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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 22d

Sharing a short discussion paper in this monograph released by UP CIDS on navigating multiple contesting land claims under a peace deal. Nothing new for communities confronting these painful questions for decades, but one of the many difficult conversations needed. Download: lnkd.in/gQu5yhqR

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Sep 18

Proof of life at the last pair of pre-submission conferences of the PhD: #ASEAS2025 and #CRS2025.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Aug 17

For those interested, the non-paywalled pdf is here - drive.google.com/file/d/1s5Ue...

Fernandez and Abdullah (2025) Chapter 2-Collaborative Mapping and Post-crisis Memory Work.pdf

drive.google.com

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Aug 17

A years-in-the-making piece with Tirmizy Abdullah and so many co-conspirators: on collaborative mapping and memory work in the post-siege Marawi padian (market district). Out in a new volume on Visual Culture in the Philippines edited by Veronica Gregorio

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Jun 22

Woke up with my heart pounding in my chest. Unusual. Checks phone and scrolls news. “Oh, that’s why.”

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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · Jun 20

This brings me an irrational amount of comfort.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Jun 20

Derry, Northern Ireland.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Jun 18

#BISA2025

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · May 23

Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries.

indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...

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Barry Naylor ن @kajuror.bsky.social · Jun 7

Ka Louie Jalandoni
RIP
#Phililpines

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Jun 6

There must be a word for the survivor’s guilt one feels when the material conditions of your research partners have not improved (and in fact a few barely survived physical and mental breakdowns) despite everything you’ve done and written together. And you’re still writing.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Jun 4

The last months of a PhD, in four gestures

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Jun 4

Spring blooms in the prettiest maximum security prison in the world, and we’re plotting a jailbreak

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Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social · Jun 1

"With so much of Philippine power concentrated in the capital with varying degrees of devolution to local vassals, Malacañang’s hand is never truly hidden."

Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · May 27

In case of interest: notes on Duterte Magic, Sub-Saharan Mindanao, and various political ghosts, wildcards and trickster spirits in a post-3/11 Philippines. Up at @aiianational.bsky.social

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

Exorcising Rodrigo Duterte and the Ghosts of Mindanao Secession: Notes from a Post-3/11 Philippines - Australian Institute of International Affairs

www.internationalaffairs.org.au

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · May 28

Rest in Peace

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

#BlackSky #Blackademics

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · May 27

In case of interest: notes on Duterte Magic, Sub-Saharan Mindanao, and various political ghosts, wildcards and trickster spirits in a post-3/11 Philippines. Up at @aiianational.bsky.social

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

Exorcising Rodrigo Duterte and the Ghosts of Mindanao Secession: Notes from a Post-3/11 Philippines - Australian Institute of International Affairs

www.internationalaffairs.org.au

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · May 23

Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries.

indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...

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Martin Scott @martinscott2010.bsky.social · May 19

*NEW ARTICLE*:

What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?

We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social · May 17

Featured on a TV segment in the Philippines yesterday talking about the Bangsamoro Peace Process and why it matters.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBZ...

Engelbrecht: Disarmament in BARMM remains a problem | The Big Story

YouTube video by One PH

www.youtube.com

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · May 10

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Apr 26

An updated version of my usual planning and peacebuilding rant was published as a chapter of Vibal’s latest. Sharing late since it's 2025 and yet the social scientists and engineers still think that culture has no bearing on the built environment, + vv.

icafernandez.com/2025/04/26/m...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · Mar 18

every day my brain is just "goddamn these stupid goddamn motherfucking fucks"

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · Mar 16

Not the easiest week in the Philippines.

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