Luke Brunning

watch me try to make my way through 3 different job interviews conducted by AI bots

British Philosophy Fortnight 2026 is almost upon us! It runs from Monday 16th to Sunday 29th March 2026. Details of events nationwide, free to all, are available at bpa.ac.uk/philosophyma... #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2026

Missed out on our Philosophy Valentines event? Or just want to relive the talks? Now you can!

Georgie, Colette, Gerald and Isobel’s talks are now available on Spotify (and Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon Music…) - search Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships💕

This is an easy way to follow more people working on the philosophy of intimacy and relationships. Help @lukebrunning.bsky.social build up the list.

So many beautiful minds on this list! 🤓🖤

One thing I’ve noticed about the SWer community I’ve been exposed to thus far is that a significant proportion of us have advanced degrees and/or are academic adjacent, literate in various social theory, etc. I find this so interesting. Anyone else?

A reminder that I made a starter pack for philosophers who work on intimacy and relationships: go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS let me know if you want to be added! Please share.

It feels like we’re increasingly gaslit these days, but what does it mean to be gaslit, and can this happen unintentionally? @isobellogan.bsky.social hopes to find out 👇🏻

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month!

To celebrate, we’ve been asking CLSR members how their experiences shape their work, and what it’s like being LGBTQ+ in philosophy 👇

Special shoutout this month and all months to the amazing work going on over at @being.transinphilosophy.org - check them out!

King's Bridge Scholarship 2026-27 Arts & Humanities Faculty Master’s Scholarships for Black, Asian, and Minority Home Students

MA Scholarships in Arts and Humanties at King's College London! Please spread the word to your eligible finalist undergraduates! - these scholarships are for home (UK fees) students from some minoritised ethnic groups underrepresented in academia. See link for details.

www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Happy publication day! 🚪📚

To celebrate the release of The Ethics of Consent, here’s another clip from our interview with Danielle where she discusses her favourite chapter!

Check out the book➡️ doi.org/10.4324/9781...

My amazing colleague Danielle has a new book on consent coming soon with Joseph Millum👇🏻

What starts after Valentine‘s Day? Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!

Find out below what we can learn about love from aromanticism 👇

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

People grieving AI companions are not confused about reality. Attachment forms through interaction, memory, and emotional rhythm. When companies design for intimacy but control continuity, shutdown becomes relational harm, not just product change. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Happy Valentines, Galentines, Palentines, and All The Other Love-entines Day!

Whether your day is spent with partners, friends, family, in your own company, or with the people who offer those small, sustaining moments of care, we hope it’s a good one♥️

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‘His favourite book was by Jordan Peterson, which was a massive ick’: how books perform on dating apps Mentions of reading in Tinder bios are up 29% in the last year. But is searching for a fellow fan of one’s favourite author really a shortcut to compatibility?

How do books go down on dating apps and why does it matter? I contributed to this: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Why does online dating feel like work if it’s meant to make our lives easier? Some thoughts (trans. into French) www.lesechos.fr/weekend/pers...

Picture of Dr Luke Brunning taking to camera on ITV and wishing he’d trimmed his beard.

ITV asked me about the harms of romance fraud, which is on the rise.

Can someone suggest a good alternative to substack for a free-to read blog for an organisation?

We don’t need any of this shite.

Leeds folk: Philosophy Valentines is back 💕👇🏻

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Genius hack or pathway to loneliness? The dawn of dating’s spreadsheet era Frustrated by endless first dates and burned out by apps, many singles are building ‘dating productivity systems’ to streamline their love lives — but is this just steering us further away from the ex...

Should we treat dating like work? I’m quoted in this Cosmopolitan piece: www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

Would have to follow uni AI policies etc.

We’d never be able to teach classes like this in a UK university. Such a shame!

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How to make modern dating work for you The structural reasons for the current 'relationship recession' are plentiful, but addressing the toxic dating culture starts with us

@lukebrunning.bsky.social was quoted in this article on modern dating in @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/how-to-mak...

More on X and nudification 👇🏻

A new article by @alex-fisher.bsky.social on why Grok’s ‘nudification’ was so harmful. 👇🏻

How AI-generated sexual images cause real harm, even though we know they are ‘fake’ Publicly bombarding women with these images exerts control over how they present themselves online.

“How can images that everyone knows aren’t real cause harm?" Our visiting fellow @alex-fisher.bsky.social explores the wrong of nudification and virtual harms in this article for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...