️ CW: Suicide ⚠️

#MicroMemoir #ThoughtJournal
#MeaningMaking #Psychology #HumanCondition #Philosophy

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ALT TEXT FOR WHOLE THREAD: When I was six years old, I watched a man die by suicide. I wouldn’t say I was traumatized by witnessing it, because it didn’t scare me. What I remember was an epiphany: “Oh! There is a way out of this.” I was relieved to have been shown an exit strategy. Suicide became an appealing backup plan for however dark things might get, which also meant, strangely, that it sometimes helped me be bolder. “Well, if this doesn’t work, I could just kill myself.” It was a joke, and joking helped diffuse the pressure of whatever I was doing. But the joke worked partly because, underneath it, I genuinely believed the option existed. There was something about knowing I could leave that made it easier to stay. I used to think that was probably pretty fucked up. Over the last couple of years, though, I’ve become more curious about the function that belief served for me. Because I allowed the thought to exist, I didn’t have to fight myself over having it. And I wonder if that’s part of why it could become less activated when I was actually in danger of seeing suicide as the best option. Some part of me knew: “You’re allowed to think about this. I’m not going to panic and take your autonomy away.” So there was nothing I needed to do impulsively to prove that the choice was still mine. I think this is also a particularly stark example of why meaning-making matters so much to me. Horrible things happen. We don’t get to choose all of them, and we certainly don’t get to pretend they weren’t horrible. But what an experience comes to mean inside a person is not dictated by the experience itself. The meanings we make can be strange, complicated, even unsettling from the outside—and still become something we use to survive, adapt, understand ourselves, or move through the world. There’s enormous possibility in that.
August 25, 2026 at 12:43 PM
eduglobe.bsky.social
On meaning-making in times of chatbots. I like the idea of language as the mutual creation of meaning between humans.

#AI #aied #chatbots #GenAI #MeaningMaking
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Aug 20
This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion.

A probably not short thread 🧵>>
Photo of a sign with a doorbell attached. The printed sign reads: CURRENT GUGGENHEIM ACCES BY HUSKY CARD ONLY [Logos for Amazon, FedEx, UPS] DELIVERIES/VISITORS PLEASE RING THIS DOORBELL Delivery hours M-F 9:00am-(obscured) University of Washington Taped next to the doorbell is a hand written note that reads: yes! it rang! Pelase wait 30 seconds before pressing again. thanks!
August 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
alethianstrata.bsky.social
#ThoughtJournal #Epistemology #MeaningMaking #CriticalThinking #SelfInquiry #HumanCondition
When I started being genuinely rigorous about what I allowed myself to call true, a lot of the stories I’d accepted about reality stopped holding together. There were plot holes. Things I’d been told, inferred, or assumed suddenly seemed kind of ridiculous. The old stories I’d emotionally engaged with didn’t add up against what I could actually observe. They never really did. They were just satisfying places to store feelings I didn’t otherwise understand or know what to do with. I didn’t become more certain about how things actually are. I became more acutely aware of how ridiculous the idea of certainty often is. But somehow, reality started feeling more solid beneath my feet.
August 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
alethianstrata.bsky.social
#NarrativePsychology #CulturalNarrative #MeaningMaking #HumanCondition #CulturalCriticism #ThoughtJournal

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ALT TEXT FOR ENTIRE THREAD: Just generally speaking, the tension between our collective fear of being seen and our fear of being unseen is fascinating. We tell powerful stories about the danger of being watched—and for good reason. But that doesn’t eliminate the equally human need to be witnessed, recognized, and known. When a cultural narrative becomes too invested in one side of a human tension, the other doesn’t disappear. It gets pushed into shadow, where it continues looking for expression. And these narratives don’t appear out of nowhere. We inherit stories from our families, countries, histories, schools, religions, media—the frameworks already waiting for us when we arrive. But collectively, we also decide what gets pushed forward. What we teach. What we repeat. What we challenge. What we amplify. What we preserve. What we stop believing. What we pass along. We act like we didn’t write the overarching cultural narrative we’re living inside because we didn’t put it in a book. But we did write it. Narrative study shouldn’t be reduced to literature. The stories we tell about reality are narratives, too. Becoming conscious of what we inherit—and what we choose to carry forward—is part of regaining authorship over our time here.
August 19, 2026 at 4:28 PM
alethianstrata.bsky.social
#ThoughtJournal #Perception
#MeaningMaking
I can’t say I’ve thought about this through the lens of Buddhism specifically; I’ve just found it to be logically true. Our interpretations narrow how we perceive reality. Once we decide what something means, the details begin to organize themselves around that meaning. Give up the interpretation, and those same details return to a much larger field of information, available to be organized and understood in any number of ways. You can reorganize it. But once you understand the mechanism, you also know that whatever meaning you make next will narrow the field again.
August 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM
mindandlifeeu.bsky.social
Take a look at one of last year’s European Summer Research Institute panels, exploring key questions in enactive & neurophenomenological research.

Watch the full discussion now: https://ow.ly/3Twg50YMAau

#MindAndLifeEurope #ContemplativeScience #MeaningMaking #Ethics #Reflexivity
April 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM
michaelmoylan.bsky.social
Enjoyed attending & presenting at #IETC25 by ltcillinois.org.
It was great meeting Faubs from @bookcreator.com & discussing w/attendees my research & meaningfully implementing Book Creator across the curriculum. Benefits: #engagement #collaboration #meaningmaking #writerskill #writeridentity #EduSky
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
jenniferhillphd.bsky.social
Interested? Contact me at dr.jennifer.hill@hotmail.com

#grief #synchronicity #bereavement #meaningmaking #research #continuingbonds #psychology

This study has been reviewed and approved by Compita Consulting, LLC, IRB Services Parent Organization# IORG0011844, IRB Services# IRB00014028
February 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
jenniferhillphd.bsky.social
The question isn't whether synchronicity is "real" in some objective sense. The question is: who gets to determine what constitutes valid grief expression? And what happens when individuals find meaning outside approved institutional frameworks?

#GriefTheory #MeaningMaking #ContinuingBonds
February 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
jnswndlf.bsky.social
Sometimes I wonder if seeing is less about objects and more about stories we attach to them. Our brains are wired for patterns—maybe that’s why “everything looks like something.” The real question: what do we choose to see?
#perception #patterns #pareidolia #meaningmaking #mindgames
White text on a black background that reads “Everything looks like something.
August 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
jwdikkers.bsky.social
Read the full essay
issuemagazine.com/the-psycholo...

#psychologyofbelief #emotionaltruth #fearandcertainty #identitywork #meaningmaking #innergrowth #healingthroughawareness #beliefsystems #nervoussystemwisdom #issuemagazine
September 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
handle.invalid
Why does a swipe mean ‘I like you’? Why does a suit say ‘I’m serious’? Because we decided it does. Symbolic Interactionism explains how we create meaning every day—without even realizing it. #TheoryThursday is getting deep. You in?

#SymbolicInteractionism #Sociology #theorythursday #MeaningMaking
April 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
intergediuz.bsky.social
Yesterday we had a second content session 👥 on #multimodality, led by our colleague Isabel Corona 🗣️

It was such an interesting discussion on how to approach #meaningmaking ‼️

Much food for thought 💭 for our future research on #sciencedissemination on digital platforms 🖥️📱
April 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
intergediuz.bsky.social
Today we've had a content session 👥 on #multimodality & #meaningmaking by Isabel Corona

Great food for thought to study #digitaldiscourse + #sciencedissemination ‼️

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April 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
ibpaworld.bsky.social
What does it mean to graduate ready for a future that we cannot see? Edutopia explores the importance of moving students beyond surface-level conversations to deeper reflection, meaning-making, and action: www.edutopia.org/article/prof.... #action #reflection #meaningmaking #EduSky
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
survivorliteracy.com
God Is Not a Neutral Explanation.Invoking “God” doesn’t describe reality — it shuts down inquiry. It collapses complexity into authority and replaces unknowns with narrative certainty.
#MeaningMaking #CognitiveBias #Anthropology
God Is Not a Neutral Explanation.
God Is Not a Neutral Explanation.Invoking “God” doesn’t describe reality — it shuts down inquiry. It collapses complexity into authority and replaces unknowns with narrative certainty. The moment you attribute an event to the divine, you’ve chosen comfort over analysis. Cultures use this move to stabilize uncertainty, but it comes at the cost of understanding. “God did it” is a story humans tell when the real explanation is too complex, too frightening, or too inconvenient to explore. #MeaningMaking #CognitiveBias #Anthropology Read More Check out my music! More Topics
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May 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
survivorliteracy.com
Theory of GODS doesn’t ask you to abandon belief. It asks you to understand the machinery that produces it. And once you see the machinery, you can finally step outside the loop instead of being shaped by it. #MeaningMaking #GODSGeometry #RelationalFieldTheory #Protyus
The Machine Behind Meaning
Why We Create Gods Without Knowing We’re Doing It Most people think belief begins with a story. Theory of GODS argues the opposite: belief begins with a nervous system trying to survive uncertainty. Before we ever choose a religion, ideology, or identity, our biology is already running a pattern — a loop that turns fear into agency, agency into projection, and projection into ritual.
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May 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM
survivorliteracy.com
**God is the story humans invented to make suffering feel intentional.**
Random pain is unbearable; purposeful pain is survivable. Religion turns chaos into curriculum.
#Suffering #MeaningMaking #Anthropology #HumanPatterns
God is the story humans invented to make suffering feel intentional.
God is the story humans invented to make suffering feel intentional.Random pain is unbearable; purposeful pain is survivable. Religion turns chaos into curriculum. #Suffering #MeaningMaking #Anthropology #HumanPatterns Read More Check out my music! More Topics
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May 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
survivorliteracy.com
**God is the emotional anesthesia humans use to tolerate chaos.**
When the world feels unbearable, people invent a cosmic parent to soothe the panic. It’s comfort, not cosmology.
#EmotionalEconomy #CopingMechanisms #Anthropology #MeaningMaking
God is the emotional anesthesia humans use to tolerate chaos.
God is the emotional anesthesia humans use to tolerate chaos.When the world feels unbearable, people invent a cosmic parent to soothe the panic. It’s comfort, not cosmology. #EmotionalEconomy #CopingMechanisms #Anthropology #MeaningMaking Read More Check out my music! More Topics
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May 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM