phd student, population well-being lab, uoftoronto, in pursuit of knowledge and the good life, creating spaces for public philosophy @beingnbecomingorg
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2022
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Yesterday I caught myself complaining about the straitjacket that academia can feel like sometimes. Today, I'm back in the sandpit reading really cool research, coming up with ideas to test, and just having the best all around time. Why can't it always feel like today?
Had a bit of fun with this short piece on the cult of personal branding. The irony is not lost. open.substack.com/pub/sofiap…
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Last week I sat down with my AI-researcher brother @IvanVendrov to talk about my future career uncertainty relating to AI. If you are in a line of work that has a chance of (or is already) becoming automated by AI, check it out! sofiapanasiuk.substack.com/p…
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Am proud to pass on that there will be a screening of Leviathan and afterparty next Thursday, a documentary of global despair, but also global hope done through a psychological and mythological lens
Hosted by the one and only @peternlimberg and @sofia_panasiuk
Link down below:
A newly discovered small joy of mine is not having an opinion on something. It is so freeing to have no script and not being expected to have one. It’s making me wish that I had fewer opinions. I noticed myself asking more questions and being more curious.
If external stable symbols are how we relate, connect, and cohere with one another, then the rapidly increasing number of symbols, paired with a constant capacity level for them means that we lose touch with others as we can no longer relate to the world in similar ways.
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One recurring piece of negative feedback I got from an experiment I ran recently was that I didn’t provide the participants with an interpretation of their responses, no ‘you’re this sort of person’. People yearn to understand themselves, but are looking in the wrong places.
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It feels incredibly restricting to study something as complicated as well-being with even the most sophisticated statistical methods out there. It’s like trying to study the universe with nothing but the naked eye. We need to invent better tools or go looking for those we lost.
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What would be your perfectly average superpower? I’ll go first. Always being able to get a perfect sleep.
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Toronto! I’m starting an event incubator to make our city more fun! Offering support (venues, promo, microgrants) for people who want to create fun, weird, participatory events. Come do an event!
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Last Friday, I had the great pleasure of hosting Being and Becoming's Philosophy Soiree where members of our growing community gathered to celebrate public philosophy. The recording of the keynote talks and panel discussion can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=06b5Tx8U…
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the whole "lets move off grid with all my friends" is too impractical but the "lets create kickass third places" movement is really starting to take off. bullish
I was today years old when I found out about this cute little app called WeCroak that reminds me, not once, not twice, but 5 times a day that I’m going to die, followed by an inspirational quote. This is what I call a personalized well-being intervention.
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We are not only bad at predicting, but we also have trouble understanding what has already happened. - Duncan J. Watts
This hits hard. From Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer.
Sofia Panasiuk retweeted
With huge thanks to the brilliant Board and teams @WhatWorksWB and @EndLonelinessUK we have some news
The What Works Centre for Wellbeing will close at the end of April 2024.
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We’re sad to announce @whatworkswb will close 30 April 2024, after almost a decade as the UK’s leading centre for wellbeing evidence, policy & practice. Thank you to our collaborators & supporters for making 9 years of progress possible.
Full statement: whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/…
ALT Branded image with our logo and the words 'A statement from the Centre'.
Curious to know what positive emotional health means to people? When do you feel like you have positive emotional health?
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The McGill-UofT Wellbeing Seminar hosts a series of open online talks and discussions with leading researchers in the realm of wellbeing across a variety of disciplines. This seminar series, held at noon on the first (or occasionally second) Monday of every month.
Little comes close to the joy of having insight into something I was ignorant of. This time it's thanks to Sakshi Ghai and her piece on how Henrich's WEIRD/non-WEIRD dichotomy is simplistic and overlooks the complexities that it once hoped to address nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Drinking coffee has become more of a tactile thing for me. Sure I like the taste but holding a warm mug of piping-hot productivity liquid makes me feel like I'm ready to take on the world.
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Well, I'm officially at the point in my life where watching an eagle fly brought literal tears to my eyes. Retirement is just around the corner for me folks.
Just kidding, bird-watching is cool and I'll never think otherwise again.
I deleted a silly tweet about bird-watching because I've been made aware that @gaberutledge has been doing a BANGER similar bit about it, and I'm not about stepping on any toes. It happens.
Gabriel's an AMAZING comic, and everyone should give him a follow and catch a show.
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