Liza Shulyayeva

A few weeks, on a trip to Glastonbury, E and I went to a guided tour of the ancient abbey ruins.

I’ve always been a bit curious about the idea of hypnosis, and every once in a while I’d revisit the topic.

I first heard of, and from, Michael Levin at the 2020 ALIFE Conference, where he delivered a keynote that I posted my notes from here.

I had such high hopes for the Altra Vanish Carbon 2 as a race day shoe, but from the beginnig there were issues.

I’m at the end of the first week of my summer vacation and already the days are starting to blur together.

I got the results for the two evening courses I took last term, with VG for both (i.e., I passed!)

Jag anmälde mig till halvmaraton på Tromsø Midnight Sun Marathon i september 2025, innan jag ens hade klarat min första HM i Uppsala.

I wrote this post back in 2013 for HTML5 Hub, which later became the Intel Developer Zone.

This lecture was given by Veijo Pohjola, Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala.

This lecture was given by Tomas Furmark, Professor of Psychology at Uppsala University.

For one of my cosmology course assignments I had to pick either the ontological or a version of the cosmological argument for the existence of God, discuss what I think is its weakest point, and attempt to strengthen it.

This past Tuesday we had a lecture on perception and cognition as part of the Good and Bad Science course I’m taking.

The year is in full swing.

Happy New Year!

Last week the team went to a beautiful Julbord at Fjäderholmarnas Krog on Fjäderholmarna, an island near Stockholm.

Yesterday morning I went to a breakfast seminar about AI and the future of work at Segerstedthuset.

My final 15-minute presentation for the Frontiers in Life Sciences course I’m taking is this evening, so I’ve been finishing up my slides and doing some runthroughs.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.

I’ve been in a kind of hyper-busy mode before Christmas.

The last couple of months have been quite a bit of traveling.

Around this time last year I came to Uppsala with a friend to check out Rosendal Day - a day organized by the neighborhood I had just bought an apartment in.

I started running again during this past summer, after years of sporadic lifting.

I’m back in Uppsala after two back-to-back road trips - one to Jönköping, and another to Tiveden followed by some Dalarna exploration.

And just as I post about waiting for my grade, the grade comes.

Today is the first official day of my summer vacation.

I recently got to attend the inaugural Peter Wallensteen Lecture at Humanistiska Teatern.

I’ve been a bit off the map with local activities.

I visited Mallorca over Easter break, taking a couple of extra days off.

Förra helgen ordnade jag vår senaste novellfika, och temat var “Robotar”.

I went to the most fascinating lecture about the history of the nuclear bomb last week.

Nu är det äntligen balkongdags!

I attended a lecture on the institutional landscape of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament this week.

I heard Isabelle Demers play the Åkerman organ at Uppsala Domkyrka last week.

The latest seminar in practical philosophy was a presentation about problems of overdetermination and preemption in climate action.

Yesterday I saw two museums for the first time: Gustavianum and Evolutionsmuseet Paleontologi.

We had a co-reading fika at Kvarteret this morning, where we just sat and read together for 45 minutes (with a bit of discussion about what we’re reading before and after).

I’ve been slowly building up the apartment since I moved.

Förra helgen kändes som den första riktiga smaken av vår – perfekt för skogsvandringar och upptäcktsfärder.

There are two main ways to get from my apartment to the city center: one along a main road and one slightly longer way walking next to Stadsskogen.

After the poetry fika last week I was inspired to buy Still Possible, a collection of poems by David Whyte.

Poetry fika - David Whyte and others I organized a small poetry fika this past weekend, featuring a few poems by David Whyte as well as poems the other participants brought.

Over lunch yesterday I attended a lecture by Amanda Lagerkvist, Professor at the Department for Informatics and Media, on how AI is set to shape and challenges our understanding of “the human.”

I took a run to the grave mounds at Gamla Uppsala today.

Last week I went to the Uppsala Konstumseum to view their Tyra Kleen exhibition and listen to a conversation about her art.

The other day I went to a really interesting talk by Carl Öhman (Uppsala University) about applying religious critique to AI.

It’s been just over two months since I moved to Uppsala, and it continues to be my favorite place to have lived in Sweden so far.

We had our fourth short story fika yesterday.

Idag visade en vän mig Hågadalen.

It’s been exactly one month since I moved to Uppsala.

Idag deltog jag i en föreläsning vid Uppsala universitets Centrum för forskning om funktionshinder (CFF), om en revolutionerande typ av hjärnimplantat och protes som möjliggör tvåvägskommunikation mellan hjärnan och protesen.