Joshua Hurtado
PhD researcher at the University of Helsinki, studying political aspects of degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoPAPER ALERT! 🔥How can we use theories of care to understand how games can help us care more for the future in the face of climate change? Carien Moossdorff and I investigated 287 climate-related games on they engage with care for the future. Now in FUTURES! Link below! #games #climate #futures
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- Reposted by Joshua Hurtado#CovidIsNotOver (headline 🖼️: #LongCovid symptoms) By early 2026, the average USian had accumulated > 5 lifetime SARS-CoV-2 infections, ⬆️ from 4.57 infections per person in September 2025, confirming that population-level immunity is not stabilizing but steadily ⬇️. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoNew fully open access special issue on Digital Death published in the Finnish Death Studies journal Thanatos 💙📚 journal.fi/thanatos
- Reposted by Joshua Hurtadowe can do hard things! it is often frustrating to do so! it sometimes doesn't feel great! and that is ok! we can also work with other people to help us when we can't do a thing on our own, that forms social networks we can lean on throughout our careers, and supports everyone's learning!
- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoLast spring, I was asked to give carreer advice to grad students. And the one thing I told them was: our best skill is our ability to learn difficult things -- it's also the first skill you will lose unless you intentionally don't let yourselves go.
- Best way to start 2026! It was a joy to be invited to The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social 😄 The podcast, hosted by the amazing @drrenskevisser.bsky.social and the incredible Bethan Michael-Fox, is great for anyone looking to know more about death in a deeply entertaining format 🤩
- Whilst it is a time where most people are looking back, we start 2026 by looking at the future! We interview @joshuahh.bsky.social about postmortal futures, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, de-growth and more! open.spotify.com/episode/1zmt...
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoIn Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇
- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoReally interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
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I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13 - Reposted by Joshua HurtadoWe (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoOngoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoDeath and power: call for papers Submit your abstract to our 2026 Annual Conference! 17-19 June, online www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoNew utopian pulse is out! 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? www.uu.nl/en/opinion/a... This post is for anyone who uses AI text-to-image tools or is concerned by their use. It tells an unexpected tale, which led me back to the cornfields of Illinois to interview my dad about 1970s rural America...
- The immortality projects that emerge from within (techno-)capitalism expand the frontiers of capital to new areas of life - including death and immortality 😑. I explored this topic in my article 'Exploited in immortality', published in the journal Mortality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoThere's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoI am dead. I’m actually just inert matter now.
- Reposted by Joshua Hurtado20/ @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social returns to the need for academics to create space to help develop imaginaries that we can unite behind. We're directed to this book... mayflybooks.org/future-for-a... But Dr. Schmelzer notes that such visons need to realistically incorporate environment decline.
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoThis is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
- ⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater. The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable. interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
- This reminds me of the 2002 movie S1m0ne, where Al Pacino's character creates a digital actress to avoid dealing with real actors. It goes terribly wrong for him.
- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoAs European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform! Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoIve seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead: #academicsky
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoA new documentary film released by CFI explores what does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
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- Reposted by Joshua Hurtado📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
- Reposted by Joshua Hurtadoimagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoThis month marks our 4-year anniversary! We are working hard on a special DDD17 episode to celebrate which will be released asap! In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue! open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoHey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoI wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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- Reposted by Joshua HurtadoFun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
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- Just noticed that Professor Farhana Sultana disappeared, not only from here, but from her page at @syracuseu.bsky.social . Seems like institutional cowardice in the face of fascism is becoming the norm (again). Does any colleague from @pollenetwork.bsky.social have any news?
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