Sabine Winters (she/her)
🌕 Philosopher & Filosoof
📡 PhD researcher space philosophy
🪩 Researcher, author, tutor
👁 Epistemology, science, imagination
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- In the category books you need ro read, NOW: The Girl With the Red Hair, about Hannie Schaft, a girl who joined the resistance in the Netherlands during WWII ( Het meisje met het rode haar). Also, little acts of resistance: Buy your books at a local seller ❤️ #books www.amazon.nl/Girl-Red-Hai...
- Confirmed: I’ll be visiting five (and possibly more) telescope sites across Ireland this summer. I’m really looking forward to this research trip. Just look at these incredible locations, so much history, and so many scientific and sci-historical stories!
- Verwacht van mij geen klassieke filmanalyse of uitleg over de keuzes van de regisseur. Ik vertel juist over échte ruimtewetenschappers, over hoe en waar sciencefiction en wetenschap elkaar raken én over de cruciale rol van verbeelding en visualisatie. www.focusarnhem.nl/agenda/2001-...
- I'm past the 'I can't believe this is happening phase', since late 2025. I'm entering in my 'we saw this coming from miles away era.'
- Ik denk dat het hoog tijd wordt om deze eindelijk eens te lezen.
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- At a party, I spoke with someone who is traveling to the US this summer. When I asked about his social media, he said, “My family and I agreed not to post anything about politics in the coming year, so I think we should be okay.” The implications of that statement hit me like a ton of bricks.
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- 'Strive to be a creative rebel with a cause', - on how to be authentic according to Simone de Beauvoir. Authenticity is the topic of choice for the next semester of philosophy teaching at the art academy. So what is authenticity, really? Can it be applied to design, or recognized within it?
- What connects pioneer and photographer Berenice Abbott, the iconic Earthrise photograph, and Onsala in Sweden? Science and photography, and above all the moment when those two reinforce one another. spacephilosopher.substack.com/p/science-on...
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- Oh, the love of messy, unreadable notebooks. The students presented their process notebooks on my course 'philosophy of complicatedness and complexity', and I'm so proud of the philosophy being done. I present a few of the 2nd years here Carmen - researched the complexity of social interactions
- What is it with tech billionaires and their bizarre fantasies that seem to revolve around violence and an obsession with (fragile) masculinity? I find it deeply disturbing that these thoughts can be voiced openly without any consequences.
- One more, because these telescopes are just so aesthetically pleasing as they are interesting! I visited the Onsala telescopes (Chalmers.se) in Sweden together with astronomer Nikki Arendse, and met with artistic researcher Kerstin Hammilton there to talk about the stories of these telescopes.
- New paper out, together with the amazing Mike Stuart: AI methods are being touted as a powerful new source of scientific progress. Are they? If so, what kind of progress do they facilitate? philarchive.org/rec/WINLCI
- In a few days time, I visited 6 locations and seen over 12 telescopes in Sweden. And I have to say, Kvistaberg Observatory is a beautiful place, where the magic of its history is still very palpable. Take a look, I made a short compilation video: www.instagram.com/p/DRtZdmYiD6_/
- Actual footage of me presenting my first findings on visualization and imagination in space research, for a group of philosophy professors.
- So, Substack is not here to stay either - amazon fuelled and prone to alt-right. I might be going back to the printed newsletter eventually.
- Just learned about the Chesire Cat Galaxy - a galaxy that is shaped like the smiling feline. Some of the cat-like features are actually distant galaxies whose light has been stretched and bent by the large amounts of mass contained in foreground galaxies. chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/c...
- 'Mom, when I close my eyes, I still can see the Moon', that's how bright she was, yesterday evening. Shining so bright, it was like someone was pointing a flashlight directly at our telescope.
- How can artists and designers cut through the mystification and hype of artificial intelligence? I wrote a contribution for Algorithmic Imaginations, the book offers an in-depth exploration of AI through the lens of art and design practice, take a look here: artezpress.artez.nl/books/algori...
- 'In Astronomy, you can’t run lab experiments in the traditional sense. If something explodes, you can’t rewind and repeat the event. It might be a unique occurrence, and you may need to wait another 100,000 years to see it again, which is, of course, beyond the length of a PhD.'
- In the category places to visit, I present to you the Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector, in the Mozumi Mine in the Hida's Kamioka area, where after an exposure of 503 days, on a depth of 1km this picture of the sun was taken through neutrino measurement. Woa.
- Just delved into the Horn Antenna in New Jersey- a radio telescope that was used by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson when they discovered strong evidence for the Big Bang theory in 1964. Now I desperately want to visit the site (the future of the site is uncertain because of redevelopment of the area)
- Working on space-related themes for the majority of my work week over several years has had some interesting consequences: a desire to dig myself into the earth, to become more conscious of how precious our ecosystem is, to work in the garden, to swim in lakes, - to literally touch base.
- Did you know that there is a NASA website dedicated to the current status of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2? Where they are at, what their velocity is respectively to our sun and what is switched off an on? I love this kind of stuff. science.nasa.gov/mission/voya...
- Last Sunday, the exhibition Inner Orbits, Cosmic Motion opened. So proud of the work the artists put together. I co-curated this exhibition and wrote a short opening speech. If you're interested: kunstenlab.nl/tentoonstell...
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- 'Unfortunately, we are living through a time that will be studied in the history books of the future.'
- We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- One of my favorite quotes about dark matter from the interviews I’ve conducted is: "You need to know what you’re looking for so that you’ll see it." - I don't think the researcher in question even remember saying it, but to me there is so much interesting stuff in this seemingly simple expression.
- Are there people here in Europe who are avoiding travel to the U.S. right now for political reasons, or because they feel unsafe about going? I’ve criticized the regime a lot online, and I realized this has made me hesitant to travel to the U.S. for work. A strange realization, really.
- With all the news right now, just make sure to keep a copy of these banned books in your personal library, so you’ll have something to read if they cut off your internet for ‘national security reasons.’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
- Reposted by Sabine Winters (she/her)1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
- In a few weeks I’ll be traveling to Sweden to visit telescopes. It’s taken me many months and quite an effort to get all the information organized, but when it works out, it truly is a joy every single time. I still have many telescopes on my wish list, but if you have a tip, please do let me know!
